Jairo Ferreira
Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Two groups of men fighting to conquer an automobile race bowl.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upset the magazine's owner, a rich and powerful woman.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Doralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, when she is raped by a butcher, a friend advises her to become a prostitute - and she does it. After that, all her wishes and longings will curl up into a fascinating vortex.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends in Super 8mm he also becomes the vampire of the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. In O VAMPIRO DA CINEMATECA Ferreira develops a poetic representation of his idea of “inventive cinema” without a plot in the classical sense. Ferreira mixes situations of everyday life in the streets of São Paulo with scenes from classics of film history, which he filmed from television or from a projection with his Super 8 camera. The author as a vampire sucks from various sources – not only in cinema, but also in poetry and music – and creates a portrait of his time.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A travelogue film using Pound's concept of invention as a starting point.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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, among others.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.
Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.
Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Self (Archive footage)
A final conversation with departed actor, director and musical producer Julio Calasso Jr., a key character in the Brazilian artistic scene. At his old house in Butantã, São Paulo, Julio talks about his experiences, frustrations, joys and tragedies.