Magali Biff

Acting

Magali Biff

Born 1955-10-23 · São Paulo, Brazil

Acting credits

Hour of the Star poster
7.3

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.

Hour of the Star

1986

No artwork available
NR

At nearly 70, Hilda's solitude shifts when a domestic accident and a caregiver’s touch awaken long-buried sensations, leading to a personal awakening.

Mulher Papaya

2026

No artwork available
NR

The silence in the apartment carries stories. The frenzy of the streets omits our sounds. A conversation on a park bench breaks the chaos. Sílvio lives alone in São Paulo, Brazil.

Silvio

2021

Cyclone poster
7.5

Dayse, a Brazilian playwright known as Cyclone, wants to study in Paris. Having a career in theater is unthinkable for a woman in São Paulo in 1918. But her director doesn’t want her to go, as he would lose his mistress and ghostwriter. When she becomes pregnant by him, her dream starts to fade. An artist’s struggle for self-determination in a patriarchal society, based on the true story of Daisy Pontes and modernist Oswald de Andrade.

Cyclone

2025

Norma dos Ventos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Norma dos Ventos

2025

The Joy of Things poster
6.2

In a small Brazilian seaside town we follow the efforts of Paula, who is pregnant of her third child, to build a pool in her humble beach house, so the family can enjoy the rest of their vacation. Financial difficulties will interrupt the work and reveal certain aspects of a tense family routine, full of small frustrations.

The Joy of Things

2022

Bury Your Dead poster
5.5

Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink of destruction, Edgar and his unlikely companion Tomás – a disgraced and excommunicated priest – embark on a dangerous road trip through a landscape plagued by chaos and despair.

Bury Your Dead

2025

O Homem Perfeito poster
6.8

Diana is a successful and happily married woman. At least that's what she thinks until she finds out that her husband is cheating on her with a young aspiring dancer.

O Homem Perfeito

2018

Açúcar poster
4.8

Bethânia returns to her land, where the family’s old sugar mill was built, the Wanderley Mill. Between photographs, fantastic creatures, bills to pay and workers claiming their rights to the land, Bethânia faces herself in a present where both the past and the future look menacing.

Açúcar

2017

How long lasts the touch poster
NR

In an essay about grief and loss, the actors are invited to relive the director's memories as well as their own memories and thoughts on life and death. Throughout the film, we explore textures that evoke the sense of touch.

How long lasts the touch

2024

A Window to Rosália poster
6.6

Rosália is a woman from São Paulo who has spent decades of her life working in a factory. One day, she is fired.

A Window to Rosália

2017

Bird Boy poster
NR

Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother.

Bird Boy

2018

Mar de Dentro poster
5.7

A successful professional, Manuela must deal with the changes in her body when she finds out she is pregnant. Ahead, when the baby is born, she also needs to learn to be a mother.

Mar de Dentro

2020

Deserto poster
4.5

A small group of artists travels the Brazilian backlands presenting a show. Upon arriving in a small village, they find an abandoned city with houses, a church, and a fountain spouting clean water, like a miracle of a biblical desert. Tired of and battered by their life as wanderers, the artists decide to settle in the village and start a new community, assigning themselves different roles from those they have played throughout their lives. This new arrangement, however, will reveal these artists the worst vices of the civilian life.

Deserto

2016

Por la ventana poster
NR

Rosalía is a factory worker who dedicated her life to working in a factory on the outskirts of São Paulo. Fired and depressed, she is taken on a business trip by road to Buenos Aires. For the first time in an unfamiliar world, she begins a journey that will transform an essential part of her.

Por la ventana

2017

Final Night Minus Five Minutes poster
6.5

While there's still oil, a maverick rushes through empty roads.

Final Night Minus Five Minutes

1994

Bicho poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bicho

2008