Jô Soares

Acting

Jô Soares

Born 1938-01-16 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

José Eugênio Soares (Rio de Janeiro, January 16, 1938 – São Paulo, August 5, 2022), better known as Jô Soares, was a Brazilian television presenter, writer, playwright, theater director, actor, comedian, musician and visual artist.

Acting credits

Nenê Bandalho poster
5.5

The police mobilize their resources to capture Nenê Bandalho and, while he tries to escape, he remembers some of his life's most important episodes.

Nenê Bandalho

1971

Desagradável poster
5.0

Some people seem to have come into the world to confuse, annoy, swim against the current, like the guys from Gangrena Gasosa, the first and only Sarava Metal band of the universe. "Desagradável" covers all the 23 years of the band. A special reunion of people that stirred the underground scene of 90's until today. All the legends detailed in a film that will show the most shameful chapters in history of Brazilian Rock. Jello Biafra, Jão and João Gordo, BNegão, Marcelo D2, Anjo Caldas, Dado Villa-Lobos, Rafael Ramos, Fabio from Garage, Marcos Bragatto, Tom Leão, Pedro Só, Adilson Pereira, Larry Antha and the former members (more than 15!) recalls the regrettable moments that Sarava Metal happened in their lives. Archive images, photos and videos to prove, once for all, that "Home Saint makes miracles too".

Desagradável

2013

Zéfiro Explícito poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zéfiro Explícito

2012

Mamonas Forever poster
7.5

In less than ten months, the music band Mamonas Assassinas went from being completely unknown to becoming one of the biggest phenomena in Brazilian music. Irreverent, intelligent, sarcastic and creative, the band took over Brazil and sold two million albums in just six months. Never-before-seen footage and interviews from family, friends, producers, and musicians tell the band’s story, their challenges, their rise to fame, and the tragic aeroplane accident that killed all its members in 1996.

Mamonas Forever

2009

Mamonas: Eu Te Ai Lóve Iú poster
8.6

The documentary retraces the band's meteoric rise, as they became the biggest phenomenon in Brazilian music in 1995 — and one of the most remarkable in the country's history.

Mamonas: Eu Te Ai Lóve Iú

2026

Viva Marília poster
NR

The historical, political, and social context of Brazil in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and the impact of each decade on the life and work of the acclaimed actress Marília Pêra.

Viva Marília

2026

Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico” poster
NR

Armando Costa was one of Brazil's most successful authors, both in terms of audience and critical acclaim, responsible for shows like "A Grande Família" and "Malu Mulher." Despite this, he didn't care about fame or signing his works.

Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico”

2024

Luis Fernando Verissimo - O Filme poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Luis Fernando Verissimo - O Filme

2023

Hitler in the Third World poster
8.3

Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.

Hitler in the Third World

1968

Papai Trapalhão poster
10.0

A rich uncle demands that his nephews live a healthy existence, with a lot of exercise, instead of clubs, in order to live up to their inheritance, . But a sentimental affair complicates everything.

Papai Trapalhão

1968

The Xango from Baker Street poster
6.4

Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve the case.

The Xango from Baker Street

2001

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional poster
NR

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

1997

Outcast Rockstar poster
7.3

The life and career of Brazilian singer Chorão, Charlie Brown Jr's frontman. The story of one of the most important rock stars in Brazil, from testimonies about his personal and professional life and archival footage. Beginning in the early 1990s, when his band released their first album and hit the radio stations, Chorão lived two intense decades of national and international success, full of controversial moments, until his premature death in 2013.

Outcast Rockstar

2021

Amante Muito Louca! poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amante Muito Louca!

1973

Rita Lee: Mania de Você poster
8.2

Just before her departure, Rita Lee writes a farewell letter to her three children and her husband and musical partner, Roberto de Carvalho, in which she reflects on her life and joyfully celebrates her family. Her final moments also mark the time to look back and review a career full of unforgettable successes, which led her to sell more than 55 million records. But it is also a time to reveal her downfalls, her vulnerable side, and her excesses as the queen of rock. With completely unseen personal archives and exclusive testimonies from her own family, as well as producers, journalists, musicians, and celebrities such as Gilberto Gil and Ney Matogrosso, "Rita Lee: Mania de Você" presents her definitive legacy.

Rita Lee: Mania de Você

2025

Owner of the Story poster
6.4

A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.

Owner of the Story

2004

Loucuras, o Bumbum de Ouro poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Loucuras, o Bumbum de Ouro

1979

O Homem do Sputnik poster
6.8

An UFO that could be the Russian satellite Sputnik falls on a hillbilly's hencoop.

O Homem do Sputnik

1959

Tudo Legal poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tudo Legal

1960

The Woman of Everyone poster
7.8

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.

The Woman of Everyone

1969

Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil poster
8.5

A sound and visual journey that portrays the life and work of singer and composer Luiz Melodia. The Poet of Estácio himself tells us, in the first person, his trajectory as a black boy born on the hill until his transformation into one of the greatest artists in the history of MPB. The film also features an unpublished collection made available by Jane Reis, his wife and businesswoman.

Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil

2025

Chico Eterno poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chico Eterno

2015

Giovanni Improtta poster
4.5

Giovanni Improtta is a criminal who wants to climb the social ladder and become a law-abiding citizen. To achieve it, he commits some more crimes He is betrayed, and ends up under the spotlight of the media and the radar of the police, falsely charged for murder.

Giovanni Improtta

2013

A Vida é uma Maratona poster
9.0

Born on May 3, 1943, Drauzio Varella is a physician, writer, and communicator who has built one of the most remarkable and respected careers in Brazilian medicine. His ability to democratize health information goes far beyond the clinic, teaching the public about prevention, exercise, and healthy habits through radio, television, the internet, and more than 20 published books. Now, at 82, Drauzio looks back on his childhood in Brás, his work as an oncologist, his AIDS-prevention campaigns, his volunteer work in prisons, and his deep relationship with sports as a path to balance and well-being.

A Vida é uma Maratona

2025

Behind the camera