José Mayer

Acting

José Mayer

Born 1949-10-03 · Jaguaraçu, Minas Gerais, Brazil

José Mayer Drumond Araujo (Jaguaraçu, October 3, 1949) is a Brazilian actor. He began his career in 1963 in theater and in 1975 in cinema in Enigma para Demônios and A Mulher do Desejo. On television, his debut occurred two years later on the children's program Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. However, his first recognition was in 1984 in the miniseries Bandidos da Falange, in which he played Jorge Fernando, a role that earned him the APCA Award for Best Male Revelation.

Acting credits

Hipertensão poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hipertensão

1986

Acorda, Raimundo... Acorda! poster
NR

Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife Marta is the family breadwinner. Things escalate in the relationship when the man starts to feel undervalued by his wife.

Acorda, Raimundo... Acorda!

1990

Happier Than Ever poster
5.3

During the military dictatorship, a political militant takes his son out of the boarding school, and puts him temporarily in a friend's luxury and empty apartment in Copacabana beach. The son knows very little about his father, and the latter cannot really explain his activities to his son, fearing for his security. So the young man stands alone in the huge apartment, waiting for the infrequent meetings with his father, without really knowing what's going on.

Happier Than Ever

1984

No artwork available
NR

Creative documentary on multi-faceted Brazilian musician Radames Gnattali

Nosso Amigo Radamés Gnattali

1991

Bufo & Spallanzani poster
5.0

Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.

Bufo & Spallanzani

2001

Idolatrada poster
7.5

Luís celebrates his golden wedding anniversary with his wife Alice. After the party, when the couple recalls some of the moments they built, he reveals a secret: he had a great passion in the past.

Idolatrada

1983

House of Shadows poster
6.7

A rich and lonely old man leaves his old mansion in Ouro Preto to his nephew, who moves into it with his wife. But soon enough the house begins to acquire a will of its own, while the man’s personality undergoes a radical transformation, assimilating the habits of the dead uncle.

House of Shadows

1975

Delicado poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Delicado

1996

A Fera na Selva poster
8.0

A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James.

A Fera na Selva

2017

The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema poster
5.5

After meeting a beguiling woman in a movie theater, a realtor becomes embroiled in a mysterious plot involving murder, double identities and movies.

The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema

1987

Scent of Gardenias poster
6.6

Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. For more than a decade, Daniel nurtures a feeling of revenge for his ex-wife, which gains strength when their now adult son finds his mother in full professional decay.

Scent of Gardenias

1992

Enigma for Demons poster
6.3

A rich heiress arrives in Belo Horizonte from Buenos Aires to receive her fortune. After visiting her late mother's grave and picking up a rose there, she begins to receive constant phone calls from an unknown caller demanding the flower back.

Enigma for Demons

1975

In Therapy poster
6.4

In Rio de Janeiro, the forty and something years old Mercedes (Lília Cabral) goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life since she was a girl and lost her mother. Along the three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces from her husband Gustavo (José Mayer) and has love affairs with the younger Theo (Reynaldo Gianecchini)

In Therapy

2009

This Is Not Your Life poster
7.5

Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.

This Is Not Your Life

1991

Mil e Uma poster
4.5

Alice faces a lot of trouble to make a film about artist Marcel Duchamp. She randomly chooses musician Antônio for the main part, and ends up having an affair with him.

Mil e Uma

1996

Rio de Janeiro, Minas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rio de Janeiro, Minas

1991

Our Indians poster
6.0

Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how the film industry has seen and heard Brazilian indigenous peoples since they were filmed in 1912 for the first time: idealised and prejudiced, religious and militaristic, cruel and magic.

Our Indians

1995

O Bandido Antônio Dó poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Bandido Antônio Dó

1980

Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: O Pagador de Promessas - O Filme poster
6.0

Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from death. The payment is to carry a heavy cross from the interior of Bahia to a church in Salvador. When you reach the steps of the church, with injured shoulders, you have to deal with the incomprehension of a conservative priest.

Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: O Pagador de Promessas - O Filme

2015

Savage Capitalism poster
5.1

Elisa is a journalist who becomes romantically involved with Hugo, a director of the company Jota Mineração, when she receives an order to write a story about the company. However, the relationship between the two begins to destabilize when the company that Hugo runs begins to extract gold from indigenous lands.

Savage Capitalism

1994

JK – O Menino que Sonhou um País poster
10.0

Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in August 1976.

JK – O Menino que Sonhou um País

2002

Chuvas e Trovoadas poster
NR

Four girls are educated during the "Belle Époque" period in Belém, Brazil.

Chuvas e Trovoadas

1994

Encantados poster
6.8

The real-life story of Zeneida, a girl who moves to a farm with her mother and finds herself having an unusual connection with a forest spirit.

Encantados

2017

Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Presença de Anita - O Filme poster
6.2

Adapted from the series aired in 2001. Looking for inspiration during the holidays, Nando sees Anita as the ideal character for his novel. She lives in a townhouse where a passionate crime happened in the past. Intense, Anita seduces Nando and awakens to

Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Presença de Anita - O Filme

2015