Paulo Betti Movies

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes with her new...

A producer decides to revive the play *The Mystery of Irma Vap* and seeks out one of the original actors to secure the rights. However, a case of...

The plot deals with the developments in an old decadent village after a stranger arrives at the old train station, an event in itself. This stranger...

Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies,...

We see the film, not the cinema; cinema remains hidden within the film. Cinema is the Phantom of the Opera. A movement and a moment of transition,...

Chronicles the life and career of Hugo Carvana, brazilian actor and filmmaker.

In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more...

The story follows three Brazilian women from the same family who arrive in Basilicata to vacation and discover their Italian roots. Each is at a...

Roque and Pudim, composers from the old school of Vai-Vai, share a kitchnete, decades of friendship, love for their samba school and a doubt about...

The intense life of Ferreira Gullar, one of the most influential poets in Brazil, is revisited by his personal friend Silvio Tendler, based on his...

At the end of the 19th century, a poor family comes to the rural Canudos, a community led by Antônio Conselheiro, seen by many as a holy...

Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife...

Teca, a late-night radio show host, uses her astrological skills to help listeners who call in for advice. But her own life feels empty and lonely....

The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the...

A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.

Follows the struggles of a small theatre company attempting to adapt a Shakespeare play.