Helena Ignez Movies

After being born Georgina in the outback of Bahia, she became known as Diva Rios in São Paulo’s Boca do Lixo and Rio de Janeiro’s...

One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.

Short film by Helena Ignez, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine.

A self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the...

Guilherme, who has the police on his trail for having been involved with a niece of the mayor of his city, runs away with the girl after receiving...

Employee exploited by her employer changes her life by winning the lottery.

Two days in the life of André Provisório, a man with many occupations: private detective, drug dealer, and incorrigible seducer....

Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer...

In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he...

A documentary short on Glauber Rocha's mother Lúcia.

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the...

A man and a woman are laying on a chess-like patio. Both are trying to reach each other in the best way they can. However, for some odd reason they...

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

In rural Brazil, villagers battle wealthy land barons for the sake of their own survival.

Brazilian director Julio Bressane directs this religious biography on the life and work of Saint Jerome, the monk who first translated the Bible into...

Spider, a banker, lives with three women. A tycoon that is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on...

Marcos returns home after a few years away.