Rogério Sganzerla Movies

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

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

Rogério Sganzerla’s lost film. The only existing copy was lost in 1992 and the negatives are lost. It tells about the history of Betty...

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings...

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

Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a...

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...

The short film traces a historical overview of comic book production, focusing here on the Brazilian market.

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...

A group of middle-class friends driving around São Paulo choose one of the women as a bait to attract a victim, object of their alienation and...

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...

Helena Ignez is one of the main female figures of Brazilian cinema. She developed a new style of acting. Nowadays, she directs independent films. The...

Helena Ignez's first film as a director is a homage to American architect and contemporary artist Vito Acconti, who made an urban intervention over a...

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her...

A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.

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

A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.

Man tries to decipher a manuscript about an ancient civilization and gets involved in strange situations. In fact, the plot is just an excuse to...

Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).

Documentary about power and class relations in the sociocultural context of Bahia, considering the history of oil extraction in the state.