Ricardo Pretti Movies

Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the...

The night side of a modernist icon. The fauna and flora of Roberto Burle Marx's gardens inhabited by visitors to Parque do Flamengo while the city of...

The journeys of a filmmaker-traveler through Brazilian social and cultural landscapes swept up in the hurricane of authoritarian modernization...

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.

João, mounted on his horse Cruzeiro, and in the company of a wanderer named Tahiel, enters a large city in northeastern Brazil to face the one...

A beautiful film-interview by Ivan Cardoso, made during the shooting of A Werewolf in Amazonia in 2005, with the astonishing Paul Naschy!

Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security...

A documentary following random people at a Saturday night in Fortaleza.

The mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro wants to go down in history. For this purpose, he decides to separate Rio from Brazil and create a new...

Jorge Bodanzky is, to a large extent, a filmmaker who travels. Constant movement is a hallmark of his creative process, encompassing both personal...

In Fortaleza, Brazil, Eugenio, Joaquim and João use a clandestine radio to scream their hunger for freedom and revolution. They hack the...

After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there’s nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that...

No man is a failure when he has friends.

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which...

Paris - an American who recently arrived in Brazil - and the Brazilian Thais begin a simple friendship sharing feelings and sensations, even if they...

Based on Guy de Maupassant's "The Night".

Pilo, Panda and Isaac are childhood friends. One of them decides to ask his girlfriend to marry him at sameday the other two learn she is cheating on...

Valongo's quay - Empress quay - Rio de Janeiro port - Porto Maravilha (wonder port): layers of a city haunted by progress. One port on top of the...

After the sudden death of his wife, Ezequiel lives sad and resigned in solitude. Until the day that an extra-terrestrial being appears in his life...

In the 1950s, in Rio de Janeiro, Lota Macedo Soares married the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. A few years later, Carlos Lacerda, a friend of...