Antônio Abujamra, OMC (Ourinhos, September 15, 1932 – São Paulo, April 28, 2015) was an award-winning theater and television director, actor and Brazilian presenter, being one of the first to introduce the theatrical methods of Bertolt Brecht and Roger Planchon on Brazilian stages. He was known for his irreverence, his performances and his acidic and critical humor in relation to social taboos.
Release Date: 2024-06-18
Character: Abu (voice)
William is a middle-aged writer who lives alone in a small, untidy house and can't settle down doing what he loves. Confused and distressed, he flirts with death. With the rope around his neck, about to jump off a chair, the man looks around at his house and sees little “magical” objects that remind him of his past and passions, thus making a decision.
Release Date: 2022-11-26
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Release Date: 2021-04-10
Character: Self
Vote Count: 1
Release Date: 2019-05-14
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 2
From his origins as a poet to his success as a singer and composer, Arnaldo Antunes revisits the most remarkable moments of his career.
Release Date: 2018-10-19
Character: Self
Vote Count: 4
A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
Release Date: 2018-08-17
Character: Self (archive footage)
Vote Count: 6
A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil.
Release Date: 2017-10-10
Character: Self (archive footage)
Develops from the life, work and memory of Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, one of the most important names in the history of Brazilian theater, to examine the courses of dramaturgy and politics in the last decades. Guarnieri, besides being a TV star, was also seen as the synthesis of the politically engaged artist in Brazil. His sons, also actors, saw a separation between art, work, and politics. As he investigates the portraits of two generations, grandson and director Francisco aims to understand the place of his own generation in history, in art and the world as a whole.
Release Date: 2017-01-28
Character: Self (archive footage)
Vote Count: 3
Release Date: 2012-12-25
Character: Al corcova
Vote Count: 1
A deep dive into the life and work of Brazilian actress Maria Alice Vergueiro. The documentary explores her turbulent beginning in the theatrical world, highlighting her strength and courage during the Military dictatorship in Brazil, which culminated in the foundation of the Teatro do Ornitorrinco.
Release Date: 2012-06-21
Character: Self
Corações Feridos is a Brazilian telenovela that aired on SBT from January 16 to May 23, 2012. It is a remake of the Mexican telenovela La Mentira written and adapted by Íris Abravanel, based on the original by Caridad Bravo Adams and directed by Del Rangel.
Release Date: 2012-01-16
Character: Dante
Episode Count: 93
Vote Count: 1
"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.
Release Date: 2011-07-22
Character: Moacir
Vote Count: 139
This film documents in depth the life and artistic trajectory of the musician and poet Itamar Assumpção. He was one of the pillars of a moment of Brazilian popular music that was conventionally called "Vanguarda Paulista". Starting from extensive research which resulted in more than 250h of images and a dive into the personal universe of this incredible artist, Itamar comes up with a poetic, intuitive plot where facts and testimonies speak louder than preconceived ideas.
Release Date: 2011-07-05
Character: Self (archive footage)
In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from their deceased aunt. When Max, a restaurant musician, moves to the next door apartment, Baby has a crush on him and sees a chance to have a life again. Soon they start having a love affair, and Baby decides to quit smoking. However, her abstinence will be tough to deal with, when she notices Max still misses his ex-wife.
Release Date: 2009-12-04
Character: Pepe
Vote Count: 31
Raimundo, film producer, asks financial aid to his friend and producer J.C. to evaluate his own project. J.C. conditions his support to a change in Raimundo's style. Raimundo will have to make a movie aimed to the general audience and following the old producer's book: violence, sex, non-actors and slum. Raimundo does what he says, but an unexpected fact threatens the film's conclusion.
Release Date: 2009-08-21
Character: JC
The first scenes of the telenovela Another Power were recorded at Palermo and Tonnara di Scopello two cities in Italy. One of the most impressive scenes was the terrible explosion of a car where were Tony Castellamare’s wife and their twin daughters; after he arrive at the crime scene, he testified the explosion causing the death of his family.
Release Date: 2009-04-14
Character: Marco Iago
Episode Count: 243
Vote Count: 3
A middle-aged, wealthy man who lives in an upscale neighborhood in São Paulo, goes to put on his shoes and finds that his foot is no longer the same – it has changed for the worse. This gesture is the trigger for a reflection on life, the passage of time and the difficulty in understanding the present day.
Release Date: 2009-01-01
In the midst of a disguised civil war, a cowboy and an executive settle the accounts of Brazilian social apartheid. Taking kidnapping as a starting point, the panorama of urban violence is outlined in a very good mood, in a kind of scintific fiction about the third world.
Release Date: 2007-07-25
In a monologue, a man explains his thoughts on the exploitation of Brazil's native people's resources.
Release Date: 2006-01-01
In a monologue, a man expresses his distaste for the artistic community.
Release Date: 2006-01-01
In a monologue, a man expresses his views over the international selling of the Amazon rainforest.
Release Date: 2006-01-01
In the 19th century, rich farmer with a passion for music dreams of having an orchestra. He hires a conductor, to help him organize the musicians. But the man falls in love with his daughter.
Release Date: 2005-11-11
Character: Major Eleutério Fontes
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
Release Date: 2005-05-20
Character: Manoel Fernandes
Vote Count: 20
Começar de Novo is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Rede Globo and displayed in its traditional schedule of 19 hours between 30 August 2004 and April 16, 2005. Presented Natália do Vale, Marcos Paulo, Eva Wilma, Werner Schünemann, Carlos Vereza, Giselle Itié, Vladimir Brichta, Carolina Ferraz and Marília Pêra in the lead roles.
Release Date: 2004-08-30
Character: Dmitri Nicolaievitch
Episode Count: 196
Vote Count: 2
Release Date: 2003-01-02
Character: Narrador
Release Date: 2002-12-23
Character: Narrador
Vote Count: 1
Fred is a blind boy who lives alone with his mother. Out of his dull routine, in which nothing ever changes, he speculates continually about the color of things and claims to prefer the color white, which represents for him everything that is unattainable.
Release Date: 2001-01-01
Character: Narrator
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil.
Release Date: 2000-04-21
Character: Diretor do Teatro Municipal
Vote Count: 14
Release Date: 1999-03-22
Character: Álvaro Luiz Gomes
Episode Count: 197
Vote Count: 8
A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.
Release Date: 1998-08-01
Character: Padre Otero
Vote Count: 3
Release Date: 1997-04-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Sebastião
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Release Date: 1997-01-01
Character: Self
The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, he got involved with crime.
Release Date: 1996-11-01
Character: Advogado
Vote Count: 11
A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is assigned to investigate the murder together with fetishist photographer Oscar. Without any lead, they decide to follow a sexy and popular night-club dancer on the streets of São Paulo, trying to identify possible suspects.
Release Date: 1996-08-01
Character: Dr. Arthur
Vote Count: 2
Release Date: 1995-12-20
Episode Count: 1
The Spanish Infanta Carlota Joaquina is promised to D. João VI at the age of 10. Forced to leave for Portugal, Carlota suffers a great disappointment when she meets her promised prince. With the death of D. José, Carlota Joaquina and D. João VI inherit the Portuguese crown. However, frightened by the French Revolution and the approach of Napoleon's army, they decide to flee to their colony: Brazil.
Release Date: 1995-01-06
Character: Conde de Mata-Porcos
Vote Count: 37
Release Date: 1993-03-29
Character: Nero Horácio Koll
Episode Count: 137
Vote Count: 1
Release Date: 1993-03-15
Episode Count: 1
In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing provisions and some are sacrificing themselves to avoid starvation, a diver goes to the bottom of the sea and finds a submerged civilization there.
Release Date: 1993-01-02
Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
Release Date: 1992-02-21
Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer player who has his career spoiled by a unscrupulous gambler
Release Date: 1992-02-21
Character: Moscosão
Vote Count: 1
A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28.
Release Date: 1992-01-01
Character: Self
At a poker table, five players discuss the possibility of having, in the Olympic Games, instead of the bow and arrow, the game of poker as an official modality.
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Release Date: 1989-10-23
Character: Arnon
Episode Count: 168
Vote Count: 1
A harmonicist, a pool player, and his old assistant get invited as entertainers at a fancy dinner party but have to wait in the lobby for what seems like forever. They witness all sorts of absurdities as the party goes on and guests loosen up.
Release Date: 1989-06-29
Character: Velho
Vote Count: 5
Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.
Release Date: 1989-05-24
Vote Count: 7
Release Date: 1989-02-13
Character: Mestre Ravengar
Episode Count: 185
Vote Count: 9
Release Date: 1988-12-28
Vote Count: 1
Release Date: 1985-07-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Release Date: 1982-04-05
Department: Production
Job: Supervising Producer
Episode Count: 125
Release Date: 1981-04-27
Department: Production
Job: Supervising Producer
Episode Count: 475
Vote Count: 1
Release Date: 1979-05-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 140
Release Date: 1978-09-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 156
Vote Count: 7
Release Date: 1975-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
MUSIKA is a small experiment about cinema, sound and the city. Freely inspired by the character Lulu from expressionist theatre
Release Date: 1981-04-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 23
Release Date: 1980-01-28
Department: Directing
Job: Co-Director
Episode Count: 174
Release Date: 1970-05-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 106
After a fall, intelligent young Plácido becomes a little slow. As an adult he works at a bank and his keen intelligence returns when he drinks the soft drink "Super Plá". Other side stories include the love relationship between Baby Stompanato and Joana Martini, and the life of Majô Prado, a neurotic millionairess and prominent personality living in São Paulo.
Release Date: 1969-12-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 144
Vote Count: 7
Second Brazilian TV show hosted by Coffin Joe. Produced by TV Tupi and directed by Antônio Abujamra, this TV show has a better production quality than the "Além, Muito além do Além" (1967-68) and a more dreamlike and surreal tone, but unfortunately not the same audience, which expect something more realist like the previous TV show. A lot of stories from this TV show was used later on the Coffin Joe's Horror Comic Books.
Release Date: 1968-07-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 20
Release Date: 1968-01-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 105