Américo Taricano

Acting

Américo Taricano

Acting credits

The Inheritance poster
7.2

An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle.

The Inheritance

1970

Obsessão Maldita poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Obsessão Maldita

1974

Chão Bruto poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chão Bruto

1958

O Pornógrafo poster
5.7

Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upset the magazine's owner, a rich and powerful woman.

O Pornógrafo

1970

Mord in Rio poster
6.2

Barbara Leen owns a coffee export company based in Rio de Janeiro. The company has long since been infiltrated by smugglers, without Barbara knowing about it. The criminals are smuggling diamonds. Barbara's boyfriend is a journalist and tries to get to the bottom of the matter. But during his research he comes across more and more deaths. Eventually, however, he comes across the nightclub owner Leila and her lover Dumont. They appear to be the masterminds.

Mord in Rio

1963

Conceição poster
10.0

An engaged couple discovers the corpse of a woman killed by strangulation in the Santo Amaro dam. Inspector Castro and his assistant, Pedro, start the investigation, collecting testimonies, and find a phone number with the name Conceição in the victim's pocket.

Conceição

1960

Virgin Boys From Ipanema poster
3.7

Young Daniel is dying to lose his virginity, but his love life is completely messed up. His father, seeing this, invites a cousin from São Paulo to help his son become a stallion. However, the cousin's arrival only ignites the boy's fire, who can't even see the beach girls.

Virgin Boys From Ipanema

1973

Cocky poster
5.2

Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering the boy's hidden (and big) qualities...

Cocky

1978

O Dia do Gato poster
9.0

Gato is an experienced thief who breaks into a doctor's house with two cronies for a complicated plan: "sell" the guy's Mercedes to several buyers, as if the car were his, and pocket the thousands of dollars that "buyers" give as input.

O Dia do Gato

1987

Veneno poster
8.3

An employee of a glass factory suffers with his wife's contempt and starts to develop homicidal delusions about her. One night, he meets a singer which resembles his wife a lot and conjures up a plan.

Veneno

1952

Loved and Abused poster
4.3

Famous crime story writer puzzles police investigator when all the women he gets involved with get murdered.

Loved and Abused

1976

O Bordel: Noites Proibidas poster
4.6

André is the powerful owner of an illegal casino and popular gambling ("Jogo de Bicho") on the streets. His gang is in war against the gang of Fiore that is trying to steal the gambling establishments of André. When the prostitute Margot sees her old friend and ex-con Sarja working as a waiter in the casino where she tricks clients, she invites him to stay with her in her apartment. When André, who is gay, sees the handsome Sarja, he falls in love with his employee that becomes his protégée. Meanwhile, Sarja and Margot plot to steal the high stakes on St George's Day and they invite André's henchman Lobão and two gangsters to participate in the heist. Meanwhile Fiore also plots to steal André's money with his gang.

O Bordel: Noites Proibidas

1980

Passaporte Para o Inferno poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Passaporte Para o Inferno

1976