José Luiz Sasso Movies

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to...

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend...

The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent...

A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood.

Embarking on a whimsical adventure, Monica and her friends take center stage in four captivating tales. The first, "O Plano Infalível,"...

Identical twins Iara and Marilena like to play games and deceive men by pretending to be each other. But when they fall in love with the same man, a...

A harmonicist, a pool player, and his old assistant get invited as entertainers at a fancy dinner party but have to wait in the lobby for what seems...

Two lives look for meaning into a time that was lived, dreamed, and above all, felt.

A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both...

A look behind the scenes of Durval Discos, following the creative process, the production, and the decisions that shaped the project.

Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the...

In an old mansion, an old lady and her young goddaughter prepare to receive a mysterious visitor who will fulfill an old wish.

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

The story of a photograph: A single mother, an absent father and a child.

A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two...

Envy? Ego issues? Malice? In 1987, Angeli, one of the most important cartoonists in Brazil, coldly murdered one of his most famous creations, the...

Two friends try to get to a restaurant for dinner and get lost in the labyrinth of bars, walls and fences in a city.

An astronomer is forced to leave the city where he lives in order to save his relationship. He ends up returning to the place he never intended to...