Best movies of Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Carandiru(2003)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Brazilian MD Drauzio Varella starts AIDS prevention in Brazil's largest prison, Carandiru, in São Paulo, where the population is nearly double its 4,000 maximum. Doc learns from experience ...



Abril Despedaçado(2001)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 37

When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.



Eu Tu Eles(2000)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 33

A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.



O Primeiro Dia(1998)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

On December 31st of 1999, the destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.



Baile Perfumado(1997)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to take pictures of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian outlaw, kind of a tropical Robin Hood.