
Acting
Abrahão Farc
Born 1937-07-28 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Abram Jacob Szafarc (São Paulo, July 28, 1937 — São Paulo, September 24, 2012), better known as Abrahão Farc, was a Brazilian actor.
Acting credits
2.0On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, they confiscate the filmed negatives. The paranoid director grumbles: "Are they from the government?". The execution of the film is compromised. Will the director in trouble be able to complete his film?
A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum
2014
7.0Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His beloved mentor and surrogate father is dying, and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares him for the day when he comes home to discover that his 15-year-old son, Pedro, has disappeared. Theo takes to the road in search of his son. In a journey that leads him throughout Brazil, Theo discovers what really matters to him. Searching for his missing son, Theo finds himself.
Father’s Chair
2012
4.0Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.
Act of Violence
1981
5.7After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Nina
2004
7.2An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature.
Bang Bang
1971
6.1Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a trans man who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with young librarian Clara.
Vera
1986
7.0A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.
Drained
2006
9.0Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
Oswaldianas
1992
9.0Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case.
The Ripper of Women
1978
9.0Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers.
Beautiful and Corrupted
1977
8.6A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.
Avocado Seed
1998
7.2A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
2006
4.7Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.
Cada um Dá o Que Tem
1975
NRMr. Mario can't distinguish anymore the past from the present. He lives again, inside his own mind, a period of his life when he was a salesman going door to door selling travel guides. However, Mr. Mario has never traveled, but now, an opportunity to see the world arises. Felipe, his grandson, will be his loyal partner on this great journey.
A Grande Viagem
2011
5.0In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
2021
9.0No synopsis available yet.
O Mulherengo
1976
6.450 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.
Buccaneer Soul
1993
6.3Helena and Renato are a couple who leave the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house and help Helena recover from her nervous breakdowns. But before long, she begins to suffer from increasingly disturbing hallucinations, and the household appliances seem to come to life.
Excitation
1977
Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments because the network that financed it went under.
Dracula, a Love Story
1980
5.5Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. João de Camargo represents the genesis of religious and cultural syncretism in Brazil.
Cafundó
2005
7.8Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
The Woman of Everyone
1969
5.2Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
2012
7.0Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer player who has his career spoiled by a unscrupulous gambler
Perigo Negro
1992
6.9Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
It's Not All True
1986