Writing

Sanin Cherques

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Missão: Matar! poster
8.0

A professional hitman returns to Brazil and is hired to eliminate an Argentine Delegate in a Rio de Janeiro convention. Inspector José da Silva realizes the plot and starts to pursuit him.

Missão: Matar!

1972

Com as Calças na Mão poster
5.2

Reg owns the store "Tem Tudo... E Muito Mais" (Has Everything... And Much More). To satisfy his customers, he is forced to perform the most strange functions.

Com as Calças na Mão

1975

Two Stories poster
9.0

Cacareco is a clumsy worker at a dry cleaners who constantly causes losses for his boss, the Portuguese Rebuçado. One day, he receives a package from his relatives in the north: Maria do Socorro, his goddaughter. Pursuing his dream of working in television, Socorro ends up involving Cacareco in numerous disputes, including fights, robberies, and gambling in an underground casino.

Two Stories

1960

Os Abas Largas poster
5.5

In the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, a group of bandits is dedicated to stealing the profitable cattle of local residents. But local gaucho police known as "The Wide Brim", due to the recognizable large-brimmed hat, will not allow the gang to go unpunished.

Os Abas Largas

1963

No artwork available
8.0

A scientist discovers a breakthrough formula for harnessing nuclear energy and becomes the target for numerous secret agents around the world.

A Espiã que Entrou em Fria

1967

No artwork available
8.0

A scientist discovers a breakthrough formula for harnessing nuclear energy and becomes the target for numerous secret agents around the world.

A Espiã que Entrou em Fria

1967

Uma Garota em Maus Lençóis poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Uma Garota em Maus Lençóis

1970

Briga, Mulher e Samba poster
7.0

Marcelino, a country bumpkin, comes from the countryside to try his luck in Rio de Janeiro. His uncle Simão, a taxi driver and resident of a favela with Sofia, comes to greet him at the train station. A neighbor, Tereza, takes an interest in the newcomer. At the pier, the criminal Zé receives a package and is pursued by police. Mira Diler performs at the Caverna nightclub. In her dressing room, the criminal Zé is found, injured and without the package. Valentino complains about the police action that is disrupting his "business." Marcelino still hasn't found work; at the same time, he tries unsuccessfully to sell his compositions. He begins helping his uncle as a driver, but puts his own worries first: he goes to the nightclub looking for Mira, but finds himself caught up in Valentino's schemes.

Briga, Mulher e Samba

1961

A Matemática e o Futebol poster
NR

Football images and the study of Modern Mathematics.

A Matemática e o Futebol

1970

Teus Olhos Castanhos poster
8.0

Portuguese singer falls in love with a blind Brazilian girl.

Teus Olhos Castanhos

1961

A Madona de Cedro poster
7.5

Delfino, a quiet man who lives in Congonhas do Campo, a small historical town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is urged by his friend to steal the image of the Madona de Cedro (the Cedar Madonna), sculpted by Aleijadinho in the 18th century, from the town sanctuary.

A Madona de Cedro

1968

Cristo de Lama poster
8.0

The story of Antônio Francisco Lisboa, the famed Brazilian sculptor and architect born in the 17th century who became known as "Aleijadinho".

Cristo de Lama

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zumbi dos Palmares

1963

Ódio poster
7.5

The lawyer Roberto leaves his career and his fiancée behind to chase the criminals who killed his entire family in a brutal massacre.

Ódio

1977