Zezita Matos

Acting

Zezita Matos

Born 1942-08-28 · Pilar, Paraíba, Brazil

Severina de Souza Pontes (Pilar, August 28, 1942), better known as Zezita Matos, is a Brazilian actress and teacher, who gained prominence for her work in cinema.

Acting credits

Private Desert poster
6.7

40-year-old Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north in search of her, starting on what is apparently a fool's errand. He shows Sara's picture around, but nobody seems to recognize the woman. Until eventually one guy pops up, saying he can put the two in touch under very specific conditions.

Private Desert

2021

Pedra-Mar poster
NR

Every being has dreams in their own way.

Pedra-Mar

2026

The Sound of God poster
NR

An existential western about the pain of a family and the silence of a country.

The Sound of God

2025

Blessed is the Fruit poster
2.0

After committing a crime, the woman leaves her home and family in search of an unknown destination. It is not known who she is, nor the reason for the crime. The mystery about this woman is one of the key points of the narrative. Throughout history she will be called Maria, Rosa and Ana, perhaps one of them will be her real name, perhaps none. She will walk for a whole day, hugging a watermelon and will have brief encounters that will mark her day and her life, facing a world that is sometimes hostile and sometimes delicate, in an attempt to live with the love and disaffection that she brings in her. .

Blessed is the Fruit

2018

Memory Road poster
10.0

A truck driver travels the roads as if going through his memories.

Memory Road

Familiar Environment poster
NR

There are many ways to overcome the losses and drop-outs of childhood. Three boys reinvent the concept of family to face the traumas of their lives.

Familiar Environment

2019

Regresso poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Regresso

2017

A Canga poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Canga

2001

Pacarrete poster
7.8

Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teacher who dreams of getting a big shot and starring at a dance spectacle for the whole town to see. She's close to fulfilling that dream, but not without overcoming a few impediments along the way.

Pacarrete

2019

Blue Eyes poster
6.1

Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by causing the death of a young Brazilian. After a period in prison, Marshall goes to Brazil, deadly ill and in a desperate search in order to purge his guilt. In his quest, he is guided by Bia, a young prostitute.

Blue Eyes

2010

Ferrolho poster
NR

While a soccer team plays its games, events are experienced inside the houses. In other spaces, clay and the measure of a family's conflict.

Ferrolho

2012

Love for Sale poster
7.3

In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.

Love for Sale

2006

O Sonho de Inacim poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Sonho de Inacim

2009

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures poster
6.9

1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures

2005

Currais poster
7.0

In the 1932 drought of Ceará, several concentration camps were created to imprison and prevent refugees from reaching the city of Fortaleza. Remnants narrate fragments of his memories and unfulfilled regrets, witnessed in the ruins of concentration camps and in the cult of the “souls of the dam”, resistant to the strong historical erasure.

Currais

2019

Bia poster
NR

As a doctoral student, she investigates women's rights to expression within peasant protests; through this engagement, she seeks the strength to dismantle the fundamental structures of patriarchy, addressing issues such as marriage, family, and the valuation of these women's labor and freedom. This is a fictional film rooted in many real-life moments — shot at the MST’s (Landless Workers' Movement) Normandia encampment in Caruaru — that blends fiction with documentary elements.

Bia

2025

O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira) poster
5.0

The comic docu-drama that follows four characters who share their stories (real and imagined) about frustrated love, addressing the most diverse superstitions and rituals performed in search of success in love. To delve into the nature of the accounts, fortune tellers, pais de santo, mums-de-santo, and seers are consulted to predict futures, give advice, and explain why people are obsessed with loving and being loved.

O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)

2019

The Joy of Love poster
NR

In a quilombo in the backlands of Ceará, Dulce witnesses the murder of her partner, Davi, carried out by gunmen on the orders of a foreign mining company. Threatened, Dulce goes to São Paulo, where she gives voice to the crime that occurred and denounces the involvement of the multinational, with the support of NGOs and lawyers. Orphaned and raised on a mission by sisters, Dulce is sought out in São Paulo by Beatriz, who reveals herself to be her mother. Abandoned as a baby, she also discovers that she has a twin brother, now her sister Marisa, who owns a karaoke bar with a "refuge" spirit, which brings together an LGBTIQ+ audience, a completely new universe for Dulce. Dulce and Marisa demand that Beatriz reveal something about their unknown father and now set off together, back to the backlands, with two missions: to celebrate the victory of the quilombo and to find the father who never knew of his daughters' existence.

The Joy of Love

2025

Holy Biker poster
5.4

In an arid and poor region of Brazil, bikers search for a miracle to make it rain and save the land, risking their lives.

Holy Biker

2016

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Quarto Negro

2020

Bog of Beasts poster
6.0

A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.

Bog of Beasts

2006

The History of Eternity poster
7.7

In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.

The History of Eternity

2014

Mother and Daughter poster
10.0

After a long time apart, a mother and her daughter meet again in the desert, between ruins and memories. The daughter destiny denies her mother dream. The past is circle that imprisons both the dead and the alive. The daughter wants to break it but shadows are spying out.

Mother and Daughter

2012

Leite em Pó poster
NR

A musician of limited talent and obsessed with rock music sees his life collapse after a devastating family loss. Alone and penniless, he takes on a new job that forces him to wander the city, where he crosses paths with a wide variety of people who challenge his worldview. Between unsettling memories and these new urban bonds, he begins an erratic and transformative journey to confront his own ghosts and try to reconnect with reality.

Leite em Pó

2026