Directing

Francisco Ramalho Jr.

Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, São Paulo, Brazil

Francisco Ramalho Jr. was born in 1940 in Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, São Paulo, Brazil. He is a producer and writer, known for Besame Mucho (1987), À Flor da Pele (1977) and Canta Maria (2006).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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

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

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

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum poster
2.0

On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, they confiscate the filmed negatives. The paranoid director grumbles: "Are they from the government?". The execution of the film is compromised. Will the director in trouble be able to complete his film?

A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum

2014

Anuska, Manequim e Mulher poster
10.0

An aspiring model leaves her wealthy middle-aged lover for a handsome young writer. But as her career takes off, their relationship gets worse.

Anuska, Manequim e Mulher

1968

Besame Mucho poster
4.8

The story of two couples - Xico and Olga, Tuca and Dina - through 20 years of friendship, from adolescent dreams to maturity frustrations. They meet in a small town in the State of São Paulo, but one of the couples decides to try their luck in the big city. As background, the political events in the 60's and 70's, and how they affect their lives.

Besame Mucho

1987

Besame Mucho poster
4.8

The story of two couples - Xico and Olga, Tuca and Dina - through 20 years of friendship, from adolescent dreams to maturity frustrations. They meet in a small town in the State of São Paulo, but one of the couples decides to try their luck in the big city. As background, the political events in the 60's and 70's, and how they affect their lives.

Besame Mucho

1987

Besame Mucho poster
4.8

The story of two couples - Xico and Olga, Tuca and Dina - through 20 years of friendship, from adolescent dreams to maturity frustrations. They meet in a small town in the State of São Paulo, but one of the couples decides to try their luck in the big city. As background, the political events in the 60's and 70's, and how they affect their lives.

Besame Mucho

1987

Cristina Wants to Get Married poster
6.0

Cristina still lives with her mother and wants to find her true love. She looks for help in a matrimonial agency, that arranges a meeting between her and Paulo. She likes the guy, but Paulo doesn't seem too enthusiastic. As time goes by, Chico, the owner of the agency, feels he is becoming too fond of Cristina...

Cristina Wants to Get Married

2003

Foolish Heart poster
5.0

Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite the knowledge that she spent two years at a clinic because she was "crazy." Juan sees Ana when he can and trains as a door-to-door salesman, but when the German photographer on the soul project gives him a viewfinder, it changes his life, putting him on the path to his later success as a Hollywood director.

Foolish Heart

1998

Sons and Lovers poster
5.5

During a weekend in a country house, young people eager for strong emotions end up switching partners and experimenting drugs.

Sons and Lovers

1981

Sons and Lovers poster
5.5

During a weekend in a country house, young people eager for strong emotions end up switching partners and experimenting drugs.

Sons and Lovers

1981

The Story of Me poster
6.6

Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.

The Story of Me

2009

Paula: A História de uma Subversiva poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Paula: A História de uma Subversiva

1979

Paula: A História de uma Subversiva poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Paula: A História de uma Subversiva

1979

Sabendo Usar Não Vai Faltar poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sabendo Usar Não Vai Faltar

1977

Sabendo Usar Não Vai Faltar poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sabendo Usar Não Vai Faltar

1977

The Heartthrob poster
5.8

This heartfelt comedy about 2 reunited 1/2 brothers. Handsome but underemployed actor Júlio finds himself in need of a job & place to stay. Neurotic & lonely Beto is a successful soap opera writer who hasn't left his house in 8 years. When Júlio winds up on Beto's doorstep, they find themselves capable of reigniting old resentments, but also with the possibility to fulfill the other's dreams.

The Heartthrob

2019

The Heartthrob poster
5.8

This heartfelt comedy about 2 reunited 1/2 brothers. Handsome but underemployed actor Júlio finds himself in need of a job & place to stay. Neurotic & lonely Beto is a successful soap opera writer who hasn't left his house in 8 years. When Júlio winds up on Beto's doorstep, they find themselves capable of reigniting old resentments, but also with the possibility to fulfill the other's dreams.

The Heartthrob

2019

The Heartthrob poster
5.8

This heartfelt comedy about 2 reunited 1/2 brothers. Handsome but underemployed actor Júlio finds himself in need of a job & place to stay. Neurotic & lonely Beto is a successful soap opera writer who hasn't left his house in 8 years. When Júlio winds up on Beto's doorstep, they find themselves capable of reigniting old resentments, but also with the possibility to fulfill the other's dreams.

The Heartthrob

2019

O Cortiço poster
4.8

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

O Cortiço

1978

O Cortiço poster
4.8

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

O Cortiço

1978

Odradek poster
NR

In a huge and empty neoclassical mansion surrounded by an indefinite war, the daughter of a bourgeois family returns from Europe bringing a Kafkaesque toy. Because of this object without specific usefulness, everyone in the family begins to discuss life and discover their own weaknesses and follies. This process of self-discovery will lead them to meet phobias, hypocrisies and prejudices, but also their most intimate truth.

Odradek

2024

Extreme Happiness poster
4.4

Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the dreams – or nearly all – seem possible. In this exciting scenery of transformation, Paulo discovers love, friendship and sex through his childhood and adolescence in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Extreme Happiness

2010