José Wilker

Acting

José Wilker

Born 1946-08-20 · Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil

José Wilker Almeida (20 August 1944 – 5 April 2014) was a Brazilian film, stage, and television actor and director. The actor gained fame in telenovelas like Roque Santeiro (1985), but became known internationally for his role as Vadinho, the husband who returns from the dead to tempt Sônia Braga's character in the movie Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976).

Acting credits

Cute but Ordinary poster
5.0

The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.

Cute but Ordinary

1981

Medicine Man poster
6.0

An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.

Medicine Man

1992

Eu Sou Vida, Eu Não Sou Morte poster
9.0

Play written by Qorpo Santo, in 1866, about a love triangle in which the husband kills his rival in the name of honor, pride, dignity and national integrity.

Eu Sou Vida, Eu Não Sou Morte

1970

Baixo Gávea poster
5.5

Clara directs the rehearsals of a theatrical play about Fernando Pessoa while constantly seeking the right man and the love of his life. One of the actresses is the lesbian Ana, who interprets the poet Mário de Sá Carneiro. She is Clara's friend and confidant with whom she shares an apartment. Clara does not perceive Ana's love for her, that always helps her to recover from the disappointments. Unlike the character Sá Carneiro, poet of decadentism, nostalgia, metaphysics and vague, Ana is the pragmatic side of Clara, who often brings a disillusioned vision as if it were Fernando Pessoa himself, who may be associated with concepts of the poet's heteronyms.

Baixo Gávea

1986

The Man of the Year poster
6.7

Maiquél has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This seemingly innocuous event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which he goes from nobody to hero to outlaw — all in 24 hours.

The Man of the Year

2003

Paixão poster
NR

Parable about the 1964 military coup in Brazil, where three characters unite through the exercise of the word.

Paixão

1965

Sexo com Amor? poster
4.3

Three children are caught in school with an erotic book. His parents are called by the leadership to discuss the problem. During the meeting, comes to surface the love and sexual problems of these three couples; such as lack of desire, betrayal, love, passion, insecurity and provocations.

Sexo com Amor?

2008

Lovely Child poster
7.1

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

Lovely Child

1990

O Casal poster
9.0

The story of the first steps of a very young couple. Their love is great, as are the financial obstacles and an unexpected pregnancy.

O Casal

1975

Banquete poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Banquete

2002

Onde Anda Você poster
4.0

Felício, an old comedian, is in decadence after his partner Mandarim's suicide. When he finds out his former love Paloma has died, he leaves São Paulo and heads for the faraway State of Piauí, North of Brazil, in search of a new partner. He believes that if he manages to find him, the good times will return.

Onde Anda Você

2004

Romance poster
7.4

During a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Pedro and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction.

Romance

2008

Canta Maria poster
6.0

After her parents were killed by a troupe of soldiers in search of Lampião, an outlaw living in Northeastern Brazil, Maria marries Filipe, a horse whisperer. But his nephew Coriolano soon develops an attraction for Maria, while a jealous Filipe decides to break his marriage and sends Maria away.

Canta Maria

2006

Estranho Triângulo poster
3.5

A poor college student becomes a homosexual millionaire's lover in order to get ahead in life. The latter marries a woman for convenience, and the newlyweds end up sharing the young man.

Estranho Triângulo

1970

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands poster
6.8

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life.

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

1976

Confissões de Uma Viúva Moça poster
10.0

In this comedy adaptation of Machado De Assis (1839-1908) novel, a young widow writes letters to a friend telling about her days as a married woman and the special relationship she had with Emílio, a friend of the couple who becomes her adoring lover.

Confissões de Uma Viúva Moça

1976

Fiebre amarilla poster
7.0

During the yellow fever epidemic of 1870, a fugitive enters the mansion where three women had locked themselves in.

Fiebre amarilla

1982

Elvis & Madonna poster
5.8

In Copacabana, lesbian photographer Elvis is hired to deliver pizzas in the night shift on her motorcycle. Her first assignment is a delivery to the transgender hairdresser Lady Madonna, whom she falls in love with.

Elvis & Madonna

2011

Diamante Bruto poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Diamante Bruto

1978

São Bernardo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

São Bernardo

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wilker Eterno

2016

Delicado poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Delicado

1996

Doida Demais poster
3.6

Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes with her new lover, a pilot.

Doida Demais

1989

O Sonho de Inacim poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Sonho de Inacim

2009

Behind the camera