Helena Ignez

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Age

Movies

115

Born: May 23, 1939
From: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Biography

Helena Ignez (Salvador, May 23, 1939) is a Brazilian actress and filmmaker. Helena was born in Salvador, Bahia and was attending her second year of law school when she fell in love with theater and decided to study the Dramatic Arts at the Federal University of Bahia. At the time, the Bahian theater scene was breaking with traditional Brazilian theater and experiencing strong influence from the young vanguard. She first appeared on the screen in Glauber Rocha's short film "Pátio". Helena acted in a few films associated with the Cinema Novo movement, such as "A Grande Feira" (1961), "Assalto ao Trem Pagador" (1962), and "O Padre e a Moça" (1966) before playing Janete Jane in O Bandido da Luz Vermelha by Rogério Sganzerla. After this film, she would perform in some most significant films in the Cinema Marginal movement, which directly opposed the critically acclaimed Cinema Novo -- the most remarkable being her role as Ângela Carne e "Osso in A Mulher de Todos" (1969). She also was a financial partner of Rogério Sganzerla and fellow Cinema Marginal filmmaker Júlio Bressane in the short-lived, although prolific, Belair production company. Between 1968 and 1970, Sganzerla and Ignez made almost a dozen films together and were also married and had two children -- one of which would become actress Djin Sganzerla. As a filmmaker, Ignez has directed 7 films, the most notable being "Luz das Trevas" (2010), a sequel to Sganzerla's debut feature "O Bandido da Luz Vermelha" (1968).

Works

115 films

Antes do Fim

20185.8

O Cinema Foi à Feira

2016

Nosferatu

20251.0

Lost Media

2026

Estátua!

20146.0

Ralé: The Lower Depths

20165.4

Hotel Atlântico

20097.1

Paixão e Virtude

20144.2

A Film to Remind Us of Utopia

2026

A Balada do Provisório

20122.3

Fakir

2019

Subterrânea

2021

Ugly, Me?

20135.0

Extracts

2019

Copacabana Mon Amour

19707.3

Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century

2017

Anônimo e incomum

19906.0

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

20205.0

Oswaldianas

19929.0

Embodiment of Evil

20085.3

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

20239.0

The Red Light Bandit

19687.7

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

1997

Rio de Topless

2020

Eclipse

2026

Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes

19717.5

A Última Vanguarda

2024

All Paulos in the World - Paulo José

20177.4

Memórias do Grupo Opinião

2019

Joy Is the Acid Test

2023

Belair

2009

Fogo Baixo, Alto Astral

2020

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

20036.3

The Welles Raft

2022

Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans

20259.7

Face to Face

19675.5

A Grande Feira

19618.4

Baron Olavo, The Horrible

19706.0

Helena de Guaratiba

2023

Mulher Oceano

20204.0

Assault on the Pay Train

19628.0

A Vermelha Luz do Bandido

2009

Cartas Para Rian

2026

My Calendar Girl

20182.0

Helena! Cinema!

2026

Flesh

20197.0

Love Film Festival

20147.5

It's Not All True

19866.9

The Monsters of Babaloo

19706.9

Perigo Negro

19927.0

Watch Out, Madame

19706.3

Poder dos Afetos

2013

The Hullabaloo Family

19706.0

Scent of Gardenias

19926.6

Um Intruso no Paraíso

19737.0

The Outsiders

19689.0

A Man and His Cage

19745.8

A Mulher da Luz Própria

20198.0

Natureza Morta

20204.7

The Woman of Everyone

19697.8

The Mother

20228.5

Mulheres de Cinema

197810.0

Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit

20125.2

The Priest and the Girl

19667.0

Um Documentário Brasileiro

2021

Notícias do Fim do Mundo

2019

Bring me the Head of Carmen M.

20198.0

O Engano

19679.0

The End of an Age

20147.5

No way, Spider

19706.2

São Jerônimo

19997.0

The Lady Who Died in the Trailer

20206.0

Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade

20138.0

Grito da Terra

19649.0

Flying Geraldo

1994

Meu Mundo em Perigo

20075.7

Race Antenna

20208.2

The Sign of Chaos

20037.2

If I'm Here It Is by Mystery

2024

Avacalha e se Esculhamba

2010

O Pátio

19596.8

A Miss e o Dinossauro

20055.0

Gravidade

2025

Febre

201710.0

O Desmonte do Monte

20185.0

The Good Cinema

2021

Terno

2013

Inaudito

20176.2

Desculpa, Dona Madama

2013

Benjamim Zambraia e o Autopanóptico

2020

Venus – Filly the Lesbian Little Fairy

20173.0

Helena Zero

2006

Trópico de Leão

2025

O Mel é Mais Doce Que o Sangue

20236.0

Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso

20208.0

A Bela P...

2008

Retrato da Terra

2004

Abry

200310.0

Message from Sergipe

2025

Ossos

20142.3

20016.0

Esse fim de semana vou me dedicar as paredes

2020

Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz

20123.5

Luz-Lux-Lúcia

2005

Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração

2014

Spray Jet

19869.0

Carnaval na Lama

19708.0

Reinvenção da Rua

2003

Deuses da Peste

2025

Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú

2021

Nelson Carneiro: Knight of Democracy

2023

As Florestas da Noite

2026

In Memoriam: O Roteiro do Gravador

2019

Flesh

2026

Pioneiras do Cinema

2026