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.

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

The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a...

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

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...

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

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 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...

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

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...

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.

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

Multiple film crews travel through Amazon.

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

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