Leopoldo Pacheco

Acting

Leopoldo Pacheco

Born 1960-09-21 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

José Leopoldo Pacheco (São Paulo, September 21, 1960) is a Brazilian actor, director, set designer, makeup artist and costume designer.

Acting credits

Carandiru poster
7.6

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

Carandiru

2003

No artwork available
6.0

At age 15, Debora shares with Hamlet the angst and doubts of her adolescence.

Tudo o Que é Sólido Pode Derreter

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chorão: Só os Loucos Sabem

2027

Quarto do Pânico poster
5.9

A woman and her daughter move into a house with a panic room, a secret space where residents can hide in case of danger. When alleged burglars break into the house, they take refuge in the room, until they discover that it is precisely there that the trio of intruders are looking for.

Quarto do Pânico

2025

Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl poster
6.2

The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars and indigenous genocide.

Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl

2017

Bala Sem Nome poster
4.0

Suzana is an honest and hard-working woman who suddenly finds herself in captivity with her boyfriend while the hijackers pressure her to return a supposed money they swear she stole.

Bala Sem Nome

2023

Maria do Caritó poster
6.9

Maria, a virgin spinster, is trying magical superstitions to find a husband. In her dialogue with the marriage saint, she implores for a companion. Her father offered her as a bride to Saint Djalminha, if the saint saved her during her complicated birth which ended in the death of her mother. Since then Maria has lived this dilemma: revered and loved by the residents and pilgrims that believe she is a miracle worker; she is desperate to live a great love, with a flesh and blood prospect with real passionate desire. She asks for a sign from the heavens, a clue on how to find a crumb of love when a gypsy arrives on scene saying "someone who loves her very much, but she doesn't know will come from afar on an artists' caravan." Maria can't take the solitude she is living anymore and decides "to find Mr. Right," no matter how much it may cost.

Maria do Caritó

2019

Aparecida - O Milagre poster
6.6

Marcos Resende is a cold and crisis man command MetalNobre company. Mark lost his faith in God when her father, Antonio, died in the construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida. He had asked the day before to Our Lady Aparecida cleats for him to play in a team and his father would buy them. Mark is separated from wife and Sonia have feuds with son Lucas, in addition to keeping a bad emotional relationship with Beatriz, an official of the company and his mother, Julia. After a misunderstanding, Lucas suffers a serious motorcycle accident. Then Mark revive its history and living with his father. And when he turns to Julia, she reveals the mysterious grace of his family.

Aparecida - O Milagre

2010

Feliz Ano Velho poster
6.3

After diving into a shallow lake, a college student becomes tetraplegic. In his wheel chair, he remembers the important facts of his life as an adolescent.

Feliz Ano Velho

1987

The Caretaker poster
5.7

Davi Carvalho is a psychology professor who wrote a book about how we project traumas of our past as paranormal events. A student from out of the city, Renata, appears in his life, asking for help for his little sister, Julia. Someone is hurting her and her father believes it is the ghost of a caretaker that lived in the family property years ago. Renata seeking for a rational answer, invites Davi to go to there family's house in order to find the truth behind it.

The Caretaker

2016

Essa Maldita Vontade de Ser Pássaro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Essa Maldita Vontade de Ser Pássaro

2011

Astro: An Urban Fable in a Magical Rio de Janeiro poster
NR

An urban fable that portrays the process of adaptation of Astro, the protagonist, to the city of Rio de Janeiro. The daughter of a Brazilian mother and a Swedish father, Astro comes to Brazil to receive an inheritance and ends up staying longer than she expected when she meets Alice. ART and the CITY are narrative elements that work in the transformation of the character. A positive history and vibrant rapture of self built on the border between reality and unconsciousness. An rapture of self built on the border between reality and unconsciousness.

Astro: An Urban Fable in a Magical Rio de Janeiro

2012

No artwork available
NR

The film, set between 1855 and 1860, tells the story of Maria. She is sold by her stepfather to marry Alfredo, son of Manuel, a bankrupt farmer who wants to have an heir. The girl is then confined to the farm, being watched at all times. Until she comes up with a plan in search of freedom.

A Prisioneira