Jurandir de Oliveira
Actor · Catingueira, Paraíba, Brazil
Movies17
Movie5.3AdventureA couple is charged with murdering a friend after discovering a fraud scheme at a data-processing center. They hide in a van, where they set up a clandestine station, so they start to report the fact, seeking to mobilize public opinion until it becomes a national scandal.
Rádio Pirata
1987 · 10 votes
Movie5.0DramaRomanceAmerican couple move to the State of Ceará, Brazil, in the 1930s. The husband is looking for oil. His beautiful wife, Donna, soon falls in love with a rude but charming fisherman. The forbidden romance may destroy her marriage and upset the morals of the small village where they live.
Bela Donna
1998 · 28 votes
Movie5.0CrimeMysteryIvan 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.
Bufo & Spallanzani
2001 · 11 votes
Movie6.4ComedyFantasyThe publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.
Movie7.2CrimeHistoryBiography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.
Movie5.4DramaCrimePolice investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he looks for a serial killer, he also searches for his estranged daughter, Sandra, whom he kicked out of the house. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho, befriends Sandra, now an exotic dancer and prostitute living and working in the seamy underside of late 1970s Rio.
Amor Bandido
1979 · 11 votes
Movie6.5DramaO Quinze
2004 · 4 votes
Movie5.2DramaLittle Indian boy survives his tribe massacre, growing up together with his wish for revenge and his quest for his own identity. Based on a true story.
Movie10.0DramaA Árvore de Marcação
1994 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaMusicMilionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.
Sonhei com Você
1988 · 1 votes
Movie6.9WarHistoryAt the end of the 19th century, a poor family comes to the rural Canudos, a community led by Antônio Conselheiro, seen by many as a holy prophet. Their ways bother the powerful people of the region, and the newly founded Republic sends their army to destroy the settlement, which culminates in one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Brazil.
Movie6.2DocumentaryMemories of a parrot who participated in the filming of the classic Vidas Secas, in 1962, where it was featured along the puppy Baleia.
Movie5.6ComedyWriter Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.
Movie5.3DramaCrimeA senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power structure resents this disturbance and can fall apart, specially since there's a witness.
Águia na Cabeça
1984 · 6 votes
Movie6.1DramaHistoryThe real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.
Lamarca
1994 · 12 votes
Movie9.0ActionAfter a robbery, a thief, a worker and a street boy have their ways crossed.
Rota de Colisão
1999 · 1 votes
Movie5.4DramaCrimeThree stories set on Brazil countryside. In Foice, a weeder becomes head of his group and awakes the envy of his best friend. In Veneno, a cowboy cannot sleep, waiting for the revenge from a enemy of the past. And in Machado, a quiet and rude rose maker decides to end his wife's joy of living.