Helena Ignez

The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It’s All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the ...

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 ...

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad ...

In a delicate border between ‘fiction’ and ‘reality’, the surprising character of “Unheard­-of”, Lanny Gordin ...

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 ...

In this 7-hour-plus behemoth, Bressane re-edits his complete works, moving backwards and forwards between decades. The ’60s, the ’80s ...

A fictional account of Orson Welles’ real passage to Brazil where he was supposed to film a cultural film called “It’s All ...

“The theme is the revolt of the slaves, the repressed who because they have no way out decide to turn ten or twenty days into an eternity. ...

Jorge, a luxury houses burglar in São Paulo, nicknamed by the sensationalist press of “Red Light Bandit”, baffles the police with ...

The film appropriates and discusses Brazilian reality based on dialogues, excerpts and scenes from Glauber Rocha’s visceral films and his ...

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 ...

Ana, a Portuguese actress, has come to Rio de Janeiro to play the lead in a film about Carmen Miranda, the eccentric actress and singer who put ...

The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe. ...

Sonia Silk dreams of being a singer of the National Radio and in order to survive she surrenders to tourists in Copacabana. Her brother, Vidimar, ...

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

Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the ...

After 30 years in a cell for the mentally ill, Coffin Joe is finally freed. Back on the streets, the sadistic gravedigger is set on fulfilling ...

Banker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover. Release: Sem Essa Aranha 1970 ...

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 ...

Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo. Release: The Monsters of Babaloo 1971 UNKRip Portuguese-NoGrp ...