Movies: Ivan Cardoso

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for ...

Super Chacrinha and Glauber Rocha, two millionaires from the earthly plane of Varathrum, manipulate the people around them, including Deus and the Devil, so that their artistic industrial conglomerates grow....

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

Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on the mental underdevelopment of Brazilian elites, in which black humor sets the tone for sharp criticis...

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with ...

A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious deaths happening in a nightclub show....

A documentary on the trail of locality in Pará, Brazil, from the first jesuit mission to current day's red light district....

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In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-...

Anjo is a millionaire playboy who fights the forces of crime, especially his deadly enemy, the arch-villain Scarlet Scorpion, who recently has kidnapped the fashion designer Glória Campos, who is in love with our hero....

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro....

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

An experimental film made from a series of pictures of Raul Seixas shot by Ivan Cardoso, showing the musician in various stages of his life....

A dive into the mind and lens of photographer and filmmaker Ivan Cardoso....

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....

In this short film, Ivan Cardoso records Brazilian film director Rogério Sganzerla sending a message to Brazil....

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

A look into the Porto Fantastic Film Festival at Portugal....

A compilation of comedy/horror short films from Brazilian avant-garde Super 8 filmmaker Ivan Cardoso...

Laughed at when he announced the discovery of the elixer of life, Brazilian scientist Expedito Vitus ends up making the most important archaeological discovery of the century: the tomb of Runamb, the Mummy, in the sands of Egypt. Back in Brazil, he b...