
Lázaro Ramos
Actor · b. 1978 · Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Luís Lázaro Sacramento Ramos (born November 1, 1978) is a Brazilian actor, presenter, director, writer and voice actor. He started his acting career with the Flock of Olodum Theater group, in Salvador, and is best known for his portrayal of João Francisco dos Santos in the 2002 film Madame Satã (film). Lázaro is married to Brazilian actress Taís Araújo. In 2007, he was nominated for the 35th International Emmy Awards for Best Actor for his role in Cobras & Lagartos.
Movies23
Movie7.0AnimationMusicA pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark: Vini, a charismatic poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist. When the rains come, only one male and one female of each species is allowed on Noah's Ark. With the help of an ingenious cockroach and fate's good luck, Vini and Tito sneak their way onto the Ark and together avert a showdown among the ships carnivores and plant eaters. All the while, the animals perform a series of classic songs inspired by world renowned poet, Vinicius de Moraes. Can these talented stowaways use music to break the tension and help these cooped up creatures survive the 40 days and 40 nights together?
Movie6.1ComedyDramaSet to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.
Woman on Top
2000 · 256 votes
Movie6.5DramaBest friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.
Movie6.9ComedyActionAn elderly retired couple teams up with young partners to plan a daring bank robbery, while trying to outwit a detective determined to stop them.
Movie7.6DramaWhen a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.
Carandiru
2003 · 630 votes
Movie7.0DramaGugu, a black boy living with his grandmother, experiences memories and revelations when the old city where she lived returns.
Movie7.2ComedyWhen they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
Movie6.7DramaMusicAfter failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school. He soon finds his world transformed by the power of music and friendships formed with his pupils.
Movie6.9DramaScience FictionIn a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
Movie6.4ComedyWalter is an absent father and husband who works in a hospital without time for his family. His redemption happens when his wife sends him to the birthday cake for her daughter, but she does not know is that during the return trip home, the impossible will happen so that everything goes wrong.
Amanhã Nunca Mais
2011 · 7 votes
Movie6.4DocumentaryThis communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla". Greatest name of the left-wing militancy in Brazil in the 1960s, Carlos Marighella acted in the main political events of Brazil between the 1930s and 1969 and was considered enemy number one of the Brazilian military dictatorship. His life was a great act of resistance and courage.
Marighella
2012 · 16 votes
Movie6.7DramaCrimeMaiquél has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This seemingly innocuous event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which he goes from nobody to hero to outlaw — all in 24 hours.
Movie5.8DramaThrillerAfter losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Nina
2004 · 28 votes
Movie3.0CrimeDramaA brutal crime shocks an isolated Brazilian research station in Antarctica, transforming the enviroment filled with scientists and military personnel into a veritable pressure cooker. The men at the station become suspects, and a female deputy commander takes on the mission of investigating what happened and, with the support of the women at the base, faces silence and violence in her search for justice.
Movie1.7DramaMusicA poor family, lives in a city near Salvador. The father is cleaner and, mother and daughter help making small services. Until they decide to try the luck in the big city and the father, João, get a job near Pelourinho, next to a dance academy. The daughter, Carla, in contacting music, discovers her true vocation and becomes a very successful dancer. But she does not let himself take away from fame and back to his origins, meets with poor children and teaches them to dance.
Movie6.9CrimeDramaIn the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã.
Madame Satã
2002 · 88 votes
Movie6.2AdventureComedyÉder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory.
Movie6.9MusicComedyDuring the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.
Movie7.4ComedyDramaA young girl wishes Christmas was over for good, and her wish is granted with unexpected consequences.
Movie3.8TV MovieIngrid Guimarães and Lázaro Ramos hit the ground running on Prime Video. The two Brazilian stars are joined by Juliette, Tia Má, Luana Martau, Lindsay Paulino, Pablo Sanábio and other special guests to talk about CHANGE with a lot of humor and irony. In a sequence of comic sketches, they reflect on struggles and lessons that brought us all to 2023.
Movie7.8MusicTV MovieShow 60 Anos
2025 · 4 votes
MovieDocumentary
Movie7.5DramaA journey into the psyche of Atanásio, a doorman in Copacabana, confused while attempting to understand his desires and aspirations.
Desejo
2005 · 2 votes
Series21
TV8.4ComedyFamilyThe daily lives of a typical Brazilian middle-class family, that are always very close and tries, in their way, to survive the financial and relationship difficulties.
A Grande Família
2001 · 45 votes
TV8.0Talk ShowSerginho Groisman hosts weekly debates on relevant topics, featuring the participation of the audience, artists, and personalities from various fields.
Altas Horas
2000 · 2 votes
TV7.4SoapComedyIs it possible that in a world ruled by appearance, there is room for loyalty, ethics, true love, honesty and solidarity? Is it possible, today, when unrelenting consumption is a way of life, to find someone who equates more value to being rather than having? Cobras & Lagartos is an urban tragic comedy, modern and humanist, that deals with two increasingly different worlds: one which values loyalty and solidarity and the other, where the seduction of superfluity and the power of money reign.
TV6.8SoapAn ambitious young woman with a traumatizing past targets an Italian man, the distant son of a wealthy Brazilian family.
Passione
2010 · 20 votes
TV9.1SoapDramaWinner of the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela, "Side by Side" focuses on two women of different origins and social classes. The brave Isabel, daughter of a former slave and in love with the capoeira player Zé Maria; and Laura, descendant from a wealthy family and destined to an undesired marriage to Edgar. In addition to an unshakable friendship, the two share the same purpose in life: the conquest of freedom in the conservative society of Rio de Janeiro of the early 20th century.
TV5.5SoapDramaLeo's envy of his brother Pedro will cause much pain and suffering, beginning with the death of Luciana, Pedro's fiancée.
TV5.8SoapDramaIn the past, as Adalberto Rangel, he met and seduced Maria Paula. With a calculated coldheart, he married her, stole her fortune, then abandoned her, unaware she was pregnant at the time. Ten years later, accompanied by her son Renato, Maria Paula plots to recover her dignity and to find justice by getting revenge against the indignities done to her.
TV7.4Talk ShowQue História é Essa, Porchat?
2019 · 8 votes
TV8.3ComedyDramaBrava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.
Brava Gente
2000 · 6 votes
TV8.3Talk ShowComedyLady Night
2017 · 6 votes
TV2.8SoapSci-Fi & FantasyThe genius Jonas Marra (Murilo Benício, from Brazil Avenue) has attained what few others have — a rich and famous celebrity of the digital world in Silicon Valley and the owner of Marra International, a respected technology conglomerate. But behind his image of a successful businessman lies another person shrouded in conflict and mystery.
TV5.6SoapDrama"Crossed Paths" tells a history about seven friends who met in their youth at an English course meet again 25 years later; Lara, Taís, Helena, Adriana, Renée, Natália and Carol, each of them has a different personality and origin, but they share a deep affection.
Elas por Elas
2023 · 46 votes
TV9.5DramaSci-Fi & FantasyThe world of African royalty, the fight for justice and the love between an African princess and a Brazilian worker in this 1920s fable, full of romance, adventure and humor.
A Nobreza do Amor
2026 · 2 votes
TV7.5Action & AdventureDramaThree friends leading a nonprofit organisation investigate environmental crimes in the Amazon involving a major mining company.
Aruanas
2019 · 14 votes
TV7.3DramaTwo neighboring couples are shocked after their teenage children's fight, with absurd consequences. What could be a common misunderstanding grows and reveals the limits and influence of parents in raising children.
TV7.5ComedyAlex, Edu, Fred and Beto are four friends who live torn between the role of man in society and the need to be more sensitive. They try to understand the female head and put themselves in the place of the opposite sex. They appear to be very safe, but feel totally lost around safe, independent women.
Sexo Frágil
2003 · 6 votes
TV6.5ComedyStaying at home has become a form of survival in times of pandemic and the days seem to repeat itself. Now Murilo tries not to go crazy by touching life from the inside of the house.
Diário de um Confinado
2020 · 5 votes
TV8.5ComedyFollows the unconventional lives of a Brazilian pop artist who got out of the streets to reach stardom and his manager-wife-choreographer.
Mister Brau
2015 · 4 votes
TV10.0DramaComedyThe Night Shepherds universe is inhabited by prostitutes, priests, rogues, saint's parents and street vendors. For a very Brazilian people who fight every day for survival and only rely on the solidarity spirit and friendship of each other. The seductive Cabo Martim, the romantic Curió, the noble Massu, the artful Foot of Wind and the Jesuit master live their adventures in four independent episodes, which are completed in their poetry and the strength of each story.
Pastores da Noite
2002 · 1 votes
TV9.5DramaCrime
TV7.4ComedyFamilyThe four-part anthology series brings together stories about relationships and transformation during times of social isolation.