Movies: Helena Ignez
- 2017
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century (2017)
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Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a th...
- 2019
Fakir (2019)
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The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This circus art origin show is presented and analyzed through archives that reveals the success of these presentations with their pain resistan...
- 1986
It's Not All True (1986)
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Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True....
- 2014
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração (2014)
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A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour"....
- 2008
A Bela P... (2008)
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The human body in 5 parts....
- 2020
Benjamim Zambraia e o Autopanóptico (2020)
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Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone....
- 1970
Copacabana Mon Amour (1970)
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Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacabana and he’s a servant who falls madly in love with his employer....
- 1992
Scent of Gardenias (1992)
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Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. For more than a decade, Daniel nurtures a feeling of revenge for his ex-wife, which gains strength when the...
- 2005
A Miss e o Dinossauro (2005)
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A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970....
- 2013
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade (2013)
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- 2020
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)
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In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....
- 2017
Inaudito (2017)
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Guitarist Lanny Gordin was one of the fundamental characters in the transformation of Brazilian music from the 1960s onwards. He electrified Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Jards Macalé, among others. Lanny reveals his libertarian process...
- 1970
No Way, Spider (1970)
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Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on the mental underdevelopment of Brazilian elites, in which black humor sets the tone for sharp criticis...
- 2014
Love Film Festival (2014)
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Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will li...
- 1962
Assault on the Pay Train (1962)
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Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune....
- 2023
O Mel é Mais Doce Que o Sangue (2023)
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- 1974
A Man and His Cage (1974)
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The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe. After his wife's death, Tino continues living with Selma, with whom he had ambiguous relations, which he now...
- 2020
Rio de Topless (2020)
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Topless muse in Rio de Janeiro, Ana Paula Nogueira uses the ban on bare breasts and her story to debate freedom and feminism in the city that exported thongs and which has the false reputation of being libertarian....
- 2014
Ossos (2014)
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- 2010
Avacalha e se Esculhamba (2010)
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