Jairo Ferreira
Director · 1945 – 2003
Movies14
Movie5.5HorrorDramaA psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
Movie6.3FantasyDramaTransposition 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-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.
Movie5.7ComedyWannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upset the magazine's owner, a rich and powerful woman.
O Pornógrafo
1970 · 10 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceDoralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, when she is raped by a butcher, a friend advises her to become a prostitute - and she does it. After that, all her wishes and longings will curl up into a fascinating vortex.
Movie7.0DocumentaryAs 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 plot in the classical sense. Ferreira mixes situations of everyday life in the streets of São Paulo with scenes from classics of film history, which he filmed from television or from a projection with his Super 8 camera. The author as a vampire sucks from various sources – not only in cinema, but also in poetry and music – and creates a portrait of his time.
Movie8.0DramaDocumentaryA travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
Movie6.4ComedyDrama50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.
Movie9.0DramaA 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 others.
Movie9.0ComedyTwo groups of men fighting to conquer an automobile race bowl.
Corrida em Busca do Amor
1972 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryCandeias: Da Boca pra Fora
2003 · 1 votes
- MovieDocumentary
Documentary about the trajectory of Antônio Polo Galante, known as "The King of Boca". The film maps work and forms of production in Boca do Lixo, popular area in Luz neighborhood located downtown São Paulo, where usually night clubs and sexual services establishments were located.
Movie6.4DramaThe 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.
MovieDocumentaryA travelogue film using Pound's concept of invention as a starting point.
Movie9.5DramaCrimeAn unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.
O Vigilante
1992 · 2 votes