Neville D'Almeida
Also Known As: Neville de Almeida, Neville Duarte D'Almeida, Neville D'Almeida, Neville Duarte, Neville Duarte de D'Almeida
Biography: A Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, photographer and multimedia artist, involved with contemporary art, installations, art objects and performances, Neville Duarte Almeida was born in 1941 in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. Raised by a Methodist Christian family, he studied theater at the Scholastic Theatre of Minas Gerais and participated at the local Center of Film Studies, where he started to work as an filmmaker. Some of his transgressive, avant-garde films were censored or banned by the Brazilian military dictatorship, after which he went on to directing films aimed to a more commercial approach. His 1978 film "Lady on the Bus", starring Sônia Braga, was a box-office champíon and still holds its place as the the third highest-grossing Brazilian film of all time.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Birthday: May 15, 1941
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Male
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BLABLABLÁ
Overview: The tensions experienced by three different people during the military dictatorship in Brazil: a politician, a revolutionary and a common citizen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Luz-Lux-Lúcia
Overview: A documentary short on Glauber Rocha's mother Lúcia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-06-01
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New York, 70s
Overview: Experimental short film, shot in Super 8.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Moon Over Parador
Overview: Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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The Angel Was Born
Overview: Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-02-12
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Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Overview: 23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude
Overview: A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato. Such as the magazine "Navilouca", the film "Terror da Vermelha", the column "Geleia Geral" and the controversial Cinema Novo X Marginal, among other passages important aspects of Brazilian culture in the 60s and 70s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-12-16
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Areias Escaldantes
Overview: In the near future, in the country of Kali, a group of young terrorists carry out robberies, kidnappings and murders under the orders of a mysterious big boss known as "Entity" and are pursued by the pompous and inefficient Special Police.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-10-17
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-17
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Guará, Ladrão de Estrelas
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-07-12
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Dunas do Barato
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-25
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Hunger for Love
Overview: An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-10-15
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Milagrez
Overview: Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-02
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Pitanga
Overview: This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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No Way, Spider
Overview: Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on the mental underdevelopment of Brazilian elites, in which black humor sets the tone for sharp criticism.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-04-09
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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
Overview: This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-04
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Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
Overview: In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.
Genres: Drama Comedy Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-10
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The Red Light Bandit
Overview: Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-12-02
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Noite
Overview: Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of police officers about the barbaric murder of a socialite. Without recognizing himself in the documents he carries in his pocket, he wanders through the underworlds of the city in search of an answer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-07-19
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Razor in the Flesh
Overview: The story of three characters in a brothel room: the prostitute Neusa Sueli, the gigolo Vado and the homosexual Veludo speak of their lives and expose their marginality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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Horror Palace Hotel
Overview: An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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A Miss e o Dinossauro
Overview: A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-05-10
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A Marca do Terrir
Overview: Compilation of early Ivan Cardoso's films in Super 8, including "Nosferato no Brasil (Nosferato in Brazil)"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-07-11
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Os Espetaculares
Overview: An egotistical stand-up comedian fights with a spectator and gets fired. To be able to pay his son's pension, he decides to participate in a comedy group contest. Now he will need to work harmoniously with the rest of the team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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Redemption
Overview: A young woman travels to solve a matter of life or death. As she seeks to do what she needs, the city exposes itself with its curious characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-29
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Ecos de Cannes
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-10-14
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Garden of War
Overview: Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-05-13
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Cosmococa
Overview: In 1973, exiles from Brazil during the military dictatorship, artist Hélio Oiticica and filmmaker Neville D’Almeida lock themselves in an apartment in Manhattan and fantasize a series of iconic sensory installations called quasi-cinema - experience blocks in Cosmococas. The work features slide projections on the walls of the rooms, showing drawing sessions carried out by the artists, using cocaine for doodling and a pocket knife as a brush.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Plínio Marcos — Nas Quebradas do Mundaréu
Overview: The theatrologist, actor, director and overall polemist Plínio Marcos gets his life traced through images of the many spectacles he has put on interviews from various moments in his life, from the most rebellious and marginal, when he lacked resources for his art, to when he was invited to go to Paris and talk about his work
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Mangúe-Bangúe
Overview: The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a runaway stockbroker, "Mangue-Bangue" is the paradigmatic expression of the post-1968 spirit of desbunde, the Brazilian slang catchword for "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Tiro Certo
Overview: The film brings the story of Benito Terranova, a sniper on the edge of the psychological abyss who faces organized crime to do justice.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-07-24
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Sermões
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-05-24
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Ivan, the TerrirBle
Overview: Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a rescue of his work by mixing archival material, animations and fictional reconstructions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-01
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Dib
Overview: Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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