Fernando Meirelles Movies

Filmed over seven years, the documentary follows Valter Hugo Mãe as he writes his novel “A Desumanização”, across...

Two young boys, Laranjinha and Acerola, living in Cidade de Deus, one of the most violent neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, need some money to go to a...

Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have...

A film about weddings, professions, children, travel plans and a train that separates it all.

A poetic vision of the city Brasília.

In 1983, director Fernando Meirelles read an article in the newspaper about the punks circulating in downtown São Paulo. Half suspicious, he...

A unique visual journey through galaxies, deep into the subatomic world of elementary particles, and into the center of the sun. Witness the...

documentary about the theft by students of the Flávio de Carvalho's Monument to Garcia Lorca