Catalina Bonakie

Acting

Catalina Bonakie

Born — Died

1918-05-15 — 2005-10-22

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Known for

Four Lives, Four Loves poster
7.5

A traffic accident causes four women's destinies to intertwine. In the series, the four enter a pact of revenge against the men who hit them and caused them to suffer. Auxiliadora struggled to help her husband Alcebíades prosper, but when he leaves her for a younger woman, is thrown out of the house. The shy Tatiana was engaged to Fortunato, who failed to show up at their wedding. The Babalu hurricane caught mechanic Raí in bed with another woman. Abigail, a preppy psychologist who is struggling in a failing marriage, decides superficially to continue it but revolts against her husband, Gustavo, who humiliates her in public at a congress. Gustavo has custody of Ângela, a girl who longs to know her true father, Bruno. Her mother died in the childbirth, traumatizing him.

Four Lives, Four Loves

1994

Red Shoe Diaries poster
5.8

Jake takes out an ad in the newspaper after the suicide of his unfaithful fiancée, in an effort to understand the reasons for the betrayal. By soliciting the secret diaries of other women, he hopes to find some reconciliation with the truth.

Red Shoe Diaries

1992

Helena poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Helena

1987

Caso Especial poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Caso Especial

1971

Cute but Ordinary poster
5.0

The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.

Cute but Ordinary

1981

Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil poster
6.5

The Spanish Infanta Carlota Joaquina is promised to D. João VI at the age of 10. Forced to leave for Portugal, Carlota suffers a great disappointment when she meets her promised prince. With the death of D. José, Carlota Joaquina and D. João VI inherit the Portuguese crown. However, frightened by the French Revolution and the approach of Napoleon's army, they decide to flee to their colony: Brazil.

Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil

1995

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 11 titles

Cute but Ordinary poster
5.0

The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.

Cute but Ordinary

1981

A Cobiça do Sexo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Cobiça do Sexo

1983

Bye Bye Brazil poster
6.8

The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe.

Bye Bye Brazil

1980

Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta poster
5.6

In Nilópolis, Eliane, a 15-year-old girl, who is the daughter of a lower-middle-class couple, falls in love with Otávio, a 33-year-old divorcee. Upon learning of the relationship, Eliane's parents forbid her to meet her lover.

Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta

1985

Family Album poster
4.8

Follows the decadence of an incestuous oligarch family in a rural Brazilian household through the years during the early 20th century.

Family Album

1981

A Mulher Sensual poster
6.4

Famous soap opera actress finds out her sexuality after breaking up with her former boyfriend, an important TV executive.

A Mulher Sensual

1981

Bar Esperanza poster
6.2

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

Bar Esperanza

1983

O Sequestro poster
3.0

A robber breaks into a house in the Santa Teresa district of Rio de Janeiro and kidnaps the family's youngest son. Based on a true kidnapping that happened in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, whose victim, Carlinhos, has never been found to this day.

O Sequestro

1981

Fulaninha poster
5.1

Movie director in his forties and in existential crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing she's the daughter of the woman he's having a relationship with.

Fulaninha

1986

Trama Familiar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Trama Familiar

1986

No artwork available
9.0

An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of squares on the middle of neighborhoods Ipanema and Leblon. There, people of different social classes interact together - workers who live in the Cruzada de São Sebastião building and the local bourgeois class who live in fancy condos. There, the rich and the poor unite in the same spirit.

Jardim de Alah

1989

1970s · 13 titles

Se Segura, Malandro! poster
4.5

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.

Se Segura, Malandro!

1978

The Vampire of Copacabana poster
7.0

Carlos and Suely are a normal couple. He has some extramarital adventures and she's a standard housewife. During a Carnival, when he goes out wearing a vampire costume, Suely decides to follow a friend's advice and go for it. On Ash Wednesday, he finds her with an odalisk costume on and happier than usual.

The Vampire of Copacabana

1976

The Claudia Case poster
4.3

Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress Márcia Rodrigues's sister, was found in the seashore. After Police investigation, it was found she had been murdered on a party by a rich industrialist's son and his socialite hairdresser buddy, after much sex, alcohol and drugs, specially Mandrax (methaqualone). She'd probably resisted being raped and the killers threw away the body in the water. One of the guys tried to escape flying to Switzerland.

The Claudia Case

1979

Denúncia Vazia poster
8.0

An elderly couple decides to commit suicide after receive a eviction order. The first short-film of Adélia Sampaio, the first black woman in Brazil to direct a feature film.

Denúncia Vazia

1979

Fish in a Barrel poster
8.3

Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.

Fish in a Barrel

1977

Pedro Bó, o Caçador de Cangaceiros poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pedro Bó, o Caçador de Cangaceiros

1976

Maneco, o Super Tio poster
6.5

Maneco takes his nephews to spend his holidays at his grandfather's place. But the old scientist discovered a way to travel in time and got lost in the year 1926. Maneco and the boys will try to bring him back.

Maneco, o Super Tio

1979

As Borboletas Também Amam poster
5.0

Monica, a naive schoolgirl from a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, meets Virginia, a former neighbor, now living in Copacabana. Influenced by her, she decides to take on a double life: in the morning she is the suburban girl, in the afternoon she attends a brothel in the South Zone. One day she meets Flávio, a friend and eventual lover of Virginia. Flávio falls in love with the purity of Monica and wants to drive away her friends, for considering Virginia a bad company for her beloved.

As Borboletas Também Amam

1979

Teu Tua poster
5.3

A comedy divided in four episodes, set in different time periods, each starring a different couple, yet all facing the same issue: marital jealousy.

Teu Tua

1979

Parceiros da Aventura poster
9.0

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.

Parceiros da Aventura

1979

Os Foragidos da Violência poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Os Foragidos da Violência

1979

O Monstro de Santa Tereza poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Monstro de Santa Tereza

1975

Feminino Plural poster
8.0

"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the behavior imposed on women, they seek to rescue the strength of the feminine. The new woman, born in the Brazilian land, incorporates the Amazons and Santa Guerreira. At his side, the new man, more loose and creative. Closing the cycle, the initial road is resumed. " (HBH / QC)

Feminino Plural

1976

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