Johnny Massaro

Acting

Johnny Massaro

Born 1992-01-20 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Johnny Jorge Massaro (Rio de Janeiro, January 20, 1992) is a Brazilian actor and director. Known for his work on television and cinema, he became one of the most versatile actors of his generation. Massaro has already received several awards, mainly at international film festivals, such as the Indie Shorts Awards Miami and WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.

Acting credits

The Son of a Thousand Men poster
7.5

In a small village, a lonely fisherman yearning for a son is drawn to an ethereal light that links him to others and their long-buried secrets.

The Son of a Thousand Men

2025

Dr. Gama poster
8.0

Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.

Dr. Gama

2021

O Auto da Boa Mentira poster
5.6

In four stories inspired by humorous tales by Ariano Suassuna, each created based on phrases by the poet from Paraíba, we meet Helder, Fabiano, Pierce and Lorena, living different situations where, ironically, the lie is always the protagonist.

O Auto da Boa Mentira

2021

Transe poster
NR

A threesome that takes place against the backdrop of Brazil's 2018 presidential election. Three young adults in a love triangle seek to understand the world and who they are on the brink of a shocking and highly-divisive election that puts the future of each one in check.

Transe

2024

Dear Death: The Movie poster
6.5

This is an adaptation of the 2015 TV show, featuring two intertwining love triangles that drive the plot. The first triangle involves Aragão, his wife Arlinda, and her lover, Chico. The second triangle unites Malvina, Lena, and Gabriel, who is the son of Arlinda and Chico but raised by Aragão.

Dear Death: The Movie

2017

No artwork available
NR

Guided by the enigmatic Petrus, Paulo embarks on a pilgrimage through the mountains, forests and fields of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. There, he undergoes a series of trials that transform his search for self-knowledge into an adventure of mysterious encounters and invisible forces, a journey that tests the physical and spiritual limits of both men.

The Pilgrimage

Coup de Grâce poster
NR

The sunlight illuminates a couple in bed. During the day, the house loses its cozy air and turns into a temple. She changes from lover to priestess. He transforms his embarrassment into a confession.

Coup de Grâce

2022

The Movie of My Life poster
7.3

The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.

The Movie of My Life

2017

The First Fallen poster
6.1

1983 — A young biologist returns home from studies abroad and feels something wrong with his body. This is the start of the AIDS crisis when the first wave of the epidemic hit Brazil. Lives will change, friends will be lost and the future is uncertain.

The First Fallen

2021

Turn It Up, It's Rock 'n' Roll poster
7.2

The film tells the story of Luiz Antônio, a clumsy radio host, who unexpectedly finds himself in charge of a bankrupt radio station. Relying only on his passion for rock'n'roll and a crazy team, he creates one of the most emblematic radio stations in the history of Brazilian rock, Fluminense FM. Among guitar solos and radio signal interferences, we follow the adventures misadventures of Luiz.

Turn It Up, It's Rock 'n' Roll

2024

All the Reasons to Forget poster
7.1

After ending his long-term relationship, Antonio is sure that he can quickly get over Sofia. But nothing is as simple as it seems. And realizing the impossibility of controlling his own feelings, he begins to boycott them, using all sorts of contemporary palliative measures to free himself from the memories of his ex: cognitive psychoanalysis, prescription drugs, Tinder, among others. Ergo, Antonio will go through several tragicomic situations.

All the Reasons to Forget

2017

In Therapy poster
6.4

In Rio de Janeiro, the forty and something years old Mercedes (Lília Cabral) goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life since she was a girl and lost her mother. Along the three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces from her husband Gustavo (José Mayer) and has love affairs with the younger Theo (Reynaldo Gianecchini)

In Therapy

2009

Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos poster
10.0

This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.

Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos

2019

The Cold Front Brought by the Rain poster
5.7

A group of playboys organizes the last party of the year in a slum before the change in weather. And for this night, beyond the usual drugs, alcohol and sex, they will receive special guests: an addict that uses and is used by the group, a country singer who was raised around the slum, a strange security guard and the owner of the place.

The Cold Front Brought by the Rain

2016

The Pastor and the Revolutionary poster
7.3

O Pastor e o Guerrilheiro is a Brazilian feature film inspired by a true story, which takes place in the 1960s and 1970s and at the turn of the millennium - in the last days of 1999.

The Pastor and the Revolutionary

2023

Alice & Só poster
NR

Alice, a young music lover, and her best friend Socrates, go on a road trip, accompanied by Tinho, a former rocker, to play at the world's largest cover band festival.

Alice & Só

2020

Looking for a New Place to Begin poster
1.0

Barbara Ohana's song "Chains" is dubbed by a man who performs the song while the music video also presents him as the main character in a story where he feels broken-hearted, possibly because he still has feelings for his ex-boyfriend. As for the memories left, a masculine mannequin is what makes him company, which helps a little but not for too long.

Looking for a New Place to Begin

2019

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