Lui Mendes

Acting

Lui Mendes

Born 1971-01-31 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Acting credits

Streets of Rio poster
4.7

Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees the only way out to become a soccer player and, in this way, help his family to have a better life. Although he is the best player in his neighborhood and the chances of being discovered by a scout are good, he faces a number of problems. One of them is Tubarão, the leader of the most powerful gang in the favela, who wants Tiago to work for him as a drug dealer. To complicate matters even more, Tiago falls in love with Juliana, Tubarão's sister.

Streets of Rio

2008

The Inheritance poster
5.7

Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than an apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles, the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, and expectations. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.

The Inheritance

2001

Atena poster
6.3

Athena was abused by her father during her childhood. Years later, without answers and marked by the absence of justice, she decides to take matters into her own hands in similar cases in the city where she lives. With the help of journalist Carlos, she travels to Montevideo where she finds her father and faces her past head-on, seeking revenge.

Atena

2025

The Black Belt - The True History of Fernando Tererê poster
6.4

Five-time Jiu-jitsu world champion, Tererê won almost every battle he faced on the tatami mats, but it was far from them that he suffered his worst defeat.

The Black Belt - The True History of Fernando Tererê

2022

The Inventor of Dreams poster
NR

Centered on two young boys, an aristocrat and a native, chronicles the period in which Brazil went from colony to the center of the Portuguese Empire.

The Inventor of Dreams

2013

Daughters of Yemanjá poster
5.7

A woman named Sini travels to Brazil to meet her sister Sissi, who previously broke off Sin's marriage. Sini meets Sissi's husband, Jorge, who tells her that she has disappeared. Sini sets out to find Sissi together with Jorge's servant Tiago.

Daughters of Yemanjá

1995

400 Against 1: A History of Organized Crime poster
5.5

The story of William da Silva Lima, the last survivor of the group that founded the Comando Vermelho at the end of the 1970s. It shows him living together with the political prisoners incurred under the same National Security Law and his leadership in the Ilha Grande Prison creating a type of unheard of conduct and solidarity in the Brazilian prisons. The film goes on to tell of the group's actions on the streets of Rio de Janeiro during the beginning of the 80s when they irritated the police with their daring robberies, as well as portraying the surprising love story between William and Tereza. The narrative weaves its way between the intimate conflict and the spectacular assaults and escapes.

400 Against 1: A History of Organized Crime

2010

Solteira Quase Surtando poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Solteira Quase Surtando

2020

Os Trapalhões e a Árvore da Juventude poster
5.8

Didi, Dedé, Mussum (Mussum) and Zacarias are forest rangers that they work in the Amazon rain forest where they fight the action of smugglers with the aid of Juliana, a beautiful engineer. There are many funny scenes where they find the mythical source of the fountain of youth which they drink, becoming again children.

Os Trapalhões e a Árvore da Juventude

1991