Helena Ignez Movies

A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent...

Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents...

Topless muse in Rio de Janeiro, Ana Paula Nogueira uses the ban on bare breasts and her story to debate freedom and feminism in the city that...

Following Alexander Taylor, a teacher in the slums of Kibuna, this is a reflection about the modern times, mixing social criticism and cinematic...

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

Two days in the life of André Provisório, a man with many occupations: private detective, drug dealer, and incorrigible seducer....

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in...

Spider, a banker, lives with three women. A tycoon that is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on...

In an ancient family mansion, mother Sydia and daughter Nina spend a tense night of isolation just as a solar storm threatens to collapse the...

The naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There, however, he is passed behind by the...

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the...

70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an...

Marcos returns home after a few years away.

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons...

Morro do Castelo was chosen by the Portuguese to found Rio de Janeiro city. It was an important historical and architectural reference. Despite its...

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...

Brazilian director Julio Bressane directs this religious biography on the life and work of Saint Jerome, the monk who first translated the Bible into...