“Bloody, nasty, and full of personality … Make sure you see this Brazilian gem.”
—Kleber Mendonça Filho, Filmmaker

“The ‘Gay Godfather’… A delicious film, loved every minute!”
—Melissa Lyde, Founder of Alfreda’s Cinema

“John Waters meets Martin Scorsese … A transgressive cult film inspired by the legendary 1930s gangster João Francisco dos Santos.”
—Bloody Disgusting

The Black femme Devil Queen rules over Rio de Janeiro’s criminal underworld with an iron fist — no, a straight razor, which she uses both for shaving her legs and slitting throats — in this underseen classic of Brazilian genre cinema. Newly restored, THE DEVIL QUEEN is an outrageous, sleazy, and shockingly mean queer crime epic that epitomizes the saying “be gay, do crime” (Elizabeth Purchell). New 4K restoration.