Gracindo Júnior

Acting

Gracindo Júnior

Born 1943-05-21 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gracindo Júnior, stage name of Epaminondas Xavier Gracindo (Rio de Janeiro, May 21, 1943), is a Brazilian actor, lyricist, director, author and screenwriter. He is the son of the great actor Paulo Gracindo.

Acting credits

The Emerald Forest poster
6.6

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.

The Emerald Forest

1985

Kickboxer 3: The Art of War poster
5.0

Kick-box champion David Sloan arrives in Rio de Janeiro for an exhibition fight. He and mentor Xian take pity on Brazilian rascal Marcos Coasta, an urchin who offers guide services but routinely steals from tourists for himself and his older sister Isabella. David is shocked when he sees how his Argentinian opponent Marcelo needlessly abuses a courteous local sparing partner. That's the doing of his evil US manager, Lane. He has nasty plans to force David to cheat and runs a white slavery racket.

Kickboxer 3: The Art of War

1992

Segurança Nacional poster
4.5

The Brazilian Government leads Latin American countries in the fight against drug cartels. In response drug cartels start a series of attacks against Brazil's cities and natural resources. Their first target is the Amazon Forest.

Segurança Nacional

2010

Tensão no Rio poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tensão no Rio

1984

Bufo & Spallanzani poster
5.0

Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.

Bufo & Spallanzani

2001

Buena Sorte poster
5.2

Farmer raised in the USA returns to Brazil when he discovers that his uncle is involved with some illegal activities.

Buena Sorte

1996

The Fall poster
5.2

To overcome the fear of losing his ill and aging grandfather, a forensic photographer needs to discover the truth behind the alleged suicide of an elderly man.

The Fall

2022

Primo Basílio poster
5.3

Luísa is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luísa was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basílio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luísa will discover the price of her infidelity.

Primo Basílio

2007

Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado poster
5.8

The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts from films and videos in which he acted.

Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado

2009

Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária poster
4.6

Edgard works as a subordinate in the company of millionaire Werneck and is in love with Ritinha, a simple woman who works as a teacher to support her mother and her three sisters. One day, Peixoto, Werneck's son-in-law, makes him a proposal to marry Maria, the boss's daughter. The reason is that Maria was abused and now is being forced to marry by her family. Edgard hesitates first but accepts the offer. From then on he enters into a great doubt: should he deposit the check and marry Maria or stay with Ritinha, his great love?

Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária

2013

As Moças Daquela Hora poster
3.3

Film in three segments. In the first, engaged girl falls in love with an acrobat. In the second, married woman is loved by two men. In the last, the daughter of a traditional family is rejected on her wedding night.

As Moças Daquela Hora

1973

Topografia de um Desnudo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Topografia de um Desnudo

2009

O Trapalhão na Arca de Noé poster
4.2

Duda is a zoo cleaner. He and his friend Kiko and Zeca are actively engaged in an animal protection group. For this reason, they are summoned by mystic Noé to fight animal hunters in the Pantanal region, in Brazil, who are after animal skins and furs, and are led by the mean Morel. They accept the mission and, on their way, meet archaeologist Marcos and photographer Carla, who are in search of a lost pyramid built by the Phoenician. Together, they try to beat the hunters.

O Trapalhão na Arca de Noé

1983

Irmã Dulce poster
7.7

Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the “Good Angel of Bahia”, also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and canonized by the Catholic Church. Contemplating from the 1940s to the 1980s, the film shows how the Catholic nun faced an incurable respiratory disease, machismo, the indifference of politicians and even the dogmas of the Church to dedicate her life to the care of the miserable, leaving a legacy that continues today.

Irmã Dulce

2014

The Forest poster
6.1

Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.

The Forest

2002

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo: O Minotauro poster
NR

At Pedrinho's request, Dona Benta begins to tell the legend of the Minotaur. In the middle of the story, a strange visitor appears on the farm and takes Aunt Natácia to some unknown place. Upon discovering that she was kidnapped by the Minotaur, the whole gang goes on an adventure to try to save Aunt Nastácia. And that's when the fun begins.

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo: O Minotauro

1978

Marquesa de Santos poster
7.5

The story of Domitila de Castro Canto e Melo, the Marquise of Santos, the most famous of the mistresses of Dom Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil.

Marquesa de Santos

1984

No artwork available
8.0

After a newlywed couple moves into a whitewashed house, the former owner shows up and complications begin.

A Casa de Açúcar

1996

The Men I Had poster
4.9

Married woman only feels well when she's in love. In search of a ravishing love, she has many love affairs, with her husband's consent.

The Men I Had

1973

As Cartas de Chico Xavier poster
NR

Three people accused of murder who were pardoned by the parents of the victims and acquitted by Justice thanks to the letters psychographed by the medium Chico Xavier.

As Cartas de Chico Xavier

2004

Tainá - An Amazon Legend poster
6.8

The film tells the story of Tainá, a 5 years old orphan Indian girl who dreams of becoming a warrior and discovering her true origin. Along the way, she makes unexpected friends such as Laura, a lost city girl, and Gobi, a nerd Indian boy. They learn to overcome their mutual differences while going through their eventful journey. Taina confronts the ancestral enemy of her family, Jurupari, the incarnation of Evil, who wants to destroy the Forest.

Tainá - An Amazon Legend

2011

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

A Hora Marcada

2000

A Saga da Alma de um Poeta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Saga da Alma de um Poeta

2016

Desterro poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Desterro

1991

Behind the camera