Jofre Soares

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

Grande Sertão poster
5.2

Cowboy 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

Tragic Jungle poster
6.8

In 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

O Caçador de Esmeraldas poster
8.0

The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".

O Caçador de Esmeraldas

1979

Trote de Sádicos poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Trote de Sádicos

1974

Cordão de Ouro poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cordão de Ouro

1977

Extraterrestrial Cat in Boots poster
7.0

A 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

O Crime do Zé Bigorna poster
10.0

In the 1930s, a blacksmith is accused of murdering his wife and becomes a hero and political leader.

O Crime do Zé Bigorna

1977

The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe poster
5.1

Filmmaker 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

Gabriela poster
5.9

In 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

Maria Bonita, Rainha do Cangaço poster
7.5

Romantic biography of Maria Bonita, daughter of a poor farmer who was kidnapped by Lampião and became his lover.

Maria Bonita, Rainha do Cangaço

1968

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

Sonhei com Você poster
9.0

Milionário 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

Massacre in Dinosaur Valley poster
5.0

A 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

Dôra Doralina poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dôra Doralina

1982

Cabocla Tereza poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cabocla Tereza

1980

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chapéu de Couro

1978

Antonio das Mortes poster
6.8

A 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

Águias em Patrulha poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Águias em Patrulha

1969

O Cangaceiro poster
7.2

This 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

Entranced Earth poster
7.2

Eldorado, 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

Perfumed Ball poster
7.3

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit.

Perfumed Ball

1997

O Guarani poster
4.5

The love affair between Ceci, a white woman and a handsome Indian, Peri, in Brazil.

O Guarani

1979

Maracatu, Maracatus poster
NR

The 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

Bacanal poster
5.0

One 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

Behind the camera