Helber Rangel

Acting

Helber Rangel

Born — Died

1944-11-15 — 2004-03-26

Place of birth

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Known for

O Todo Poderoso poster
9.0

The plot unfolds across two distinct worlds: Dr. Cristiano Navarro’s hospital and an impoverished neighborhood on the outskirts of São Paulo. While doctors at the hospital fight to save lives using state-of-the-art medical technology, young Emanuel—living in the neighborhood—demonstrates the ability to perform miraculous, extraordinary healings with just the touch of his hands. Dr. Cristiano is married to Linda, a wealthy, refined woman twenty years his junior. They long for a child but have been unable to conceive. Linda consults Dr. Paula, a renowned gynecologist, but the doctor cannot resolve their issue. Linda then decides to seek help from Emanuel, sparking a series of conflicts with her husband. However, things are far from ideal in Emanuel’s neighborhood. He possesses paranormal abilities that sometimes manifest in ways beyond his control. An enigmatic and unpredictable man, Emanuel fears his own powers.

O Todo Poderoso

1979

The Summer Sun poster
7.0

Unhappy in her marriage, Rachel decides to separate from her husband, the businessman Virgílio. Determined to turn her life around, she moves from Petrópolis to the southern zone of Rio de Janeiro with her daughter, Clara, and goes to live in her mother Laura's house in Ipanema. There she falls in love with the charming, but gruff, Heitor, owner of a mechanic shop. He lives with his sister, Irene, in an old townhouse, one of the main settings of the telenovela.

The Summer Sun

1982

Golden Years poster
6.8

In the 1950s, Lurdinha and Marcos fall in love at the first sight. She studies at the Institute of Education, and he studies at the Military College. Two traditional educational institutions in 'Tijuca', in the North Zone of 'Rio de Janeiro'. But Lurdinha's conservative parents reject Marcos because he is son of separated parents and try, in every way, to keep him away from her.

Golden Years

1986

Padre Cícero poster
8.8

When accused of disobeying Church norms and having his priestly rights suspended, Father Cícero intensifies his political activity in fulfilling his pastoral mission.

Padre Cícero

1984

Lampião e Maria Bonita poster
8.0

Lampião becomes the target of relentless persecution after the kidnapping of a foreigner. Alongside Maria Bonita, he faces challenges and persecution in the last months of his life in the cangaço.

Lampião e Maria Bonita

1982

Luz Del Fuego poster
5.1

Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.

Luz Del Fuego

1982

Film credits

1980s · 11 titles

Luz Del Fuego poster
5.1

Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.

Luz Del Fuego

1982

Cabaret Mineiro poster
4.7

An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.

Cabaret Mineiro

1981

J.S. Brown, o Último Herói poster
7.0

João da Silva Brown, a resident of Salvador, has always been a fan of comics, movies and adventure series and superheroes. Once he learns about a course for detectives and decides to attend it. With his private detective degree, he sets up an office and places an ad in the newspaper. Now wearing a cape and hat, he waits in vain for customers.

J.S. Brown, o Último Herói

1980

A Mulher Sensual poster
6.4

Famous soap opera actress finds out her sexuality after breaking up with her former boyfriend, an important TV executive.

A Mulher Sensual

1981

No artwork available
5.0

Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town.

The Wizard and the Sheriff

1983

Quincas Borba poster
5.0

Based on a book by Machado de Assis (1839-1908) and adapted to the present time. After the death of the philosopher Quincas Borba, his friend and disciple Rubiao inherits all he possessed: his fortune, his dog, his philosophy and the germ of his madness. Rubiao's passion for Sofia, a friend's wife, places him at the center of a game in which she is the main piece while he is the only one who ignores the rules. The story of a dreamer and delirious man facing a reality to which he is not prepared.

Quincas Borba

1988

No artwork available
9.5

A couple of filmmakers facing difficulties to make a film in the midst of an economic crisis, affecting the relationship between them.

Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática

1984

Crazy - Um Dia Muito Louco poster
4.0

A man kills his roommate and buries him hastily in the backyard. But soon people arrive to see the room the dead man had advertised the day before.

Crazy - Um Dia Muito Louco

1981

Prova de Fogo poster
4.3

As soon as Mauro, an Administration student, discovers a strong vocation for mediumship, he drops everything to go deeper and dedicate himself to Umbanda, a religion he embraces so strongly that it makes him give up his studies. Determined to open his own spiritist center, Mauro moves to the countryside.

Prova de Fogo

1980

Escalada da Violência poster
6.0

An architect has his family brutally murdered and leaves for relentless vengeance.

Escalada da Violência

1982

Memórias do Medo poster
6.7

With Brasilia as a setting, the film tries to recreate the political environment in Brazil when civilians were able to found new political parties, after 10 years of strict military rules. In the midst of a nationwide crisis, a group of politicians found an opposition party to the military regime, triggering violent denunciation against multinationals operating in the country. The explorer of the Seesaw deposit, United Mining, an American multinational that is being accused of several irregularities, sees in the internal struggle that divides the opposition party its only chance to silence the nationalist campaign that denounces it. Thus, a game is developed that ends up leading the characters to a tragic plot of corruption and fear.

Memórias do Medo

1981

1970s · 14 titles

Embalos Alucinantes: A Troca de Casais poster
4.2

Sexual adventures of a prostitute's son and a bordello owner, who like to swap women.

Embalos Alucinantes: A Troca de Casais

1979

Esse Rio Muito Louco poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Esse Rio Muito Louco

1977

A Volta do Filho Pródigo poster
7.0

Unemployed, penniless in the big city and after accidentally stealing and killing his landlady, Antonio flees Rio de Janeiro towards Northeast of Brazil to find his mother. On the way he meets a beautiful woman and a pair of criminals.

A Volta do Filho Pródigo

1978

O Escolhido de Iemanjá poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Escolhido de Iemanjá

1978

O Bom Marido poster
4.1

An industrial couple spends more than they can afford. In financial trouble, the husband Afraninho devises a strange kind of business, for foreign executives, in which the product is his own wife Malu. They succeed, and soon other couples start doing the same thing, establishing the competition.

O Bom Marido

1978

Joanna Francesa poster
4.5

Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at São Paulo, and with him the frivolity of tea-parties and comfort. Her wild inner-soul will develop into the wild forest surroundings of a landlord's farmhouse. To the extent she will defend her land like a 19th century owner - of lands and men alike.

Joanna Francesa

1973

Os Condenados poster
6.0

In São Paulo, during the 1920s, a woman who is loved by a telegraphist and seduced by a slacker ends up in prostitution.

Os Condenados

1974

Se Segura, Malandro! poster
4.5

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.

Se Segura, Malandro!

1978

No artwork available
10.0

A curious story: it rains whenever a couple of lovers meet. Against the weather forecast, it rains all over the city. And as the love grows, the stronger becomes the rain. Found by a television crew, they receive the title of "Rain Lovers", and their dates become public spectacles.

Rain Lovers

1979

Paula: A História de uma Subversiva poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Paula: A História de uma Subversiva

1979

O Cortiço poster
5.0

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

O Cortiço

1978

The Fall poster
6.8

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.

The Fall

1976

Revólver de Brinquedo poster
9.0

Solitary young man, dominated by his mother, lives in a daydream. He buys a toy gun and impersonates a crime book personage.

Revólver de Brinquedo

1977

A Lost Woman poster
4.4

The story of a poor woman living in the backwoods of Brazil and working as a maid. One day she is unfairly fired from the house where she was working and goes to the big city, facing a cruel and hostile world, working in factories, bars and bordellos.

A Lost Woman

1976

Series credits

O Todo Poderoso poster
9.0

The plot unfolds across two distinct worlds: Dr. Cristiano Navarro’s hospital and an impoverished neighborhood on the outskirts of São Paulo. While doctors at the hospital fight to save lives using state-of-the-art medical technology, young Emanuel—living in the neighborhood—demonstrates the ability to perform miraculous, extraordinary healings with just the touch of his hands. Dr. Cristiano is married to Linda, a wealthy, refined woman twenty years his junior. They long for a child but have been unable to conceive. Linda consults Dr. Paula, a renowned gynecologist, but the doctor cannot resolve their issue. Linda then decides to seek help from Emanuel, sparking a series of conflicts with her husband. However, things are far from ideal in Emanuel’s neighborhood. He possesses paranormal abilities that sometimes manifest in ways beyond his control. An enigmatic and unpredictable man, Emanuel fears his own powers.

O Todo Poderoso

1979

The Summer Sun poster
7.0

Unhappy in her marriage, Rachel decides to separate from her husband, the businessman Virgílio. Determined to turn her life around, she moves from Petrópolis to the southern zone of Rio de Janeiro with her daughter, Clara, and goes to live in her mother Laura's house in Ipanema. There she falls in love with the charming, but gruff, Heitor, owner of a mechanic shop. He lives with his sister, Irene, in an old townhouse, one of the main settings of the telenovela.

The Summer Sun

1982

Golden Years poster
6.8

In the 1950s, Lurdinha and Marcos fall in love at the first sight. She studies at the Institute of Education, and he studies at the Military College. Two traditional educational institutions in 'Tijuca', in the North Zone of 'Rio de Janeiro'. But Lurdinha's conservative parents reject Marcos because he is son of separated parents and try, in every way, to keep him away from her.

Golden Years

1986

Padre Cícero poster
8.8

When accused of disobeying Church norms and having his priestly rights suspended, Father Cícero intensifies his political activity in fulfilling his pastoral mission.

Padre Cícero

1984

Lampião e Maria Bonita poster
8.0

Lampião becomes the target of relentless persecution after the kidnapping of a foreigner. Alongside Maria Bonita, he faces challenges and persecution in the last months of his life in the cangaço.

Lampião e Maria Bonita

1982