Cinema da Boca do Lixo (Mouth of Garbage film) is the collective name for afilm genre associated with theBoca do Lixo ("Mouth of Garbage") downtown area ofSão Paulo,Brazil. On par withFrenchNouvelle Vague, Hong Kong "Category III" movies, andAmericanslasher films, films of this genre areexploitational and often consideredB movies. These films often featureeroticism.[1][2]
The underworld of Boca de Lixo was an attraction for Cinema Marginal protagonists, most remarkably represented byRogério Sganzerla's manifesto filmO Bandido da Luz Vermelha (1968), that depicted the story of criminal João Acácio Pereira da Costa. The 1970s saw an influx of production companies to the area and producers such as Antônio Polo Galante, David Cardoso, Nelson Teixeira Mendes, Juan Bajon, Cláudio Cunha, Aníbal Massaini Neto made investments in Boca de Lixo. The result wascinema da Boca, low-budget films with superficial content, produced for quick returns to investors. Although identified foremost withpornochanchadas, Boca was the center of a set of various subgenres ofexploitation films including comedies, crime films, action films, and kung fu films. The end of censorship in Brazilian cinema after the fall of themilitary regime in 1985, pornographic films began to be produced as well.
