Movies: José Mojica Marins

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

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....

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

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 p...

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 fantas...

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....

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....

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

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

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 th...

Zé do Caixão, 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....

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....

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...

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....