Antonio Carlos da Fontoura

A Brazilian film director, screenwriter and producer, Antonio Carlos da Fontoura was born in 1939, in the city of São Paulo. He wrote and directed a number of documentary shorts and feature-length films, including "Copacabana Me Engana" (1968), "A Rainha Diaba" (1974) and "Gatão de Meia Idade" (2006). Fontoura has also had a prolific work in TV, creating and writing soaps "Vidas Opostas" (2006), "Amor e Intrigas" (2007) and miniseries "Chapadão do Bugre" (1988) and "Capitães da Areia" (1989).

Works

Brazilian Portraits: Odete Lara

In this humorous review of her journey in our world, Odete Lara reveals all her authenticity and lucidity in front of the cameras.

Release Date2010-06-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico”

Armando Costa was one of Brazil's most successful authors, both in terms of audience and critical acclaim, responsible for shows like "A Grande Família" and "Malu Mulher." Despite this, he didn't care about fame or signing his works.

Release Date2024-10-03

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Dunas do Barato

A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a generation of artists and sportsmen.

Release Date2017-10-25

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Vote Count2

Loki: Arnaldo Baptista

Loki brings the trajectory of Arnaldo Baptista from childhood, passing through the most successful phase as leader of the Mutantes, marriage to singer Rita Lee and then separation. He also goes through the depression that devastated his life after the group ended and that led him to attempt suicide, his solo career, rapprochement with his brother and member of the Mutantes, Sérgio Dias, culminating in the band's return in 2006.

Release Date2009-06-19

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Vote Count13

Milton Gonçalves, Além do Espetáculo

This biopic documents the life and work of one of Brazil’s most prolific artists: Milton Gonçalves. This actor and director are credited with more than sixty television titles, seventy movies and twenty plays. Known from classic full-length features like Macunaíma, They Don't Wear Black Tie and Kiss of the Spider Woman, his dramatic versatility also encompasses major Brazilian soap operas, including O Bem Amado and Roque Santeiro. With his talent, he overcame barriers faced by many Black performers in Brazil. An active on-screen and on-stage presence since the 1950s, his name is synonymous with the history of Brazilian television, theatre and cinema, making him a landmark talent in the performing arts world.

Release Date2025-11-06

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Memórias do Grupo Opinião

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.

Release Date2019-05-15

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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

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Vote Count1

O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento

Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian press, produced daily for six months, in the 1960s. The newspaper spoke of culture, politics and education through satires and prominent figures in the cultural scene of the time passed through him. Archive scenes and music from the period seek to reconstitute the spirit of the 68-generation. The film has the participation of personalities such as Ziraldo, Zuenir Ventura, Arnaldo Jabor, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Carlos Heitor Cony, Fernando Gabeira, Betty Faria, Hugo Carvana, among others.

Release Date2006-08-19

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Brava Gente

Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.

Release Date2000-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count4

O Circo

The documentary follows a caravan of acrobats through the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, presenting the situation of circuses in Brazil through testimonies from several circus artists.

Release Date1965-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count2

O Cangaceiro

This is a remake of Brazil's first international success in the cinema world. Just as its same name predecessor was, this film is a fictional version of the story of the "cangaceiros." These were bandits who sacked towns and spread terror throughout Northeastern Brazil in the 1930s. This group of outlaws is led by Captain Galdino and his wife Maria Bonita.

Release Date1997-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4

Chorinhos e Chorões

An educational documentary short film on choro, an authentic brazilian musical genre, and its biggest and most influential musicians.

Release Date1974-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

We're So Young

The life of Renato Russo, from his first involvement with music, to his years in the punk rock band Aborto Alétrico, to the formation of Legião Urbana, in the Brasília rock scene of 1970s and 1980s.

Release Date2013-05-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count163

Copacabana Fools Me

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.

Release Date1969-03-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

My Home Is Copacabana

Arne Sucksdorff’s drama follows four homeless children—Jorginho, Rico, Lici, and Paulinho—struggling to survive in the Rio de Janeiro slums. They shine shoes, scavenge food, and pickpocket while dreaming of escape from the streets. When Rico, once escaped from a brutal institution in Caxambu, falls ill, he chooses to return there rather than die outside. A somber portrait of poverty and resilience, the film was selected for the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.

Release Date1965-06-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count7

Mirror of Flesh

A mirror bought in an auction changes the life of an executive and his wife. They become sexually aroused under the influence of the strange object, which belonged to a bordello in the past. Soon the friends who come to pay a visit also become affected by it.

Release Date1984-11-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

Os Mutantes

A mutant prank improvised by Arnaldo Baptista, Sérgio Dias, and Rita Lee. Os Mutantes on a unique day in the streets of São Paulo.

Release Date1970-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Plantão de Polícia

Release Date1979-05-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count65

Cordão de Ouro

Release Date1977-07-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

O Último Homem

Release Date1969-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Tarcísio & Glória

Release Date1988-04-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

Ciranda, Cirandinha

Release Date1978-04-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Ver Ouvir

The expression of the idea through image, listening by way of seing.

Release Date1967-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Arquitetura de Morar

An enchanted journey through three extraordinary houses built by Master José Zanine on the seaside hillside of Joatinga, in Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by a stunning musical score, specially created for the film by maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Release Date1975-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Heitor dos Prazeres

Artist Heitor dos Prazeres talks about his life as a painter and samba musician.

Release Date1965-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Meu Nome é 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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Uma Aventura do Zico

Rich and spoiled kid, frustrated for not being chosen to join the soccer lessons his idol Zico was going to give, asks his father to clone the player. But a small girl smells something fishy going on and asks her friends to help save the Brazilian soccer star.

Release Date1998-06-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7

Brasília, segundo roteiro de Alberto Cavalcanti

It starts in the Indian tabas, goes through colonial architecture and arrives in the Brazilian capital. The film follows a script left by Alberto Cavalcanti, after a trip to Brasilia in 1978.

Release Date1982-12-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

No Meio da Rua

Leonardo, an upper-middle class boy from the south of Rio de Janeiro, befriends Kiko, a boy who lives on the street and who juggles balls at a traffic light. The rich kid decides to lend Kiko his handheld video game – but it is stolen by hill boys. This is just the beginning of a great friendship between the two. They begin a great adventure that takes Leonardo to the favela, where he knows a reality entirely different from his own.

Release Date2006-06-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Wanda Pimentel

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Gatão de Meia Idade

Forty-year-old Cláudio is always looking for a romantic relationship. His routine changes when he has to take care of his 12-year-old daughter: women no longer look at him and the conquest tactics have no effect.

Release Date2006-03-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

The Beggars

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.

Release Date1963-12-21