Manfredo Colassanti

O Trapalhão na Arca de Noé (1983)

Duda is a zoo cleaner. He and his friend Kiko and Zeca are actively engaged in an animal protection group. For this reason, they are summoned by mystic Noé to fight animal hunters in the Pantanal region, in Brazil, who are after animal skins and furs, and ...

Innocence (1983)

In the 19th century, a country girl is seduced by a young doctor who's staying at her house for a few days, caring for her, and tries to hide the forbidden romance from her father, who disapproves of the relationship. ...

Family Album (1981)

Follows the decadence of an incestuous oligarch family in a rural Brazilian household through the years during the early 20th century. ...

O Desconhecido (1978)

Se Segura, Malandro! (1978)

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave. ...

Elke Maravilha Contra o Homem Atômico (1978)

Reporter Tião, who routinely brings neighbor's son Zeca along for leisure features, is drawn into investigating mysterious disappearances in the city. He uncovers Dr. Kiriri's hidden laboratory, where the mad scientist and his secretary Mérilin transform ...

Anchieta, José do Brasil (1977)

Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil. ...

Ladrão de Bagdá (1976)

O Pai do Povo (1976)

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life. ...

Padre Cícero: Os Milagres de Juazeiro (1976)

Feminino Plural (1976)

"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the behavior imposed on women, they seek to rescue the strength of the feminine. The new woman, born in the Brazilia ...

Os Condenados (1974)

In São Paulo, during the 1920s, a woman who is loved by a telegraphist and seduced by a slacker ends up in prostitution. ...

Joanna Francesa (1973)

Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at São Paulo, and with him the frivolity of tea-parties and comfort. Her wild inner-soul will develop into the wild forest ...

Who Is Beta? (1972)

The critical success in France of How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman made possible dos Santos' delirious science-fiction vision of free love in a post-apocalyptic wilderness besieged by flesh hungry zombies contaminated by an unnamed nuclear attack. Who is ...

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)

In 1594 Brazil, a frenchman becomes a prisoner of the Tupinambás. While waiting to be executed, the foreigner learns the habits of the indigenous people and joins a woman who tries to help him escape. ...

Mãos Vazias (1971)

In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a woman rebels against local morality after her child dies, with tragic results. ...

O Doce Esporte do Sexo (1971)

Erotic comedy in five segments, starring the same actor, Chico Anysio: O Torneio (The Tournament), A Boca (The Mouth), O Filminho (The Short Film), A Suspeita (The Suspicion) and O Apartamento (The Apartment). ...

The Alienist (1970)

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness. ...

Brazil Year 2000 (1969)

Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be indigenous during the visit of a general. In the dilemma of ...

Hunger for Love (1968)

An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about ...