Helena Ignez Movies

A self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.

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...

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...

In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he...

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....

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

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the...

The narrative takes place in 1888 and tells the story of Lenita, a young woman, raised by her father, with an educated background, who disregards the...

After being born Georgina in the outback of Bahia, she became known as Diva Rios in São Paulo’s Boca do Lixo and Rio de Janeiro’s...

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...

A documentary short on Glauber Rocha's mother Lúcia.

One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.

Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer...

Employee exploited by her employer changes her life by winning the lottery.

The relationship of a woman with three men - her husband, her lover and a man who fell in love with her -, told in a single night, through flashbacks

A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.