13-03-1936
Birthday
Pisces
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
111
Total Films
Also known as (male)
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Place of Birth
13-03-1936
Birthday
Pisces
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
111
Total Films
J. Avelar
Also Known As (male)
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Place of Birth
actor
111 Works
producer
9 Works
director
77 Works
writer
26 Works
other
3 Works
Fitas Proibidas - Antologia do Terror
Fitas Proibidas is a horror anthology that immerses the viewer in a series of macabre and supernatural stories, all revealed by Yraíra, an enigmatic entity that inhabits an old video store. Each tape unearths narratives of demons, ghosts, possessions and vampires, creating a panorama of horror and mystery. As Yraíra unravels these tapes, it not only gives goosebumps, but also offers dark moral lessons, reflecting on the fears and shadows that reside within us all.Year:
2024
A Lasanha Assassina: A Revolta das Massas
Rebeca and her family move into an abandoned house with a sinister past. Her father wants to renovate the house and turn it into a rotisserie. With the help of her neighbor Lucas, Rebeca discovers that the former residents were attacked by a strange creature: The Killer Lasagna. The monster gains strength and grows as it feeds on the remains of food thrown down the pipes and, at the opening of the cantina, the Lasagna will attack again.Year:
2022
The Curse
While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple in the form of a wound that feeds on raw flesh.Year:
2021
A Última Praga de Mojica
The short film reports the process of rescuing and finishing A Praga, by José Mojica Marins, o Zé do Caixão. Produced in 1980, the film was never completed and was lost.Year:
2021
The Good Cinema
An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.Year:
2021
Ivan, the TerrirBle
Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a rescue of his work by mixing archival material, animations and fictional reconstructions.Year:
2020
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
A totally Cardoso-appropriated footage delirium, done as a tribute to US independent cinema's original rebel. In the end, Corman himself blesses Cardoso by saying: "You blended horror, sex and humour very well. And particularly the editing is very good because the film never lagged or slowed down". Which film? This one!Year:
2020
A Praga do Cinema Brasileiro
Year:
2018
Coffin Joe's Heart of Darkness
One of the great iconic filmmakers of the horror genre returns with one of the final projects he will manage in his lifetime.Year:
2017
Cult of Terror
A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.Year:
2017
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.Year:
2017
SP Zero 15
15 directors telling 15 tales about São Paulo.Year:
2016
Horror no Cinema Nacional
Year:
2016
Memórias da Boca
An anthology film (eight shorts) honoring the Boca do Lixo ("Mouth of Garbage") film production in the downtown area of São Paulo, Brazil.Year:
2015
Afonso é uma Brazza
Afonso Brazza became a fireman for the love of the profession. He became a film director and actor for the same reason. Brazza became one of the most original directors of Brazilian cinema. He died at age 48, the victim of cancer. The documentary material was filmed before his death and shows our hero fighting fires in real life and fictional villains. Brazza was a dreamer. His story entertains and thrills.Year:
2015
Entrando Numa Roubada
A film director, Walter, meets his old team to make a "road movie". With no money, they will have come up with scams in order to make the production possible while at the same time plotting revenge.Year:
2015
Rua do Triumpho - O Filme
Year:
2015
Carniçal
Felipe is a boy with a double life, whose relationship with an older woman does not have the approval of his mother, a bitter woman. With the arrival of a band of gypsies, a secret will come to light bringing an irreversible outcome.Year:
2015
Dark Fables
A group of kids embarks in a macabre adventure, full of characters from the Brazilian popular imaginary - the werewolf, a witch, a ghost, monsters and The Saci.Year:
2015
O Saci
A girl crosses the forest to get milk and on the way she knows about Saci, who punishes those who do not respect the people of the forest.Year:
2015
Extra Bloody
A boy goes to his girlfriend's home and is handcuffed on bed before discovering some strange food habits from her family.Year:
2013
Orgy of the Devil and Other Forbidden Tapes of Ivan Cardoso
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 films and new works.Year:
2013
Sangue Marginal
Year:
2013
Liz Vamp
Documentary short film about the filmmaker, actress, writer, TV presenter "Liz Marins". Daughter of the master of national horror - the eternal Zé do Caixão, she tells how she created the character LIZ VAMP and VAMPIRE DAY.Year:
2013
The First Time of Brazilian Cinema
In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. Thirty years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.Year:
2013
Let Your Fans Be Your Distributor!
Lloyd Kaufman Goes to São Paulo, Brazil to teach his famous "Make Your Own Damn Movie" Master Class, and while there he meets with the heart of the Brazilian film industry!Year:
2013
Nas Asas do Caixão
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2012
O Beijo na Morte
Tiny film made for the "1-minute Film Festival". When the death comes, it is time to kiss her.Year:
2012
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.Year:
2012
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.Year:
2012
Ponto Org
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2011
A espiritualidade e a sinuca
Year:
2011
Gurcius Gewdner Show
"Gurcius Gewdner Show" is the pilot of a nonsense humor program. Presented by the irreverent character that gives the program its title, it follows the comic line of the revolutionary Monty Python´s Flying Circus and South Park, and is full of references to the world of pop culture and information and jokes that deal with such diverse subjects - and with the same greatness of relevance - as the trajectory of Rafael Ilha and the works of famous poets.Year:
2010
A Descent Into Coffin Joe's Hell
Documentary about José Mojica Marins made by film students.Year:
2010
O Fim da Picada
After taking part in a satanic orgy at a beach in 1850, Macário meets Exú-Lebara, a female pagan entity. She decides to go along in his trip but tricks him into going to 2008 São Paulo.Year:
2009
FilmeFobia
The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias in order to film the fear on their faces.Year:
2008
Embodiment of Evil
Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.Year:
2008
Undertaker
The undertaker Coffin Joe kidnapped Terezinha, and he will test if she is the perfect woman. Antonio, the girl's boyfriend, intends to rescue her, but in order to do so he must enter the funeral parlor the terrible killer uses as a lair.Year:
2008
The Capitol of the Dead
Year:
2008
Minami em Close-up - A Boca em Revista
Year:
2008
Rock Rocket: Doidão
Year:
2008
Pináculo da Miséria
Year:
2007
A Hora do Terrir
Year:
2007
Person
Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.Year:
2007
Giant Nails' Kidnapping
On the night of the premiere of his film "Embodimento of Evil", Zé do Caixão is accidentally kidnapped by two fans and they all embark on a crazy journey through the early hours of São Paulo.Year:
2007
5 Mentiras
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2006
Foi Bom pra Você, Benzinho?
Year:
2006
A Marca do Terrir
Compilation of early Ivan Cardoso's films in Super 8, including "Nosferato no Brasil (Nosferato in Brazil)"Year:
2005
Soberano
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2005
Lâmia, Vampiro!
Year:
2005
Necrophagia - Nightmare Scenarios
A collection of Necrophagia's gory music videos featuring cameos by horror legends like Coffin Joe and Paul Naschy.Year:
2004
Um Show de Verão
Andréa, a poor telemarketing salesgirl, dreams of being a singer. Her rich boyfriend Fred hires a musical producer, Marcelo, to turn her into a star. But she and Marcelo end up falling in love.Year:
2004
Candeias: Da Boca pra Fora
Year:
2003
Samba Chanson
Zé Rocha is a director trying to shoot his first film. He dreams of making a professional movie, and starts shooting in 35mm. But as his budget begins to fade, he changes to Black-and-White, then gradually down to 16mm, Super-8 and, in the end, to his despair, to the video format. With the help of Edna Marla, producer who is searching for the Holy Grail of a genuinely 100% Brazilian celluloid; Dona Martírio, his mother, former left-wing activist; Guará Rodrigues, an underground Brazilian movie star; and Lila Lessa, who stars in a 6 p.m. soap opera, they develop strategies and outlandish plans to win the insane battle of filmmaking in Brazil.Year:
2002
The Devil Baby Was Born in São Paulo
An investigation into three São Paulo urban legends: The Devil Baby, the Blonde of the Bathroom and the Clown Gang. Originated in rumours, they were reported by the extinct tabloid Notícias Populares (NP) at different times. From this search, a universe is revealed where fantasy and reality are confused.Year:
2002
A Lasanha Assassina
A forgotten lasagna mutates into a monster.Year:
2002
Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins
The first documentary on José Mojica Marins's (the legendary Zé do Caixão or Coffin Joe) life and work. The film tells Mojica's history, from his poor childhood in Vila Anastácio, São Paulo (Brazil), until his success abroad in the '90s.Year:
2001
Wild Torture - The Grid
Year:
2001
Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto
A look into the Porto Fantastic Film Festival at Portugal.Year:
2000
O Auto de Leidiana
Year:
1998
Ed Mort
A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.Year:
1997
At Midnight with Glauber Rocha
A late-1960s interview with Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, mixed in avant-garde style with scenes from his films and clips from fellow filmmaker José Mojica Marins and visual artist Hélio Oiticica.Year:
1997
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."Year:
1997
Canibais na HorrorCon
Year:
1997
Coffin Joe Tales
Woman who was raped and murdered reincarnates in the body of Maria Imaculada, a meek housemaid who hides her true inner evil behind an innocent face, secretly performs satanic rites in her room and changes the life of the family she's working for. Her intent is revenge against all the men crossing her way.Year:
1997
Homem sem terra - A volta de João Amorim
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1996
Babu - Damned Revenge
Ultra low budget, shot-on-video Brazilian horror involves a devil worship cult sacrificing women to Satan.Year:
1996
Coffin Joe's Visions of Terror
Coffin Joe takes you into his mad world and shows some of the strangest trailers from South America.Year:
1994
Júlio o Rei dos Vilões
Year:
1990
Extraterrestrial Cat in Boots
A Cat from outer-space comes to earth and befriends a Miller's Son and together they set out to defeat an evil wizard.Year:
1990
Queen of Clubs
An unhappy woman, married and mother of two children, has problems with her alcoholic husband, sexually rejecting him, and only reaching pleasure in hallucinating erotic dreams.Year:
1989
Demons and Wonders
An autobiographical docu-drama that chronicles the filmmaker's struggle with narrow minded authorities, critics, and personal tragedy.Year:
1987
The Beauties of Billings
A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.Year:
1987
48 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex
After seeing the film "24 Horas de Sexo Explícito", Dr Margaret, sexologist hires the same crew to make a new movie, doubling the time - an orgy which would last for 48 hours, to further her research on sex. But as the film progresses it is revealed that she may have an ulterior goal in coaxing her actors into their drugged and sexually frenzied states.Year:
1987
Fatal Hours
Year:
1987
Hour of Fear
In São Paulo, Alberto is an insane and sadistic man that kills women, and lives with his mother that covers all his mess. When he kills his mother's employee Eliana, stabbing her in the bathtub, they bury her in the backyard of their house. Eliana's fiancé unsuccessfully seeks her out and when Alberto's mother advertises that she needs a driver, he applies for the job to sneak around the real estate trying to find Eliana.Year:
1986
O Filho do Sexo Explícito
While shooting a porn movie, the lead actor finishes inside the actress and she becomes pregnant. She sues the director and the producer, and raises her son alone. When he becomes an adult, he becomes a porn star and he also accidentally gets an actress pregnant.Year:
1985
Fifth Dimension of Sex
Two Chemistry students, unlucky with women, develop a formula that turns them into crazed rapists. But they eventually discover that they are in love with each other!Year:
1984
Father Pedro and the Revolt of the Children
The dedicated priest Pedro arrives in the city of Serinhaém, ready to reopen the church, closed by the feared local bandit, Rodrigo Napu, and tries to reestablish the Catholic faith of the population, oppressed by the domination of the evildoer.Year:
1984
The Secret of the Mummy
A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.Year:
1982
Fogo-Fátuo
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1980
Chapeuzinho Vermelho
Year:
1980
World Market of Sex
On Christmas Eve, Mauro, a reporter, has 24 hours to find a headline.Year:
1979
Perversion
A prominent millionaire gets a woman drunk and rapes her, biting off her nipple in the process. Because of his influence and powerful lawyer, though, he is able to beat the rap, claiming the woman was trying to extort money from him. He continues his life of debauchery, using women and flaunting his power until he meets a new woman, who won't let him have his way with her, but wants to be his friend. Falling madly in love with her, he cleans up his act and devotes his attentions to her, not realizing that she has a hidden agenda.Year:
1979
The Universe of Mojica Marins
A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.Year:
1978
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind
A psychiatric doctor driven to insanity by nightmare visions of Zé do Caixão trying to steal his wife is helped by colleagues who enlist creator José Mojica Marins to convince the patient that he does not exist.Year:
1978
Horror Palace Hotel
An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.Year:
1978
The Marble Goddess
A 2000-year-old woman has a pact with the devil to preserve her youth. She must extract the essence of life from the people she has sex with.Year:
1978
One Man's Failure on Two Wedding Nights
Without any dialogue, the film tells the story of a man who had an Oedipal passion for his mother. After getting married, the disorders return with more force and can lead to unimaginable consequences.Year:
1977
The Abyss
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 tackle the subjects of mysticism and human condition.Year:
1977
Hellish Flesh
Dr. George Medeiros, a brilliant scientist, is badly disfigured when his wife takes a lover and plans to murder him. After months in the hospital, he returns with nothing in mind but revenge.Year:
1977
The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures
An eclectic group of strangers seek shelter on a dark and stormy night, soon finding an isolated guest house owned by a mysterious proprietor.Year:
1976
As Mulheres do Sexo Violento
Year:
1976
The Vampire of the Cinematheque
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.Year:
1976
The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe
Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the story for his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force.Year:
1974
When the Gods Fall Asleep
Finis Hominis sets out to right wrongs, expose corruption and end the social unrest that he sees in the world.Year:
1972
Sex and Blood on Treasure Trail
An american explorer organizes an expedition to the Amazon Rainforest in search of a lost treasure.Year:
1972
The End of Man
A naked stranger emerges from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world.Year:
1971
The Awakening of the Beast
A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.Year:
1970
Audácia!
Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.Year:
1970
The Godless Bandit
After the proclamation of the Republic, a group of fanatics in the sertão dreamed of and fought for the restoration of the Monarchy. At that bloody time, Fabiano, a quiet boy, becomes a cangaceiro and is attacked by the police. Although wounded, he manages to take refuge on a farm where he is hidden in by Lúcia, the farmer's daughter, with whom he falls in love.Year:
1970
The Prophet of Hunger
The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.Year:
1969
The Strange World of Coffin Joe
Zé do Caixão hosts this anthology of three short horror stories which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic professor involved in sadistic rituals.Year:
1968
Por Exemplo Butantã
Year:
1968
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse
Zé do Caixão, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.Year:
1967
The Devil in Old Town
The town of Vila Velha is put under a reign of terror by a powerful colonel nicknamed "The Devil", who influences local politicians and hires gunslingers to shoot down those who stand up to him.Year:
1966
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
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.Year:
1964
My Destiny is in Your Hands
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 finds the opportunity to show the power of his own voice.Year:
1963
Adventurer's Fate
After being shot fleeing from a gunfight, the bandit Jaime falls to a riverbank, where is rescued by two beautiful young women. He becomes involved romantically with Dorothy, daughter of a farmer, and for her sake, surrenders to the police. Upon leaving the prison, Jaime has to face Xavier, a bloodthirsty villain who plans on taking revenge on Dorothy's father.Year:
1958
Bloody Kingdom
Two friends travel into the Amazon Rainforest, where they find a hidden kingdom ruled by a bloodthirsty sultan. One of José Mojica Marins' first efforts into filmmaking, shot in 16mm when he was only 12 years-old.Year:
1948
