Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias Movies

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...

Short film by Brazilian filmmaker Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias.

Two hitchhiking young women involve the men who give them a lift in a game of sex, telepathy and death.

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...

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

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

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

Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery.

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

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