Charles Paraventi

Acting

Charles Paraventi

Born

1969-07-04 (57)

Place of birth

Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Charles Adrian Paraventi Essabba (Queens, New York, July 4, 1969) is an American actor naturalized Brazilian.

Known for

Young Hearts poster
6.3

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

Young Hearts

1995

Genesis poster
8.0

The story of the first 2,300 years of humanity and recounts events exclusively from that period. The plot begins by giving us a greater understanding of why we exist and how we turned from perfection to imperfection. The origin of all social and racial problems is there at the beginning of everything, when via one decision a human being who only knew good and enjoyed it so much also chose to know evil.

Genesis

2021

Walking the Clouds poster
8.4

The adventures of a man with amnesia who struggles to rediscover his past while learning to live in the present.

Walking the Clouds

1999

City of God poster
8.4

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

City of God

2002

Man on Fire poster
7.5

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Man on Fire

2004

As Canalhas poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

As Canalhas

2013

Film credits

2020s · 19 titles

Dark Horse poster
NR

Follows Jair Messias Bolsonaro, a man driven by his political career after disappointment with the direction of his country, in the journey to become the 38th president of Brazil.

Dark Horse

2026

Yakuza Princess poster
6.1

In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a gaijin (foreigner) who's been protecting her all this time, Shirô, may have been actually sent to kill her.

Yakuza Princess

2021

Proof of Love poster
7.0

Alicia is a rich young woman who loves to party, travel and is very close to her grandfather. The protagonist runs away from responsibilities and tries to make the most of the benefits of being the heir to an immense estate. When her grandfather dies, she discovers that she has been excluded from the will and will only be able to get her hands on the family business and money when she is mature enough and married.

Proof of Love

2022

13 Souls poster
NR

Following her mother’s death, fifteen-year-old Agne moves in with her estranged father and older sister near a cemetery where he works. There, she uncovers a mysterious and deadly connection between her family and the “13 Souls” — victims of a tragic, unsolved fire decades earlier. As the past resurfaces and strange phenomena escalate, Agne finds herself entangled in a supernatural mystery tied to possession, reincarnation, and long-buried guilt.

13 Souls

2026

Marighella poster
7.6

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

Marighella

2021

Distritc 666 poster
7.2

In a dystopian world, young people discover government secrets about the pandemic. While fighting oppression, they try to survive.

Distritc 666

2022

A Vampire in the Family poster
5.3

Fernandinho is a family man, former football player and a current podcast commentator that is surprised by the visit of his inconvenient brother-in-law, Gregorio, who discovers to be lazy and literally a bloodsucker - a vampire.

A Vampire in the Family

2023

Domingo Sem Deus poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Domingo Sem Deus

2026

Quatro Amigas Numa Fria poster
7.2

Dani is about to get married and travels with three other friends to Bariloche for her bachelorette party. The girls expect a fun and peaceful trip, but when they arrive in the Argentine city, things start to go wrong and the group has to make do: Karen forgets to book a place and, from there, the situation only gets worse. Together, they will need to find practical solutions to their problems and experience completely unexpected adventures.

Quatro Amigas Numa Fria

2022

Zero to Hero poster
6.4

When a rock wannabe is forced to replace his famous sertanejo look-alike, he faces a life-changing choice — lose his own identity or follow his heart.

Zero to Hero

2023

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bárbara não lhe Adora

2026

George Of Cappadocia poster
6.7

After winning yet another battle, Jorge is decorated as the new captain of the army, and now finds himself faced with his greatest challenge, whether to be faithful to his faith or succumb to the excesses of Emperor Diocletian.

George Of Cappadocia

2024

O Último Animal poster
6.2

Didi dreams of improving his life and is trying to leave the community (the slum) where he grew up, when he discovers that he is indirectly working for Casimiro Alves. A Portuguese immigrant known as Dr. Ciro, famous boss of the illegal lottery in Rio. Didi's dream turns into a nightmare of violence, drug trafficking, and corruption in the marvelous city.

O Último Animal

2023

Tô Ryca 2 poster
6.4

Selminha is back! Now wealthy and willing to pay generously for all her needs and desires. The problem is that a poor person’s happiness is brief: a namesake heir appears claiming that she is the legitimate inheritor and Selminha’s assets are frozen. Her only source of income becomes a minimum wage salary of R$30 per day. However, Selminha has already forgotten how to live the hardships of poverty. And worst, she is the patron of the Quintino community, and with her financial difficulties, the community also feels the squeeze.

Tô Ryca 2

2022

Eike: Tudo ou Nada poster
6.1

In 2006, when the Brazilian economy was taking off due to the discovery of oil in the pre-salt layer, Eike Batista decided to create the oil company OGX and hired the best men from Petrobras to participate in the pre-salt auction. But megalomaniacal plans and a series of misguided decisions and alliances cause their empire to crumble as spectacularly as it had grown. And Brazil watches, perplexed, the fall of Eike, who loses all his fortune, power and prestige. Inspired by the book by journalist Malu Gaspar.

Eike: Tudo ou Nada

2022

The Beachnickers 2 poster
6.7

Coworkers Alexandre, Lima, Rocha, Diguinho and their families are treated by the company to a trip to Bahia. However, problems and unforeseen events can ruin this dream trip.

The Beachnickers 2

2024

O Armário Mágico poster
NR

The film tells the story of a Jewish family in Brazil, set against the backdrop of the Great World War of the 20th century, who try to escape Nazi groups in the country and find a peaceful life.

O Armário Mágico

2024

The Beachnickers 3 poster
NR

Rocha decides to foot the bill for his daughter's wedding in an island and invites his loyal colleagues, Alexandre, Lima, and Diguinho, along with their families, to the all-expenses-paid celebration. The setting seemed perfect for an unforgettable trip, but the peace is short-lived, soon giving way to a series of surprises and mishaps.

The Beachnickers 3

2026

O Braço Direito poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Braço Direito

2020

2010s · 15 titles

Zoom poster
5.8

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.

Zoom

2016

Chatô, The King of Brazil poster
5.2

The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.

Chatô, The King of Brazil

2015

Till Luck Do Us Part 2 poster
5.8

After all the trouble in the first film, Tino and Jane have more fun adventures. Still tasting bitter failure, they see a light at the end of the tunnel with uncle Olavinho’s unexpected inheritance. However, the will carries an unusual request: the rich uncle wants his ashes to be scattered throughout the Grand Canyon. The couple takes the opportunity of the trip to fulfill this wish and decides to go to Las Vegas and end up getting into comical situations. Big time spender Tino will fall into the greatest temptations and indulge in the casinos of the gambling city.

Till Luck Do Us Part 2

2013

Two Rabbits poster
6.9

Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.

Two Rabbits

2012

Jules and Dolores poster
6.4

On December 19th, 1983, the dream was taken away. The most coveted trophy of all time, the Jules Rimet Cup disappeared from the headquarters of CBF, the Brazilian Football Association. Let me explain: every 4 years FIFA holds a Football World Cup. Back then, only a country that won the Cup three times could keep the trophy for good. This privilege was reserved to Brazil when they won for the 3rd time in 1970. The beautiful trophy was kept as a symbol of superiority in the headquarters of CBF, in Rio de Janeiro. “Jules and Dolores” is a pop comedy that tell us the real, preposterous and unusual story behind this theft.

Jules and Dolores

2016

Socorro, Virei uma Garota! poster
6.6

Júlio wanted to be the most popular person in school but ends up getting more than what he wished for.

Socorro, Virei uma Garota!

2019

Head Over Heels poster
6.5

After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic, thirtysomething businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner on a decadent sex shop.

Head Over Heels

2010

My Hindu Friend poster
4.1

Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live with the pain and also conversing with death, he meets a Hindu boy who is a fellow patient and who becomes his friend. But one day the boy disappears. Diego is discharged, but his life has changed forever. His marriage fails and, living alone, he begins to wonder whether he may in fact be dying and no one has told him. He tries to find out what happened to his Hindu friend, and eventually meets another woman.

My Hindu Friend

2016

Till Luck Do Us: Part 3 poster
6.0

After waking from a coma, Tino learns his future in-laws have given him a high-powered financial job, for which he is woefully unqualified.

Till Luck Do Us: Part 3

2015

Odeio o Dia dos Namorados poster
5.6

Débora is an advertiser who has always put her career above her love life. Work and love mix when she runs a campaign for Valentine's Day, whose client is her ex-boyfriend, who was dumped by her in a humiliating way.

Odeio o Dia dos Namorados

2013

The Beachnickers poster
6.9

Things go from bad to worse when four co-workers decide to enjoy the extended holiday at a beach house with their families.

The Beachnickers

2018

It's a Fairy! poster
5.7

Geraldine is a fairy who lost their wings by using unconventional methods in their missions. Her last chance to retrieve them will be the mission "Julia".

It's a Fairy!

2016

Loucas pra Casar poster
6.4

Malu, Lúcia and Maria found the ideal man to marry. Until they discover that in reality this man is the same person: Samuel, who was dating all of them over the past years. The three will have to decide if they will fight amongst each other for exclusivity or will unite in revenge.

Loucas pra Casar

2015

Elite Cup poster
4.4

Police officer Jorge Capitão is a competent BOP captain and a Brazilian idol. But after he saved Argentina's greatest ace from a kidnapping, on the eve of the World Cup, he ended up becoming the nation's number 1 public enemy. Expelled from the corporation and discredited by the people, Captain must relearn how to work as a team to avoid an attempt on the Pope in the final of the tournament. That's when the sex shop manager Bia Alpinistinha, a medium and her very crazy mother, enters the scene.

Elite Cup

2014

New Amsterdam poster
9.5

The arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of this violent story that pushes Bernarda and her family to run away from the city and from the invasion. In the Potengi Mill she meets the foreman's son Rafael and they immediately discover a passionate love. It will give them the force to try to survive during those violent years triggered by Jacob Rabbí, a German assigned by Prince John Maurice of Nassau to command the conquest.

New Amsterdam

2017

2000s · 9 titles

City of God poster
8.4

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

City of God

2002

Man on Fire poster
7.5

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Man on Fire

2004

Domino poster
5.9

The story of the life of Domino Harvey, who abandoned her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.

Domino

2005

SnakeMan poster
5.6

An object is found that points to the secret of eternal youth so a research team is sent to find the fountain only to find it is protected by a giant snake

SnakeMan

2005

Tainá: An Amazon Adventure poster
4.9

A brave and bold indigenous girl, protector of her jungle and its wild life and guided by her shaman grandfather, pairs with a boy from the big city, against animal traffickers in the Amazon forest.

Tainá: An Amazon Adventure

2001

A Werewolf in the Amazon poster
4.6

In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations.

A Werewolf in the Amazon

2005

Owner of the Story poster
6.4

A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.

Owner of the Story

2004

Drinks Desejos Desvios poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Drinks Desejos Desvios

2009

Espelho d'Água - Uma Viagem no Rio São Francisco poster
8.0

Young woman goes looking for her missing boyfriend, a photographer last seen going down huge São Francisco River, in Brazil. On her search, she is told many stories about that river.

Espelho d'Água - Uma Viagem no Rio São Francisco

2004

1990s · 4 titles

Series credits

Young Hearts poster
6.3

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

Young Hearts

1995

Genesis poster
8.0

The story of the first 2,300 years of humanity and recounts events exclusively from that period. The plot begins by giving us a greater understanding of why we exist and how we turned from perfection to imperfection. The origin of all social and racial problems is there at the beginning of everything, when via one decision a human being who only knew good and enjoyed it so much also chose to know evil.

Genesis

2021

Walking the Clouds poster
8.4

The adventures of a man with amnesia who struggles to rediscover his past while learning to live in the present.

Walking the Clouds

1999

As Canalhas poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

As Canalhas

2013

A Muralha poster
8.1

A hundred years after Europeans set foot in the New World, Brazil still remains largely unexplored. The Conquest recounts the saga of the earliest adventurers who wandered through these unknown lands. Jesuit priests, adventurers seeking gold, slaves and indigenous tribes were entangled in unceasing battles, at a time when laws were made by the sharp edge of a sword.

A Muralha

2000

Chapa Quente poster
6.0

Marlene and Genésio are the typical couple with a volatile, love-hate relationship. She works hard, while he—a chronic loafer—constantly gets himself into major scrapes.

Chapa Quente

2015

Cine Holliúdy – The Series poster
7.8

The series is set in the 1970s. In the story, the mayor clashes with the idealist Francisgleydisson, owner of Cine Holliúdy—the only cultural attraction in Pitombas, a fictional town in Ceará.

Cine Holliúdy – The Series

2019

Rio Heroes poster
8.5

The stories of a group of fighters who are part of a tough competition of Mixed Martial Arts where anything goes.

Rio Heroes

2018

Era Uma Vez Uma Historia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Era Uma Vez Uma Historia

2017