Movies: Roberto Pires

In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a factor of political and social oppression, with tragic outcome....

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti....

In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape....

Couple of lovers want to steal the income of a popular soccer game, at Maracanã Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro....

The naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There, however, he is passed behind by the prostitute Maria, lover of the bandit Chico Diabo, who stabs him. He, however, can't forget her....

Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside ...

Two young farmers are visited by a stranger who wants to spend the night....

A gunman is hired to kill a corrupt politician. However, the agreement is canceled. Despite being a hired killer, the man takes his job seriously and prefers to go to the end....

After years lost in a ingrate job, Hugo decides to take a drastic measure: to compensate for the time he lost, he will rob the bank in which he worked all his life. Everything goes well in the execution of the plan, but the appearance of the firm's c...

Six episodes set in and focusing on the history of Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Episode list: A Paisagem Natural (dir. Vladimir Carvalho), O Sinal da Cruz (dir. Pedro Jorge de Castro), A Volta de Chico Candango (dir. Roberto Pires), Além do Cine...

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's imag...

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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 than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137, being the biggest radiological accid...

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Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town....

A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the...

Since the 1970s, Roberto Pires has militated against the use of nuclear energy. For that, he went looking for the biggest Brazilian name in this subject, César Lattes, professor of Nuclear Physics at UNICAMP. Believing that nuclear energy could, in t...

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