Dani Ornellas

Acting

Dani Ornellas

Born 1978-07-25 · Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Danielle Ornelas (1978) is Brazilian actress who has worked in television and film.

Acting credits

City of God poster
8.4

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

City of God

2002

A Porta ao Lado poster
4.8

Everything seems to be going well in the stable relationship between Mari and Rafa, until Isis and Fred move into the apartment next door. The new neighbors make no secret of the fact that they are in an open relationship.

A Porta ao Lado

2023

Colors & Boots poster
8.0

Joana has the same dream as all young Brazilian girls in the 80s: she wants to be a Paquita, a dancer on Xuxa's TV show. Her family is wealthy, and will support her. However, there is a problem; she is black and Xuxa never had a black Paquita on her team.

Colors & Boots

2010

Airplane Mode poster
6.2

When Ana, an influencer, crashes her car while talking on the phone, she's shipped to her grumpy grandfather's farm -- and forced into a digital detox.

Airplane Mode

2020

Rule 34 poster
5.3

Simone is a young law student who studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights. On her free time, she's a cam girl that makes live sexual performances on the Internet. One night, she watches a video that awakens her interest in BDSM-related activities, leading her into a series of conflicts dominated by violence and eroticism.

Rule 34

2023

Dr. Gama poster
8.0

Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.

Dr. Gama

2021

Cycle poster
4.7

A science fiction and suspense feature that presents a frighteningly possible future, where things got even more out of control and what would be just a "quarantine" became the new and totally bizarre normal.

Cycle

2022

My Mom Is a Character 3 poster
8.2

Dona Hermínia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.

My Mom Is a Character 3

2019

Corpos Invisíveis poster
NR

The documentary addresses the social erasure of black female bodies based on the personal and artistic experience of 11 black women, who debate identity, collective memory, ancestry, affections and motherhood.

Corpos Invisíveis

2023

Executive Order poster
6.9

In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.

Executive Order

2022

Minha Irmã e Eu poster
7.1

Sisters Mirian and Mirelly were born in the interior of Goiás, but live in different cities. When their mother disappears, the two put aside their differences and come together to look for her, on a journey that could change their lives.

Minha Irmã e Eu

2023

Conversations with Ruth de Souza poster
NR

Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil. She carries within her the genesis of an important part of the achievements for black women over almost a century of life. At the age of 95, surpassing 70 in her career, amidst reflections and memories, a dialogue was born between two generations of black artists, Ruth and the director.

Conversations with Ruth de Souza

2022

Daughters of the Wind poster
6.4

In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.

Daughters of the Wind

2005

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

Stereo Hearts 2 poster
1.5

Two teenagers from different social classes fall in love after meeting in a conflict at a party and will have to face challenges to be together.

Stereo Hearts 2

2011

A Culpa é do Neymar poster
10.0

A typical kid from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro starts to support the team that his idol, Neymar, plays for. To his father, this is an unforgivable betrayal.

A Culpa é do Neymar

2015

Memórias com vista para o mar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Memórias com vista para o mar

2025

Simonal poster
6.5

A phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian military dictatorship.

Simonal

2019

Jaguar Man poster
4.3

Two moments in the life of Pedro. First in 1997, he lives with his family in Rio de Janeiro and works at Gás do Brasil, a company that is undergoing a tough restructuring process, with layoffs and early retirements. Soon, privatization will come. In the second moment, two years later, Pedro lives retired in his hometown Barbosa, in the company of his childhood memories, his dog and his girlfriend. By interweaving these two moments in time, we put ourselves in Pedro's skin and experience his fears and delights.

Jaguar Man

2021

Four Girls poster
NR

Finding shelter in an abandoned mansion, a group faces the challenges of coexistence. Free from traditional power structures, the black women experience power, love, and the possibility of dreaming about the future, while the white women resist learning to help with household chores, take care of themselves, and face their mistakes. When an old threat resurfaces, however, they all must band together to survive.

Four Girls

2026

Cruz e Sousa - The Banished Poet poster
10.0

Poet Cruz e Souza was a black man, born in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where the majority of the population are blonde. He was also poor and fell a prey to the racism of his time. Died young, at 37, and dragged the great love of his life, Gavíria, into a path of great suffering.

Cruz e Sousa - The Banished Poet

1999