Helena Ignez Movies

  • 1997
    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

    01997HD

    "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
  • 1992
    Scent of Gardenias

    Scent of Gardenias

    Scent of Gardenias

    5.81992HD

    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....

    Scent of Gardenias
  • 1970
    A Familia do Barulho

    A Familia do Barulho

    A Familia do Barulho

    61970HD

    A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de...

    A Familia do Barulho
  • 1968
    The Red Light Bandit

    The Red Light Bandit

    The Red Light Bandit

    7.61968HD

    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"...

    The Red Light Bandit
  • 2020
    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    52020HD

    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...

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
  • 2023
    The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

    The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

    The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

    92023HD

    For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move...

    The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
  • 1967
    Face To Face

    Face To Face

    Face To Face

    5.51967HD

    The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons...

    Face To Face
  • 1966
    The Priest and the Girl

    The Priest and the Girl

    The Priest and the Girl

    7.31966HD

    In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the...

    The Priest and the Girl
  • 1970
    No Way, Spider

    No Way, Spider

    No Way, Spider

    6.21970HD

    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...

    No Way, Spider
  • 2008
    Embodiment of Evil

    Embodiment of Evil

    Embodiment of Evil

    5.22008HD

    Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is...

    Embodiment of Evil
  • 2021
    The Good Cinema

    The Good Cinema

    The Good Cinema

    02021HD

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

    The Good Cinema
  • 1970
    Watch Out, Madame

    Watch Out, Madame

    Watch Out, Madame

    61970HD

    Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.

    Watch Out, Madame
  • 2017
    Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century

    Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century

    Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century

    02017HD

    Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

    Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
  • 1970
    The Monsters of Babaloo

    The Monsters of Babaloo

    The Monsters of Babaloo

    6.61970HD

    Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo.

    The Monsters of Babaloo
  • 2018
    My Calendar Girl

    My Calendar Girl

    My Calendar Girl

    2.32018HD

    A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent...

    My Calendar Girl
  • 2020
    Race Antenna

    Race Antenna

    Race Antenna

    8.22020HD

    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...

    Race Antenna
  • 2023
    Joy Is the Acid Test

    Joy Is the Acid Test

    Joy Is the Acid Test

    02023HD

    A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker,...

    Joy Is the Acid Test
  • 2009
    A Vermelha Luz do Bandido

    A Vermelha Luz do Bandido

    A Vermelha Luz do Bandido

    02009HD

    Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit".

    A Vermelha Luz do Bandido
  • 2005
    A Miss e o Dinossauro

    A Miss e o Dinossauro

    A Miss e o Dinossauro

    52005HD

    A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.

    A Miss e o Dinossauro
  • 1969
    Baron Olavo, The Horrible

    Baron Olavo, The Horrible

    Baron Olavo, The Horrible

    4.81969HD

    Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the director...

    Baron Olavo, The Horrible