Paulo Lins
Writer · b. 1958 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Movies6
Movie8.4DramaCrimeIn the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
- Movie7.0Documentary
Documentary focusing on Brazilian samba singer Bezerra da Silva and the composers he chooses to record: simple people, workers living in the poor slums of Rio de Janeiro and its suburbs.
Coruja
2001 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryA look at Rio's cultural, political and technical revolutions since the 1970s to 2011
Movie1.0DocumentaryDocumentary about the singer Bezerra da Silva and the relation with his composers.
Movie7.8DocumentaryCrimeA documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped in a daily war that knows no winners.
Movie6.6DramaOne day, Eduardo arrives at his house and discovers that Julia, his wife, tried to commit suicide. She left her husband and two children without saying goodbye. After some time, she comes back home. He tries everything to set her straight, but the impossibility of knowing her fully grieves him. The shadow of the suicide and the inevitable ghost of a new chance hover over their heads. Eduardo insists on understanding his wife, but an increasing jealousy and an unexpected discovery of her past torture him. He does not realize that, most of the time, the search for control easily becomes an obsession.