Domingos de Oliveira

Clarice Niskier: Teatro dos Pés à Cabeça

The documentary is a tribute to Theater based on the trajectory of Clarice Niskier who made her job her own lifestyle. As a central axis, interviews with the three directors with whom Clarice developed long partnerships: Domingos Oliveira, Eduardo Wotzik and Amir Haddad. Through an intimate and sensitive look, the film reveals her passion for the craft, her life experience, her poetic worldview, her spiritual and intellectual search, pains, joys, losses and gains. Clarice makes the black box the more than perfect symbol of her own Universe: the Theater.

Release Date:2024-08-15

Character:Self (archive footage)

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar

Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.

Release Date:2021-10-28

Character:Self

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Release Date:2020-10-22

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Confissões de Mulheres de 50

Release Date:2020-10-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

All the Women in the World

In this contemporary romantic comedy about love in all its forms, All the Women in the World tells the story of Paulo, a bohemian dreamer that lives his relationships intensively, falling deeply for all the women he meets. Never able to forget Maria Alice, his greatest love, he counts on the advice of his two best friends to face the emotions of his accomplishments and breakups.

Release Date:2020-04-25

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:10

Aconteceu na Quarta-Feira

A couple of famous actors have a terrible marriage. Their feelings are so divided that one day one of them leaves, and yet someone just like him seems to have taken his place.

Release Date:2018-11-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Magnificent 8

On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du Moscovis have lunch at one of their houses. The occasion gives way to an incredibly sincere debate on the art of acting, the profession and, above all, the doubts about love and life.

Release Date:2017-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:5

BR 716

In 1960s Rio de Janeiro, aspiring writer Felipe leads a life of wild parties held in an apartment in famous street Barata Ribeiro in Copacabana. There he and his friends enjoy freedom even in the midst of a complicated political moment.

Release Date:2016-11-17

Department:Sound

Job:Original Music Composer

Vote Count:9

Childhood

The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behavior.

Release Date:2014-07-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Vote Count:3

Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer

On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their crisis and limitations, and search for a meaning for their lives.

Release Date:2013-11-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Napoleão

Vote Count:1

Cine Paissandu: Histórias de uma Geração

Documentary about the cinema that formed the Paissandu Generation, in the 60s, and the cultural and social impact of that period for the country's history.

Release Date:2013-02-07

Vote Count:1

Paixão e Acaso

The psychoanalyst Inês intends not to be lovingly involved with anyone else. However, she ends up falling in love with two men at the same time, unaware that they are father and son.

Release Date:2012-10-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:3

Os Anjos do Sexo

Release Date:2011-07-19

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais

Divided in five segments, "Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais" follows the story of different couples, each having various problems in bed.

Release Date:2011-05-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:3

Domingos

A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.

Release Date:2009-01-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

A Mulher do Meu Amigo

Thales, a successful businessman, is in crisis with his profession. He is married to the rich and spoiled Renata, and works with her father, the powerful businessman Augusto. One day, while on vacations at the home of his friends Rui and Pamela, Thales decides that will stop working. This unusual decision affects the lives of everyone around him.

Release Date:2008-11-21

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:11

Juventude

David, a man in his twillight years, lives all by himself and decides to invite two childhood friends for a day at his house in Petrópolis, where they spend hours talking about the past.

Release Date:2008-11-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Antônio

Vote Count:2

Once Upon a Time in Rio

Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How...

Release Date:2008-07-25

Department:Writing

Job:Script Consultant

Vote Count:80

Two Sons of Francisco

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.

Release Date:2005-08-19

Department:Crew

Job:Script

Vote Count:399

Carreiras

Ana Laura is a 40 year-old, good looking and well-informed TV News Anchor who's also a cocaine addict. Facing her career decline as the channel she works in starts to give more space to younger professionals, she faces a night of unusual events as she dives further into drug abuse.

Release Date:2005-08-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Esteves (as Domingos Oliveira)

Vote Count:1

Redeemer

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.

Release Date:2004-09-10

Character:Justo (jovem)

Vote Count:24

Feminices

Four actresses in their mid-forties get together in the afternoon to write a play about their own experiences. But the director isn't satisfied with the outcome.

Release Date:2004-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:3

Separações

Cabral is a 60 year old playwright who's married to Glorinha, an actress who's 20 years younger than him. They've been together for half of her live, and now they're getting bored...

Release Date:2003-01-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Cabral

Vote Count:6

Suspiros Republicanos ao Crepúsculo de um Império Tropical

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.

Release Date:2002-01-01

Amores

In Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of mostly middle-aged friends share their lives and experiences with each other.

Release Date:1998-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Vieira

Vote Count:1

Dib

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.

Release Date:1997-01-02

Character:Self

Contos de Verão

Cabral is a writer who decides to spend his summer writing a series about love stories. It is then that he begins to look back over his life and his works. He is married to Glorinha, a woman twenty years younger than him, with whom he has a daughter, the young Samanta. Glorinha dreams of having a second child, but Cabral rejects the woman's desire, creating a stalemate between the two.

Release Date:1993-04-20

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Helena

Release Date:1987-05-04

Character:Brandão

Episode Count:162

Amizade Colorida

Release Date:1981-04-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:11

Teu Tua

A comedy divided in four episodes, set in different time periods, each starring a different couple, yet all facing the same issue: marital jealousy.

Release Date:1979-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Ciranda, Cirandinha

Release Date:1978-04-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:7

Vida, Vida

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.

Release Date:1977-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Os Demónios da Liberdade

At the heart of an upper-middle class family resides a bizarre love triangle. Two men, one woman. An essay on the various possibilities and rituals of recent freedom, Os Demónios da Liberdade is also a manifest of sexual freedom. But the demons are still around.

Release Date:1976-05-10

Deliciosas Traições do Amor

Release Date:1975-10-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Dybbuk: The Demon

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.

Release Date:1972-07-28

Department:Crew

Job:Script

Vote Count:1

The Doctor and the Monster

Portuguese television version of the jekyll and hyde story from 1972.

Release Date:1972-05-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

A Culpa

Heitor and Matilde are two siblings who decide to murder their rich father in order to quickly inherit his wealth. They get the killing done, aided by Matilde's boyfriend Henrique, but after a while the three of them begin to recieve mysterious notes which suggest that their secret is in danger.

Release Date:1972-03-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

É Simonal

Release Date:1970-06-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

As Duas Faces da Moeda

A long time public servant is told by an angel that he will die at midnight of the following day.

Release Date:1969-05-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Edu, Coração de Ouro

A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had managed to make him fall in love, until he met with mysterious Tatiana.

Release Date:1968-01-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.

Release Date:1967-01-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:10

All the Women in the World

When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to go on with his old life, or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man.

Release Date:1966-02-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:16

22–2000 Cidade Aberta

Release Date:1965-04-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:30

Vote Count:1

Cat Skin

A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.

Release Date:1962-05-07

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Character:Waiter (uncredited)

Vote Count:18

Cinco Vezes Favela

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

Release Date:1962-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:9

The Master of Apipucos

Documentary about influential Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, made in his country house in Apipucos, Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil).

Release Date:1959-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:8