
Acting
Jofre Soares
Born 1918-09-21 · Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas, Brazil
José Jofre Soares (Palmeira dos Índios, 21 September 1918 – São Paulo, 19 August 1996) was a Brazilian actor and nautical officer. He is considered one of the great names in Brazilian cinema.
Acting credits
5.2Cowboy Riobaldo is attracted to same sex Diadorim, not knowing that "he" is a girl dressed in man's clothes. After Diadorim's father is killed, she swears revenge, being joined by Riobaldo in this mission.
Grande Sertão
1965
6.8In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.
Tragic Jungle
1963
8.0The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".
O Caçador de Esmeraldas
1979
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Trote de Sádicos
1974
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Cordão de Ouro
1977
7.0A Cat from outer-space comes to earth and befriends a Miller's Son and together they set out to defeat an evil wizard.
Extraterrestrial Cat in Boots
1990
10.0In the 1930s, a blacksmith is accused of murdering his wife and becomes a hero and political leader.
O Crime do Zé Bigorna
1977
5.1Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the story for his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force.
The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe
1974
5.9In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels.
Gabriela
1983
7.5Romantic biography of Maria Bonita, daughter of a poor farmer who was kidnapped by Lampião and became his lover.
Maria Bonita, Rainha do Cangaço
1968
7.5Originally 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
9.0Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.
Sonhei com Você
1988
5.0A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety.
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley
1985
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Dôra Doralina
1982
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Cabocla Tereza
1980
No synopsis available yet.
Chapéu de Couro
1978
6.8A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.
Antonio das Mortes
1969
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Águias em Patrulha
1969
7.2This is a remake of Brazil's first international success in the cinema world. Just as its same name predecessor was, this film is a fictional version of the story of the "cangaceiros." These were bandits who sacked towns and spread terror throughout Northeastern Brazil in the 1930s. This group of outlaws is led by Captain Galdino and his wife Maria Bonita.
O Cangaceiro
1997
7.2Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
Entranced Earth
1967
7.3A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit.
Perfumed Ball
1997
4.5The love affair between Ceci, a white woman and a handsome Indian, Peri, in Brazil.
O Guarani
1979
NRThe cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the state of Pernambuco.
Maracatu, Maracatus
1995
5.0One car failure and a long bus ride to nowhere lead to a small Brazilian country town where two groups of guys and girls meet. This coincidences change the courses of their lives as they soon mingle and passion arises among them.
Bacanal
1980