
Acting
Fernando Gomes
Born 1944-01-22 · Bonfim, Porto, Portugal
Acting credits
7.7The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behavior.
Childhood
2014
7.2Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.
The Man from the Future
2011
5.0O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals.
O Visconde
1980
7.0In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' dreams of hitting the jack pot are shattered. Winner of the 2014 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize.
Bald Mountain
2013
NRBernardo invites his mistress to his lovely house in the country, intending to spoil her for her birthday. His wife Joana, who is initially supposed to visit her mother, decides not to leave the house upon knowing Roberto, Bernardo's best friend - and her lover - was also invited to the celebrations.
Feliz Aniversário
2025
7.2Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.
Gonzaga: From Father to Son
2012
5.6A transgender woman attempts to rehabilitate her younger, drug-addicted boyfriend while also dealing with her ne’er-do-well son, a soldier who’s gone AWOL.
To Die Like a Man
2009
5.0The psychoanalyst Inês intends not to be lovingly involved with anyone else. However, she ends up falling in love with two men at the same time, unaware that they are father and son.
Paixão e Acaso
2012