José Mojica Marins
Also Known As: J. Avelar
Biography: José Mojica Marins (March 13, 1936 - February 19, 2020) was a Brazilian filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, television and media personality. His interest in filmmaking began at an early age. When Marins was three, his father ran a local cinema, and the family lived in a flat above the theater. Marins is also known by his alter ego Coffin Joe (loosely translated from Zé do Caixão). Although Marins is known primarily as a horror film director, his earlier works were Westerns, dramas and adventure films.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: March 13, 1936
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 19, 2020
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The Good Cinema
Overview: An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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Embodiment of Evil
Overview: Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
Overview: Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-11-09
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Tonight I'll Possess Your Corpse
Overview: Coffin Joe, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-03-13
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Overview: "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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A Lasanha Assassina: A Revolta das Massas
Overview: Rebeca and her family move into an abandoned house with a sinister past. Her father wants to renovate the house and turn it into a rotisserie. With the help of her neighbor Lucas, Rebeca discovers that the former residents were attacked by a strange creature: The Killer Lasagna. The monster gains strength and grows as it feeds on the remains of food thrown down the pipes and, at the opening of the cantina, the Lasagna will attack again.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-07-26
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Cult of Terror
Overview: A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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O Beijo na Morte
Overview: Tiny film made for the "1-minute Film Festival". When the death comes, it is time to kiss her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-06-28
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A espiritualidade e a sinuca
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Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures
Overview: An eclectic group of strangers seek shelter on a dark and stormy night, soon finding an isolated guest house owned by a mysterious proprietor.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-10-16
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The End of Man
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-12-18
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The Awakening of the Beast
Overview: A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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The Curse
Overview: While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple in the form of a wound that feeds on raw flesh.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-11-10
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The Secret of the Mummy
Overview: A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-09-06
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SP Zero 15
Overview: 15 directors telling 15 tales about São Paulo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-13
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As Mulheres do Sexo Violento
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-08-19
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The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe
Overview: Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the story for his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-09-23
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Hellish Flesh
Overview: 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 returns with nothing in mind but revenge.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-03-24
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Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins
Overview: The first documentary on José Mojica Marins's (the legendary Zé do Caixão or Coffin Joe) life and work. The film tells Mojica's history, from his poor childhood in Vila Anastácio, São Paulo (Brazil), until his success abroad in the '90s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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48 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex
Overview: After seeing the film "24 Horas de Sexo Explícito", Dr Margaret, sexologist hires the same crew to make a new movie, doubling the time - an orgy which would last for 48 hours, to further her research on sex. But as the film progresses it is revealed that she may have an ulterior goal in coaxing her actors into their drugged and sexually frenzied states.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-04-27
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A Última Praga de Mojica
Overview: The short film reports the process of rescuing and finishing A Praga, by José Mojica Marins, o Zé do Caixão. Produced in 1980, the film was never completed and was lost.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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Demons and Wonders
Overview: An autobiographical docu-drama that chronicles the filmmaker's struggle with narrow minded authorities, critics, and personal tragedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-12-31
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Father Pedro and the Revolt of the Children
Overview: The dedicated priest Pedro arrives in the city of Serinhaém, ready to reopen the church, closed by the feared local bandit, Rodrigo Napu, and tries to reestablish the Catholic faith of the population, oppressed by the domination of the evildoer.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-07-09
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The Abyss
Overview: 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 tackle the subjects of mysticism and human condition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-06-24
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The Prophet of Hunger
Overview: The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-13
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Soberano
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-17
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Adventurer's Fate
Overview: After being shot fleeing from a gunfight, the bandit Jaime falls to a riverbank, where is rescued by two beautiful young women. He becomes involved romantically with Dorothy, daughter of a farmer, and for her sake, surrenders to the police. Upon leaving the prison, Jaime has to face Xavier, a bloodthirsty villain who plans on taking revenge on Dorothy's father.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Um Show de Verão
Overview: Andréa, a poor telemarketing salesgirl, dreams of being a singer. Her rich boyfriend Fred hires a musical producer, Marcelo, to turn her into a star. But she and Marcelo end up falling in love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-30
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Orgy of the Devil and Other Forbidden Tapes of Ivan Cardoso
Overview: 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 films and new works.
Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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World Market of Sex
Overview: On Christmas Eve, Mauro, a reporter, has 24 hours to find a headline.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-07-04
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One Man's Failure on Two Wedding Nights
Overview: 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 more force and can lead to unimaginable consequences.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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Perversion
Overview: 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, he is able to beat the rap, claiming the woman was trying to extort money from him. He continues his life of debauchery, using women and flaunting his power until he meets a new woman, who won't let him have his way with her, but wants to be his friend. Falling madly in love with her, he cleans up his act and devotes his attentions to her, not realizing that she has a hidden agenda.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-22
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Rua do Triumpho - O Filme
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-09
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O Auto de Leidiana
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-09-01
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When the Gods Fall Asleep
Overview: Finis Hominis sets out to right wrongs, expose corruption and end the social unrest that he sees in the world.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-11-24
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Samba Chanson
Overview: Zé Rocha is a director trying to shoot his first film. He dreams of making a professional movie, and starts shooting in 35mm. But as his budget begins to fade, he changes to Black-and-White, then gradually down to 16mm, Super-8 and, in the end, to his despair, to the video format. With the help of Edna Marla, producer who is searching for the Holy Grail of a genuinely 100% Brazilian celluloid; Dona Martírio, his mother, former left-wing activist; Guará Rodrigues, an underground Brazilian movie star; and Lila Lessa, who stars in a 6 p.m. soap opera, they develop strategies and outlandish plans to win the insane battle of filmmaking in Brazil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-09-28
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Carniçal
Overview: Felipe is a boy with a double life, whose relationship with an older woman does not have the approval of his mother, a bitter woman. With the arrival of a band of gypsies, a secret will come to light bringing an irreversible outcome.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-03-10
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The Strange World of Coffin Joe
Overview: Zé do Caixão hosts this anthology of three short horror stories which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic professor involved in sadistic rituals.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-11-25
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At Midnight with Glauber Rocha
Overview: A late-1960s interview with Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, mixed in avant-garde style with scenes from his films and clips from fellow filmmaker José Mojica Marins and visual artist Hélio Oiticica.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Vampire of the Cinematheque
Overview: 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 O VAMPIRO DA CINEMATECA Ferreira develops a poetic representation of his idea of “inventive cinema” without a plot in the classical sense. Ferreira mixes situations of everyday life in the streets of São Paulo with scenes from classics of film history, which he filmed from television or from a projection with his Super 8 camera. The author as a vampire sucks from various sources – not only in cinema, but also in poetry and music – and creates a portrait of his time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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FilmeFobia
Overview: 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 aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias in order to film the fear on their faces.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-11
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Nas Asas do Caixão
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-18
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Júlio o Rei dos Vilões
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-07-19
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Horror Palace Hotel
Overview: An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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Coffin Joe's Heart of Darkness
Overview: One of the great iconic filmmakers of the horror genre returns with one of the final projects he will manage in his lifetime.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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Undertaker
Overview: The undertaker Coffin Joe kidnapped Terezinha, and he will test if she is the perfect woman. Antonio, the girl's boyfriend, intends to rescue her, but in order to do so he must enter the funeral parlor the terrible killer uses as a lair.
Genres: Animation Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-06
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Giant Nails' Kidnapping
Overview: On the night of the premiere of his film "Embodimento of Evil", Zé do Caixão is accidentally kidnapped by two fans and they all embark on a crazy journey through the early hours of São Paulo.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Ponto Org
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-20
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The Godless Bandit
Overview: After the proclamation of the Republic, a group of fanatics in the sertão dreamed of and fought for the restoration of the Monarchy. At that bloody time, Fabiano, a quiet boy, becomes a cangaceiro and is attacked by the police. Although wounded, he manages to take refuge on a farm where he is hidden in by Lúcia, the farmer's daughter, with whom he falls in love.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-03-10
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Fitas Proibidas - Antologia do Terror
Overview: Fitas Proibidas is a horror anthology that immerses the viewer in a series of macabre and supernatural stories, all revealed by Yraíra, an enigmatic entity that inhabits an old video store. Each tape unearths narratives of demons, ghosts, possessions and vampires, creating a panorama of horror and mystery. As Yraíra unravels these tapes, it not only gives goosebumps, but also offers dark moral lessons, reflecting on the fears and shadows that reside within us all.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-09-01
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Canibais na HorrorCon
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Memórias da Boca
Overview: An anthology film (eight shorts) honoring the Boca do Lixo ("Mouth of Garbage") film production in the downtown area of São Paulo, Brazil.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-12-10
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Wild Torture - The Grid
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Genres: Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-02
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Afonso é uma Brazza
Overview: Afonso Brazza became a fireman for the love of the profession. He became a film director and actor for the same reason. Brazza became one of the most original directors of Brazilian cinema. He died at age 48, the victim of cancer. The documentary material was filmed before his death and shows our hero fighting fires in real life and fictional villains. Brazza was a dreamer. His story entertains and thrills.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-19
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A Descent Into Coffin Joe's Hell
Overview: Documentary about José Mojica Marins made by film students.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-02
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The Universe of Mojica Marins
Overview: A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-09-22
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Coffin Joe's Visions of Terror
Overview: Coffin Joe takes you into his mad world and shows some of the strangest trailers from South America.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-04
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The Capitol of the Dead
Overview: In 1883, the Italian priest Dom Bosco had a premonition that human beings would be evaluated, and the stage would be the city of Brasília. The priest also saw three generations of sixty years and that in the first two, the actions of men were tested. At the beginning of the third generation, the city begins to be invaded by zombies and a group of friends will have to do everything possible and impossible to stay alive.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-02
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The Beauties of Billings
Overview: A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-06-17
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The First Time of Brazilian Cinema
Overview: In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. Thirty years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-05-01
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The Devil in Old Town
Overview: The town of Vila Velha is put under a reign of terror by a powerful colonel nicknamed "The Devil", who influences local politicians and hires gunslingers to shoot down those who stand up to him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-05-30
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Lâmia, Vampiro!
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind
Overview: A psychiatric doctor driven to insanity by nightmare visions of Zé do Caixão trying to steal his wife is helped by colleagues who enlist creator José Mojica Marins to convince the patient that he does not exist.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-08-02
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Fatal Hours
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Genres: Crime Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Hour of Fear
Overview: In São Paulo, Alberto is an insane and sadistic man that kills women, and lives with his mother that covers all his mess. When he kills his mother's employee Eliana, stabbing her in the bathtub, they bury her in the backyard of their house. Eliana's fiancé unsuccessfully seeks her out and when Alberto's mother advertises that she needs a driver, he applies for the job to sneak around the real estate trying to find Eliana.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
Overview: A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-24
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Ed Mort
Overview: A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-05-05
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Chapeuzinho Vermelho
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-02-08
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Queen of Clubs
Overview: An unhappy woman, married and mother of two children, has problems with her alcoholic husband, sexually rejecting him, and only reaching pleasure in hallucinating erotic dreams.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-02-12
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A Lasanha Assassina
Overview: A forgotten lasagna mutates into a monster.
Genres: Animation Comedy Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-03
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Fogo-Fátuo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-03-12
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Babu - Damned Revenge
Overview: Ultra low budget, shot-on-video Brazilian horror involves a devil worship cult sacrificing women to Satan.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Coffin Joe Tales
Overview: Woman who was raped and murdered reincarnates in the body of Maria Imaculada, a meek housemaid who hides her true inner evil behind an innocent face, secretly performs satanic rites in her room and changes the life of the family she's working for. Her intent is revenge against all the men crossing her way.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Marble Goddess
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Por Exemplo Butantã
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-03-27
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Minami em Close-up - A Boca em Revista
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-04-17
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Candeias: Da Boca pra Fora
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-04-18
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Horror no Cinema Nacional
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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5 Mentiras
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-08-04
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O Fim da Picada
Overview: After taking part in a satanic orgy at a beach in 1850, Macário meets Exú-Lebara, a female pagan entity. She decides to go along in his trip but tricks him into going to 2008 São Paulo.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-21
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Homem sem terra - A volta de João Amorim
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-06-07
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O Filho do Sexo Explícito
Overview: While shooting a porn movie, the lead actor finishes inside the actress and she becomes pregnant. She sues the director and the producer, and raises her son alone. When he becomes an adult, he becomes a porn star and he also accidentally gets an actress pregnant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-07-11
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A Praga do Cinema Brasileiro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-09-19
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Foi Bom pra Você, Benzinho?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-07-13
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Entrando Numa Roubada
Overview: 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 possible while at the same time plotting revenge.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-03
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Sex and Blood on Treasure Trail
Overview: An american explorer organizes an expedition to the Amazon Rainforest in search of a lost treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-03-01
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Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Overview: 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 incarcerated for the last 30 years.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-13
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Sangue Marginal
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-01
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My Destiny is in Your Hands
Overview: Tired of the constant abuse he suffers in his household, a boy runs away from home and goes on a series of sad and dramatic adventures, in which he finds the opportunity to show the power of his own voice.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-06-08
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Extra Bloody
Overview: A boy goes to his girlfriend's home and is handcuffed on bed before discovering some strange food habits from her family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-25
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Bloody Kingdom
Overview: Two friends travel into the Amazon Rainforest, where they find a hidden kingdom ruled by a bloodthirsty sultan. One of José Mojica Marins' first efforts into filmmaking, shot in 16mm when he was only 12 years-old.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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A Marca do Terrir
Overview: Compilation of early Ivan Cardoso's films in Super 8, including "Nosferato no Brasil (Nosferato in Brazil)"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
Overview: A totally Cardoso-appropriated footage delirium, done as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel. In the end, Corman himself blesses Cardoso by saying: "You blended horror, sex and humour very well. And particularly the editing is very good because the film never lagged or slowed down". Which film? This one!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-27
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Dark Fables
Overview: A group of kids embarks in a macabre adventure, full of characters from the Brazilian popular imaginary - the werewolf, a witch, a ghost, monsters and The Saci.
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-28
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Person
Overview: Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-08-10
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Mojica na Neve: Esta Noite Encarnarei em Sundance
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-08-16
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A Hora do Terrir
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-22
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Pináculo da Miséria
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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Rock Rocket: Doidão
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-02-12
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Extraterrestrial Cat in Boots
Overview: A Cat from outer-space comes to earth and befriends a Miller's Son and together they set out to defeat an evil wizard.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Gurcius Gewdner Show
Overview: "Gurcius Gewdner Show" is the pilot of a nonsense humor program. Presented by the irreverent character that gives the program its title, it follows the comic line of the revolutionary Monty Python´s Flying Circus and South Park, and is full of references to the world of pop culture and information and jokes that deal with such diverse subjects - and with the same greatness of relevance - as the trajectory of Rafael Ilha and the works of famous poets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-07-30
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The Devil Baby Was Born in São Paulo
Overview: An investigation into three São Paulo urban legends: The Devil Baby, the Blonde of the Bathroom and the Clown Gang. Originated in rumours, they were reported by the extinct tabloid Notícias Populares (NP) at different times. From this search, a universe is revealed where fantasy and reality are confused.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-02-10
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Let Your Fans Be Your Distributor!
Overview: Lloyd Kaufman Goes to São Paulo, Brazil to teach his famous "Make Your Own Damn Movie" Master Class, and while there he meets with the heart of the Brazilian film industry!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-11
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Overview: Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto
Overview: A look into the Porto Fantastic Film Festival at Portugal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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O Saci
Overview: A girl crosses the forest to get milk and on the way she knows about Saci, who punishes those who do not respect the people of the forest.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-24
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Audácia!
Overview: Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-08-10
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Fifth Dimension of Sex
Overview: Two Chemistry students, unlucky with women, develop a formula that turns them into crazed rapists. But they eventually discover that they are in love with each other!
Genres: Adventure Crime Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Liz Vamp
Overview: Documentary short film about the filmmaker, actress, writer, TV presenter "Liz Marins". Daughter of the master of national horror - the eternal Zé do Caixão, she tells how she created the character LIZ VAMP and VAMPIRE DAY.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-08-15
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Necrophagia - Nightmare Scenarios
Overview: A collection of Necrophagia's gory music videos featuring cameos by horror legends like Coffin Joe and Paul Naschy.
Genres: Music Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-31
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Ivan, the TerrirBle
Overview: Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a rescue of his work by mixing archival material, animations and fictional reconstructions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-01
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