Jairo Ferreira Movies

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A...

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and...

Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar...

"Before I Forget" is a short film by Jairo Ferreira. It was filmed in 1977, during the release of the book of the same name of Roberto Bicelli. The...

The demolition of an old house makes way for the modern city.

A homage to poet Sousandrade.

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

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...

Two groups of men fighting to conquer an automobile race bowl.

Doralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, when she is raped by a butcher, a friend advises her to become a...

Young son of a millionaire, obsessed with collecting used women's underwear, a butler who manages the mansion where the young man lives while his...

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

A film about Maurice Legeard who run a cineclub in Santos.

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

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

An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.

A travelogue film using Pound's concept of invention as a starting point.

One of the first Brazilian movies to conjecture about contraculture and its reflexes on the behaviour of a generation. A tribute to the late poet and...