Jairo Ferreira Movies

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...

A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who...

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

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...

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

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

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

Jairo Ferreira's view on the career of singer Raul Seixas.

"Before I Forget" is a short film by Jairo Ferreira. It was filmed in 1977, during the release of the book of the same name of Roberto Bicelli. The...

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

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

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

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...

Two factory workers from the outskirts of São Paulo make a trip to a bathhouse close to the city.

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.

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

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