Adélia Sampaio

Production

Adélia Sampaio

Place of birth

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Known for

Production

Credits

22 titles

Adélia Sampaio is a Brazilian filmmaker, the first black woman to direct a film in Brazil, the 1984 feature Amor Maldito. Sampaio was born in 1944 in Belo Horizonte; her mother was a domestic worker. Sampaio's interest in film was encouraged by her sister Eliana, after watching Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (Eliana later became her producer). In 1969 went to work as a telephone operator at Difilm, a Brazilian distributor linked to Cinema Novo. Sampaio began to organize the company's film club, which projected films in 16mm. She also started to work in the production of films, in various functions, such as continuist, makeup artist, camera operator, editor and producer. Her debut a…

Known for

AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu poster
7.0

Documentary about a political episode during the Brazilian military dictatorship, which resulted in the issue of the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5), abolishing freedom of opinion in Brazil, and marking the transition to the toughest period of violation of human rights in the country. The episode was the Congress Assembly on December 12th, 1968, in which its members denied permission to punish congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, as was the Government's wish.

AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu

2001

Drops de Anis poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Drops de Anis

2026

Adulto Não Brinca poster
7.2

The tradition of working out Judas in a suburb. The doll is placed on the street like a corpse and a bunch of children are faced with the consequences of this innovation.

Adulto Não Brinca

1980

Denúncia Vazia poster
8.0

An elderly couple decides to commit suicide after receive a eviction order. The first short-film of Adélia Sampaio, the first black woman in Brazil to direct a feature film.

Denúncia Vazia

1979

O Segredo da Rosa poster
9.5

Friends Severina and Maria José struggle to survive in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The first is a widow who sells flowers and the second has a lover who does little to help with expenses. Their children sell peanuts during the day. One day, the children get lost and are found again at Jaks' house, who offers to sell Severina certain suspicious merchandise, disguised among the roses.

O Segredo da Rosa

1974

Cursed Love poster
4.5

Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a man, a journalist.

Cursed Love

1984

Film credits

Behind the camera

AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu poster
7.0

Documentary about a political episode during the Brazilian military dictatorship, which resulted in the issue of the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5), abolishing freedom of opinion in Brazil, and marking the transition to the toughest period of violation of human rights in the country. The episode was the Congress Assembly on December 12th, 1968, in which its members denied permission to punish congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, as was the Government's wish.

AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu

2001

AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu poster
7.0

Documentary about a political episode during the Brazilian military dictatorship, which resulted in the issue of the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5), abolishing freedom of opinion in Brazil, and marking the transition to the toughest period of violation of human rights in the country. The episode was the Congress Assembly on December 12th, 1968, in which its members denied permission to punish congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, as was the Government's wish.

AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu

2001

Adulto Não Brinca poster
7.2

The tradition of working out Judas in a suburb. The doll is placed on the street like a corpse and a bunch of children are faced with the consequences of this innovation.

Adulto Não Brinca

1980

Adulto Não Brinca poster
7.2

The tradition of working out Judas in a suburb. The doll is placed on the street like a corpse and a bunch of children are faced with the consequences of this innovation.

Adulto Não Brinca

1980

Denúncia Vazia poster
8.0

An elderly couple decides to commit suicide after receive a eviction order. The first short-film of Adélia Sampaio, the first black woman in Brazil to direct a feature film.

Denúncia Vazia

1979

Denúncia Vazia poster
8.0

An elderly couple decides to commit suicide after receive a eviction order. The first short-film of Adélia Sampaio, the first black woman in Brazil to direct a feature film.

Denúncia Vazia

1979

O Segredo da Rosa poster
9.5

Friends Severina and Maria José struggle to survive in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The first is a widow who sells flowers and the second has a lover who does little to help with expenses. Their children sell peanuts during the day. One day, the children get lost and are found again at Jaks' house, who offers to sell Severina certain suspicious merchandise, disguised among the roses.

O Segredo da Rosa

1974

Cursed Love poster
4.5

Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a man, a journalist.

Cursed Love

1984

Cursed Love poster
4.5

Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a man, a journalist.

Cursed Love

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fugindo do Passado

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fugindo do Passado

1987

O Mundo de Dentro poster
7.0

"O Mundo de Dentro" addresses the generation of the 1960s, especially the shock caused by the AIDS cases that started to appear in the post-dictatorship period in Brazil.

O Mundo de Dentro

2018

O Mundo de Dentro poster
7.0

"O Mundo de Dentro" addresses the generation of the 1960s, especially the shock caused by the AIDS cases that started to appear in the post-dictatorship period in Brazil.

O Mundo de Dentro

2018

Parceiros da Aventura poster
9.0

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.

Parceiros da Aventura

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

... AGORA UM DEUS DANÇA EM MIM

1981

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

... AGORA UM DEUS DANÇA EM MIM

1981

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Olhar dos anos 60

2024

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Na poeira das ruas

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Na poeira das ruas

1982

Scliar: A Persistência da Paisagem poster
5.0

Scliar, a painter of the world, immersed in the time of his silence. All that the artist sought to bring to the skin and heart of his painting is the inner vibration of every inhabitant of the world. The chromatic vibration does not come from the paints but from the land he harvests from each place he visits. Scliar used earth to give colour to his canvases.

Scliar: A Persistência da Paisagem

1991