Helena Ignez Movies

In an ancient family mansion, mother Sydia and daughter Nina spend a tense night of isolation just as a solar storm threatens to collapse the...

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons...

Hated by the Greeks, detested by the Trojans, Helena lives a peaceful life in Guaratiba, a fishing neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Until love knocks...

Helena Ignez is one of the main female figures of Brazilian cinema. She developed a new style of acting. Nowadays, she directs independent films. The...

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in...

Marcos returns home after a few years away.

Two days in the life of André Provisório, a man with many occupations: private detective, drug dealer, and incorrigible seducer....

Spider, a banker, lives with three women. A tycoon that is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on...

The naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There, however, he is passed behind by the...

A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.

In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he...

Experimental movie about Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art's Movie Archive (Cinemateca).

Helena Ignez's first film as a director is a homage to American architect and contemporary artist Vito Acconti, who made an urban intervention over a...

The relationship of a woman with three men - her husband, her lover and a man who fell in love with her -, told in a single night, through flashbacks

Employee exploited by her employer changes her life by winning the lottery.

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

A person locked in the room.