This thesis intends, through the examination of three movies taken from books of Graciliano Ramos, São Bernardo, Insônia e Vidas Secas, and in a style of writing taken with strong influence from the essay, think about the relations between cinema and literature, and, mainly, about the construction of the the Brazilian cinema´s historiography. We analyze, inside this historical route, mainly the periods of Cinema Novo and Brazilian contemporary cinema (1995 until nowadays), searching new reflections for those periods, reflections that escape from that consecrated by the dominant Brazilians cinema historiography.