Movies: Ivan Cardoso

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for ...

This film is Ivan Cardoso's new incursion on pop and experimental cinema, making an hommage to old screenings at Cine AC, and reuniting restaured films and new works....

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 tackle the subjects of mysticism and human condition....

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

Super Chacrinha and Glauber Rocha, two millionaires from the earthly plane of Varathrum, manipulate the people around them, including Deus and the Devil, so that their artistic industrial conglomerates grow....

A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show....

In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-...

After taking part in a satanic orgy at a beach in 1850, Macário meets Exú-Lebara, a female pagan entity. She decides to go along in his trip but tricks him into going to 2008 São Paulo....

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro....

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...

A sadistic jew tortures an abnormal employee who is held captive for having owned his only daughter on the day of his death. The jew's life turns to hell as the punishment increases and the abnormal man begins to feel pleasure with his suffering....

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28....

The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism, and cinema. He was an active participant in the revolution of Tropicália and marginal art, which cha...

Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful fashion designer....

A compilation of comedy/horror short films from Brazilian avant-garde Super 8 filmmaker Ivan Cardoso...

A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown....

A literary adaptation by Ivan Cardoso...

A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life....

Budapest, 19th century: Nosferatu is killed by a prince. Now in colour and on holiday in Brazil, he saps several natives....

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