Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

Tambaú (2025)

As Tranças de Maria (2003)

Cinemateca Brasileira (1993)

A documentary short on Brazil's National Film Archive, the Cinemateca Brasileira, based in the city of São Paulo. ...

O Vigilante (1992)

An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood. ...

A América do Sul (1992)

In 1968, Candeias made five short films shot by him in the South American countries of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela. The films were lost for over two decades before being found in 1992. After discovery the shorts were packaged toget ...

Bastidores das Filmagens de um Pornô (1992)

Lady Vaselina (1990)

In a single shot, mysterious characters discuss about a cockroach problem. ...

Mister Power (1989)

On the day of a bus strike, a bourgeois man takes a ride on a waste picker's wagon. ...

The Beauties of Billings (1987)

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry. ...

The Nun and the Torture (1984)

Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her, but is startled to learn that she's also a nun. The revelation do ...

Desejos Sexuais de Elza (1982)

Manelão, o Caçador de Orelhas (1982)

In a card game, Manelão loses his horse. Suffering from a venereal disease he looks for a pharmacist who colluded with a colonel. The pharmacist heals him in exchange for an execution. Then, he quickly becomes a hitman. ...

The Option (1981)

The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers. ...

O Cangaceiro do Diabo (1980)

Desejo Violento (1978)

Devil Nymphs (1978)

Two hitchhiking young women involve the men who give them a lift in a game of sex, telepathy and death. ...

Bocadolixocinema (1976)

A look into the Boca do Lixo, a square in downtown São Paulo known as a point for filmmakers, actors, and technicians who worked on low-budget films. ...

As Mulheres do Sexo Violento (1976)

A Visita do Velho Senhor (1976)

Short film by Brazilian filmmaker Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias. ...

O Candinho (1976)

Caçada Sangrenta (1974)

A sculptor, protected by a millionaire woman, becomes suspect of her murder. He flees to the country, where a violent pursuit takes place. ...

Joe Zero (1974)

Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery. ...

A Noite do Desejo (1973)

Two factory workers decide to spend all of their pay on a Saturday night with two prostitutes, but things don't go as planned. ...

Maria... Sempre Maria (1973)

Brás (1973)

A look at Brás, one of São Paulo's main Italian districts from its start until the 70s. ...

O Desconhecido (1972)

Com a Cama na Cabeça (1972)

Uma Rua Chamada Triumpho 1969/70 (1971)

A short film made from photos of Boca do Lixo, a bohemian and marginal neighborhood, and its people. ...

The Inheritance (1970)

An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle. ...

My Name Is Tonho (1969)

As a child he was kidnapped by gypsies that raised him, without he ever knowing his parents. As a young man Tonho leaves the gypsies and go live by himself, meeting in his way a beautiful woman, who lost her brother, and a dangerous gang of violent crimina ...

Trilogy of Terror (1968)

An anthology divided in three segments, helmed by three of the most important Brazilian directors of the 20th century. A mother becomes involved with black magic and offers a virgin woman to the Devil in exchange for curing the illness of her only son. A p ...

The Margin (1967)

On the banks of São Paulo's Rio Tietê, a poignant tale unfolds, featuring a tapestry of characters existing on the fringes of society. Prostitutes, a pimp, a mentally disabled man, and others marginalized by fate lead lives mired in hopelessness, devoid ...

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else. ...

My Destiny is in Your Hands (1963)

Tired of the constant abuse he suffers in his household, a boy runs away from home and goes on a series of sad and dramatic adventures, in which he finds the opportunity to show the power of his own voice. ...

The Good Cinema (2021)

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most ra ...

Ozu Piroclástico (2020)

Pyroclastic flows (also known as a pyroclastic cloud or pyroclastic wave) are the devastating result of some volcanic eruptions. They are fluid bodies, composed of hot gas and pyroclasts (gray and stone) that can travel at speeds of up to 160 km per hour. ...

Rua do Triumpho - O Filme (2015)

Ozualdo Candeias and the Cinema (2013)

Using a mixture of film clips and interviews with Ozualdo Candeias himself the film tells the director's 40 year trajectory. ...

Soberano (2005)

Candeias: Da Boca pra Fora (2003)

O olhar singular de Ozualdo Candeias (1994)

A América do Sul (1992)

In 1968, Candeias made five short films shot by him in the South American countries of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela. The films were lost for over two decades before being found in 1992. After discovery the shorts were packaged toget ...

Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer? (1991)

The Beauties of Billings (1987)

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry. ...

Boca Aberta (1985)

A discussion on Brazilian cinema, focusing on São Paulo's Boca do Lixo production pole. ...

19 Mulheres e 1 Homem (1977)

Sinal Vermelho - As Fêmeas (1972)

Macabre Dr. Scivano (1971)

Edmundo Scivano returns to his hometown after years of failure in his political career. Discredited, he seeks the support of his countrymen to get his life back on track, but finds only contempt and disappointment in his path. Dissatisfied and angry, Sciva ...

The Awakening of the Beast (1970)

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity. ...

Orgy or The Man Who Gave Birth (1970)

A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among ...

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 ...