Ivan Cardoso Movies

A journey through 40 years of life of the most important Film Festival in Portugal, through the voice of its President and Director, Mário...

A late-1960s interview with Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, mixed in avant-garde style with scenes from his films and clips from fellow filmmaker...

A beautiful film-interview by Ivan Cardoso, made during the shooting of A Werewolf in Amazonia in 2005, with the astonishing Paul Naschy!

An experimental film on Brazilian avant-garde artist Hélio Oiticica and his works, especially the Parangolés.

The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism,...

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

Man tries to decipher a manuscript about an ancient civilization and gets involved in strange situations. In fact, the plot is just an excuse to...

Compilation of early Ivan Cardoso's films in Super 8, including "Nosferato no Brasil (Nosferato in Brazil)"

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner...

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.

Super Chacrinha and Glauber Rocha, two millionaires from the earthly plane of Varathrum, manipulate the people around them, including Deus and the...

Comedy/horror short film shot during a 4-day workshop of filmmaking at 2007's MOTELx Lisbon International Horror Film Festival.

A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.

Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.

A group of girls meets a strange man in what was supposed to be a normal evening at an amusement park.

This film is Ivan Cardoso's new incursion on pop and experimental cinema, making an hommage to old screenings at Cine AC, and reuniting restaured...

Ivan Cardoso short film adapted from a Georges Bataille story.

Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a...

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