Ênio Gonçalves

Acting

Ênio Gonçalves

Born 1943-08-28 · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Ênio Gonçalves (Porto Alegre, August 28, 1938 — São Paulo, October 5, 2013) was a Brazilian actor, director and playwright. He majored in journalism and worked in over 30 films, starred in 20 telenovelas, and performed in numerous plays, starting with "Auto de Natal" in 1959. He studied film directing at the "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" in Rome, Italy, and became popular after his performance in Nelson Rodrigues's "Toda Nudez Será Castigada" in 1965, directed by Zbigniew Ziembinski. He would write some 20 plays, including "2 ou 3 Buracos" (1976), "Dia Torto" (1976), "Vem Contudo" (1977) and "Até as Orelhas" (2004), and adapt literary works such as J. Guimarães Rosa's Sorôco, Sua Mãe, Sua Filha (1975) for the screen and Erico Verissimo's "Sonata".

Acting credits

Doce Delírio poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Doce Delírio

1983

Hard Season poster
NR

Gabriel and Laura are two strangers drawn to each other by a spark of restlessness in their eyes. At Laura's sanctuary, an abandoned factory, a man with a camera will put their revolutionary fantasies to the test.

Hard Season

2012

New Wave poster
5.8

São Paulo, 1983: Women’s soccer has just been legalized in Brazil. A group of rebellious young women form the Gayvotas Football Club and begin training for their first match. But as the team quickly becomes a media sensation, its members are forced to confront the prejudices of the conservative military dictatorship that they live under.

New Wave

1984

M Is for Mailbox poster
5.5

Submitted for "The ABCs of Death 2" competition.

M Is for Mailbox

2014

Viúvas Precisam de Consolo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viúvas Precisam de Consolo

1979

Elite Devassa poster
4.4

Theodoro, a country boy goes to São Paulo from Florianópolis to work as a driver. He starts to work for rich and domineering Mariana. When her husband, Renato travels in Europe on business, he takes her for a trip to Campos do Jordão, where she has a vacation manor. It will not be long until the two begin a torrid love affair. However, he also enchants with her daughter, Ana Paula and sister, Luisa. Involved with all three, he discovers that his life may be in danger, because he finds out that two previous family drivers, Alfredo and Renato were killed in the house.

Elite Devassa

1984

Promiscuity, the Street Kids of Katia poster
4.4

A story of a young woman who is cheating her impotent husband with the surrounding teenagers.

Promiscuity, the Street Kids of Katia

1984

Reveillon poster
NR

As the clock ticks away announcing the end of the year, the four members of a family reveal their inabilities and frustrations, their defeats and the monotony of a life that drags on in a solitary way, even as a group.

Reveillon

1976

Movie Dementia poster
6.3

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.

Movie Dementia

1986

Satanic Attraction poster
5.8

Fernanda, a radio DJ, has a show in which she tells gruesome and gory horror stories about satanic rituals and sex murders. However, when bodies start turning up around town killed in exactly the way Fernanda describes on her show, it looks like someone or some group is using her show to get ideas.

Satanic Attraction

1989

Strange Force poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Strange Force

1980

Instinto Devasso poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Instinto Devasso

1987

Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury poster
7.2

“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.

Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury

2013

Sorôco, Sua Mãe, Sua Filha poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sorôco, Sua Mãe, Sua Filha

1975

Girls from ABC poster
6.1

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.

Girls from ABC

2003

No artwork available
10.0

After a heavy rain storm, several vehicles get stuck on a muddy road. Soon hunger and fatigue change people's manners, making them behave in a very noncivilized way.

Sete Dias de Agonia

1982

O Olho Mágico do Amor poster
5.3

An innocent working girl finds a hole in her wall through which she can see the action in her neighboring apartment, where a prostitute meets her bizarre clients.

O Olho Mágico do Amor

1982

A Noite dos Bacanais poster
2.8

No synopsis available yet.

A Noite dos Bacanais

1981

ABCs of Death 2 1/2 poster
4.6

An anthology of 26 fan entries submitted for inclusion in ABCs of Death 2, each offering various takes on the letter "M".

ABCs of Death 2 1/2

2016

Reverse Sex poster
4.2

Heleno and Claudia reverses the daily roles traditionally reserved for men and women: He dedicated himself to domestic tasks. She's a jerky business lady.

Reverse Sex

1982

The Great Victory poster
5.8

Independent feature film based on the biography of a Brazilian judo with a great victory that went beyond the mats and medals.

The Great Victory

2014

Desafio à Aventura poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Desafio à Aventura

1972

The Boy and the Wind poster
8.0

A young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy who has a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him.

The Boy and the Wind

1967

Beautiful and Corrupted poster
9.0

Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers.

Beautiful and Corrupted

1977

Behind the camera