Lygia Fagundes Telles

Venha ver o Pôr-do-Sol (2024)

Apenas um Saxofone (2008)

Formigas (2004)

Two young women go to live in a boarding-house, and in their room there's a box with bones of a dwarf, which belonged to the former tenant. Each night, thousands of ants come to move the bones to their natural position. ...

Contos de Lygia e Morte (1999)

As Meninas (1995)

During the military dictatorship in Brazil, Lorena, Lia and Ana Clara, three university students of different social backgrounds and origins meet at a nun's pension in São Paulo. Besides their differences, they become close friends, sharing their dramas a ...

Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente (1976)

Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for his own wedding, cannot remember who the bride might be. In the third, a rich husband tries to find the tatt ...

As Três Mortes de Solano (1976)

Solano is often plagued by nightmares in which, during the Middle Ages, he is pursued by the hunter Faro, who intends to kill him. On discovering, in an antiquarian, a tapestry that represents a hunt and that reminds him of his dream, he tries to buy it, b ...

Capitu (1968)

Adaptation of Machado de Assis's classic novel "Dom Casmurro". Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not r ...

Hilda Hilst Pede Contato (2018)

Documentary about the poet, writer and playwright Hilda Hilst, considered by critics as one of the most important voices of the Portuguese language of the twentieth century. Through the use of personal sound and image files, interviews, meetings and fictio ...

Lygia, Uma Escritora Brasileira (2017)

Abry (2003)

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the risk to her life, Lúcia, laconic, tells the doctor: 'Then open it'. This is the second time she has undergone bypass su ...

Hilda Humana Hilst (2002)

"Hilda Humana Hilst" is a documentary that explores the life and work of writer Hilda Hilst, one of the most enigmatic figures in Brazilian literature. Combining interviews, archival footage, and testimonials from friends and scholars, the film outlines th ...