Júlio Calasso Jr.

11 and a Half Questions to Julio Calasso (2022)

A final conversation with departed actor, director and musical producer Julio Calasso Jr., a key character in the Brazilian artistic scene. At his old house in Butantã, São Paulo, Julio talks about his experiences, frustrations, joys and tragedies. ...

Antropofagia Marginal (2020)

Through a historical-affective reconstruction of the Boca do Lixo region, in São Paulo, the documentary aims to investigate what was the cultural, social and geographic impact that the cinema made there had for the city and for the country during the from ...

My Punkle (2018)

Rafael embarks on a shabby blue Landau and crosses the city of São Paulo gathering truths and lies about the set of his uncle Tico, the already legendary proto-punk-satirical Knee of Porco. ...

Aquela Rua Tão Triumpho (2016)

The ghosts of Boca do Lixo. Ido Oliveira still walks through Triumpho St. ...

Plínio Marcos — Nas Quebradas do Mundaréu (2013)

The theatrologist, actor, director and overall polemist Plínio Marcos gets his life traced through images of the many spectacles he has put on interviews from various moments in his life, from the most rebellious and marginal, when he lacked resources for ...

Avacalha e se Esculhamba (2010)

A Vermelha Luz do Bandido (2009)

Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit". ...

A Grande Noitada (1997)

Vampire Eyes (1996)

A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is assig ...

Saturday (1995)

On a Saturday morning, an advertising crew arrives at a decadent old building downtown São Paulo to shoot a TV commercial. ...

Nayara, A Mulher Gorila (1992)

A sensationalist report is a parallel between a popular and a character in his process of transformation. "Thanks to Coffin Joe, Nayara is now on the left, over your heart, this body does not belong to you. ...

The Body (1991)

Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer. ...

Real Desejo (1990)

Disorder in Progress (1990)

A short film made for City Life (1990) ...

Cristo Procurado (1990)

Soul's Boundary (1988)

The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon. ...

The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema (1987)

After meeting a beguiling woman in a movie theater, a realtor becomes embroiled in a mysterious plot involving murder, double identities and movies. ...

Movie Dementia (1986)

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowle ...

Em Nome da Segurança Nacional (1985)

Eh, Pagu, Eh! (1982)

The Vampire of the Cinematheque (1976)

As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends in Super 8mm he also becomes the vampire of the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. In O VAMPIRO DA CINEMATECA Ferreira develops a poetic representation of his idea of "inventive cinema" without a pl ...

The Red Light Bandit (1968)

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent t ...

Plínio Marcos — Nas Quebradas do Mundaréu (2013)

The theatrologist, actor, director and overall polemist Plínio Marcos gets his life traced through images of the many spectacles he has put on interviews from various moments in his life, from the most rebellious and marginal, when he lacked resources for ...

Disorder in Progress (1990)

A short film made for City Life (1990) ...

Long Way of Death (1972)

The life and death of Colonel Orestes, a decadent coffee farmer, spanning three generations between despair, hallucinations, and the help of three different wives. The city, the synthesis of modernization, definitively buries the oligarch making buildings ...

República da Traição (1970)

European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local man, whom they hire as an employee, will change their plans. ...

The Red Light Bandit (1968)

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent t ...

Viramundo (1965)

Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Paulo in a cycle repeated every day. Viramundo's aim was to question why the military coup d'état in Braz ...