
Rubens de Falco
Actor · 1931 – 2008 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Rubens de Falco (October 19, 1931 — February 22, 2008) was a distinguished Brazilian actor celebrated for his commanding presence and memorable portrayals of antagonists. He began his artistic journey in theater, joining the São Paulo-based group Os Jograis in 1955 alongside Ruy Afonso, Ítalo Rossi, and Felipe Wagner. His film debut came earlier, in 1952, with a small role in Apassionata, produced by the legendary Vera Cruz studio. De Falco became a household name through his work in Brazilian telenovelas, particularly for his villainous roles. His most iconic performance was as Leôncio Almeida in Escrava Isaura (1976), a role that defined his career and became a cultural touchstone. He reprised a related role in the 2004 remake, appearing as Comendador Almeida, Leôncio’s father. His television credits include Gabriela (1975), O Grito (1975), Dona Xepa (1977), Sinhá Moça (1986), and Os Imigrantes (1981), among many others. Known for his blue eyes, distinctive triangular mustache, and smooth baritone voice, Rubens de Falco brought elegance and intensity to every role. In 2006, a stroke left him unable to speak or act, and he spent his final years in assisted care. Despite this, his legacy as one of Brazil’s greatest actors remains firmly intact.
Movies20
Movie8.0ActionCrimeA professional hitman returns to Brazil and is hired to eliminate an Argentine Delegate in a Rio de Janeiro convention. Inspector José da Silva realizes the plot and starts to pursuit him.
Missão: Matar!
1972 · 1 votes
Movie7.9CrimeDrama10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
Movie9.0ComedyEsse Rio Muito Louco
1977 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaExistential confrontations are unleashed while people try to survival within a concret jungle. Such conflict gets worst when the person is near his fifties and finds himself empty-handed, without a real company, full of frustrations that hound him.
Profesión: vivir
1985 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyA man leads a double life: during the day, he's the manager of a car shop but, when the sun goes down, he becomes a crook, pretending to be a playboy (the target being old women), a sultan who is gathering money for his cause, helped by a fake baron and his beautiful daughter.
O Mau-Caráter
1974 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Alberto and Daniel are friends with opposite tempers. Alberto is a family man, two childrens, and keep his love affairs in the shadows. Daniel is not discreet at all and after unsuccessfully tries to conquers Lurdinha, Alberto's secretary and his former mistress, ask her to marry him. But Lurdinha still have feelings for her boss.
O Homem da Cabeça de Ouro
1976 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyDino and Dalmo are twin brothers. Dino is very shy, and the other, the opposite: a true Don Juan. When Dalmo dies, after being shot by a furious husband, he is received in heaven by a Club of Don Juans. But, in order to be admitted, he must go back to Earth, incarnated in his brother's body, and correct three mistakes he had made in his previous life.
Deixa, Amorzinho... Deixa
1975 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaThirty-three years old Eva begins the writing of her memories and recalls her past love-life, when she used to live with her boyfriend and her best ladyfriend. In the beginning everything seems to work beetween them but after living together for some time they realize that their interests in life are not the same. They take a big decision.
Macho y hembra
1984 · 1 votes
Movie8.0CrimeHorrorA professor faces a double of himself and hires a detective to find out who that is and what are his real intentions.
O Sósia da Morte
1975 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaAfter marrying everyday man Zózimo, Engraçadinha, who had been through intense sexual experiences as a teenager, settles to live a quiet and normal life. As the years go by, her teenage daughter's behaviour seems to call back Engraçadinha's own teenage days.
Engraçadinha Depois dos Trinta
1966 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0RomanceDrama
Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments because the network that financed it went under.
Movie5.8ComedyFantasyIn a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape.
Movie6.0CrimeDramaA young woman and her lover draw an unsuspecting lawyer into their plan to kill her rich uncle and stay with his fortune.
Movie3.8DramaIn the 18th century in a forgotten town, young Benedicta is the executioner's daughter. Monk Ambrosius, newly arrived at the village, pities the girl but his interest in her unleashes the jealousy of Rochus and the conflict between passion and celibacy begins.
Movie8.0ComedyAnthology comedy made by the director of "The Given Word" among other directors.
O Impossível Acontece
1969 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaHistoryIn the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
Movie10.0DramaA man returning from a trip is invited to stay in his best friend's residence. There, he meets the man's wife and soon a love affair begins. With a great sense of enthusiasm he shares to his friend that he's deeply in love with a woman he just met, creating a great sense of curiosity on the other, barely knowing that the woman is actually his wife.
A Dama de Branco
1978 · 1 votes
Movie8.0CrimeTwo twin brothers, Cláudio José and José Cláudio, definitively separate when one of them decides to leave for the big city. Years later, the second brother also started living in Rio de Janeiro. One night, he is attacked by three thugs, who kill his pregnant wife and leave him disfigured. In search of revenge, he follows in the footsteps of his brother, who will find himself working for a crime figure. And in pursuit of his discoveries, he began to wage his revenge against the criminals on the same level as he had been confronted.
Nós, Os Canalhas
1975 · 1 votes
Movie8.0AdventureWesternO Capanga
1957 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyMusicThe troubled life of two idols of the Jovem Guarda amidst the pleasant rhythm of the contagious iê-iê-iê.
Essa Gatinha é Minha
1966 · 1 votes
Series18
TV7.5DramaSoapIn 1886, in the small town of Araruna, Little Missy rejects the actions of her father—the slave-owning Colonel Ferreira—alongside Rodolfo, an active abolitionist republican with whom she falls in love.
TV7.0SoapDramaOs Imigrantes
1981 · 2 votes
TV8.0SoapDramaUm Homem Muito Especial
1980 · 1 votes
TV6.0SoapDramaSet in 19th-century Brazil during the waning years of slavery, Escrava Isaura tells the story of Isaura, a white-skinned enslaved woman raised with the manners and education of a noble lady. Though treated with affection by her mistress, Isaura remains legally enslaved and becomes the object of obsessive desire by Leôncio Almeida, the cruel heir to the plantation. After the death of her protector, Isaura falls under Leôncio’s control. Despite his attempts to seduce and dominate her, she resists, determined to preserve her dignity and freedom. Her father, Miguel, helps her escape to Recife, where she adopts a new identity and meets Álvaro, a wealthy and principled abolitionist who falls in love with her. Leôncio eventually tracks her down, leading to dramatic confrontations. In the end, Álvaro rescues Isaura by purchasing Leôncio’s debts, securing her freedom and affirming the story’s central themes of justice, love, and resistance against oppression.
TV9.5DramaSoapGabriela
1975 · 10 votes
- TV10.0SoapDrama
Gaivotas
1979 · 1 votes
TV7.0SoapDramaTempo de Viver
1972 · 1 votes
TV7.3SoapA widower who was anything but traditional for the 1950s, Álvaro has a frank relationship with his daughters and becomes the target of criticism from his sister-in-law Fausta, especially when he meets Marta.
Bambolê
1987 · 3 votes
TV8.0DramaSoapEscalada
1975 · 2 votes
TV7.8DramaSoapThe story follows the experiences of Marina, a young country bumpkin who marries the mysterious and charismatic widower Roberto Stein, a fabulously wealthy businessman living in 1920s Rio de Janeiro. As Marina attempts to acclimate to her new marriage and responsibilities, she discovers that Stein's late wife, Alice, still seems to have a strong hold over the household. Despite her new husband's affection for her, Marina is nonetheless threatened by Alice's presence, which is made conspicuous through her old maid Juliana's obsessions and her intimidating portrait.
A Sucessora
1978 · 6 votes
TV7.7SoapDramaO Grito
1975 · 3 votes
TV9.5SoapDramaOs Ossos do Barão is a Brazilian telenovela produced by SBT and originally broadcast from April 28 to September 8, 1997. It is an adaptation of Jorge Andrade's 1963 play of the same name, adapted for television by Walter George Durst, with collaboration from Duca Rachid, Mário Teixeira, and Marcos Lazarini. The telenovela stars Ana Paula Arósio, Tarcísio Filho, Juca de Oliveira, Othon Bastos, and Leonardo Villar. Set in São Paulo in 1948, the story follows Egisto Ghirotto, the wealthy son of Italian immigrants who dreams of gaining social prestige by marrying his son, Martino, to Isabel, the great-granddaughter of the late Baron of Jaraguá. Their romance sparks a bitter conflict between a rising immigrant family and a declining aristocratic dynasty, exposing themes of class, ambition, tradition, and the social transformation of Brazil.
Os Ossos do Barão
1997 · 2 votes
TV10.0SoapDramaCampeão
1982 · 1 votes
TV9.0SoapBrasileiros e Brasileiras is a Brazilian telenovela shown in some schedules SBT between November 5, 1990 and May 14, 1991. Writing for the show was done by Carlos Alberto Sofredini and Walter Avancini, who also directed it. The show was a co-production of the Miksom.
Brasileiras e Brasileiros
1990 · 1 votes
TV7.7SoapComedyA hardworking market vendor, Mrs. Xepa faces many sacrifices to raise her children alone. However, as they achieve social advancement, they begin to feel ashamed of their mother.
Dona Xepa
1977 · 3 votes
TV10.0SoapRealityMaçã do Amor
1983 · 1 votes
TV7.0DramaSoapSalome returns to Sao Paulo from Paris to scandalize a conservative society and her own family with desire to be free. She meets Duda, who is already involved romantically with Salome's mother, Santa
Salomé
1991 · 2 votes
TV7.8WesternDramaA cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces.
Grande Sertão: Veredas
1985 · 3 votes