José Mojica Marins Movies

An autobiographical docu-drama that chronicles the filmmaker's struggle with narrow minded authorities, critics, and personal tragedy.

Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to...

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

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

Zé do Caixão, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal...

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is...

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

Zé do Caixão hosts this anthology of three short horror stories which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a...

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

Dr. George Medeiros, a brilliant scientist, is badly disfigured when his wife takes a lover and plans to murder him. After months in the hospital, he...

Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the...

A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of...

Without any dialogue, the film tells the story of a man who had an Oedipal passion for his mother. After getting married, the disorders return with...

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...

Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been...

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

A naked stranger emerges from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world.

The dedicated priest Pedro arrives in the city of Serinhaém, ready to reopen the church, closed by the feared local bandit, Rodrigo Napu, and...

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