Domingos de Oliveira

Domingos José Soares de Oliveira (September 28, 1936 — March 23, 2019) was a Brazilian actor, playwright, stage director, TV host, poet and filmmaker. After getting a bachelor's degree in Engineering, he got involved in amateur theatre and soon started to get involved with cinema, specially with the Brazilian New Wave (Cinema Novo) movement. He served as assistant director to Joaquim Pedro de Andrade in short films "Manuel Bandeira, o Poeta do Castelo" and "Couro de Gato", and debuted as a film director with 1966's "Todas as Mulheres do Mundo". After that, Oliveira wrote over 20 stage plays, directed 18 films and hosted 3 TV shows, all in which he constantly worked with his partner Priscilla Rozenbaum. For his plays and occasionally self-starred very low-budget films often deal with themes of love and sex in a humorous and intelligent key, he became known as the "Brazilian Woody Allen". During his late years, Oliveira struggled with Parkinson's Disease, but kept working until his passing in March 2019.

Works

Helena

Release Date1987-05-04

Charactersd Brandão

Episode Count162

Vote Count1

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 Date2004-09-10

Charactersd Justo (jovem)

Vote Count25

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 Date1977-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

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 Date2005-08-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Esteves (as Domingos Oliveira)

Vote Count2

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 Date1962-05-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Charactersd Waiter (uncredited)

Vote Count20

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 Date2012-10-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count3

Tarcísio & Glória

Release Date1988-04-28

Charactersd Ronaldo

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

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 Date1993-04-20

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Jonas

Episode Count[ 15 ]

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 Date1998-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Vieira

Vote Count2

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 Date2011-05-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count3

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 Date2004-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count3

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 Date2003-01-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Cabral

Vote Count6

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 Date2008-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Antônio

Vote Count3

Deliciosas Traições do Amor

Erotic comedy in four episodes loosely inspired by the 'Black Book of Love' by Marquês de Sade, whose stories were merged and reassembled with different treatments in each episode.

Release Date1975-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

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 Date2013-11-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Napoleão

Vote Count1

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 Date2020-10-22

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

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 Date1997-01-02

Charactersd Self

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 Date2021-10-28

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Zimba

The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of generations of Brazilian actors. The polyphonic montage builds on vast unpublished material, covering half a century of performances, teletheaters and interviews by Zimba, as he was known – before and after fleeing Poland, on the eve of the invasion of Warsaw – and recreates fragments of Wedding Dress , a play by Nelson Rodrigues which the Polish-Brazilian director won a revolutionary montage in 1943.

Release Date2021-04-14

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count1

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 Date1967-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count10

Domingos

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

Release Date2009-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

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 Date2024-08-15

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

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 Date2008-07-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Consultant

Vote Count82

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 Date2014-07-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

É Simonal

Release Date1970-06-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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 Date2016-11-17

DepartmentSound

JobOriginal Music Composer

Vote Count9

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 Date1979-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Caso Especial

Release Date1971-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

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 Date2017-10-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

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 Date1969-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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 Date2005-08-19

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Vote Count413

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 Date2008-11-21

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count16

Five Times Favela

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

Release Date1962-11-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count9

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 Date2020-04-25

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count12

Vote Count12

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 Date1966-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count18

Amizade Colorida

Release Date1981-04-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count11

22–2000 Cidade Aberta

Release Date1965-04-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count30

Vote Count1

Ciranda, Cirandinha

Release Date1978-04-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Confissões de Mulheres de 50

Release Date2020-10-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

74.5: Uma Onda no Ar

Release Date1994-04-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

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 Date1972-03-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Os Anjos do Sexo

Release Date2011-07-19

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

The Doctor and the Monster

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

Release Date1972-05-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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 Date1968-01-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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 Date1972-07-28

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Vote Count1

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 Date2018-11-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Master of Apipucos

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

Release Date1959-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count9

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 Date2002-01-01

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 Date2013-02-07

Vote Count1

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 Date1976-05-10