Jean-Claude Bernardet
Actor · 1936 – 2025 · Charleroi, Belgium
Jean-Claude Bernardet OMC (Charleroi, August 2, 1936 – São Paulo, July 12, 2025) was a Belgian film theorist, film critic, filmmaker, actor, screenwriter and writer, naturalized Brazilian.
Movies16
- MovieDrama
Espectador
1990
- Movie2.2Drama
Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship between the two deteriorates until one day, mysteriously, a periscope appears in the room.
Periscópio
2015 · 4 votes
- Movie4.0
From the murder of his father by his uncle, Hamlet is forced to confront its own contradictions and the world around him. In a deconstruction of itself, Hamlet delves into the eternal question of the meaning of existence. Set in a large metropolis, Hamlet is a free adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy.
Hamlet
2015 · 3 votes
MovieDocumentary
MovieDocumentaryThis documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular artists. As a bonus, it shows parts of Mazzaropi's last appearance on TV, on Hebe Camargo Show.
- MovieDocumentary
The crossing of generations under the influence of military dictatorship and political openness. Documentary highlights the role of the organizers of the March for the Family with God for Freedom in 1964. Based on stories of life under the military dictatorship, stories and reflections of people who had a significant participation in that period, whether for or against the coup.
Travessia
2009
MovieAn old man stuck in a wheelchair has a red ball for only distraction. He throws it harder and harder, higher and higher, until it finally slips from his hand, hitting the floor and unleashing the hell…
Compêndio
2014
Movie5.0DocumentaryIn 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.
Movie1.0Drama
Movie8.2DocumentaryPerson is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.
Person
2007 · 6 votes
Movie5.8DramaJean feels trapped in the logic of longevity that the pharmaceutical industry imposes on him and decides to plan a conscious suicide. He invites Helena to commit suicide to two. She, on the other hand, hesitates, knows that she will live well even if she needs to live alone, but she helps him in his intentions. The silence between them does not reveal distance, but intimacy. These are years of shared affection. Together, they will prepare all the details for the funeral. He dances death while she continues rehearsing life. In the process, the two realize that before the end, there is still a lifetime.
Antes do Fim
2018 · 2 votes
Movie1.0HorrorDramaNosferatu arrives in a town escaping from Van Helsing. He brings not only his curse, but ghosts from his past. In this escape, he dives into a macabre dance searching for an actress and faces the horror of eternity and the pain of an endless existence.
Nosferatu
2025 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryTV MovieOn the day of her mother's wake, filmmaker Tata Amaral's uncle tells her a surprising story: in his youth, her father, Joaquim, had been a wealthy man but ran into an unexplained problem and was forced to flee to Mato Grosso. The filmmaker sets out to explore this past—spanning the 1940s and 1950s—and uncovers a family secret. Beyond the technical revelations of the criminal case, there is a journey of emotional self-discovery that begins at her mother's wake and concludes at her father's grave. Through her camera, she seeks to clear Joaquim's name.
O Rei do Carimã
2009
Movie9.0DocumentaryAn intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?
#eagoraoque
2020 · 1 votes
Movie6.0AnimationDocumentaryA 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.
Movie3.8DocumentaryHorrorThe making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias in order to film the fear on their faces.
FilmeFobia
2008 · 8 votes