Rogério Sganzerla Movies

Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo.

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

A documentary based on the book Umbanda no Brasil by the scholar Mata e Silva, who is interviewed by the director. The book studies the Brazilian...

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.

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

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

Documentary about power and class relations in the sociocultural context of Bahia, considering the history of oil extraction in the state.

A millionaire lives in a sinister cottage where strange events unfold. A damned creature, he transforms himself in a werewolf and leads a following...

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian...

Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of...

Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the director...

A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de...

A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings...

A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.

A group of middle-class friends driving around São Paulo choose one of the women as a bait to attract a victim, object of their alienation and...

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

The life of samba composer Noel Rosa.

A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material....