Antônio Calmon (known_for_department.creator)

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Works

Milagrez

Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.

Release Date2008-01-02

Charactersd Self

Top Model

Maria Eduarda "Duda" Pinheiro is a successful top model. After being hired to model Covery brand clothes, she meets the Kundera brothers, Alex and Gaspar, owners of the company. Gaspar, a former beatnik, is over 40 but still practices surfing, lives in a beach-side house and raises five children: Elvis (named after Elvis Presley), Ringo (Starr), Jane (Fonda), Olívia (Newton-John) and (John) Lennon, all from different mothers who left them with him. Anastácia "Naná" Passos, Duda's friend and mentor, loves him platonically, and rivalizes with Mariza Borges over him. Alex by contrast is a yuppie. He and their mother Morgana have a love-hate relationship and rivalry with his brother over Morgana's attention and the company. Alex begins to love Duda, however she falls in love with Lucas, a graffiti artist who is on the run from the São Paulo police due to his involvement in a crime there. He is also searching for his real father, and thinks it's either Alex or Gaspar.

Release Date1989-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count197

Vote Count13

Cara & Coroa

Fernanda and Vivi are identical, but from different worlds. A cruel plan swaps their identities and transforms their lives into a game of lies and ambition.

Release Date1995-07-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count215

Vote Count7

Vamp

After making a Faustian bargain with a vampire for fame, a regretful young singer must find a sacred, lost artifact that might revert the curse.

Release Date1991-07-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count179

Vote Count11

Corpo Dourado

Farmer Selena is a strong-willed young woman who won't rest until she uncovers a secret kept by her mother Camila: the identity of her father.

Release Date1998-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count191

Vote Count3

Olho no Olho

In Rome, Armando confesses to Father Guido Bellini that he is being hunted by a criminal organization led by a young man with paranormal powers. Some time later, Guido discovers that Armando has died and, feeling guilty for not having tried to prevent the man's murder, decides to leave the priesthood and return to Brazil. In the city of São Paulo, Guido dedicates himself to the study of paranormal phenomena in order to combat the organization led by César Zapata and his son Fred, the powerful young man to whom Armando referred. To confront the Zapatas, Guido relies on the help of Alef, also a paranormal young man who does not yet have full control of his powers. Alongside his fight against the criminal organization, Guido has a romance with Débora, Alef's mother. His main opponent, César, also likes Débora and does everything to separate her from Guido. He wages a veritable war against the former priest, using Fred's evil powers.

Release Date1993-09-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count185

Vote Count3

The Vampire's Kiss

Set in the fictional city of Maramores, the plot centers on the character of Lívia, whose destiny begins to be shaped in the 12th century when the vampire Boris falls madly in love with her and decides to win her over at any cost, regardless of time or place. In medieval times, Lívia is Princess Cecília, Beto is Count Rogério, and Boris is Duke Boris. The present-day story begins with the introduction of Lívia's story, her husband Beto, and their children, Zeca, Tetê, and Juninho. The family's happiness will be destroyed, just as in Lívia and Beto's past lives (Princess Cecília and Count Rogério), by the reappearance of the vampire Boris. He wants to reclaim Zeca, who is not actually Lívia and Beto's son, but his son with a mistress. As soon as he was born, while still in the maternity ward, Boris placed Zeca in the place of Lívia's true son.

Release Date2002-08-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count215

Vote Count14

The Three Sisters

In the coastal city of Caramirim, the three surfing sisters from the Jequitibá family fight for environmental protection in the region. But Violeta wants to build a hotel complex on the site.

Release Date2008-09-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count179

Vote Count6

Começar de Novo

Children of arch-enemy families in the city of Ouro Negro and separated as teenagers, Miguel and Letícia meet again 30 years later, without knowing who the other is.

Release Date2004-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count196

Vote Count3

Um Anjo Caiu do Céu

João Medeiros is an internationally renowned photographer who suffers an attack in Prague, when he happens to photograph a Nazi leader who was in the middle of secret plans. In his last moments on Earth, his life is saved by the angel Rafael, sent by the highest heavenly bodies to offer him a new chance. The angel warns the photographer that he will only have six months to live to solve his problems with his family, neglected since he abandoned everything for the profession - including solving his situation with ex-wife Naná, who now lives with the profiteer Tarsus, and get along with his two daughters. Virginia has become a renowned stylist, but blames her father for the leg problem caused by an accident she suffered as a teenager and ended her ballet career. Duda, on the other hand, developed obsessive-compulsive disorder after her son Kiko disappeared years before, putting her marriage to Maurício in a long crisis.

Release Date2001-01-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count185

Vote Count5

Mulher

The whole story develops from the doctor Martha, who has worked for 40 years, always at the same clinic in Rio de Janeiro. She knows Cris and realizes that she has found a successor. Then begins the friendship of the two, who try to practice their profession with the utmost ethics, despite the owner of the clinic, who is always trying to say, save.

Release Date1998-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count62

Vote Count2

Sex Appeal

It tells the story of young people who dream of a modeling career and the rise of their lives. It all starts when the Sex Appeal agency, led by Edgar and Cecilia, runs a contest that will award the winner two hundred thousand dollars and the possibility of living abroad. The main competitors are Angel, Vilma, Eva and Claudinha. They will do anything to earn, even things they would never imagine doing.

Release Date1993-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count19

Vote Count6

A Justiceira

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.

Release Date1997-04-09

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

A, E, I, O... Urca

Release Date1990-06-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count13

Vote Count3

Armação Ilimitada

Release Date1985-05-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count8

Tarcísio & Glória

Release Date1988-04-28

DepartmentArt

JobCreative Director

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Na Forma da Lei

Release Date2010-06-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count2

Entranced Earth

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.

Release Date1967-05-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count124

Antonio das Mortes

A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.

Release Date1969-06-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count91

The Adventures of a Paraíba

Young guy from the poor Northeast region of Brazil comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. Naturally, he is faced with many adversities along the way.

Release Date1982-02-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4

Nos Embalos de Ipanema

Toquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together with his widow mother and a younger sister. Although he is poor, he is also ambitious, and wants to change his life. He spends all his time on the beach, at Arpoador, Ipanema, where he dreams to become a famous surfer. Besides, he usually finds Patricia there, a rich and liberated young woman, whom he likes a lot. To impress Patricia and satisfy some of her wishes, he lets himself be seduced by André, a gay guy who, in return for his sexual favors, promises him a trip to Hawaii for a surf championship.

Release Date1978-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Happily Ever After

Fernanda is content with her life until she meets Miguel, a drug addict, bisexual male prostitute. She becomes captivated by him and leaves her family behind in favor of a new life filled with sex and debauchery.

Release Date1985-05-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

Tieta of Agreste

After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.

Release Date1996-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count28

Dedé Mamata

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.

Release Date1988-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

The Quartet

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.

Release Date1995-10-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count48

The Big City

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, later, the company of Inácio.

Release Date1966-05-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count7

Face to Face

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations.

Release Date1967-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count12

I Killed Lucio Flavio

In the early seventies in Rio de Janeiro, detective Mariel Moryscötte de Mattos belonged to a special police force called "The Golden Men". This powerful group of the elite of the police was created with the intention of eliminate crime from Rio de Janeiro, and they had privileges above law to expedite their action against the outlaws. However, absolute power in wrong hands corrupts, and this group formed the "Death Squad", executing criminals without the conventional trial from the justice.

Release Date1979-03-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

The Devil Queen

Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can trust her subjects, however fabulous? When she sets up a stoolie to take the fall for her boy, a plot against Her Majesty arises!

Release Date1974-05-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count17

Garota Dourada

In a beautiful coastal retreat, a seductive young woman ignites a rivalry between two surfers vying for her affection. One of them is trying to move on from a past love, but when she unexpectedly reappears, he finds himself torn.

Release Date1984-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil

Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.

Release Date1971-06-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Paranóia

Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.

Release Date1976-09-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Torturer

Zionists hire a hitman to kill a Nazi war criminal exiled in a Latin American country, where he's being protected by the local dictator. Get ready for gunshots; sex scenes; strange form of tortures; a cocaine-addict priest who helps the dictatorship; contemptous remarks and behavior from the main "hero"; amusing sequences of Chuchu having fun with beautiful women pretending to be James Bond; and the wimp colonel who is in love with a male prostitute. It's all good and fun to watch but remember that this is a product of its era, so it's quite possible to see some objectionable things. But for the most part it's never crass or insanely offensive.

Release Date1980-05-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

Horror and Ecstasy

Girl and her boyfriend are kidnapped. She develops a strange attraction to her kidnapper and the two get involved.

Release Date1979-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Menino do Rio

Romantic adventures of a group of Rio de Janeiro teenagers and surfers.

Release Date1982-12-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

My Name is Gal

Gal Costa in her privacy. Unkempt hair, colorful clothes, many necklaces and rings, she and the streets of downtown Rio. She laughs a lot, gestures and sings. Rio's landscapes such as Lage Park, a quiet place in the neighborhood of Gávea, an active factory.

Release Date1970-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Innocence

In the 19th century, a country girl is seduced by a young doctor who's staying at her house for a few days, caring for her, and tries to hide the forbidden romance from her father, who disapproves of the relationship.

Release Date1983-09-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

Better Days Ahead

Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star.

Release Date1989-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count16

A Mulher Sensual

Famous soap opera actress finds out her sexuality after breaking up with her former boyfriend, an important TV executive.

Release Date1981-12-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Pedro Diabo Loves Rosa Meia Noite

Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls.

Release Date1969-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1

Gordos e Magros

After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He is drunk and end up having a fight and leaving home.

Release Date1976-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Brave Warrior

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.

Release Date1968-11-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count6

The Rich Are Something Else

Tadeu, a poor lad from the Northeast of Brazil, comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. His good looks and education win him the favor of rich people. In his spare time, he becomes the favorite among lonely and rich ladies. Soon he gets involved in trouble.

Release Date1977-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

O Bom Marido

An industrial couple spends more than they can afford. In financial trouble, the husband Afraninho devises a strange kind of business, for foreign executives, in which the product is his own wife Malu. They succeed, and soon other couples start doing the same thing, establishing the competition.

Release Date1978-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Pindorama

This Brazilian film is set during the period of its initial colonial discovery and settlement. The title refers to a word the native peoples used for the coastal lands: "pindorama," or "place of the small trees." A ponderous and grandiose film, it was roundly booed when it was aired at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.

Release Date1970-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2