Ivan Cardoso Movies

Compilation of early Ivan Cardoso's films in Super 8, including "Nosferato no Brasil (Nosferato in Brazil)"

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...

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.

Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful...

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

A journey through 40 years of life of the most important Film Festival in Portugal, through the voice of its President and Director, Mário...

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

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

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

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

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings...

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...

You walk into the fridge fo eat something. Innocent as you are, you think nobody's watching. Forty one years later, your midnight snack becomes a...

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 history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner...

A group of girls meets a strange man in what was supposed to be a normal evening at an amusement park.

Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a...

Ivan Cardoso short film adapted from a Georges Bataille story.

A couple in crisis is about the Brazilian middle class.