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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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