Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias Movies

In a card game, Manelão loses his horse. Suffering from a venereal disease he looks for a pharmacist who colluded with a colonel. The...

A young playboy, raised by a wealthy industrialist, discovers that his real father is involved with a dangerous gang, putting his life at risk.

In 1968, Candeias made five short films shot by him in the South American countries of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela. The...

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

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...

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

Ozualdo Candeias was a grumpy truck driver. He never lost the verve of this strange form of freedom, trapped in the cab and facing the varied...

Tired of the constant abuse he suffers in his household, a boy runs away from home and goes on a series of sad and dramatic adventures, in which he...

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

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

A look at Brás, one of São Paulo's main Italian districts from its start until the 70s.

Short film by Brazilian filmmaker Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias.

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the...

On the banks of São Paulo's Rio Tietê, a poignant tale unfolds, featuring a tapestry of characters existing on the fringes of society....

In a single shot, mysterious characters discuss about a cockroach problem.