Selma Egrei

Acting

Selma Egrei

Born 1949-03-16 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Selma Egrei Moretti Faro Silva (São Paulo, March 16, 1949) is a Brazilian actress. Throughout her career, she has received several awards, including two APCA Awards, an Extra Award, and a Mambembe Award, in addition to receiving nominations for two Shell Awards. Due to her beauty, she was one of the favorite actresses of Fauzi Mansur, Cláudio Cunha, J. Marreco, John Doo and Jean Garret, a time when Brazilian cinema, to escape political censorship, opted for pornochanchada. However, in the hands of Walter Hugo Khouri, with whom she made four films, her talent would reveal itself.

Acting credits

A Casa das Tentações poster
9.0

Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.

A Casa das Tentações

1977

The Way He Looks poster
7.9

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

The Way He Looks

2014

The Rich Are Something Else poster
4.3

Tadeu, a poor lad from the Northeast of Brazil, comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. His good looks and education win him the favor of rich people. In his spare time, he becomes the favorite among lonely and rich ladies. Soon he gets involved in trouble.

The Rich Are Something Else

1977

The Delights of Life poster
6.7

Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role.

The Delights of Life

1974

Elite Devassa poster
4.4

Theodoro, a country boy goes to São Paulo from Florianópolis to work as a driver. He starts to work for rich and domineering Mariana. When her husband, Renato travels in Europe on business, he takes her for a trip to Campos do Jordão, where she has a vacation manor. It will not be long until the two begin a torrid love affair. However, he also enchants with her daughter, Ana Paula and sister, Luisa. Involved with all three, he discovers that his life may be in danger, because he finds out that two previous family drivers, Alfredo and Renato were killed in the house.

Elite Devassa

1984

Act of Violence poster
4.0

Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.

Act of Violence

1981

Obsessão Maldita poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Obsessão Maldita

1974

A Noite do Desejo poster
3.0

Two factory workers decide to spend all of their pay on a Saturday night with two prostitutes, but things don't go as planned.

A Noite do Desejo

1973

Port-au-Prince poster
6.0

Bertha is a widow and lives alone on an isolated farm in the mountains of Santa Catarina. Beginning to face difficulties in keeping the property running, Bertha is under pressure from her son who wants her to move in with him in an upscale neighborhood of Florianópolis. Upon learning of the arrival of a group of Haitians in Santa Catarina, Bertha decides to bring the Haitian Bastide to work and live with her, fueling her son's hostility. The coexistence transforms the working relationship between Bertha and Bastide into a sincere friendship between two people from different cultures who share common ideas and feelings.

Port-au-Prince

2024

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey poster
7.2

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey

2010

Tchau, Amor poster
8.0

An unemployed radio worker obsessed with suicide meets a rich brat.

Tchau, Amor

1983

Eros, the God of Love poster
4.8

A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.

Eros, the God of Love

1981

Bring It Inside poster
6.2

Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He decides to stage a play and, with threads of memory, he improvises the lines with his young cast. Telmo dives into his own history and ends up revealing for himself what, being so painful, he'd rather forget.

Bring It Inside

2016

Mazzaropi poster
8.5

A documentary on the life and work of Amácio Mazzaropi, a phenomenon of popularity and profitability of Brazilian cinema.

Mazzaropi

2013

Strange Force poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Strange Force

1980

Augustas poster
4.8

On mythical Augusta Street, in San Paulo (Brazil), a journalist who seeks answers for his angst dives into the world of prostitution and neo-Shamanism rituals.

Augustas

2012

Os Amigos poster
6.0

A lonely architect attends the funeral of his childhood best friend and embarks on a personal journey of reminiscence and self-reflection.

Os Amigos

2013

Hallelujah Gretchen poster
5.0

A German family moves to a small town in the interior of the state of Paraná, Brazil, and buys a hotel there, which soon becomes sort of a meeting point for Nazi sympathizers.

Hallelujah Gretchen

1976

A Carne poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Carne

1975

Naked Star poster
5.2

An aspiring actress is hired to dub a recently deceased movie star in an upcoming erotic thriller. As the recording sessions go on, the voice actress finds herself slowly being influenced by the dead star’s presence.

Naked Star

1984

Eclipse poster
NR

Cleo, a 43-year-old astronomer who is pregnant and emotionally fragile, is surprised by a visit from Nalu, her half-sister of Indigenous descent. The encounter reveals dark secrets and stirs up fragmented memories in Cleo, leading the two of them down a path of mysterious investigations.

Eclipse

2026

Sex, Your Only Weapon poster
4.4

Marta, a young blind woman, visits Humberto and his family at their expansive estate. Her presence begins to fray relations between family members as she prolongs her stay.

Sex, Your Only Weapon

1981

The Ballroom poster
6.0

An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and desire is an antidote to grumpy old men and women everywhere.

The Ballroom

2007

The Devil's Scarab poster
5.0

A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to investigate what is happening and is helped by the experienced but forgetful Inspector Pimentel.

The Devil's Scarab

2016