Helena Ignez

The story of a famous Brazilian criminal, called The Red Light Bandit because he always used a red flashlight to break in the houses during the night. Working alone, he also used to rape his female victims. (imdb)

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power. (imdb)

This densely-packed and odd docudrama refers back to Orson Welles' 1942 visit to Brazil to make a movie called "It's All True." Using newsreel footage from that period, re-enactments of his visit, and excerpts from his movies and radio shows, director Rogerio Sganzerla seems to imply that politics intervened in Welles' project, cutting it short...

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the movement called "Cinema Novo", with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues. (imdb)

Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub. (imdb)

The gang composed by small-time thieves from the slum and leaded by the criminal Tião Medonho (Eliezer Gomes) plans and successfully executes the robbery of the train with the payments of the Banco do Brasil ("Bank of Brazil"). The police has no leads and believes that the heist was committed by an international gang. Meanwhile, Tiao imposes that each outlaw can only spend 10% of the share, but the poor reality and the greed of most of them spoil the planning. (imdb)

Banker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover. (imdb)

A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gays, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro. When the slut threatens the other two to stop supporting them, they decide to find an odalisque as an alternative to keep their easy life. (imdb)

A comedy about two women who become serial killers

In this experimental work, there is no story, just a device trampled the classic horror films with several characters, including an old maniac baron by corpses, murder and rape.

A guy walks through a desert

In the B&W first part, a customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. The color second part shows a party in which those repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity. (imdb)

Rocha's first short

The saga of some Copacabana dwellers: Sônia Silk, a prostitute also known as Miss Prado Júnior and Peroxide Beast; her gay brother, addicted to smelling his boss's underwear; and Mr. Grillo, the boss. (imdb)

Kid from a favela with a special gift gets in trouble with drug dealers. (imdb)

The gravedigger Zé do Caixão continues his search for the perfect woman to bear his son. (imdb)

Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo.

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations. (imdb)

Made in the famous "Água de Meninos" market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices, from the world of high finance up to the sordid environment of exotic cabarets. (imdb)

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair soon turns into an unbridled passion.

A political and existential narrative, Luz nas trevas - A volta do bandido da Luz Vermelha continues the story of Luz Vermelha, a legendary bandit from Sao Paulo through the figure of his son - the outlaw Tudo ou Nada (All or Nothing). (imdb)

The story of a very talented Brazilian soccer player, who played for Flamengo, the most popular team in Rio de Janeiro, but whose free-wheeling spirit prevented fame and fortune.

Elias sees its world threatened when its ex-woman, one recouped junkie, asks for the guard of its son. Fito after enters in desperation to lose its father because of Elias. Isis, that if hides in a vagabond hotel, can be the exit for Fito and Elias. (imdb)

A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations.

A short documentary about Belair Films in Super 8.

Ugly, Me? is a film manifesto made from a workshop for actors called Characters in Search of a Movie, in 'Lapa', 'Rio De Janeiro', extended to Paris and 'Kerala' (India). Multifaceted like a kaleidoscope, the characters appear in multi-screens scenes and sequences. The images were captured with different kinds of cameras and Ugly, Me? uses this sign of the variety imposed by independent production as language experimentation. (imdb)

A film about a maid and her boss.

In this animated fairy-tale Filly, a lesbian fairy with nimble fingers, seduces women by day dressed as a boy. But at night something strange happens and soon half the population of Whatsit Village are eagerly queuing up.

In a delicate border between 'fiction' and 'reality', the surprising character of "Unheard­-of", Lanny Gordin projects himself between China, his birthplace, and Brazil, where he lives and developed his career as a guitar player since the Tropicalia movement. We are invited to share his world where the border between 'unreason' and 'sanity' acquires new shades.

Based on the novel 'Matéria de Memória' of Carlos Heitor Cony, it tells the story of a widowed man who maintains ambiguous relations with his mother-in-law, who lives in the same house. Then he decides to lock himself in the room, reviving memory through old letters and photographs.

Isabel, a nanny, is six months pregnant and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

Five women, each in a different stage of their life, share experiences about their relationships to their bodies and how others perceive them.

Helena Ignez is one of the main female figures of Brazilian cinema. She developed a new style of acting. Nowadays, she directs independent films. The documentary tells some of the History of Brazilian cinema, its political context and Helena's trajectory.

Inacio is employed in a mechanical workshop, where, in addition to working, he dreams of the Calendar Girl. In the film "My Calendar Girl" the real and imaginary intertwine all the time, in a tangle of surreal sensations.

In 1888, Lenita, a very educated young woman, disregards the presence of a man at his intellectual height.

Julio Bressane, through fragments, memories and interviews, traces the history of the production company: belair, that create in the 70s , along with Helena Ignez and Rogerio Sganzerla for fight conformism of the military regime.

Helena is an actress who notices the effects of time on her face and Jean-Claude, a dancer who devotes herself to buoy, the dance of death. He feels trapped in the longevity logic that the pharmaceutical industry imposes and decides to plan a conscious suicide. Live, for him, must be a desire and not an obligation. Jean invites Helena to make the suicide with him.

Two days in the life of André Provisório, a man with many occupations: private detective, drug dealer, and incorrigible seducer. Between his activities, he meets Mariana, an aspiring theater actress, and falls in love.

In rural Brazil, villagers battle wealthy land barons for the sake of their own survival.

In this 7-hour-plus behemoth, Bressane re-edits his complete works, moving backwards and forwards between decades. The '60s, the '80s and the 2000s comment on each other in a way that sheds light on the director's themes and obsessions. (imdb)

The creation of Babel scatters over the world men who speak different languages: all the faces, bodies and voices of Paulo José are embodied in the characters that the actor has played throughout his career in theater, television, and film. EVERY PAULO IN THE WORLD is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.

Approaching 40 and battling depression, ex-librarian Marcos is tasked with caring for Baby, his sister's Aztec hairless dog.