Cecil Thiré

Acting

Cecil Thiré

Born 1943-05-28 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cecil Aldary Portocarrero Thiré (Rio de Janeiro, May 28, 1943 – Rio de Janeiro, October 9, 2020) was a Brazilian actor and director. He acted in film, theater and television and was also a professor of acting. Cecil was the only child of the marriage between actress Tônia Carrero and artist Carlos Arthur Thiré. He is the father of the actors: Miguel Thiré, Carlos Thiré and Luísa Thiré.

Acting credits

Modinha poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Modinha

1974

Harmada poster
4.8

A failed artist searching strength to move ahead. By a young lady, who might be his daughter, he develops a project that changes his destiny.

Harmada

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Jangadeiro

1973

Forever poster
4.4

Marked by her father's strong presence, since he is a rich and powerful businessman, the beautiful Berenice investigates his love life, to feel closer to him. With her findings, their relationship becomes mixed with a strong sense of seduction.

Forever

1991

Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier poster
4.8

Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband.

Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier

1990

Oswaldianas poster
9.0

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.

Oswaldianas

1992

The Guns poster
7.5

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.

The Guns

1964

João Bennio, O Pioneiro do Cinema Goiano poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

João Bennio, O Pioneiro do Cinema Goiano

Avocado Seed poster
8.6

A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.

Avocado Seed

1998

Manobra Radical poster
7.0

On the eve of an important surfing championship, a group of young friends travels along the Brazilian coast with the intention of training hard and having a chance to become professional in the sport. However, along the way, Guel, a surfer bum, falls in love with a rich girl.

Manobra Radical

1991

Chronically Unfeasible poster
5.6

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.

Chronically Unfeasible

2000

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds poster
7.0

Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews, film clips, testimonials, photos, and extraordinary footage from the Celi family's personal archive, we will revisit the places that shaped his life.

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

2006

Luz Del Fuego poster
5.1

Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.

Luz Del Fuego

1982

Domingo em Família poster
NR

An elderly couple, Dona Lu and Seu Souza, live in the district of Paty do Alferes, in a simple little house where they raised their children. When the tenant dies, the landlord's heirs evicted the couple, and it is up to the four children to decide their future.

Domingo em Família

1983

The Beggars poster
9.0

A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of finding a potential partner to marry in order to avoid her return to that place.

The Beggars

1963

The Quartet poster
6.3

The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. While fighting for survival in the new world, the unexpected love of Massimo and Teresa appears. They react against family and cultural traditions and leave to a new destiny, leaving their partners. Quatrilho is the name of a card game in wich the player have to betray his partner in order to become the champion.

The Quartet

1995

The Brave Warrior poster
6.3

Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.

The Brave Warrior

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Caulos, um Desenhista de Humor

1973

Five Times Favela poster
7.9

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

Five Times Favela

1962

Sonhos Tropicais poster
9.3

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt.

Sonhos Tropicais

2001

Eu Dou o Que Ela Gosta poster
7.0

A young couple uses creativity to escape the rules of the girl's father, a conservative Italian, and her grandmother. Even under the patriarch's watch, the roguish boyfriend manages to fulfill his desires.

Eu Dou o Que Ela Gosta

1975

Tummy poster
8.0

A young boy escapes from an orphanage to find two magical creatures in the jungle. As he bonds with the younger one, he discovers that poachers are out to kidnap the creatures and he strives to rescue them.

Tummy

1995

Alcântara: Ghost Town poster
NR

History and decadence of the city of Alcântara narrated through what remains of its buildings and ancient documents.

Alcântara: Ghost Town

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Feiras do Nordeste

1973

Behind the camera

O Diabo Mora no Sangue poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Diabo Mora no Sangue

1968

A Viúva Virgem poster
4.4

In Minas Gerais, the powerful "colonel" Alexandrão gets married with the young and virgin Cristina and promotes a huge wedding party in his farm. He eats and drinks a lot along the day, but in his "first night" with the bride, he dies before consummating his marriage. The marital status of Cristina becomes very unusual, being a virgin widow. Her doctor advises her to travel to Rio de Janeiro to rest, and she moves with her aunt to an inherited apartment in Leme. Once in Rio de Janeiro, the rascal Constantino, who is aware of her wealth, courts her and borrows money, clothes and a Mercedes Benz from his friends, pretending he is businessman man. His friends release "stocks" in a parallel stock market, based and supported in the expectation of the possible marriage of Constantino with Cristina. However, the ghost of Coronel Alexandrão appears for her whenever she intends to have sex with Constantino.

A Viúva Virgem

1972

Eu Dou o Que Ela Gosta poster
7.0

A young couple uses creativity to escape the rules of the girl's father, a conservative Italian, and her grandmother. Even under the patriarch's watch, the roguish boyfriend manages to fulfill his desires.

Eu Dou o Que Ela Gosta

1975

O Ibraim do Subúrbio poster
8.5

A poor man from the North Zone of Rio, head of a family, Roy struggles in every way to survive and accepts a job as a professional laugher on a TV station; Casimiro de Abreu de Sousa lives in a fantasy world in which he imagines himself to be part of high society. His daughter's wedding awakens in Casimiro the desire to achieve everything he has always fantasized about.

O Ibraim do Subúrbio

1977

O Ibraim do Subúrbio poster
8.5

A poor man from the North Zone of Rio, head of a family, Roy struggles in every way to survive and accepts a job as a professional laugher on a TV station; Casimiro de Abreu de Sousa lives in a fantasy world in which he imagines himself to be part of high society. His daughter's wedding awakens in Casimiro the desire to achieve everything he has always fantasized about.

O Ibraim do Subúrbio

1977