Rubens de Falco
Birthday: Born in 1931-10-19 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Deathday: 2008-02-22
Rubens de Falco was a distinguished Brazilian actor celebrated for his commanding presence and memorable portrayals of antagonists. He began his artistic journey in theater, joining the São Paulo-based group Os Jograis in 1955 alongside Ruy Afonso, Ítalo Rossi, and Felipe Wagner. His film debut came earlier, in 1952, with a small role in Apassionata, produced by the legendary Vera Cruz studio. De Falco became a household name through his work in Brazilian telenovelas, particularly for his villainous roles. His most iconic performance was as Leôncio Almeida in Escrava Isaura (1976), a role that defined his career and became a cultural touchstone. He reprised a related role in the 2004 remake, appearing as Comendador Almeida, Leôncio’s father. His television credits include Gabriela (1975), O Grito (1975), Dona Xepa (1977), Sinhá Moça (1986), and Os Imigrantes (1981), among many others. Known for his blue eyes, distinctive triangular mustache, and smooth baritone voice, Rubens de Falco brought elegance and intensity to every role. In 2006, a stroke left him unable to speak or act, and he spent his final years in assisted care. Despite this, his legacy as one of Brazil’s greatest actors remains firmly intact.
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Grande Sertão: Veredas
Character: Joca Ramiro
A cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces....
O Astro
Character: Samir Hayala
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Escalada
Character: Comendador
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Brida
Character: Vargas
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Bambolê
Character: Nestor Barreto
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Sinhá Moça
Character: Coronel José Ferreira, Barão de Araruna
Monarchists and Republicans confront themselves in Araruna, a small town in the interior of São Paulo, in 1886, two years before the promulgation of the Golden Law. Sinhá Moça's love story, daughter of Colonel Ferreira, Baron de Araruna, and a slave-boy, with the young Dr. Rodolfo, an active Republican abolitionist, faced with the difficulties of the campaign for the abolition of slaves. The two meet on the train, when Sinhá Moça, after completing her studies in the provincial capital, returns t...
Salomé
Character: McGregor
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Padre Cícero
Character: Floro Bartholomeu
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A Sucessora
Character: Roberto Steen
The story follows the experiences of Marina, a young country bumpkin who marries the mysterious and charismatic widower Roberto Stein, a fabulously wealthy businessman living in 1920s Rio de Janeiro. As Marina attempts to acclimate to her new marriage and responsibilities, she discovers that Stein's late wife, Alice, still seems to have a strong hold over the household. Despite her new husband's affection for her, Marina is nonetheless threatened by Alice's presence, which is made conspicuous th...
O Rei dos Ciganos
Character: Claude Ludenwerg
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Gabriela
Character: João Pimentel
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Escrava Isaura
Character: Leôncio Correia de Almeida
Set in 19th-century Brazil during the waning years of slavery, Escrava Isaura tells the story of Isaura, a white-skinned enslaved woman raised with the manners and education of a noble lady. Though treated with affection by her mistress, Isaura remains legally enslaved and becomes the object of obsessive desire by Leôncio Almeida, the cruel heir to the plantation. After the death of her protector, Isaura falls under Leôncio’s control. Despite his attempts to seduce and dominate her, she resists...
Supermanoela
Character: Diógenes
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Os Imigrantes
Character: Antônio di Salvio
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Dona Xepa
Character: Heitor Camargo
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Passo dos Ventos
Character: René Antoine
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Memorial de Maria Moura
Character: Tibúrcio
Adapted from the homonymous work by Rachel de Queiroz, it presents the saga of a woman against female submission in nineteenth-century patriarchal society....
Movie Credits
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Character: Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."...
Pixote
Character: Judge
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death....
Macho y hembra
Character: Vicente
Thirty-three years old Eva begins the writing of her memories and recalls her past love-life, when she used to live with her boyfriend and her best ladyfriend. In the beginning everything seems to work beetween them but after living together for some time they realize that their interests in life are not the same. They take a big decision....
Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
Character: Delmiro Gouveia
In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company....
Nós, Os Canalhas
Character: Tatá
Two twin brothers, Cláudio José and José Cláudio, definitively separate when one of them decides to leave for the big city. Years later, the second brother also started living in Rio de Janeiro. One night, he is attacked by three thugs, who kill his pregnant wife and leave him disfigured. In search of revenge, he follows in the footsteps of his brother, who will find himself working for a crime figure. And in pursuit of his discoveries, he began to wage his revenge against the criminals on the s...
Engraçadinha Depois dos Trinta
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After marrying everyday man Zózimo, Engraçadinha, who had been through intense sexual experiences as a teenager, settles to live a quiet and normal life. As the years go by, her teenage daughter's behaviour seems to call back Engraçadinha's own teenage days....
O Sósia da Morte
Character: Narciso
A professor faces a double of himself and hires a detective to find out who that is and what are his real intentions....
Essa Gatinha é Minha
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The troubled life of two idols of the Jovem Guarda amidst the pleasant rhythm of the contagious iê-iê-iê....
A Difícil Vida Fácil
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Young woman needs money to pay her mother's medical treatment. She gets a work in a bar that is, in fact, a cover for a prostitution net. She is drugged and raped while some photographs are taken, to be presently used as blackmail, to force her to work as a hooker. She accepts her fate but starts a serious relationship with a reporter, to whom she doesn't dare tell the truth. She wants to leave that life behind and get married, but the gangsters won't allow it. Until one of the girls decides to ...
Os Foragidos da Violência
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Angels and Demons
Character: Promotor
A young woman and her lover draw an unsuspecting lawyer into their plan to kill her rich uncle and stay with his fortune....
Café na Cama
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In order to become an actress, young woman tries many jobs, but in all those places she finds a man trying to have sex with her....
The Man Who Bought the World
Character: Imperador Maximiliano
In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape....
Helena Meirelles - A Dama da Viola
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Esse Rio Muito Louco
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Time of Violence
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Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find out about him, Antônio and his wife are both targeted and pursued by the criminals....
Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell
Character: arquivo
Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s....
Sonhos Tropicais
Character: General Travassos
A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt....
Moral em Concordata
Character: Narrador
Rosario is a prostitute who lives in her married sister's house. When the latter wants to be a hooker too, she doesn't approve....
O Capanga
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Deixa, Amorzinho... Deixa
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Dino and Dalmo are twin brothers. Dino is very shy, and the other, the opposite: a true Don Juan. When Dalmo dies, after being shot by a furious husband, he is received in heaven by a Club of Don Juans. But, in order to be admitted, he must go back to Earth, incarnated in his brother's body, and correct three mistakes he had made in his previous life....
A Dama de Branco
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A man returning from a trip is invited to stay in his best friend's residence. There, he meets the man's wife and soon a love affair begins. With a great sense of enthusiasm he shares to his friend that he's deeply in love with a woman he just met, creating a great sense of curiosity on the other, barely knowing that the woman is actually his wife....
Profesión: vivir
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Existential confrontations are unleashed while people try to survival within a concret jungle. Such conflict gets worst when the person is near his fifties and finds himself empty-handed, without a real company, full of frustrations that hound him....
La hora Texaco
Character: Julio
This movie traces the life of Bobby Montoya, the son of a Texaco oil worker in Venezula on the eve of the nationalization of the industry....