José Mojica Marins

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.

Release Date:2024-09-01

Department:Crew

Job:In Memory Of

Character:

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.

Release Date:2022-07-26

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.

Release Date:2021-11-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Coffin Joe

Vote Count:1

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.

Release Date:2021-10-07

Character:Self

Texas Carlos Massacre

Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie (“Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!”) about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brings together cinema and extreme music.

Release Date:2021-06-17

Department:Crew

Job:In Memory Of

Vote Count:1

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.

Release Date:2021-03-18

Character:Self

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.

Release Date:2020-09-01

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:2

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!

Release Date:2020-01-27

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:1

A Praga do Cinema Brasileiro

Release Date:2018-09-19

Vote Count:1

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.

Release Date:2017-10-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

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.

Release Date:2017-10-14

Character:Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Vote Count:3

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.

Release Date:2017-03-31

Character:Self

SP Zero 15

15 directors telling 15 tales about São Paulo.

Release Date:2016-09-13

Horror no Cinema Nacional

Release Date:2016-03-09

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.

Release Date:2015-12-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:1

Coffin Joe Born Again

The legendary Jose Mojica Marins, along with Marcelo Colaiacovo and Nilson Primitivo created this mind blowing experimental horror film. After two heart attacks in 2014, the Brazilian master is back with new footage and original script. These rare images were discovered by Marcelo Colaiacovo during his thirteen years of researching the Coffin Joe archives. It was during this time that Colaiacovo discovered several film cans full of unprocessed 35mm material from the 1970s - 1990s, some of which was used to create this short film. Using an experimental processing technique with assorted chemicals in his Resistência Filmes laboratory, Colaiacovo and Nilson Primitivo (King of the Brazilian Underground) worked together to ressurect these treasures to life.

Release Date:2015-11-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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.

Release Date:2015-09-19

Character:Zé do Caixão

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.

Release Date:2015-09-03

Character:Gerente do Banco

Vote Count:5

Rua do Triumpho - O Filme

Release Date:2015-07-09

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.

Release Date:2015-03-10

Character:Pai

Vote Count:1

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.

Release Date:2015-01-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:20

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.

Release Date:2015-01-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Pastor

Extra Bloody

A boy goes to his girlfriend's home and is handcuffed on bed before discovering some strange food habits from her family.

Release Date:2013-10-25

Vote Count:2

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.

Release Date:2013-10-18

Vote Count:3

Sangue Marginal

Release Date:2013-09-01

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.

Release Date:2013-08-15

Character:Selfie

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.

Release Date:2013-05-01

Character:Himself

Vote Count:1

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!

Release Date:2013-01-11

Character:Self

Nas Asas do Caixão

Release Date:2012-10-18

Character:Self

O Beijo na Morte

Tiny film made for the "1-minute Film Festival". When the death comes, it is time to kiss her.

Release Date:2012-06-28

Character:Narrador Convidado

Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.

Release Date:2012-05-24

Vote Count:1

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.

Release Date:2012-05-13

Vote Count:6

Ponto Org

Release Date:2011-05-20

A espiritualidade e a sinuca

Release Date:2011-01-01

Character:Deus

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.

Release Date:2010-07-30

Character:Master of the World

A Descent Into Coffin Joe's Hell

Documentary about José Mojica Marins made by film students.

Release Date:2010-01-02

Character:Ele mesmo

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.

Release Date:2009-08-21

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.

Release Date:2008-12-11

Character:Zé do Caixão

Vote Count:7

Pousada da Paz

A horrible secret is hidden in a remote lodge, in this low-budget short film made in a workshop in the 2nd Festival Motel X, horror film festival in Lisbon.

Release Date:2008-11-02

Department:Directing

Job:Script Supervisor

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.

Release Date:2008-08-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Zé do Caixão

Vote Count:34

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.

Release Date:2008-08-06

Department:Writing

Job:Original Film Writer

Character:Coffin Joe (voice)

The Capitol of the Dead

Release Date:2008-08-02

Vote Count:9

Minami em Close-up - A Boca em Revista

Release Date:2008-04-17

Vote Count:2

Rock Rocket: Doidão

Release Date:2008-02-12

Pináculo da Miséria

Release Date:2007-11-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

A Hora do Terrir

Release Date:2007-09-22

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.

Release Date:2007-08-10

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

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.

Release Date:2007-01-01

Character:Himself

5 Mentiras

Release Date:2006-08-04

Character:Zé do Caixão

Foi Bom pra Você, Benzinho?

Release Date:2006-07-13

A Marca do Terrir

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

Release Date:2005-10-21

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Soberano

Release Date:2005-04-17

Character:Self

Lâmia, Vampiro!

Release Date:2005-01-01

Character:Apresentador

Vote Count:2

Necrophagia - Nightmare Scenarios

A collection of Necrophagia's gory music videos featuring cameos by horror legends like Coffin Joe and Paul Naschy.

Release Date:2004-10-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Coffin Joe

Vote Count:4

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.

Release Date:2004-01-30

Character:Dono da Funerária

Vote Count:17

Candeias: Da Boca pra Fora

Release Date:2003-04-18

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.

Release Date:2002-09-28

Character:Self

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.

Release Date:2002-02-10

A Lasanha Assassina

A forgotten lasagna mutates into a monster.

Release Date:2002-01-03

Character:Narrator

Vote Count:1

Mojica na Neve: Esta Noite Encarnarei em Sundance

Release Date:2001-08-16

Character:Himself

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.

Release Date:2001-01-26

Character:Himself

Vote Count:11

Wild Torture - The Grid

Release Date:2001-01-02

Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto

A look into the Porto Fantastic Film Festival at Portugal.

Release Date:2000-01-01

As Aventuras de Tiazinha

Release Date:1999-03-02

Character:Dr. Ziggy

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

O Auto de Leidiana

Release Date:1998-09-01

Ed Mort

A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.

Release Date:1997-05-05

Character:Silva 3

Vote Count:11

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Release Date:1997-01-01

Character:Self

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.

Release Date:1997-01-01

Canibais na HorrorCon

Release Date:1997-01-01

Character:Self

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.

Release Date:1997-01-01

Character:Padre / Cavaleiro do Medo

Homem sem terra - A volta de João Amorim

Release Date:1996-06-07

Babu - Damned Revenge

Ultra low budget, shot-on-video Brazilian horror involves a devil worship cult sacrificing women to Satan.

Release Date:1996-01-01

Character:(as Coffin Joe)

Vote Count:2

Coffin Joe's Visions of Terror

Coffin Joe takes you into his mad world and shows some of the strangest trailers from South America.

Release Date:1994-10-04

Character:Coffin Joe

Júlio o Rei dos Vilões

Release Date:1990-07-19

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.

Release Date:1990-01-01

Vote Count:1

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.

Release Date:1989-02-12

Vote Count:3

Olho por Olho

Release Date:1988-08-22

Character:Lúcio Fera

Episode Count:119

Demons and Wonders

An autobiographical docu-drama that chronicles the filmmaker's struggle with narrow minded authorities, critics, and personal tragedy.

Release Date:1987-12-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

The Beauties of Billings

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.

Release Date:1987-06-17

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.

Release Date:1987-04-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:5

Fatal Hours

Release Date:1987-01-01

Character:Dr. Honório

Vote Count:4

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.

Release Date:1986-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:3

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.

Release Date:1985-07-11

24 Hours of Explicit Sex

Director José Mojica Marins' biggest box-office film ever: Three young men make a wager on which one is able to have sex with more partners in a 24-hour period. The three men "hire" a gay "unsuspicious" judge and start a plain "rodox" porn movie.They take several women to a beach house where the contest takes place. The movie also claims to be the first to show bestiality, a female-dog (fake intercourse) and a male-horse (implicit intercourse).

Release Date:1985-05-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

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!

Release Date:1984-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:1

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.

Release Date:1984-07-09

Character:Rodrigo Napu

Vote Count:1

The Secret of the Mummy

A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.

Release Date:1982-09-06

Character:Explorador

Vote Count:14

A Show From Another World

Third Brazilian TV show hosted by Coffin Joe. This show directed by José Mojica Marins was a strange mix of an auditorium show and a TV serie. The Stories were largely sent by the audience and adapted by Mojica and Norbert Novotny for TV. The Serie has a good audience ratings, but a short life.

Release Date:1981-08-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Host

Episode Count:13

Fogo-Fátuo

Release Date:1980-03-12

Chapeuzinho Vermelho

Release Date:1980-02-08

World Market of Sex

On Christmas Eve, Mauro, a reporter, has 24 hours to find a headline.

Release Date:1979-07-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Mauro

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.

Release Date:1979-01-22

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Character:Vitorio Palestrina

Vote Count:5

The Universe of Mojica Marins

A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.

Release Date:1978-09-22

Character:Self

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.

Release Date:1978-08-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Himself / Zé do Caixão

Vote Count:14

Horror Palace Hotel

An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.

Release Date:1978-07-01

Character:Himself

Vote Count:2

The Woman Who Makes Doves Fly

Scientist Adelaide hates men, specially the cheating ones. Researching for revenge methods against them, she estabilishes contact with creatures from outer space, gaining special powers.

Release Date:1978-01-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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.

Release Date:1978-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

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.

Release Date:1977-09-12

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.

Release Date:1977-06-24

Character:Professor Pearson

Vote Count:3

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.

Release Date:1977-03-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Dr. George Medeiros

Vote Count:10

Consoling Widows

A bankrupt playboy pays nightly visits to three rich, grieving widowed sisters disguised as their late husband's ghosts. When they all get pregnant, their father hires a priest to exorcise the "ghosts".

Release Date:1976-11-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

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.

Release Date:1976-10-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Zé do Caixão

Vote Count:12

As Mulheres do Sexo Violento

Release Date:1976-08-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

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.

Release Date:1976-01-01

Vote Count:1

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.

Release Date:1974-09-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:José Mojica Marins / Zé do Caixão

Vote Count:14

The Virgin and the Tough Guy

Release Date:1974-06-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

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.

Release Date:1972-11-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Finis Hominis

Vote Count:3

D'Gajão Mata Para Vingar

In a gypsy camp, D'Gajão and Nadja celebrate their marriage. Nearby, the foreman Justin tries to seduce the daughter of his boss, but she dies by hitting his head on a rock. Justin blames the Roma for death, commanding a massacre in the camp. The only survivor is D'Gajão, chasing the bad guys in an insatiable revenge, trying to save his fiancee kidnapped by unscrupulous farmer.

Release Date:1972-05-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Sex and Blood on Treasure Trail

An american explorer organizes an expedition to the Amazon Rainforest in search of a lost treasure.

Release Date:1972-03-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Ermitão

Vote Count:1

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.

Release Date:1971-12-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Finis Hominis

Vote Count:16

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.

Release Date:1970-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Himself / Zé do Caixão

Vote Count:33

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.

Release Date:1970-08-10

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

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.

Release Date:1970-03-10

Character:Zé das Penitências

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.

Release Date:1969-06-13

Character:Ali Khan

Vote Count:10

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.

Release Date:1968-11-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Professor Oãxiac Odéz / Zé do Caixão

Vote Count:16

Strange World of Coffin Joe: TV Serie

Second Brazilian TV show hosted by Coffin Joe. Produced by TV Tupi and directed by Antônio Abujamra, this TV show has a better production quality than the "Além, Muito além do Além" (1967-68) and a more dreamlike and surreal tone, but unfortunately not the same audience, which expect something more realist like the previous TV show. A lot of stories from this TV show was used later on the Coffin Joe's Horror Comic Books.

Release Date:1968-07-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Host

Episode Count:20

Trilogy of Terror

An anthology divided in three segments, helmed by three of the most important Brazilian directors of the 20th century. A mother becomes involved with black magic and offers a virgin woman to the Devil in exchange for curing the illness of her only son. A poor laborer is the only man in the village with courage to face a group of guerrilheiros ("guerrilla ghosts") that haunt the minds of the locals. A young man is afflicted by fear of reptiles and spiders and the fear of being buried alive. When he undergoes a shocking event, he becomes unresponsive and is mistakenly buried, only to revive in the coffin after burial.

Release Date:1968-04-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Por Exemplo Butantã

Release Date:1968-03-27

Beyond, Far Beyond the Beyond

First Brazilian TV Horror Show hosted by Coffin Joe. Directed by José Mojica Marins and written by Mojica and Rúbens Francisco Lucchetti, this TV show was produced by TV Bandeirantes (1967-68), using a realistic tone and a popular appeal. Despite the negative reviews this TV show has a great audience, reaching first place often.

Release Date:1967-12-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Host

Episode Count:35

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.

Release Date:1967-03-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Zé do Caixão

Vote Count:51

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.

Release Date:1966-05-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Nightmare

Brazilian horror movie from 1965.

Release Date:1965-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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.

Release Date:1964-11-09

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Zé do Caixão

Vote Count:106

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.

Release Date:1963-06-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Father

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.

Release Date:1958-12-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Vote Count:2

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.

Release Date:1948-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Sultão

Vote Count:3