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Per Sempre (1991)
Character: Alberti
Marked by her father's strong presence, since he is a rich and powerful businessman, the beautiful Berenice investigates his love life, to feel closer to him. With her findings, their relationship becomes mixed with a strong sense of seduction.
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Oswaldianas (1992)
Character: N/A
Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
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Arrastão (1967)
Character: Marcos
The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished its purity. The modern transposition of the legend is set in Brazil, in a village of poor fishermen on Guanabara Bay, framed by mountains not far from Rio de Janeiro. Two young cousins, Marcos and Jeronimo, get together to fish successfully - the arrastao is a large fishing net - and to resist the ugly local landowner, who sets the rules and the prices. This owner has a niece: Emaïsa, who loves Marcos and is loved by him.
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Domingo em Família (1983)
Character: Jorge
An elderly couple, Dona Lu and Seu Souza, live in the district of Paty do Alferes, in a simple little house where they raised their children. When the tenant dies, the landlord's heirs evicted the couple, and it is up to the four children to decide their future.
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Cronicamente Inviável (2000)
Character: N/A
Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
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Ainda Agarro Esta Vizinha (1974)
Character: Tatá
Tatá is a typical Rio de Janeiro guy, easy living, hedonistic, living in an apartment in one of those buildings where everything goes, in Copacabana, near the beach. One day a beautiful new neighbor, Teresa, moves into the apartment in front of his, and he falls in love.
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Como nos Livrar do Saco (1973)
Character: Oliveira
Cícero and Samantha are lovers who are going to spend a "honeymoon" in Teresina. However, the girl dies suddenly and Cicero calls his friend Edgar to help him hide the body. The already complicated situation gets even worse when the car that holds the body is stolen.
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Alcântara: Cidade Morta (1968)
Character: Narrador
History and decadence of the city of Alcântara narrated through what remains of its buildings and ancient documents.
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Harmada (2003)
Character: N/A
A failed artist searching strength to move ahead. By a young lady, who might be his daughter, he develops a project that changes his destiny.
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Sonhos Tropicais (2001)
Character: Rodrigues Alves
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.
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Os Mendigos (1963)
Character: N/A
A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of finding a potential partner to marry in order to avoid her return to that place.
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Fabula de la Bella Palomera (1990)
Character: Amigo doente
Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband.
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Tummy (1995)
Character: Gruger
A young boy escapes from an orphanage to find two magical creatures in the jungle. As he bonds with the younger one, he discovers that poachers are out to kidnap the creatures and he strives to rescue them.
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Crônica da Cidade Amada (1965)
Character: N/A
Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time.
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Muito Prazer (1979)
Character: Aquino
Two contrasting social groups get in touch: three architects and three street urchins, all struggling for survival.
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Caminho dos Sonhos (1998)
Character: Cristiano Bonardi
A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.
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O Bravo Guerreiro (1968)
Character: Líder estudantil
Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.
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Caccia allo scorpione d'oro (1991)
Character: Colonel Olivares
In the deepest, most remote part of the Amazon, a treasure is hidden! A treasure so valuable that men would kill for it, women would undress for it, and entire armies would fight for it !
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Didi, o Caçador de Tesouros (2006)
Character: Dr. Samuel Walker
Didi works as a butler at Pedro's father's house. While browsing an old photograph album, he and 10-year-old Pedro find an ancient map with the route to a treasure. They decide to search for it. But the treasure carries a curse cast by the three thieves who had stolen it first, during WW2.
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Manobra Radical (1991)
Character: Doutor Bernardo
On the eve of an important surfing championship, a group of young friends travels along the Brazilian coast with the intention of training hard and having a chance to become professional in the sport. However, along the way, Guel, a surfer bum, falls in love with a rich girl.
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Eu Dou o Que Ela Gosta (1975)
Character: N/A
A young couple uses creativity to escape the rules of the girl's father, a conservative Italian, and her grandmother. Even under the patriarch's watch, the roguish boyfriend manages to fulfill his desires.
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O Quatrilho (1995)
Character: Padre Gentile
The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. While fighting for survival in the new world, the unexpected love of Massimo and Teresa appears. They react against family and cultural traditions and leave to a new destiny, leaving their partners. Quatrilho is the name of a card game in wich the player have to betray his partner in order to become the champion.
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Cinco Vezes Favela (1962)
Character: (segment "Pedreira de São Diogo")
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
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Bela Noite Para Voar (2009)
Character: Mal. Teixeira Lott
A day in the life of Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, in a troubled period of his term, while he maintains a secret love affair.
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Adolfo Celi, un uomo per due culture (2006)
Character: Self
Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews, film clips, testimonials, photos, and extraordinary footage from the Celi family's personal archive, we will revisit the places that shaped his life.
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Os Fuzis (1964)
Character: N/A
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
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Luz Del Fuego (1982)
Character: Comprador
Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.
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