Movies: Luiz de Barros

At the Paulistano Club pool, Lygia tells Nilo that she liked the album "Lua Branca," recorded by the young man. He promises to visit her to perform the song in person. The visit marks the beginning of a romance between the two, which later becomes an...

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The surprising story of the scandalous Empress of Rome, Messalina....

Filmed on the beaches and in a mansion in the then 'flourishing' Copacabana, it starred a caricaturist and several figures from the journalism of that time....

Lucy is a woman from Rio's upper middle class who, after seeing her husband leave home to live with his lover, starts a relationship with another man, even though she is still officially a married woman....

A hillbilly and an Italian leave the countryside, go to São Paulo and are scammed by a crook. They end up being chased by a police officer, and without a penny in their pockets, they end up returning to the countryside. It's considered a lost film, b...

Documentary that focuses on presenting the State of Rio Grande do Sul, its main cities and its people....

Documentary focusing on a cesarean section in a hospital in São Paulo....

A jewel thief who goes so far as to steal his own wife's jewels. During his escape, he goes through a series of adventures and incidents, leading to the exhibition of landscapes of São Paulo, Alto de Santana and Rio de Janeiro....

Álvaro Ramos, an incorrigible bohemian, thrown out of the boarding house where he lived for lack of payment, finds fifty thousand réis on the street. He buys a lottery ticket number 013 and wins a big prize....

A farmer from the countryside goes to Rio de Janeiro with his family in search of his daughter's fiancé, who was in the Federal Capital gambling, going to cabarets and dating a ballerina. The farmer also gets involved in many adventures. In the end, ...

Made in 1926, but only shown in 1932. It starred amateur actors, breaking box office records with consecutive showings for several weeks....

Documentary focusing on operations performed at the time by Dr. Benedito Montenegro in São Paulo hospitals. The director created cartoons "to better illustrate" the operations....

Lost film. Mack Sennet-style comedy, with bathing girls....

A retrospective of Luiz de Barros's life in cinema, illustrated with photos of his first films, still silent. He talks about the creation of synchronization, a process he created to make films sound. Then, through a sequence, some scenes from his mos...