Also Known As: Jandir Ferreira
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil
Birthday: July 27, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Overview: Fiction/documentary about great Brazilian singer Nelson Gonçalves, where interviews about him are mixed with dramatization of episodes in his life. The film tell us about Nelson's childhood, the time when he tried his luck as a professional boxer, his career as a radio singer in the 1950s, the decadence caused by his cocaine addiction and his comeback.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-09
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Overview: 50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-07-07
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Overview: Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Overview: DOLORES tells the story of a young woman of Scottish descent who returns to the Argentine pampas after her sister dies, to take care of her eight-year-old nephew- but drawn also by the juvenile love she still feels for her English brother-in-law, Jack. Her love story develops in the context of the onset of World War II: while the echoes of war get ever closer, the dispute between Germans and Anglos turns personal when Dolores is seduced by a neighbouring landowner of German descent, Octavio Brandt- he becomes an unexpected love, and from now on Dolores is torn between Octavio and Jack, as Argentina changes for ever. In a society dominated by men, Dolores must now also forge her unique destiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-08-18
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Overview: After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those two women apparently share no connection, until their lives start to interfere in one another, strangely linked through the sea. Hannah, the writer, plunges into a journey of self-discovery in Japan, while Ana, the swimmer in Rio de Janeiro, oddly has her body transformed into some kind of inner Ocean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Overview: The singer Dalva de Oliveira and the composer Herivelto Martins lived intensely on the stage and in life. The 13 years of marriage and the disagreements, which gained emphasis with the separation, contributed to an important artistic and cultural production.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-15
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Overview: The documentary reveals the creative process of theater director Amir Haddad and his group, Tá Na Rua, showing how the culture of Rio de Janeiro and collective work mix in the company's rehearsals and shows.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-13
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