Jairo Ferreira Movies

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

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

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...

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

A final conversation with departed actor, director and musical producer Julio Calasso Jr., a key character in the Brazilian artistic scene. At his...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

A mockumentary (or is it a fake fiction?) about journalism.

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

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

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

A documentary on Brazilian musician Mario Gennari and the bond between his music's sonority and the public space of the streets of São Paulo.