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).
112 movies · 3 shows
Pioneiras do Cinema
2026·0.0
A Film to Remind Us of Utopia
2026·0.0
Eclipse
2026·0.0
Cartas Para Rian
2026·0.0
Helena! Cinema!
2026·0.0
Nosferatu
2025·1.0
Gravidade
2025·0.0
Message from Sergipe
2025·0.0
Trópico de Leão
2025·0.0
Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans
2025·9.7
Deuses da Peste
2025·0.0
A Última Vanguarda
2024·0.0
If I'm Here It Is by Mystery
2024·0.0
Nelson Carneiro: Knight of Democracy
2023·0.0
Helena de Guaratiba
2023·0.0
O Mel é Mais Doce Que o Sangue
2023·6.0
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
2023·9.0
Joy Is the Acid Test
2023·0.0
The Mother
2022·8.5
The Welles Raft
2022·0.0
Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú
2021·0.0
Um Documentário Brasileiro
2021·0.0
The Good Cinema
2021·0.0
Subterrânea
2021·0.0
Benjamim Zambraia e o Autopanóptico
2020·0.0
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020·5.0
Mulher Oceano
2020·4.0
Race Antenna
2020·8.2
The Lady Who Died in the Trailer
2020·6.0
Esse fim de semana vou me dedicar as paredes
2020·0.0
Fogo Baixo, Alto Astral
2020·0.0
Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso
2020·8.0
Natureza Morta
2020·4.7
Rio de Topless
2020·0.0
Extracts
2019·0.0
Notícias do Fim do Mundo
2019·0.0
Flesh
2019·7.0
Fakir
2019·0.0
In Memoriam: O Roteiro do Gravador
2019·0.0
A Mulher da Luz Própria
2019·8.0
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
2019·0.0
Bring me the Head of Carmen M.
2019·8.0
My Calendar Girl
2018·2.0
O Desmonte do Monte
2018·5.0
Antes do Fim
2018·5.8
Inaudito
2017·6.2
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
2017·7.4
Febre
2017·10.0
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
2017·0.0
Venus – Filly the Lesbian Little Fairy
2017·3.0
O Cinema Foi à Feira
2016·0.0
Ralé: The Lower Depths
2016·5.4
Love Film Festival
2014·7.5
The End of an Age
2014·7.5
Estátua!
2014·6.0
Paixão e Virtude
2014·4.2
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
2014·0.0
Ossos
2014·2.3
Desculpa, Dona Madama
2013·0.0
Ugly, Me?
2013·5.0
Poder dos Afetos
2013·0.0
Terno
2013·0.0
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
2013·8.0
A Balada do Provisório
2012·2.3
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
2012·3.5
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
2012·5.2
Avacalha e se Esculhamba
2010·0.0
Hotel Atlântico
2009·7.1
Belair
2009·0.0
A Vermelha Luz do Bandido
2009·0.0
Embodiment of Evil
2008·5.3
A Bela P...
2008·0.0
Meu Mundo em Perigo
2007·5.7
Helena Zero
2006·0.0
Luz-Lux-Lúcia
2005·0.0
A Miss e o Dinossauro
2005·5.0
Retrato da Terra
2004·0.0
The Sign of Chaos
2003·7.2
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
2003·6.3
Abry
2003·10.0
Reinvenção da Rua
2003·0.0
B2
2001·6.0
São Jerônimo
1999·7.0
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997·0.0
Flying Geraldo
1994·0.0
Scent of Gardenias
1992·6.6
Oswaldianas
1992·9.0
Perigo Negro
1992·7.0
Anônimo e incomum
1990·6.0
It's Not All True
1986·6.9
Spray Jet
1986·9.0
Mulheres de Cinema
1978·10.0
A Man and His Cage
1974·5.8
Um Intruso no Paraíso
1973·7.0
Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
1971·7.5
Baron Olavo, The Horrible
1970·6.0
The Hullabaloo Family
1970·6.0
No way, Spider
1970·6.2
Carnaval na Lama
1970·8.0
Copacabana Mon Amour
1970·7.3
Watch Out, Madame
1970·6.3
The Monsters of Babaloo
1970·6.9
The Woman of Everyone
1969·7.8
The Red Light Bandit
1968·7.7
The Outsiders
1968·9.0
Face to Face
1967·5.5
O Engano
1967·9.0
The Priest and the Girl
1966·7.0
Grito da Terra
1964·9.0
Assault on the Pay Train
1962·8.0
A Grande Feira
1961·8.4
O Pátio
1959·6.8