Movies: Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irrever...

A sculptor, protected by a millionaire woman, becomes suspect of her murder. He flees to the country, where a violent pursuit takes place....

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

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....

An anthology divided in three segments, helmed by three of the most important Brazilian directors of the 20th century. A mother becomes involved with black magic and offers a virgin woman to the Devil in exchange for curing the illness of her only so...

On the banks of São Paulo's Rio Tietê, a poignant tale unfolds, featuring a tapestry of characters existing on the fringes of society. Prostitutes, a pimp, a mentally disabled man, and others marginalized by fate lead lives mired in hopelessness, dev...

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A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy,...

A look into the Boca do Lixo, a square in downtown São Paulo known as a point for filmmakers, actors, and technicians who worked on low-budget films....

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A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry....

Pyroclastic flows (also known as a pyroclastic cloud or pyroclastic wave) are the devastating result of some volcanic eruptions. They are fluid bodies, composed of hot gas and pyroclasts (gray and stone) that can travel at speeds of up to 160 km per ...

Two hitchhiking young women involve the men who give them a lift in a game of sex, telepathy and death....

A short film made from photos of Boca do Lixo, a bohemian and marginal neighborhood, and its people....

An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood....

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Using a mixture of film clips and interviews with Ozualdo Candeias himself the film tells the director's 40 year trajectory....

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A documentary short on Brazil's National Film Archive, the Cinemateca Brasileira, based in the city of São Paulo....