
Acting
Stênio Garcia
Born 1932-04-28 · Mimoso do Sul, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Stênio Garcia Faro (Mimoso do Sul, April 28, 1932) is a Brazilian actor. Known for his performances on screen and stage, he is the winner of numerous awards throughout his career spanning more than six decades, including three APCA Awards, a Guarani Award, a Molière Award, a Brazil Quality Award, and a Press Trophy, in addition to receiving a nomination for a Grande Otelo.
Acting credits
10.0No synopsis available yet.
O Vigilante Rodoviário: Missão Secreta
1967
No synopsis available yet.
Rito do Amor Selvagem
2019
6.3Claé and Bruô, secret agents from enemy Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon, must overcome their differences and combine forces to find the Perlimps and infiltrate into a world controlled by Giants where war is imminent.
Perlimps
2023
10.0In the 1930s, a blacksmith is accused of murdering his wife and becomes a hero and political leader.
O Crime do Zé Bigorna
1977
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hipertensão
1986
6.6On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not Portuguese (their enemies) but a friend of the French (their allies), and that his God would be very angry if they were to eat him.
Hans Staden
1999
5.9An anguished university student in his early 30's ponders the state of his life in light of his relationships with a politicized classmate, a TV actress selling the image of a femme fatale and his bourgeois sister.
The Amorous Ones
1968
NRIn a city in the interior of Minas Gerais, a passerby enters a dairy to have a coffee with milk. The owner of the bar and his accomplice have a long conversation with this customer, until he discovers that the dairy does not always have milk... Short film based on the short story of the same name by famous Brazilian writer Fernando Sabino.
Conversinha Mineira
2010
6.6Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991
4.6This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.
Kuarup
1989
6.7A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
The House of Sand
2005
7.0During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.
Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This
2007
No synopsis available yet.
De Revolutionibus
1975
5.7Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upset the magazine's owner, a rich and powerful woman.
O Pornógrafo
1970
5.8In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former owners of the land. The episode became known as Guerra dos Pelados.
The War of Pelados
1970
4.5Roberta is an employee of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro who infiltrates an energy realignment clinic to investigate the mysterious death of actress Antuérpia Fox. During the course of the investigation, Roberta will have to deal with the dramas of actress Natasha Ferrero, who is being "cancelled" on the internet, and with the reunion of her great love from the past, the federal police officer Rodrigo, who is investigating a suspicion of international trafficking involving the same clinic. For this mission, she will have the support of Isabela, her therapist, with whom, little by little, she forms a great duo.
Out of Sight
2022
7.8No synopsis available yet.
Show 60 Anos
2025
No synopsis available yet.
Agência Lig-Pag
1974
NRCentered 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
7.0Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
Redeemer
2004
8.0A gang robs a factory in the State of Rio de Janeiro taking 500 million cruzeiros. In the shooting, several bandits and police are killed. The police manage to arrest some criminals involved in the robbery but do not recover the money. The mystery grows with the occurrence of some deaths clearly related to the robbery.
O Esquadrão da Morte
1976
8.3Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.
Compasso de Espera
1969
6.9A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Me, You, Them
2000
4.7Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one of his best friends and marries her; soon after, she cheats on him.
Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor
1989