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Paraíso Aqui Vou Eu (2011)
Character: N/A
Disillusioned teacher Sara and forgotten poet Francisco were once married and now decide to meet again to talk about their hopes and anxieties. The former couple ends up meeting the young Penelope who changes their lives with her free way of being.
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Assim na Tela Como no Céu (1990)
Character: N/A
A religious comedy in 5 segments, illustrating maniqueism on Earth, as shown by movies. God and his son Jesus disagree on how to manage human life on Earth.
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No Coração dos Deuses (1999)
Character: N/A
Following the clues of a map, a boy and some adventurers go into the forest in search of treasure from the pioneers, and end up going back two centuries in time, in search of the legendary Minas dos Martírios.
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Erotique (1994)
Character: (segment 'Final Call')
The sexual fantasies of women are explored by three female directors.
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Cores (2012)
Character: N/A
São Paulo today. Brazil is in full economic upswing. This is a story of friendship and delusion between three young friends in a big city. Their life is marked by an ordinary routine where nothing much happens except the alienation impregnated by the consumer society and the lack of perspectives. An urgent film representing the historical moment of a generation.
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Vestido de Noiva (2006)
Character: N/A
While in the hospital, after being run over, Alaíde thinks about her life, specially after the moment she'd found the diary of Madame Clessy, in the house where her family had moved in, which was a former bordello.
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O Veneno da Madrugada (2006)
Character: Barbeiro
The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis family, reduced to a widow and son, tries to hold out against the young, despotic mayor. No less effective then actions are anonymous rumors and accusations, which often stir the inhabitants' moves.
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Querido Estranho (2002)
Character: Manoel
On Alberto's birthday, his daughter Zezé gets engaged. But the party turns sour when he decides to expose his pain and regrets.
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Corpo em Delito (1990)
Character: N/A
During the Brazilian military dictatorship, a doctor forged autopsy reports to hide the victims of the regime.
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Os Príncipes (2018)
Character: N/A
Two men roam the night of Rio de Janeiro with two prostitutes in search of pleasure and violence.
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O Vestido de Myriam (2017)
Character: Divaldo
In the middle of a quiet house in rural countryside of the state of Rio de Janeiro, an elderly couple lives with the limitations of old age. Divaldo shares his solitude with Myriam. She dies during sleep and the next day. Divaldo buries her in the backyard. After the funeral, he expresses mourning in a peculiar way.
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Antonio Carlos Gomes (1996)
Character: Narração do maestro
An Italian actress arrives in Belém do Pará, to stage the last moments of Carlos Gomes, author of “O Guarani”.
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Álbum em Família (2021)
Character: N/A
A group of actors and actresses rehearse play virtually and look for solutions to get around the fact that they cannot meet. Confined at home, they use their own family members on stage. The piece chosen is ÁLBUM DE FAMÍLIA, by Nelson Rodrigues, an attempt to debate the idea of a traditional Brazilian family.
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Romance (2008)
Character: N/A
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.
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Crueldade Mortal (1976)
Character: Nozinho
Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his life, but falls in love with a woman who despises him, which drives him mad.
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A JORNADA DE MARIA (2018)
Character: Father
Maria is a shortfilm about a woman who was fooled to the western world while she was young and naiv, found what she dreamt of, but lost where she came from. Maria is the return to whatever's left of childhoods pastures.
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AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu (2001)
Character: José Bonifácio
Documentary about a political episode during the Brazilian military dictatorship, which resulted in the issue of the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5), abolishing freedom of opinion in Brazil, and marking the transition to the toughest period of violation of human rights in the country. The episode was the Congress Assembly on December 12th, 1968, in which its members denied permission to punish congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, as was the Government's wish.
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O Guarani (1996)
Character: Aires
The forbidden love affair between Peri, an Indian, and the beautiful Ceci, a Portuguese white girl, in the 17th century Brazil.
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Homens de Bem (2011)
Character: Corvo
Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.
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Nunca Fomos Tão Felizes (1984)
Character: Policial
During the military dictatorship, a political militant takes his son out of the boarding school, and puts him temporarily in a friend's luxury and empty apartment in Copacabana beach. The son knows very little about his father, and the latter cannot really explain his activities to his son, fearing for his security. So the young man stands alone in the huge apartment, waiting for the infrequent meetings with his father, without really knowing what's going on.
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A Grande Arte (1991)
Character: Rafael
Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a local call girl.
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Menino Maluquinho: O Filme (1995)
Character: Motorista do Ônibus
The principal character in Helvécio Ratton's delightful film has been adapted from a book and comic created by the Brazilian cartoonist Ziraldo, and tells the tale of a happy-go-lucky 10-year-old child growing up in a city in the 60s.
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Nas Ondas da Fé (2023)
Character: Apóstolo David
Hickson lived off the books, running from one place to another to make a living. His only great achievement in life had been to win over his wife Jéssika, an evangelical hairdresser and his girlfriend since childhood. The two lead a life without great prospects in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro until Hickson gets a job at an evangelical radio station. With luck, talent and the help of Jessica, he soon becomes a pastor and has a meteoric rise in the church. But with fame and money comes envy. What now Hickson?
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O Quinto Macaco (1990)
Character: Second Man
When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.
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Brasília 18% (2006)
Character: Emílio de Menezes
A star medical examiner is called to Brasília, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young congressional aide's dead body. But his scientific rigor soon leads him to details of a multi-layered political scandal.
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O Segredo de Sara (2021)
Character: N/A
Five young actors travel to an isolated house, surrounded by forest, for a weekend to shoot a movie. What they still don't know is that this will be the scene of mysterious events. Will they be able to finish the movie before they finish it?
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Policarpo Quaresma, Herói do Brasil (1998)
Character: Bustamante
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.
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A Lira do Delírio (1978)
Character: N/A
During the Carnival, in Niterói, the son of a Lira do Delírio nightclub dancer is kidnapped. With the help of a journalist friend, she dives into Rio de Janeiro's underworld and meet all kind of criminals. She also goes back in time, to a past carnival, where she thinks she might pin-point the culprit among a group of people.
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Crô em Família (2018)
Character: Orlando
Already famous, at the top of his career, owner of his own school of etiquette, Crô sees himself alone and without a family. Lonely and vulnerable, he ends up living at the whim of supposed family, Orlando, Marinalva, Luane and Nando, whose intentions are far from the best. With the inseparable Geni, Magda and Jurema by his side, Crô will embark on an adventure to find his true family while constantly avoiding the venom of the top columnist Carlota Valdez.
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Saneamento Básico, o Filme (2007)
Character: Antônio
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
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Correndo Atrás (2018)
Character: Aníbal
Paulo Ventania is a black Brazilian man, always doing his best to bring some happiness in his life, and by happiness he means money. When he's at a dead end, he discovers the opportunity to become a football manager by leading some boy from the neighborhood to becoming the new Neymar of international soccer. Going through the suburbs of Rio, he finds Glanderson, a young boy with an enormous talent for soccer despite missing two toes. With good humor, high hopes, and a lot of mistakes, the quixotic duo tries their best to make their dream come true.
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O Homem na Caixa (2018)
Character: Carcereiro
Locked up for decades in a maximum security prison, an old man tries to revive his glory days as a magician, putting into practice a perfect - but also very dangerous - escape plan.
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Romance da Empregada (1988)
Character: N/A
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.
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Fervo (2023)
Character: Tibério
Three ghosts are trapped in a house and haunt each new resident in order to finish their mission on Earth so they can move on to the next life. That is until a couple of architects move to the place and decide to renovate it, revitalizing it. However, they end up discovering that the mansion was the site of an old concert hall called "Fervo" and go through a series of misunderstandings with the ghosts played by Rita Von Hunty, Gabriel Godoy and Renata Gaspar.
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Vestido Pra Casar (2014)
Character: Belisário
When Fernando accidentally rips the designer dress of a reality show star, he races to replace it, putting his own wedding at risk.
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O Coronel e o Lobisomem (2005)
Character: Nonô Padilha
Colonel Furtado struggles to keep his lands, the Sobradinho Farm, and win the heart of his cousin Esmeraldina. In the process, he fights big beasts, experiences the taste of a bohemian life in town, fends usurers and thieves off, and uses all his cunning to get rid of haunting entities. His rival is the man he was brought up with, Pernambuco Nogueira, a werewolf.
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Cleópatra (2007)
Character: N/A
The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The strategy of Cleopatra is to seduce the Roman General Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to protect their civilization.
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O Primeiro Dia (1998)
Character: Carcereiro
On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.
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Guerra de Canudos (1997)
Character: Cel. Antônio Moreira César
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.
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Maria: Mãe do Filho de Deus (2003)
Character: Herodes
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 her a mother's history that dedicated her life to the son: Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.
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Entrando Numa Roubada (2015)
Character: João
A film director, Walter, meets his old team to make a "road movie". With no money, they will have come up with scams in order to make the production possible while at the same time plotting revenge.
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Rio, Eu Te Amo (2014)
Character: Fernando (segment "O Vampiro do Rio")
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
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Traição (1999)
Character: Jordão
This film shows three episodes: "The First Sin" portrays the relationship of a man and married woman; in "Devilish", the desire between a young woman and her brother-in-law is shown; and in the episode "Cachorro!", a man sees his wife with her lover.
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A Repartição do Tempo (2016)
Character: Dr. Brasil
In a forgotten corner of the vast Brazilian bureaucracy, a psychotic boss uses a time machine to enslave his lazy employees and increase productivity.
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As Aventuras Amorosas de um Padeiro (1975)
Character: N/A
A newlywed woman, frustrated after her honeymoon, decides to search for lovers on the streets and ends up causing a conflict between her husband, a baker and a black artist.
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Como Você Me Vê? (2017)
Character: N/A
How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness that are inherent to the job when detached from the glam and glitz of the gossip industry, creating a diverse and comprehensive mosaic of what it means to be an actor in Brazil, a country so full of contradictions. The film brings forward a reality that the masses usually don't get to know: the men and women moved by a deep passion for acting and touching people. With Julio Adrião, Matheus Nachtergaele, José Celso Martinez, Cássia Kis, Nanda Costa, Babu Santana, Luciano Vidigal and Letícia Sabatella, among others.
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Saideira (2024)
Character: Hercilio / Honório
Two sisters with very different personalities and who have not spoken with each other for years come together to fulfill their grandfather’s last wish, a kind of wild treasure hunt that leads them to know their true history, helping them to grieve the sufferings of the past and reconnect with themselves and with one another.
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Memórias do Cárcere (1984)
Character: Desidério
In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.
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A Grande Família: O Filme (2007)
Character: Mendonça
For forty years, the public functionary and family man Lineu and his beloved wife Nenê celebrate their first date going to the same ball where Lineu borrowed the jacket his competitor Carlinhos. In the present days, Lineu feels uncomfortable when his colleague Pacheco dies and goes to the doctor for health examination. When the result of his tomography arrives, his doctor says that he had seen some blur in his lungs and with that report he would give the correct diagnosis. Lineu steals the document afraid of having a tumor, but he believes he will die sooner. Meanwhile, Nenê meets Carlinhos in the supermarket where he is the manager and invites him to have dinner with her family. Lineu hides his concerns to Nenê, and his attitudes in the dinner misguide Nenê, and she believes Lineu has a lover and does not love him anymore
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República dos Assassinos (1979)
Character: Carlinhos
In 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The photos of the victims, adorned by the skull, symbol of the group, caused an uncomfortable indignation. This is the story of Mateus Romeiro, the most famous of the policemen, who was part of the Homens de Aço (Steelmen) group, one of the factions in which the squadron was divided.
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Redentor (2004)
Character: Delegado
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.
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Copacabana (2001)
Character: Raimundo
Moments before turning 90 years of age, Alberto remembers his life, lived in Copacabana, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a comedy about old age nowadays, with Copacabana as a background.
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Assalto ao Banco Central (2011)
Character: Doutor
"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.
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A Queda (1976)
Character: Tonho
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
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Rei do Rio (1985)
Character: Delegado Paixão
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
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Último Domingo (2022)
Character: Abiatar
The dawn is strange, with a harbinger of change. The next morning, Maria receives a mysterious visitor that leaves José disturbed and will lead her to re-signify her own destiny.
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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta (1991)
Character: Palhaço
Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.
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O Homem da Capa Preta (1986)
Character: Bereco
Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.
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Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil (2001)
Character: Itaparica
Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last.
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O Aniversário do Seu Lair (2024)
Character: Lair
Lair is exhausted. He can no longer drink, his wife is dead, and all he gets for his 80th birthday is a visit from his daughter's insufferable family and a lousy cake. But when he casts them out of his house, he receives a tempting call from the beyond.
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O Barulho da Noite (2023)
Character: N/A
Maria Luíza is a seven-year-old child who lives a happy life with her family. Her naivety is struck when she discovers that her mother is in love with her nephew, who is a helper on his father's farm. The possible dismantling of her family puts her in a state of melancholy and fear, as the intruder approaches the nucleus and family structures dissolve.
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Amorteamo: O Filme (2017)
Character: Zé Coveiro
This is an adaptation of the 2015 TV show, featuring two intertwining love triangles that drive the plot. The first triangle involves Aragão, his wife Arlinda, and her lover, Chico. The second triangle unites Malvina, Lena, and Gabriel, who is the son of Arlinda and Chico but raised by Aragão.
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Dedé Mamata (1988)
Character: Dirigente comunista
Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism.
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O Bem Amado (2010)
Character: Vladmir
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, a bandit killer, provide him with the realization of his dream. Odorico gun situations for someone to die, but the first body to be buried in Sucupira may be the mayor himself, that the hunter becomes the hunted and goes from villain to martyr.
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O Palhaço (2011)
Character: Beto - Deto Papagaio
The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
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Pitanga (2016)
Character: Self
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
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Meu Tio José (2021)
Character: Diretor do Marista (voice)
It begins in 1983 in Salvador city, with the attack against José, an ex-member of a left-wing political group. Meanwhile, his nephew Adonias is worried about an assignment his teacher has given him. Consequently, Adonias has to deal with his family's suffering, conflicts at school, and the anguish of having to write his school essay.
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Ele, o Boto (1987)
Character: Pereira
According to an Amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a Brazilian fishing village receives a mysterious guest: the Boto, who transforms into a human to seduce and be loved by women and hated by men. One of her conquests is the daughter of a fisherman, who has a son with the Boto. He constantly reappears to seduce her, and even when she marries, he continues to look for her. This provokes the ire of the husband, who wants to kill him anyway.
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Um Show de Verão (2004)
Character: Seu Cisco
Andréa, a poor telemarketing salesgirl, dreams of being a singer. Her rich boyfriend Fred hires a musical producer, Marcelo, to turn her into a star. But she and Marcelo end up falling in love.
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