Ivan Cardoso Movies

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal...

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

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...

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

23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and...

Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit".

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...

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

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...

A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by...

A totally Cardoso-appropriated footage delirium, done as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel. In the end, Corman himself blesses...

A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.