José Mojica Marins Movies

A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the...

A film director, Walter, meets his old team to make a "road movie". With no money, they will have come up with scams in order to make the production...

An eclectic group of strangers seek shelter on a dark and stormy night, soon finding an isolated guest house owned by a mysterious proprietor.

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of...

A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.

A prominent millionaire gets a woman drunk and rapes her, biting off her nipple in the process. Because of his influence and powerful lawyer, though,...

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...

Coffin Joe hosts this anthology of three short horror stories which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish,...

Fitas Proibidas is a horror anthology that immerses the viewer in a series of macabre and supernatural stories, all revealed by Yraíra, an...

A totally Cardoso-appropriated footage delirium, done as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel. In the end, Corman himself blesses...

"They are combinations of fragments. There are no stories, it is possible to mount these fragments in many ways. »Cine-eye or cine-voice-eye....

The short film reports the process of rescuing and finishing A Praga, by José Mojica Marins, o Zé do Caixão. Produced in 1980,...

A 2000-year-old woman has a pact with the devil to preserve her youth. She must extract the essence of life from the people she has sex with.

In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major...