José Wilker
Birthday: Born in 1946-08-20 in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil
Deathday: 2014-04-05
José Wilker Almeida (20 August 1944 – 5 April 2014) was a Brazilian film, stage, and television actor and director. The actor gained fame in telenovelas like Roque Santeiro (1985), but became known internationally for his role as Vadinho, the husband who returns from the dead to tempt Sônia Braga's character in the movie Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976).
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Um Anjo Caiu do Céu
Character: Tarso
João Medeiros is an internationally renowned photographer who suffers an attack in Prague, when he happens to photograph a Nazi leader who was in the middle of secret plans. In his last moments on Earth, his life is saved by the angel Rafael, sent by the highest heavenly bodies to offer him a new chance. The angel warns the photographer that he will only have six months to live to solve his problems with his family, neglected since he abandoned everything for the profession - including solving h...
A Próxima Vítima
Character: Marcelo Rossi
A young law student starts to work as a detective, decided to uncover the identity behind a series of murders, as well as who is next....
A Vida Como Ela É...
Character: Narrador (voice)
Adaptations of 40 short stories of brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues, written between 1951 and 1961. The stories were considered scandalous at the time as Rodrigues used immoral characters and black humor to satirize the hypocrisy and repression in people's daily lives....
Celebridade
Character: Self
A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career....
Roque Santeiro
Character: Luis Roque Duarte ("Roque Santeiro")
In the tiny poor town of Asa Branca, in the middle of Brazilian Northeast, Roque Santeiro is worshiped as a saint. He was supposedly killed by a bandit, 18 years ago, trying to save the local church. After his disappearance, local leaderships such as landowner Sinhozinho Malta and mayor Florindo, took profit on that to control the humble population. They even make up a widow, Porcina, who should have married Roque secretly before his death. What they don't expect is that Roque is alive, and he's...
Gabriela
Character: Coronel Jesuíno Mendonça
Naïve and provocative Gabriela is a raggedy migrant worker who arrives in town to mesmerize all with her playful and simple, yet raw sensuality. Set in 1925, the story unravels in Ilhéus, a quiet northeastern coastal city thriving with cocoa crops and aspirations for progress, even though the traditional ways still rule. ...
Bandeira 2
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Cavalo de Aço
Character: Atílio
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Brilhante
Character: Sidney da Costa Pinto / Osvaldo Mesquita
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Desejos de Mulher
Character: Ariel Godoy
Fashion designer Andréa Vargas finds out the hard way she is adopted. The relationship with her sister Júlia had always been difficult, since childhood, and the antagonism grew when Júlia came between Andréa and her first true love, Diogo. But the worst is still to come: her first assistant in her atelier, Selma, is having an affair with her husband Bruno....
Agosto
Character: Pedro Lomagno
The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar at the beginning of August. In the midst of the Vargas government crisis, the murder case is taken by police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man who is not well regarded by his co-workers, as the place is totally turned over to corruption....
Sai de Baixo
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It follows the lives of the members of a dysfunctional family, their maid and the doorman of the apartment building in which they lived....
Gabriela
Character: Mundinho Falcão
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Renascer
Character: Belarmino
Jose Inocencio had innocence only as part of his name, but only those who new him well could notice this. But nobody knew him. He was a storyteller, and he was always the main character in the stories he told. He managed not only to create stories about himself, he managed to create a legend. The story of this powerful cacao farmer; Maria Santa, the beloved wife who died; and their four children is the main theme of 'Renascer'....
JK
Character: Juscelino Kubitschek
For decades, doctor Juscelino Kubitschek enters politics and becomes president of Brazil....
O Bem Amado
Character: Zeca Diabo
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Mico Preto
Character: Frederico Menezes Garcia
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Senhora do Destino
Character: Giovanni Improtta
A story about people who succeed in life thanks to nothing but their own efforts. Maria do Carmo is the main character of the telenovela; a mother of five who struggle to be successful in life, but whose most important will be recovering the love of her daughter who was kidnapped when she was just months old....
Anjo Mau
Character: Rodrigo Medeiros
A poor young woman, unhappy with her inevitable destiny as a suburban housewife, gets a job as a nanny for a wealthy family and falls in love with her employer's brother, using every trick to win him over and ultimately become the lady of the mansion. ....
Três Irmãs
Character: Augusto Pinheiro
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Amazônia: De Galvez a Chico Mendes
Character: Luis Gálvez
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Duas Caras
Character: Francisco Macieira
In the past, as Adalberto Rangel, he met and seduced Maria Paula. With a calculated coldheart, he married her, stole her fortune, then abandoned her, unaware she was pregnant at the time. Ten years later, accompanied by her son Renato, Maria Paula plots to recover her dignity and to find justice by getting revenge against the indignities done to her....
Amor à Vida
Character: Herbert Marques
Paloma is a willful woman whose newborn baby is kidnapped by her own brother, Félix, who plans to become sole heir to the family’s fortune. Bruno is an honest man who, during the same night, loses his wife and son in childbirth and miraculously finds Paloma’s child in a dumpster. Destiny will unite their lives in a plot of secrets, revelations, and disputes, with the unpredictable consequences of lives based on a dangerous and surprising network of lies....
Suave Veneno
Character: Waldomiro Cerqueira
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O Quinto dos Infernos
Character: Marquês de Marialva
O Quinto dos Infernos was a 2002 mini Brazilian historical comedy television series. It was written by Carlos Lombardi, and directed by Wolf Maya and 48 episodes were produced. The protagonist was Marcos Pasquim....
O Fim do Mundo
Character: Sebastião "Tião" Socó
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Anos Rebeldes
Character: Fábio Brito
Mini series about the 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, when a politically engaged student falls in love with a left wing journalist's daughter who doesn't care for politics. The romance follows 15 years of Brazilian history, since President João Goulart deposition by military reactionary forces, until the first signs of restoration of democracy, in the 1980s....
Final Feliz
Character: Rodrigo Mendonça
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Plumas & Paetês
Character: Renato / Paulo
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É Tudo Novela!
Character: Giovanni
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Los crápulas
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Two ex-convicts are hired by the Devil to manage a small town cemetery....
The Man of the Year
Character: Sílvio
Maiquél has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This seemingly innocuous event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which he goes from nobody to hero to outlaw — all in 24 hours....
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Character: Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."...
Medicine Man
Character: Dr. Miguel Ornega
An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love....
Paixão e Guerra no Sertão de Canudos
Character: Narrador
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Doida Demais
Character: Noé
Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes with her new lover, a pilot....
Bye Bye Brazil
Character: Lorde Cigano
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe....
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Character: Valdomiro 'Vadinho' Santos Guimarães
After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life....
O Sonho de Inacim
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Romance
Character: Danilo
During a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Peter and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction....
The Well Beloved One
Character: Zeca Diabo
Based on the homonymous work of Dias Gomes , The Well Beloved tells the story of the mayor Paraguassu Odorico, whose primary goal in his administration in the city of Sucupira is the inauguration of a cemetery. One side is supported by the sisters Cajazeiras. On the other, he has to fight against strong opposition led by Vladmir, owner of rag city. For lack of a corpse, the mayor can never accomplish his goal. Not even the arrival of Ernesto - a dying man who does not die - and hiring Zeca Diabo...
The Conspirators
Character: Tiradentes
The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes....
Prisoner of Rio
Character: Salo
The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs....
Sexo com Amor?
Character: Jorge
Three children are caught in school with an erotic book. His parents are called by the leadership to discuss the problem. During the meeting, comes to surface the love and sexual problems of these three couples; such as lack of desire, betrayal, love, passion, insecurity and provocations....
Dead in the Water
Character: Father
Young, rich, and randy Gloria (Dominique Swain) takes the family motorboat for some fun in the sun off the coast of Brazil. Along with her are her longtime boyfriend Danny (Scott Bairstow), his best friend Jeff (Henry Thomas), and the son of an important and infinitely influential client, Marcos (Sebastian DeVicente). It probably wasn't a good idea to take three gorgeous men the same age out on a boat with a bikini-clad beauty who lately has been questioning her relationship with her main squee...
The Man in the Black Cape
Character: Tenório Cavalcanti
Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak....
Better Days Ahead
Character: Wallace Caldeira
Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star....
Giovanni Improtta
Character: Giovanni Improtta
Giovanni Improtta is a criminal who wants to climb the social ladder and become a law-abiding citizen. To achieve it, he commits some more crimes He is betrayed, and ends up under the spotlight of the media and the radar of the police, falsely charged for murder....
Bonitinha mas Ordinária
Character: Edgar
The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor....
Now Boarding
Character: Fulano
Wagner is a 22-year old Brazilian guy, who dreams about leaving the country for a better life, until he meets Justina, an experienced woman who turns his life upside down. Together they will discover that life has a lot more to offer....
Canta Maria
Character: Lampião
After her parents were killed by a troupe of soldiers in search of Lampião, an outlaw living in Northeastern Brazil, Maria marries Filipe, a horse whisperer. But his nephew Coriolano soon develops an attraction for Maria, while a jealous Filipe decides to break his marriage and sends Maria away....
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
Character: Donizetti
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil....
Little Book of Love
Character: Alaor
Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruinous relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long marriage with divorce. When they both meet, chances that they can do well together are not that big. But they will try to, even if their friends Barata (a convict bachelor totally skeptical when it comes to love) and Marta (a mathematic analyst who wishes that human relations were just as exact as numbers are) think otherwise....
Lovely Child
Character: Álvaro
Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class....
Xica
Character: Conde Valadares
The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power....
Tancredo - A Travessia
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For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
Character: Giancarlo Sandrini
1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies. Giancarlo, an Italian immigrant married to a Brazilian woman, lives nearby the Parnamirin Field, the largest military base built by the USA outside of their territory. In this new base, Brazilian recruits who speak English suddenly find themselves reaching privileged positions....
Isolados
Character: Dr. Fausto
A couple, Lauro and Renata, travels to a remote area surrounded by rain forest in Rio De Janeiro. Once they are there, Lauro is told by a bar owner that gruesome murders are taking place in that area. Intending to keep this information hidden from his girlfriend, Lauro and Renata discover they might be not alone when staying in a isolated house....
The Greatest Love of All
Character: Antônio
Antônio is an astrophysicist who has just found out he has an inoperable brain tumor. After decades living in the United States, he returns to Brazil and tries to learn more about his biological mother. His quest sends him off into the slums of Rio de Janeiro....
Mary, Mother of the Son of God
Character: Pilatos
Maria Auxiliadora is a 24 year-old woman very poor, that she lives Joana, her 7 year-old daughter close to. Needing go look for the result of Joana's exam in the hospital, Maria asks the priest of the local church that takes care of her to return. In spite of Joana's insistence to go with the mother Maria insists that she is with the priest, because she distrusts that her daughter suffers of a serious disease. To entertain the girl while it awaits the mother's return, the priest decides to tell ...
Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania
Character: Leleco
The story of a German scientist/stage magician eking out a miserly life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas until getting involved in an improbable kidnapping and ransom plot....
The Duel: A Story Where Truth Is Mere Detail
Character: Chico Pacheco
Commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragão entertains the small town of Periperi with the stories of his many adventures travelling around the world as a captain of the merchant navy. Stubborn Chico Pacheco is the only one in town who doesn't believe his tales....
O Bom Burguês
Character: Lucas
True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his disguise, he gets involved with high society, and with industrialists who were financing repression to the groups he stood for....
Diamante Bruto
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El Justicero
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A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the self-conscious antics of the French New Wave. The pampered son of a general, El Justicero is a hipster playboy who fancies himself a James Bond/Jean Paul Sartre urban hero. “Archetypical” yet “full of contradictions,” he sees that justice is achieved for the disadvantaged while taking advantage of certain bourgeois perks. His exploits are closely followed and ...
Leila Diniz
Character: Henrique Martins
The life of Brazilian actress Leila Diniz....
The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga
Character: Joãozinho Bem-Bem
Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a trap that nearly kills him. Born again, Matraga resorts to faith and hard work in the pursuit of redemption. Years later, he arrives at the village reigned by the hinterland's ruler and his thugs. This new friendship will challenge his destiny....
Paixão
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Parable about the 1964 military coup in Brazil, where three characters unite through the exercise of the word....
Dunas do Barato
Character: Self
A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a generation of artists and sportsmen....
Golden Oldies 2
Character: Juca
The heroes of Golden Oldies 1— Juca, PR, and Montanha — are back, following different routes. Montanha lives in an old mansion and gets ready to reunite with his friends. Once together again, the three friends get into hilarious situations....
The Deceased
Character: (uncredited)
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde....
As Aventuras do Pequeno Colombo
Character: Conde de Saint-Germain
To save the family from bankruptcy, Christopher Columbus convinces friends Leonardo da Vinci and Mona Lisa to go to a treasure island. On the trip, they are attacked by the Beast Nautilus...
Confissões de Uma Viúva Moça
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In this comedy adaptation of Machado De Assis (1839-1908) novel, a young widow writes letters to a friend telling about her days as a married woman and the special relationship she had with Emílio, a friend of the couple who becomes her adoring lover....
Jango
Character: Narrator
The story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military....
Movie Theaters of Rio
Character: Self
The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema....
Suspiros Republicanos ao Crepúsculo de um Império Tropical
Character: Narrator
The film tells a little of the history of Brazil immersed in the caricature of the conditions of making cinema in this country. Flora and Carlos Manoel fall in love. She, from a family linked to the Monarchy, and he, a republican activist, live their love in the last days of the monarchy, without knowing that the end of the empire would also mean the end of their romance....
Subway to the Stars
Character: Professor
In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He embarks upon a quest through the wild streets of Rio to find her. Along the way he meets an assortment of odd urban underworld characters....
Josué de Castro, Cidadão do Mundo
Character: Narrador
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Elvis & Madonna
Character: Pachecão
In Copacabana, lesbian photographer Elvis is hired to deliver pizzas in the night shift on her motorcycle. Her first assignment is a delivery to the transgender hairdresser Lady Madonna, whom she falls in love with....
Amor e Medo
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Eu Sou Vida, Eu Não Sou Morte
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Play written by Qorpo Santo, in 1866, about a love triangle in which the husband kills his rival in the name of honor, pride, dignity and national integrity....
Estranho Triângulo
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A poor college student becomes a homosexual millionaire's lover in order to get ahead in life. The latter marries a woman for convenience, and the newlyweds end up sharing the young man....
The King of the Candle
Character: Abelardo Segundo
Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s....
A Melhor Idade
Character: Antenor
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Golden Oldies
Character: Juca
Four friends who only think about enjoying life, with big parties, women and drinks, are surprised by an eviction. In need of money, the group is forced to think about what they hate most: working! Confusion arises when everyone looks for an easy way to get money, with minimum effort. The days pass and the hilarious confusion only increases!...
Dybbuk: The Demon
Character: Hannan
Hannan is a brilliant Talmudic scholar who is constantly searching for something that not even he knows exactly what it is, living in the anguish of constant existential crises. He delves into the mystical arts of Kabbalah, seeking answers to his questions, in addition to traveling to countless places....
Besame Mucho
Character: Xico
The story of two couples - Xico and Olga, Tuca and Dina - through 20 years of friendship, from adolescent dreams to maturity frustrations. They meet in a small town in the State of São Paulo, but one of the couples decides to try their luck in the big city. As background, the political events in the 60's and 70's, and how they affect their lives....
On Borrowed Time
Character: Torturador
During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one....
Batalha dos Guararapes
Character: João Fernandes Vieira
In the early 17th century, the Dutch have occupied Bom Jesus village, the last native stronghold in the Pernambuco captaincy. An adventurer, João Fernandes Vieira, sees himself in the middle of a conflict, torn between joining his friend Mauricio de Nassau alongside the ruling Dutch and siding with his lover Ana Paes in the fight to free his homeland....
Guerra de Canudos
Character: Antônio Conselheiro
At the end of the 19th century, a poor family comes to the rural Canudos, a community led by Antônio Conselheiro, seen by many as a holy prophet. Their ways bother the powerful people of the region, and the newly founded Republic sends their army to destroy the settlement, which culminates in one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Brazil....
Baixo Gávea
Character: Maluco da bomba
Clara directs the rehearsals of a theatrical play about Fernando Pessoa while constantly seeking the right man and the love of his life. One of the actresses is the lesbian Ana, who interprets the poet Mário de Sá Carneiro. She is Clara's friend and confidant with whom she shares an apartment. Clara does not perceive Ana's love for her, that always helps her to recover from the disappointments. Unlike the character Sá Carneiro, poet of decadentism, nostalgia, metaphysics and vague, Ana is the pr...
Massacre no Supermercado
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Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective on their heels....
Viva Sapato!
Character: Fernando
A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Zapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. When her aunt sends her a pair of shoes instead of the money to start up the restaurant, she angrily sells the useless gift for spare change. Her dream fades away - until she discovers that the money was hidden in the heel. The zany search for the shoe...
China, o Império do Centro
Character: Narrator
A portrait of conteporary China from Tai-chi-chuan to chinese arts....
Bandidos da Falange
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Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor
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Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one of his best friends and marries her; soon after, she cheats on him....
São Bernardo
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A Porta Aberta
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Delicado
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Banquete
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Character: Self
Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cin...
Fiebre amarilla
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Ana, a Libertina
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Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado
Character: Self
The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts from films and videos in which he acted....
Deliciosas Traições do Amor
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Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Character: Self
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in t...
Redeemer
Character: Dr. Sabóia
Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor....