Cacá Amaral

Acting

Cacá Amaral

Born 1955-09-07 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Carlos Amaral (São Paulo, September 7, 1955), known as Cacá Amaral, is a Brazilian actor. Cacá Amaral has a career that spans theater, TV and cinema. He worked for many years as an actor and director at Grupo TAPA, a traditional São Paulo theater group, winning the most important Brazilian theater awards.

Acting credits

Araguaya - A Conspiração do Silêncio poster
6.5

Film about an important episode in Brazilian History: the Araguaya guerrilla. In the 1970s, when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, some left-wing militants and peasants took arms against the Army, in the Amazon. Right in the middle of the conflict, there stood a French priest who had come to the region in the 1960s, and got involved in the events leading to the rebellion.

Araguaya - A Conspiração do Silêncio

2004

Slightly Out of Tune poster
5.8

A group of friends come of age during the political turmoil that plagued Brazil in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band called "Os Desafinados" and become a part of the groundbreaking Brazilian musical movement called Bossa Nova

Slightly Out of Tune

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Outro

1991

Red Carpet poster
7.3

Quinzinho has a promise to keep: to take his son, Neco, to the city to watch a Mazzaropi movie. They live in a small farm in São Paulo. In this odyssey through the towns of São Paulo, he also takes his wife Zulmira, who goes unwillingly, and their donkey Policarpo. On their journey, they find regional peculiarities and undergo magical situations related to popular belief.

Red Carpet

2005

Arapuca poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arapuca

2012

Concert Number Three poster
NR

A son and father must tell the mother the sad news.

Concert Number Three

2004

The Twelve Labours poster
6.6

The story of a young black man, Héracles, who after being released from a juvenile institution, tries to apply for his first honest job as a motorcycle delivery boy. To get the job, he has to perform 12 hard tasks in São Paulo.

The Twelve Labours

2006

No artwork available
NR

A farm laborer is stunned for pain and for the jealousy when its godson assures to it that his wife is betraying with the proper brother. Both they go in revenge search, following for a tragic destination.

Olho de Boi

2008

Not by Chance poster
6.9

Enio is a middle-aged man who lives in solitude after a failed relationship. Pedro, 30, dates Teresa, who is moving to her home. He inherited a carpentry from his father and a taste for the pool. When a traffic accident crosses the parallel trajectories of the two, the imponderable imposes itself and the uncontrol begins.

Not by Chance

2007

Coisa de Mulher poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Coisa de Mulher

2005

A Window to Rosália poster
6.6

Rosália is a woman from São Paulo who has spent decades of her life working in a factory. One day, she is fired.

A Window to Rosália

2017

A Ponte poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Ponte

2012

Vidas Partidas poster
4.6

A married couple lives peacefully with two children until the husband starts getting violent.

Vidas Partidas

2016

Bela Noite Para Voar poster
7.9

A day in the life of Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, in a troubled period of his term, while he maintains a secret love affair.

Bela Noite Para Voar

2009

A Part of Us poster
7.0

Francisca and Carlos struggle to adapt to their new reality after the suicide of their only son, Felipe. Immersed in fantasies, fears and melancholy, the couple go through radical experiences. Carlos moves into Felipe's old apartment, alienating himself in the world of his dead son. Francisca, haunted by guilt, dedicates herself to unraveling the enigma of suicide.

A Part of Us

2023

A Hidden Life poster
5.6

Biela, a humble young woman, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her bourgeois cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.

A Hidden Life

2001

Friendly Fire poster
5.8

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.

Friendly Fire

1998

Por la ventana poster
NR

Rosalía is a factory worker who dedicated her life to working in a factory on the outskirts of São Paulo. Fired and depressed, she is taken on a business trip by road to Buenos Aires. For the first time in an unfamiliar world, she begins a journey that will transform an essential part of her.

Por la ventana

2017