Daniel Filho
Birthday: Born in 1937-09-30 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deathday: Alive
João Carlos Daniel Filho, better known as Daniel Filho (Rio de Janeiro, September 30, 1937), is a Brazilian actor, director, filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, voice actor, presenter and author. Responsible for triggering an aesthetic revolution in Brazilian TV during the 1970s, he became a Midas of popular cinema in Brazil during the 2000s. He created one blockbuster after another, many adapted from the theatre. The "Se Eu Fosse Você" (If I Were You) franchise (2006-09), featuring Tony Ramos and Gloria Pires - famous for their soap opera roles, sold more than 9 million tickets.
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Rainha da Sucata
Character: Renato Maia
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Páginas da Vida
Character: Self
Nanda must rethink her plansof studying in Amsterdam when she discovers she is pregnant. After losing the support of her boyfriend Léo, the young girl decides to return home, where she suffers a serious accident and dies.However, Helena, her doctor, is able to save her new-born twins: Francisco and Clara. Unfortunately, Clara suffers from Downs Syndrome. Helena feels a strong emotional tie to Clara and adopts her.Years later, the twins’father Léo, a young and wealthy businessman, returns to the ...
O Sexo dos Anjos
Character: Teófilo Muniz
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Vale Tudo
Character: Rubinho
Fátima Accioly is a young, callous woman who wants to be rich and successful at any price. After selling her family's house in the country, she heads to Rio and gets to know dress man César who is unscrupulous himself. Meanwhile, her mother Raquel stays behind without home and money, but finally tries to find her daughter in the big city. Both women come in contact with the rich Roitman family which changes their lives forever....
Que Rei Sou Eu?
Character: Bergeron Bouchet / André Barral
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A Justiceira
Character: Salomão Garcia
Diana is woman who lost her child for her Husband. A evil man behind a series of crime operations. Searching for her son, Diana is hired for a underground organization to fight crimes all over Brazil. Now, Diana has the meanings to locate her former husband and search for her son....
O Astro
Character: Salomão Hayalla
The illusionist is mysterious, captivating and mesmerizes all those around him. But is he really a swindler or a man with extraordinary powers? This fascinating telenovela tells the story of seductive Herculano Quintanilha, who exerts significant influence over his great love Amanda, the Hayalla family and his friends. These and other enigmas can be found in The Illusionist, a telenovela where seduction is the great secret....
Espelho Mágico
Character: João Gabriel
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Peacetime
Character: Doutor Penna
Rio de Janeiro, April 18, 1945. Brazil's foreign policy aligns closely with that of the United States and opens a brief period of democratic rule after the end of World War 2. For years, hundreds of people were arrested and tortured by the Vargas regime. But with the external pressure, several political prisoners gain freedom....
The Unscrupulous Ones
Character: Vavá
Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda....
Roleta Russa
Character: Raul
Raul, a playboy, marries Sheila and hire Nina, a photographer, to take erotic snapshots of his wife. Nina acquires an interest on Sheila, and through a maid, investigates the couple's intimate life....
Golden Mouth
Character: Leleco
After a powerful outlaw dies, a reporter interviews his lover and gets three different stories about the legendary man....
Mulheres & Milhões
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Three men who never met each other are hired by a mysterious client to carry out a daring bank robbery....
The Kiss
Character: Amado Pinheiro
When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality....
I Have No Idea What I’m Doing With My Life
Character: Vô
Clara doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, until one day she meets Guilherme who helps her to find her own path....
Summer Showers
Character: Geraldinho
70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age....
Eu Sou o Tal
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Winner of a Theater talent contest, in which he was the only one to enroll, Belizário da Silva leaves his hometown, and tries to make it in Rio de Janeiro....
Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
Character: Self
A portrays of the period in which Brazilian humor had fewer limits (1986-2003), free from military dictatorship....
The Story of Fausta
Character: João
Fausta, a domestic worker who lives in a slum with her husband João, a drunk and abuser. At work, she has to endure the demands of her boss, and at home, her husband breaks his leg and cheats on her with the neighbor Coizinha. One day, Fausta meets Zé da Placa, and despite the age difference between them, they begin to develop a deep affection for each other, building a beautiful friendship....
Mirror of Flesh
Character: Jairo Almeida
A mirror bought in an auction changes the life of an executive and his wife. They become sexually aroused under the influence of the strange object, which belonged to a bordello in the past. Soon the friends who come to pay a visit also become affected by it....
The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Character: Self
A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova....
Quilombo
Character: Fernão Carrilho
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zu...
Bar Esperanza
Character: Armando
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro....
Till Luck Do Us: Part 3
Character: Elias Barelli
After waking from a coma, Tino learns his future in-laws have given him a high-powered financial job, for which he is woefully unqualified....
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa
Character: Self
After the great success of the Rio season of her show Saudades do Brasil, Elis Regina made this special with Globo. In a circus-inspired stage, she sings Alô, Alô, Marciano by Rita Lee and Roberto de Carvalho; O Bêbado e a Equilibrista by João Bosco and Aldir Blanc; and O Que Foi Feito (de Vera) by Milton Nascimento and Fernando Brant, amongst others....
What are you Laughing At? Humour and Dictatorship
Character: Self
Even with all the brutality in the Brazilian dictatorial period, many artists presented themselves as a resistance, using their talent and creativity as a way to trick the censorship....
As Quatro Chaves Mágicas
Character: Paulo, o irmão
Sad with her grandfather's death, Maria goes on vacation with her friend João on board a jeep. After being threatened by three thieves and helped by a Japanese traveler who opens their eyes to the mysteries of love, a pair gets lost in the forest and ends up at the home of a strange woman, who turns out to be a powerful witch Astarte. Realizing the danger they are in, Maria asks for help from the forest beings who teach her the secrets of the four magic keys: earth, air, fire and water. With the...
The Body
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Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer....
Subway to the Stars
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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....
Federal Bank Heist
Character: Advogado
"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever....
Tieta of Agreste
Character: Corretor
After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order....
Tem Boi na Linha
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If I Were You
Character: Homem no Banheiro
The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other....
Muita Calma Nessa Hora 2
Character: Pai de Tita
When Mari produces a music festival in Rio de Janeiro, she invites friends Tita, Aninha and Estrella to join her for another wild adventure....
Esse Rio que Eu Amo
Character:
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Duas de Mim
Character: Daniel Filho
Suellen (Thalita Carauta) is a cook who works hard to keep her little son, her younger sister and her mother alone. One day, your dreams come true: she splits in two. Her copy, identical physically, has different personality, being much more extroverted and courageous. The idea would be to divide the tasks with the other one, but soon Suellen realizes that the look-alike has plans of its own, and decides to betray the original....
O Amuleto
Character: Herminio
Moçambique beach in Florianópolis, have a lot of unsolved murders cases. One day, Diana, Alex, Paulinho and Marcinha went to a party in the forest. In the next day, three teenagers are found death. Diana is the only survivor, but she doesn't remember what happen. The only thing that will help to solve the case is the videos recorded with their cell phones....
The Heirs
Character: Um Americano
An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV....
Fuzileiro do Amor
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Crítico
Character: Self
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic....
Golden Mouth
Character: Newspaper Clerk
After his death, infamous Rio de Janeiro mob boss Golden Mouth (named after his all-golden teeth) gets multiple accounts of his life told to the press by his former lover....
As Mulheres no Cinema Brasileiro
Character: Ele mesmo
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Vida, Vida
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In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town....
Vianinha
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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....
Just Another Christmas
Character: Seu Pedro
After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year....
Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico”
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A Fúria
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Third part of Ruy Guerra's trilogy initiated in "Os Fuzis" (1964) and "A Queda" (1978)....
Cheer to Life
Character: Seu Ulisses
Jéssica (Thati Lopes) is a simple young woman, dedicated to her job at an antique shop in Rio de Janeiro, but she feels her life lacks purpose. Everything changes when she finds a mysterious locket identical to an item she inherited from her late mother. Driven by the desire to understand the connection between the locket and her family history, Jéssica teams up with Gabriel (Rodrigo Simas), a distant relative who appears unexpectedly....