Karine Teles

Acting

Karine Teles

Born

1978-08-16 (48)

Place of birth

Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Karine Teles (Petrópolis, August 16, 1978) is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter and filmmaker. One of the most prestigious actresses in Brazilian cinema, she is the winner of several awards, including two Grande Otelo Awards, two APCA Awards, and three Guarani Awards, in addition to having received nominations for an ACIE Award and a Fênix Award.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Viver é Melhor Que Sonhar

2026

Cyclone poster
7.5

Dayse, a Brazilian playwright known as Cyclone, wants to study in Paris. Having a career in theater is unthinkable for a woman in São Paulo in 1918. But her director doesn’t want her to go, as he would lose his mistress and ghostwriter. When she becomes pregnant by him, her dream starts to fade. An artist’s struggle for self-determination in a patriarchal society, based on the true story of Daisy Pontes and modernist Oswald de Andrade.

Cyclone

2025

#SaveRose poster
6.8

A young influencer decides to investigate her past after fainting at school. What she discovers puts not only her relationship with her overprotective mother at risk, but also her own life.

#SaveRose

2025

On Behalf of My Son poster
NR

Vicentina struggles to cope with the death of her son Wesley after a tragic bus accident, in which he was the driver. As the investigation unfolds, evidence suggests that Wesley’s actions may have been suicidal. Vicentina then embarks on a journey to seek out the victims’ families and apologize, while confronting her own grief and uncertainty.

On Behalf of My Son

2026

The Beads poster
5.0

Two young women retreat to a remote holiday home. While one of them undertakes a medical abortion, the other quietly cares for her. A snake slithers around them, unnoticed.

The Beads

2023

A Vilã das Nove poster
7.0

Recently divorced, Roberta is living her best life, until she discovers that someone has turned her biggest secret into the plot of a soap opera — where she is the villain.

A Vilã das Nove

2024

She and I poster
7.3

20 years ago, Bia fell into a coma when her daughter was born, but that hasn't stopped her from being part of the family's daily life for all that time, even if she's unconscious. One day, extraordinarily, Bia wakes up and causes a radical change in the lives of everyone around her. While she needs to relearn how to talk, walk and relate, her adult daughter, her ex-husband and his current wife will have to readjust to a new family configuration, much more complex and full of challenges.

She and I

2021

Trouble in Paradise – The Myth of Motherhood poster
5.0

Maternity is instinctive or is it a social construction? How can a period surrounded by expectations of happiness and achievement be, at the same time, such an anticlimax, so exhausting and melancholy? A director-mother talks to other mothers about the maternal instinct, guilt and loneliness, reflecting on the complexities and riches of maternity.

Trouble in Paradise – The Myth of Motherhood

2024

Dead Mother's Mud poster
NR

Vida, a black trans woman, makes a point of dumping her mother's ashes without anyone's help, not even her girlfriend. In the solitude of her ritual, she is surprised.

Dead Mother's Mud

2023

Tá Escrito poster
7.2

Alice is an insecure Leo girl who thinks the stars have made a mistake with her, until one day she receives a blank book with only instructions that promise that any astrological prediction written on those pages will come true. With the power to influence everyone with the predictions she now has access to, Alice becomes an online phenomenon, but also turns the world around her upside down.

Tá Escrito

2023

O Sol Por Elas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Sol Por Elas

2024

2010s · 17 titles

Bacurau poster
7.6

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

Bacurau

2019

The Second Mother poster
8.0

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

The Second Mother

2015

The Other End poster
6.5

Diogo (17) has a little quirk: he likes to call his mother's female therapy patients and masturbate while listening to them on the phone. One of these patients is Angela (43), a woman who was just left by her husband When Diogo calls Angela, she thinks it's her husband calling. She starts having a relationship with the silence on the other end of the line. But when she finds out it's Diogo, she's disgusted. She's furious. But, most of all, she's attracted to this person who showed so much interest in her. The only person who called her every day. Diogo helps Angela see that she can have a new beginning and she shows him his way to independence. But they have to face a number of obstacles: There's the age difference, Diogo's mother, and, especially, his own path to adulthood.

The Other End

2016

Loveling poster
7.4

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.

Loveling

2018

Craft poster
6.6

Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events dressed as movie icons. Troubled by the belief that she has missed her big break, Bianca's situation is upturned by an audition that leads to a rare opportunity.

Craft

2011

A Wolf at the Door poster
7.2

Love turns to hate and panic breeds suspicion as two parents deal with the kidnapping of their child.

A Wolf at the Door

2013

Feijoada Completa poster
NR

On a Saturday, unhappy with her marriage, Carol gets ready to leave, her husband usually goes to a soccer match and bring his friends back home for lunch. The dish of the day is feijoada. This film is an adaptation of the short story "Feijoada Completa" by Luis Fernando Verissimo, in turn inspired by the homonymous Chico Buarque' song.

Feijoada Completa

2012

Fifteen poster
3.8

Luiza will turn 15. Raquel has some dreams.

Fifteen

2014

In the Heart of the World poster
6.1

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier.

In the Heart of the World

2019

Hopefuls poster
5.1

Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It’s no surprise that he lives for football and desperately hangs onto the dream of perhaps every Brazilian kid – to become a famous player. Although he trains hard with his amateur team, he’s not one of the best. He won’t admit to the mounting jealousy he feels as he watches his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. What’s more, his prospects don’t look so rosy now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with her dominant mother poking her nose in...

Hopefuls

2015

Otimismo poster
NR

A woman, two men, two children and two dogs holding on to love.

Otimismo

2015

Constelações poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Constelações

2016

Hebe poster
7.1

Hebe Camargo is one of the most emblematic entertainments in Brazil. At her 60s, she went on to control her own career and, despite the criticism, the dreadful husband and the powerful and sexist bosses, she revealed herself to the public as an extraordinary woman, capable of overcoming any personal or professional crisis.

Hebe

2019

Os Sobreviventes poster
1.0

Caio and Jane had a long relationship but like all good things one day it all comes to an end. With many unsolved issues and some love still there between, they engage in long conversations through the night remembering their past and imagining certain scenarios.

Os Sobreviventes

2013

The Family Doorman poster
4.4

Inacio is the doorman of his apartment building. When his father suddenly dies, his mental state is pushed to the edge. After becoming obsessed with a tenant, things take a dangerous turn.

The Family Doorman

2017

Bacurau no Mapa poster
8.0

Behind the scenes of Bacurau (2019)'s shooting and pre-production. With exclusive images, directors Kléber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles show how they made the film an audience and critical success.

Bacurau no Mapa

2019

Nothing poster
7.0

Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia’s parents are pressuring her to decide which graduation she will apply for. Bia doesn’t want to do anything.

Nothing

2017

Series credits

Young Hearts poster
6.3

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

Young Hearts

1995

Que História é Essa, Porchat? poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Que História é Essa, Porchat?

2019

Anything Goes poster
5.9

The story of a mother and daughter with opposing views on the path to success in life takes the audience on a contemporary journey about character, ethics and honesty.

Anything Goes

2025

Elas por Elas poster
5.6

"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

Pantanal poster
6.5

After the mysterious disappearance of his father, Joventino, the cowboy José Leôncio becomes a wealthy farm owner in Pantanal. Over twenty years have passed and, bitter-hearted because of his father vanishing and the escape of his wife to Rio de Janeiro with his baby, José Leôncio has the chance to make amends with the boy, now a young man raised in the big city with very different values and habits than his own.

Pantanal

2022

O País do Cinema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O País do Cinema

2016

As Canalhas poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

As Canalhas

2013

Above Justice poster
7.1

In this realistic and touching series told in an innovative format, seemingly independent plots intertwine to show how justice can sometimes be a personal matter.

Above Justice

2016

Hebe poster
8.4

Between comings and goings in time, over 8 decades, the story of a poor country girl who fulfills the dream of becoming a great star, always in search of her truth.

Hebe

2019

Avenida Brasil 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Avenida Brasil 2

2027

Pablo & Luisão poster
8.4

No synopsis available yet.

Pablo & Luisão

2025

Filhos da Pátria poster
9.5

The Bulhosa family lands a century later—this time in the 1930s, at the start of the Vargas Era—yet retains the mannerisms and all the eccentricity characteristic of the clan.

Filhos da Pátria

2017

Fale Mais Sobre Isso, Iozzi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fale Mais Sobre Isso, Iozzi

2022

September Mornings poster
7.1

The journey of Cassandra, who starts to see things get on track in her life with a place of her own for the first time, a boyfriend who she loves, Ivaldo, a job as a courier in downtown São Paulo, and fulfilling her dream of being a cover artist of Vanusa, a famous Brazilian singer from the 70s. Her life takes an unexpected turn, however, when her ex, Leide, shows up with Gersinho and claims he is Cassandra’s son.

September Mornings

2021

João Sem Deus: A Queda de Abadiânia poster
6.0

Based on real events, this three-episode series tells the story of two sisters who arrived in Abadiânia 17 years before João de Deus was arrested. During their time in Abadiânia, one of the sisters is traumatized by the violations, while the other becomes a loyal employee. The sisters' reunion is the factor that drives the story forward, culminating in a surprising twist.

João Sem Deus: A Queda de Abadiânia

2023

The Last Days of Gilda poster
5.0

Gilda is a free woman, in the most literal sense of the word. She has excellent culinary skills, raises pigs and chickens in the backyard of her home for slaughter and produces recipes capable of enchanting her friends, family and lovers. Her independence bothers the neighborhood, especially Cacilda, wife of Ismael who is running for public office through a party linked to a religious group.

The Last Days of Gilda

2020

Behind the camera