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Eduardo de Oliveira Coutinho OMC (São Paulo, May 11, 1933 — Rio de Janeiro, February 2, 2014) was a Brazilian filmmaker and journalist. He is considered by many to be the greatest documentary filmmaker in the history of Brazilian cinema.
His brand was to make films that privileged the stories of ordinary people. His masterpiece is Cabra Marcado para Morrer, which marked his career as Brazil's leading documentary filmmaker. Among other notable works of his career are the documentaries Santo Forte, Edifício Master, Peões, Jogo de Cena and As Canções.
Most Popular Eduardo Coutinho Trailers
Total trailers found: 64
26 August 1974
In São Paulo, during the 1920s, a woman who is loved by a telegraphist and seduced by a slacker ends up in prostitution.
09 August 1999
An overview of Brazilian spirituality and religions.
21 April 2000
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself.
18 September 2000
Programa do Ratinho DNA test played by the members of Instituto Philippe Pinel and filmed by Eduardo Coutinho.
01 January 1996
Three stories of female action in social movements, close in their struggle but distant in the geographical space: the Jardim Uchôa Residents Association, in Recife; the Rancho Fundo Residents Association, in Rio de Janeiro; and the Popular Legal Prosecutors group in Bom Jesus, Porto Alegre.
27 September 2001
The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.
05 June 2019
Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how the filmmaker’s thinking still stand the test of time to this day and age.
10 July 2019
The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality.
01 January 2011
Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.
06 June 1992
Medium length film on environmental protection in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution.
01 January 1980
Produced for Globo Repórter, a documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about the master Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari.
31 December 1987
The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of police violence.
11 April 2015
How much theatricality is there in an interview-based documentary? On one side, someone answers. On the other side, someone asks questions – usually away from the camera eyes.
16 September 1968
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.
01 January 1990
Documentary about the Latin American foreign debt, made in five blocks that cover everything from a brief history of debt to some possible alternatives for a solution, passing through the description of its mechanisms, its most serious crises and its social consequences.
01 January 1995
Six stories of children and adolescents who had their rights violated, and the reality of the Rights Councils and Guardianship Councils (newly created in 1995) of two Brazilian cities, Blumenau and Belo Horizonte.
09 December 2011
Simple, emotionally compelling documentary that delves into the songs that hold meaning in people's lives.
25 November 1959
Made during the time Eduardo Coutinho was studying cinema at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (Idhec), in the French capital, the fictional short film shows a man (Elie Presman) who tries to make a marriage proposal, but is constantly interrupted by calls phone calls that his girlfriend (Irene Chabrier) insists on answering.
30 June 2015
A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.
04 July 1982
A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.
15 May 2019
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances.
07 September 1967
Film that includes three short films by different authors about love: "O pacto" by Eduardo Coutinho, "Terrible Night" by Rodolfo Kuhn, and "Magic World" by Helvio Soto.
14 April 2009
Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns his attention to the drama generated during rehearsals for the Galpão Theater Company’s performance of Chekov’s The Three Sisters.
21 December 1963
A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of finding a potential partner to marry in order to avoid her return to that place.
01 January 1971
A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos.
22 January 2008
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic.
04 March 1975
A German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s.
22 November 1976
After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman.
10 April 2015
Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand how teenagers think, live and dream nowadays.
12 September 2002
The visits of Brazilian sanitarist Oswaldo Cruz to Amazon in early 20th century.
16 January 1979
Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja, aired on January 16, 1979, portrayed the fight between the Sampaio and Alencar families, in the Pernambuco city of Exu, which had dragged on since 1949 with violent deaths side by side.
05 December 2013
A conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods.
01 June 1976
In June 1976, Eduardo Coutinho and film reporter Mário Ferreira traveled to the northeastern backlands to record the documentary Superstição.
01 January 2004
Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 1964, and the implementation of the military dictatorship in Brazil.
01 January 1976
Early documentary by Eduardo Coutinho dealing with the water shortage in the city of Ouricuri in the seventies.
03 October 2002
In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs.
26 May 1967
Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema.
01 November 2008
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre.
06 October 2025
May's full moon. Six friends. Two poems. One night, 22 years ago.
09 November 2007
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
22 November 2001
Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999.
03 December 1984
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup.
28 October 2010
The documentary tracks 19 hours of broadcasting from several brazilian TV channels making live surfing between channels.
20 November 1962
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
02 January 1997
Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.
22 November 2002
The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams.
22 September 1965
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.
11 September 2009
The audience follows the creative process of the filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho in the documentary, from the research phase until the end of the filming of "Master, a Building in Copacabana".
01 December 1977
A documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about a hired-gun from Brazil's Northeast.
22 October 2020
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital.
01 January 1972
This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.
16 October 1992
In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities.
29 March 2014
After an initial meeting in 1964 interrupted by military dictatorship and a new meeting in the early 1980s to end the film "Twenty Years Later", Eduardo Coutinho once again find Elizabeth Teixeira, survivor of peasant struggles.
25 June 1994
The documentary follows a truck of pilgrims on their pilgrimage from Fernandes, in the municipality of Arapiraca, in Alagoas, to Juazeiro - a journey of 700 km covered in 16 hours.
24 November 2004
In 1979 and 1980, workers in São Paulo’s metallurgical industry organized a series of strikes that changed the face of union politics in Brazil.
02 January 1993
The life and work of deputy Ulysses Guimarães based on news reports, interviews and testimonies.
01 January 1997
Stimulated by sketches in which young actors improvise about situations related to AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), students from a public school in Rio de Janeiro and teenagers from the Zona Sul and the Baixada Fluminense debate these themes.
10 March 2011
In an open conversation with Eduardo Coutinho, the filmmaker analyzes the period he worked for Globo Repórter on TV Globo.
01 January 1989
In the late 1970s, the labor movement began to gain strength. In 1988, the workers of the National Steel Company (CSN) in the city of Volta Redonda decreed a great strike.
