Sérgio Ricardo Movies

A Brazilian crime film

The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker.

In the miserable Northeastern Brazil, a ruthless land Baron wants to throw a poor farming community out of their land.

In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former owners of the land. The episode became known as Guerra dos Pelados.

When a young boy from a shanty town near Rio de Janeiro gets a coveted pair of white trousers for Christmas his joy knows no bounds. Not getting them dirty, however, presents certain difficulties for a lively slum kid.

The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s.

It is a realistic musical documentary, mixing the old and the new, exchanging chronological positions, creating a suggestive carousel for the audience. A tribute to Sérgio Ricardo's cinematographic work narrated through the assembly of scenes and tracks taken from the 7 films he directed. In this...

Sérgio Ricardo's only animation film, a short made as a companion piece to his song "Zelão".

Petrônio drives a bus and his friend Cabeleira is a ticket collector. When Petrônio's sister needs money to do a surgery they get involved with a film production company, where a psychopath is trying to be the protagonist of the movie.

It tells the story of a girl being abducted by the evil pirate with a wooden leg.

Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro. A woman is left desperate and hopeless after she is evicted from her house with her disabled son.

The composer, singer, musician, painter and filmmaker João Lutfi, known as Sérgio Ricardo, narrates his journey from the beginning as a pianist for TV Tupi, through his experience as an actor on TV, as a bossa nova artist until he found his very own and characteristic style as a filmmaker and...