Domingos de Oliveira

Directing

Domingos de Oliveira

Born 1936-09-28 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Domingos José Soares de Oliveira (September 28, 1936 — March 23, 2019) was a Brazilian actor, playwright, stage director, TV host, poet and filmmaker. After getting a bachelor's degree in Engineering, he got involved in amateur theatre and soon started to get involved with cinema, specially with the Brazilian New Wave (Cinema Novo) movement. He served as assistant director to Joaquim Pedro de Andrade in short films "Manuel Bandeira, o Poeta do Castelo" and "Couro de Gato", and debuted as a film director with 1966's "Todas as Mulheres do Mundo". After that, Oliveira wrote over 20 stage plays, directed 18 films and hosted 3 TV shows, all in which he constantly worked with his partner Priscilla Rozenbaum. For his plays and occasionally self-starred very low-budget films often deal with themes of love and sex in a humorous and intelligent key, he became known as the "Brazilian Woody Allen". During his late years, Oliveira struggled with Parkinson's Disease, but kept working until his passing in March 2019.

Acting credits

Separações poster
7.1

Cabral is a 60 year old playwright who's married to Glorinha, an actress who's 20 years younger than him. They've been together for half of her live, and now they're getting bored...

Separações

2003

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo poster
7.5

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

1967

Carreiras poster
6.0

Ana Laura is a 40 year-old, good looking and well-informed TV News Anchor who's also a cocaine addict. Facing her career decline as the channel she works in starts to give more space to younger professionals, she faces a night of unusual events as she dives further into drug abuse.

Carreiras

2005

Cine Paissandu: Histórias de uma Geração poster
5.0

Documentary about the cinema that formed the Paissandu Generation, in the 60s, and the cultural and social impact of that period for the country's history.

Cine Paissandu: Histórias de uma Geração

2013

Juventude poster
3.7

David, a man in his twillight years, lives all by himself and decides to invite two childhood friends for a day at his house in Petrópolis, where they spend hours talking about the past.

Juventude

2008

Zimba poster
5.0

The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of generations of Brazilian actors. The polyphonic montage builds on vast unpublished material, covering half a century of performances, teletheaters and interviews by Zimba, as he was known – before and after fleeing Poland, on the eve of the invasion of Warsaw – and recreates fragments of Wedding Dress , a play by Nelson Rodrigues which the Polish-Brazilian director won a revolutionary montage in 1943.

Zimba

2021

Amores poster
3.0

In Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of mostly middle-aged friends share their lives and experiences with each other.

Amores

1998

Deliciosas Traições do Amor poster
7.0

Erotic comedy in four episodes loosely inspired by the 'Black Book of Love' by Marquês de Sade, whose stories were merged and reassembled with different treatments in each episode.

Deliciosas Traições do Amor

1975

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival poster
5.0

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

2020

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar poster
8.0

Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar

2021

Redeemer poster
7.0

Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.

Redeemer

2004

Clarice Niskier: Teatro dos Pés à Cabeça poster
NR

The documentary is a tribute to Theater based on the trajectory of Clarice Niskier who made her job her own lifestyle. As a central axis, interviews with the three directors with whom Clarice developed long partnerships: Domingos Oliveira, Eduardo Wotzik and Amir Haddad. Through an intimate and sensitive look, the film reveals her passion for the craft, her life experience, her poetic worldview, her spiritual and intellectual search, pains, joys, losses and gains. Clarice makes the black box the more than perfect symbol of her own Universe: the Theater.

Clarice Niskier: Teatro dos Pés à Cabeça

2024

Vida, Vida poster
8.0

In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town.

Vida, Vida

1977

Feminices poster
8.0

Four actresses in their mid-forties get together in the afternoon to write a play about their own experiences. But the director isn't satisfied with the outcome.

Feminices

2004

No artwork available
9.0

Portuguese television version of the jekyll and hyde story from 1972.

The Doctor and the Monster

1972

Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer poster
7.0

On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their crisis and limitations, and search for a meaning for their lives.

Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer

2013

No artwork available
NR

At the heart of an upper-middle class family resides a bizarre love triangle. Two men, one woman. An essay on the various possibilities and rituals of recent freedom, Os Demónios da Liberdade is also a manifest of sexual freedom. But the demons are still around.

Os Demónios da Liberdade

1976

Cat Skin poster
7.5

A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.

Cat Skin

1962

Suspiros Republicanos ao Crepúsculo de um Império Tropical poster
NR

The film tells a little of the history of Brazil immersed in the caricature of the conditions of making cinema in this country. Flora and Carlos Manoel fall in love. She, from a family linked to the Monarchy, and he, a republican activist, live their love in the last days of the monarchy, without knowing that the end of the empire would also mean the end of their romance.

Suspiros Republicanos ao Crepúsculo de um Império Tropical

2002

Dib poster
8.0

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.

Dib

1997

Domingos poster
2.0

A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.

Domingos

2009

Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais poster
5.3

Divided in five segments, "Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais" follows the story of different couples, each having various problems in bed.

Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais

2011

Paixão e Acaso poster
5.0

The psychoanalyst Inês intends not to be lovingly involved with anyone else. However, she ends up falling in love with two men at the same time, unaware that they are father and son.

Paixão e Acaso

2012

Behind the camera

BR 716 poster
6.2

In 1960s Rio de Janeiro, aspiring writer Felipe leads a life of wild parties held in an apartment in famous street Barata Ribeiro in Copacabana. There he and his friends enjoy freedom even in the midst of a complicated political moment.

BR 716

2016

BR 716 poster
6.2

In 1960s Rio de Janeiro, aspiring writer Felipe leads a life of wild parties held in an apartment in famous street Barata Ribeiro in Copacabana. There he and his friends enjoy freedom even in the midst of a complicated political moment.

BR 716

2016

Childhood poster
7.7

The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behavior.

Childhood

2014

Childhood poster
7.7

The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behavior.

Childhood

2014

Separações poster
7.1

Cabral is a 60 year old playwright who's married to Glorinha, an actress who's 20 years younger than him. They've been together for half of her live, and now they're getting bored...

Separações

2003

Separações poster
7.1

Cabral is a 60 year old playwright who's married to Glorinha, an actress who's 20 years younger than him. They've been together for half of her live, and now they're getting bored...

Separações

2003

Edu, Coração de Ouro poster
7.0

A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had managed to make him fall in love, until he met with mysterious Tatiana.

Edu, Coração de Ouro

1968

Edu, Coração de Ouro poster
7.0

A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had managed to make him fall in love, until he met with mysterious Tatiana.

Edu, Coração de Ouro

1968

A Culpa poster
7.0

Heitor and Matilde are two siblings who decide to murder their rich father in order to quickly inherit his wealth. They get the killing done, aided by Matilde's boyfriend Henrique, but after a while the three of them begin to recieve mysterious notes which suggest that their secret is in danger.

A Culpa

1972

Carreiras poster
6.0

Ana Laura is a 40 year-old, good looking and well-informed TV News Anchor who's also a cocaine addict. Facing her career decline as the channel she works in starts to give more space to younger professionals, she faces a night of unusual events as she dives further into drug abuse.

Carreiras

2005

Carreiras poster
6.0

Ana Laura is a 40 year-old, good looking and well-informed TV News Anchor who's also a cocaine addict. Facing her career decline as the channel she works in starts to give more space to younger professionals, she faces a night of unusual events as she dives further into drug abuse.

Carreiras

2005

Juventude poster
3.7

David, a man in his twillight years, lives all by himself and decides to invite two childhood friends for a day at his house in Petrópolis, where they spend hours talking about the past.

Juventude

2008

Juventude poster
3.7

David, a man in his twillight years, lives all by himself and decides to invite two childhood friends for a day at his house in Petrópolis, where they spend hours talking about the past.

Juventude

2008

The Magnificent 8 poster
8.0

On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du Moscovis have lunch at one of their houses. The occasion gives way to an incredibly sincere debate on the art of acting, the profession and, above all, the doubts about love and life.

The Magnificent 8

2017

The Magnificent 8 poster
8.0

On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du Moscovis have lunch at one of their houses. The occasion gives way to an incredibly sincere debate on the art of acting, the profession and, above all, the doubts about love and life.

The Magnificent 8

2017

Amores poster
3.0

In Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of mostly middle-aged friends share their lives and experiences with each other.

Amores

1998

Amores poster
3.0

In Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of mostly middle-aged friends share their lives and experiences with each other.

Amores

1998

Deliciosas Traições do Amor poster
7.0

Erotic comedy in four episodes loosely inspired by the 'Black Book of Love' by Marquês de Sade, whose stories were merged and reassembled with different treatments in each episode.

Deliciosas Traições do Amor

1975

Deliciosas Traições do Amor poster
7.0

Erotic comedy in four episodes loosely inspired by the 'Black Book of Love' by Marquês de Sade, whose stories were merged and reassembled with different treatments in each episode.

Deliciosas Traições do Amor

1975

Aconteceu na Quarta-Feira poster
NR

A couple of famous actors have a terrible marriage. Their feelings are so divided that one day one of them leaves, and yet someone just like him seems to have taken his place.

Aconteceu na Quarta-Feira

2018

Vida, Vida poster
8.0

In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town.

Vida, Vida

1977

Vida, Vida poster
8.0

In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town.

Vida, Vida

1977

Feminices poster
8.0

Four actresses in their mid-forties get together in the afternoon to write a play about their own experiences. But the director isn't satisfied with the outcome.

Feminices

2004

No artwork available
9.0

Portuguese television version of the jekyll and hyde story from 1972.

The Doctor and the Monster

1972