
Acting
Paulo César Peréio
Born 1940-10-19 · Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Paulo César de Campos Velho, better known as Paulo César Pereio (Alegrete, October 19, 1940 – Rio de Janeiro, May 12, 2024), was a Brazilian actor. His first film work was in 1964, in the film 'Os Fuzis', directed by Ruy Guerra. However, his first recognition came in 1975, in the film 'As Aventuras Amorosas de um Padeiro', for which he received the Kikito for 'Best Supporting Actor' at the Gramado Festival. Three years later he achieved triple prominence, after being elected 'Best Actor' at the Brasília Festival, in the works Chuvas de Verão (1977), Tudo Bem (1978) and A Lira do Delírio (1978).
Acting credits
4.9Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.
Getúlio Vargas
1974
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Teatro Brasileiro: Origem e Mudança
1975
4.0Felício, an old comedian, is in decadence after his partner Mandarim's suicide. When he finds out his former love Paloma has died, he leaves São Paulo and heads for the faraway State of Piauí, North of Brazil, in search of a new partner. He believes that if he manages to find him, the good times will return.
Onde Anda Você
2004
6.7Maiquél 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.
The Man of the Year
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zéfiro Explícito
2012
5.0No synopsis available yet.
São Ateu
2022
6.5In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from their deceased aunt. When Max, a restaurant musician, moves to the next door apartment, Baby has a crush on him and sees a chance to have a life again. Soon they start having a love affair, and Baby decides to quit smoking. However, her abstinence will be tough to deal with, when she notices Max still misses his ex-wife.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
2009
5.5Follows a rich family, composed of 4 people, during a trip in which they all start getting disposed of their material goods, personal histories, and maybe even their lives.
Sagrada Família
1970
NRIn 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film uses passages supposed to be about her to criticize modern Brazil, the dictatorship period and also a homage to filmmakers like Rogério Sganzerla.
Veja & Ouça - Maria Baderna no Brasil
2004
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Tensão no Rio
1984
5.0The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto.
Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
2008
NREven with all the brutality in the Brazilian dictatorial period, many artists presented themselves as a resistance, using their talent and creativity as a way to trick the censorship.
What are you Laughing At? Humour and Dictatorship
2018
9.0Actor Paulo César Pereio drives his family and friends in a car through the hills of the city of Santos. Fasten your seatbelts!
Superstição
2004
6.7Experimental film, guided by the feeling of oppressive, paranoid, obsessive life of its characters. An essay on the oppression and dehumanization of the Brazilian people.
Bandalheira Infernal
1976
5.5Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro.
Lady on the Bus
1978
4.0Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of police officers about the barbaric murder of a socialite. Without recognizing himself in the documents he carries in his pocket, he wanders through the underworlds of the city in search of an answer.
Noite
1985
No synopsis available yet.
Terra
2008
7.2An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature.
Bang Bang
1971
Documentary wich tries to capture the iconoclastic spirit of the 1922 Week of Modern Art, to tell about the beginning of cinema made in the city of São Paulo.
Paulicéia Fantástica
1970
7.0A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.
Drained
2006
NRArmando Costa was one of Brazil's most successful authors, both in terms of audience and critical acclaim, responsible for shows like "A Grande Família" and "Malu Mulher." Despite this, he didn't care about fame or signing his works.
Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico”
2024
7.0In 1873 in Rio Grande do Sul, a group of peasants come together to form a community of brothers, arousing the enmity of the rest of the population. They are immigrants from the German region and develop a communitary social model, having the Bible as a code of morals, faith and conduct. The group's economic independence ends up irritating the locals to the point of provoking successive aggressions that culminate in a bloody massacre.
Os Mucker
1979
10.0No synopsis available yet.
A Cartomante
1975
7.2Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
Entranced Earth
1967
