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The End of Man is a brésilien film of genre Drama directed by José Mojica Marins with José Mojica Marins
The End of Man (1971)
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Add to a movie listThe End of Man (Portuguese: Finis Hominis) is a 1971 Brazilian film directed by José Mojica Marins. The unusual and surreal film was made on a low budget, and rather than the often disturbing gothic horror of his previous films, The End of Man conveys a sense of social black humor and tongue in cheek style seen in other Brazilian Mouth of Garbage Cinema (Boca do Lixo) of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
A sequel to the film was produced in 1972 titled When the Gods Fall Asleep (Quando os Deuses Adormecem).
Synopsis
An mysterious man (Marins) emerges naked from the ocean and proceeds to affect the lives of townspeople, the country, then the world.Actors
José Mojica Marins
(Finis Hominis)
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The Awakening of the Beast (1970)
, 1h33Directed by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Documentary, Horror
Actors José Mojica Marins, Ítala Nandi, Sérgio Hingst, Maurice Capovila, Othon Bastos
Rating58%
In the film's first portion, filmed in B&W, Dr. Sergio, a psychiatrist, appears on a television program on a panel with three other contemporary psychiatrists after he claims to have conducted experiments on four volunteer drug addicts with LSD in order to investigate his claim that sexual perversion is caused by use of illegal drugs. As evidence, he presents a series of documented accounts of drug use which lead to lewd and bizarre sexual acts. Marins appears (as himself) on the panel with the psychiatrists as some type of expert on the subject of depravity. During the program, Dr. Sergio recounts the experiment to his colleagues on the panel, who reject his claims.
, 1h26Directed by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Fantasy, Horror
Actors José Mojica Marins
Rating52%
The story is built around a montage of scenes that were omitted or censored from four of Marins' earlier films: Awakening of the Beast, This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse, The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe and The Strange World of Coffin Joe. Marins filmed approximately 35 minutes of new scenes, also adding the characters to the plot. Marins portrays himself as well as the character of Coffin Joe in the film.
Adventurer's Fate (1958)
, 1h28Directed by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Western
Actors José Mojica Marins
Rating71%
After running away from a shoot out, the outlaw Jaime falls to the edge of a river, where he is helped by two beautiful young women. He becomes involved romantically with Dorinha, daughter of a farmer and, because of his love for her, kills her father. When escaping the arrest, Jaime has to face Xavier, a bloodthirsty outlaw who plans to avenge the father of Dorinha. Marins appears as Gregorio, a gunman of the flock of Xavier. Marins also wrote the lyrics of the ten songs of the soundtrack. In 1964, the film was relaunched with an extra dose of sex, having included a new scenes with about ten minutes in the brothel.
The Curse (2023)
, 52minutesDirected by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Horror
Actors José Mojica Marins
Rating60%
Young couple Juvenal and Mariana go on a trip and Juvenal unknowingly takes some pictures of a strange elderly lady (played by Wanda Kosmo) who is eventually revealed to be a sinister witch. The witch then places a curse on the man for photographing her. A wound begins to open in his side which has an agonizing hunger for raw meat which he must constantly feed in order to stop the burning pain. Perplexing his doctors, Juvenal's wound becomes hungrier as the film progresses, the man becomes delirious and murders his wife, thinking she will leave him because of his condition. The witch then reappears and coaxes him into feeding the wound with the body of his dead wife. The separate skeletons of the couple are discovered lying next to each other by police months later.
Hellish Flesh (1977)
, 1h25Directed by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors José Mojica Marins
Rating54%
Dr. George Medeiros is a brilliant scientist who does not find time for beautiful wife Rachel. She falls in love with Oliver, the best friend of her husband, and soon after the two plan to kill George and inherit his fortune. Benefiting from the distraction of her husband in the laboratory, Raquel throws acid on George's face, disfiguring it. As he recovers in the hospital, Raquel and Oliver spend all his money. After months in the hospital, Dr. George comes home with a plan for revenge in mind.
Fifth Dimension of Sex (1984)
, 1h21Directed by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Pornographic
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors José Mojica Marins
Rating52%
Two chemistry students, Paulo and Norberto are ridiculed by their classmates, as it is rumored that they are impotent. They work together to develop a formula that turns them into crazed sex maniacs, and begin kidnapping women on the streets and raping them. The series of sex crimes soon leads to a police chase, and the two men discover that they are in love with each other.
, 1h21Directed by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Horror
Actors José Mojica Marins
Rating47%
The film opens with a surreal sequence of dancing women, monkey-like figures fearing lightning, and native Brazilian drummers. An old man begins chanting over a closed coffin. The coffin opens and a man rises. He appears with a top hat, cape, and long fingernails.
, 1h40Directed by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Horror
Actors José Mojica Marins, R. F. Lucchetti, Joffre Soares
Rating59%
Playing himself, and having filmed the final scene of his most recent movie, Jose Mojica Marins gives an interview discussing his plans for his next film. After an interviewer asks Marins about the true existence of Coffin Joe, Marins replies “Coffin Joe does not exist”. A camera light then explodes. He states he will leave for vacation at the country home of his friend Alvaro to write the script for his next film, which he plans on calling “The Demon Exorcist”.
When the Gods Fall Asleep (1972)
, 1h22Directed by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Horror
Actors José Mojica Marins
Rating61%
Finis Hominis is a mental patient who is kept in an insane asylum, and is known for his occasional escapes from the institution, including the most recent episode during which Finis Hominis became a powerful world figure during the few days of his escape.
, 1h39Directed by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Comedy
Actors José Mojica Marins
Rating55%
In the film (as well as its two predecessors), Marins exploited Brazil's then loosening restrictions on nudity in film in order to produce an alternate sort of pornography which presents physical sexuality with bizarre and often repulsive imagery, generally depicting characters which are carrying out some type of test, contest, or experiment.