Neville D'Almeida

Directing

Neville D'Almeida

Born

1941-05-15 (85)

Place of birth

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Known for

Directing

Credits

82 titles

A Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, photographer and multimedia artist, involved with contemporary art, installations, art objects and performances, Neville Duarte Almeida was born in 1941 in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. Raised by a Methodist Christian family, he studied theater at the Scholastic Theatre of Minas Gerais and participated at the local Center of Film Studies, where he started to work as an filmmaker. Some of his transgressive, avant-garde films were censored or banned by the Brazilian military dictatorship, after which he went on to directing films aimed to a more commercial approach. His 1978 film "Lady on the Bus", starring Sônia Braga, was a box-office cham…

Known for

O País do Cinema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O País do Cinema

2016

Moon Over Parador poster
5.9

Underappreciated actor Jack Noah is on location in Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse... to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.

Moon Over Parador

1988

The Red Light Bandit poster
7.6

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.

The Red Light Bandit

1968

Lady on the Bus poster
5.6

Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro.

Lady on the Bus

1978

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival poster
5.0

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

2020

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies poster
5.5

In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies

1991

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival poster
5.0

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

2020

Drops de Anis poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Drops de Anis

2026

Com as Próprias Mãos poster
NR

Police reporter Luarlindo Ernesto is the only eyewitness to the creation of the death squad, the first Brazilian extermination group. 60 years later, young journalist Yasmin Santos researches the origins of the militia in Rio de Janeiro and, upon discovering that Luarlindo is alive, decides to track him down to try and convince him to tell her everything he saw.

Com as Próprias Mãos

2023

Peréio, Eu Te Odeio! poster
8.0

23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.

Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!

2023

Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude poster
NR

A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato. Such as the magazine "Navilouca", the film "Terror da Vermelha", the column "Geleia Geral" and the controversial Cinema Novo X Marginal, among other passages important aspects of Brazilian culture in the 60s and 70s.

Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude

2020

Os Espetaculares poster
6.8

An egotistical stand-up comedian fights with a spectator and gets fired. To be able to pay his son's pension, he decides to participate in a comedy group contest. Now he will need to work harmoniously with the rest of the team.

Os Espetaculares

2020

Tiro Certo - Rio em Chamas poster
10.0

The film brings the story of Benito Terranova, a sniper on the edge of the psychological abyss who faces organized crime to do justice.

Tiro Certo - Rio em Chamas

2025

Ivan, the TerrirBle poster
1.0

Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a rescue of his work by mixing archival material, animations and fictional reconstructions.

Ivan, the TerrirBle

2020

Corredor Cinéfilo - Neville D'Almeida poster
NR

Director Neville D'Almeida talks about some of his favorite films in the Cavideo store

Corredor Cinéfilo - Neville D'Almeida

2026

Cineastas de Invenção poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cineastas de Invenção

2026

2010s · 5 titles

Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos poster
10.0

This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.

Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos

2019

Dunas do Barato poster
5.5

A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a generation of artists and sportsmen.

Dunas do Barato

2017

Pitanga poster
5.6

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.

Pitanga

2016

No artwork available
NR

The theatrologist, actor, director and overall polemist Plínio Marcos gets his life traced through images of the many spectacles he has put on interviews from various moments in his life, from the most rebellious and marginal, when he lacked resources for his art, to when he was invited to go to Paris and talk about his work

Plínio Marcos — Nas Quebradas do Mundaréu

2013

Redemption poster
5.0

A young woman travels to solve a matter of life or death. As she seeks to do what she needs, the city exposes itself with its curious characters.

Redemption

2017

1980s · 5 titles

Moon Over Parador poster
5.9

Underappreciated actor Jack Noah is on location in Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse... to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.

Moon Over Parador

1988

The Brazilwood Man poster
5.0

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.

The Brazilwood Man

1982

Sermões poster
6.3

Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.

Sermões

1989

Noite poster
4.0

Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of police officers about the barbaric murder of a socialite. Without recognizing himself in the documents he carries in his pocket, he wanders through the underworlds of the city in search of an answer.

Noite

1985

Areias Escaldantes poster
6.0

In the near future, in the country of Kali, a group of young terrorists carry out robberies, kidnappings and murders under the orders of a mysterious big boss known as "Entity" and are pursued by the pompous and inefficient Special Police.

Areias Escaldantes

1985

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 5 titles

The Red Light Bandit poster
7.6

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.

The Red Light Bandit

1968

BLABLABLÁ poster
6.8

The tensions experienced by three different people during the military dictatorship in Brazil: a politician, a revolutionary and a common citizen.

BLABLABLÁ

1968

The Angel Was Born poster
6.8

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.

The Angel Was Born

1969

Garden of War poster
7.1

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.

Garden of War

1969

Hunger for Love poster
5.1

An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive

Hunger for Love

1968

Series credits

Behind the camera

Lady on the Bus poster
5.6

Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro.

Lady on the Bus

1978

Lady on the Bus poster
5.6

Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro.

Lady on the Bus

1978

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies poster
5.5

In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies

1991

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies poster
5.5

In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies

1991

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies poster
5.5

In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies

1991

The Seven Kittens poster
6.1

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four eldest daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back from boarding school after killing a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.

The Seven Kittens

1980

The Seven Kittens poster
6.1

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four eldest daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back from boarding school after killing a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.

The Seven Kittens

1980

The Seven Kittens poster
6.1

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four eldest daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back from boarding school after killing a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.

The Seven Kittens

1980

Rio Babilonia poster
5.5

A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.

Rio Babilonia

1982

Rio Babilonia poster
5.5

A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.

Rio Babilonia

1982

Razor in the Flesh poster
4.6

The story of three characters in a brothel room: the prostitute Neusa Sueli, the gigolo Vado and the homosexual Veludo speak of their lives and expose their marginality.

Razor in the Flesh

1997

Razor in the Flesh poster
4.6

The story of three characters in a brothel room: the prostitute Neusa Sueli, the gigolo Vado and the homosexual Veludo speak of their lives and expose their marginality.

Razor in the Flesh

1997

The Cold Front Brought by the Rain poster
5.7

A group of playboys organizes the last party of the year in a slum before the change in weather. And for this night, beyond the usual drugs, alcohol and sex, they will receive special guests: an addict that uses and is used by the group, a country singer who was raised around the slum, a strange security guard and the owner of the place.

The Cold Front Brought by the Rain

2016

The Cold Front Brought by the Rain poster
5.7

A group of playboys organizes the last party of the year in a slum before the change in weather. And for this night, beyond the usual drugs, alcohol and sex, they will receive special guests: an addict that uses and is used by the group, a country singer who was raised around the slum, a strange security guard and the owner of the place.

The Cold Front Brought by the Rain

2016

No artwork available
8.0

The picture brings interviews with the participants of the 1st São Paulo Jazz Festival that occurred in Anhembi Conventions Palace in September 1978 and reunited musicians, composers and singers from all around the world.

Música para Sempre

1980

Mangúe-Bangúe poster
5.2

The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a runaway stockbroker, "Mangue-Bangue" is the paradigmatic expression of the post-1968 spirit of desbunde, the Brazilian slang catchword for "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll".

Mangúe-Bangúe

1971

Mangúe-Bangúe poster
5.2

The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a runaway stockbroker, "Mangue-Bangue" is the paradigmatic expression of the post-1968 spirit of desbunde, the Brazilian slang catchword for "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll".

Mangúe-Bangúe

1971

Hoje É Dia de Rock! poster
NR

An adaptation of Marcos Vinicius Faustini's rendition of José Vicente's eponymous 1971 play, a story that deals with the five children of Pedro Fogueteiro, who all live in a small town in the state of Minas Gerais and decide to go on a journey to find about their own individual identities in a moment of change lived by their generation, heavily influenced by rock music.

Hoje É Dia de Rock!

1999

A Voz do Provocador: Internacionalização da Amazônia poster
NR

In a monologue, a man expresses his views over the international selling of the Amazon rainforest.

A Voz do Provocador: Internacionalização da Amazônia

2006

Boa Noite Cinderela poster
NR

An encounter between a young woman and an older man ends up in an unexpected way.

Boa Noite Cinderela

2010

A Voz do Provocador — Parte 1: Os Artísticos poster
NR

In a monologue, a man expresses his distaste for the artistic community.

A Voz do Provocador — Parte 1: Os Artísticos

2006

Tempo Glauber poster
NR

A documentary short on Tempo Glauber, a foundation created by filmmaker Orlando Senna and Glauber Rocha's mother Lucia in order to celebrate and preservate her son's legacy.

Tempo Glauber

2005

Garden of War poster
7.1

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.

Garden of War

1969

Garden of War poster
7.1

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.

Garden of War

1969

Garden of War poster
7.1

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.

Garden of War

1969

A Água, a Mulher e o Regador poster
NR

Experimental short, focusing on both a woman and a watering can sharing the same swimming pool.

A Água, a Mulher e o Regador

2005

New York, 70s poster
NR

Experimental short film, shot in Super 8.

New York, 70s

1973

O Diário Secreto de Jane Joy: Receita de Sedução poster
NR

A woman teaches her techniques on how to seduct over men.

O Diário Secreto de Jane Joy: Receita de Sedução

2007

Maksuara – Crepúsculo dos Deuses poster
NR

The tragic story of the misery and abandonment Brazilian indigenous populations have been suffering for over the last 500 years. Maksuara chronicles the wisdom of indigenous people, who live in perfect harmony with nature without destroying or damaging it.

Maksuara – Crepúsculo dos Deuses

2007

Luz-Lux-Lúcia poster
NR

A documentary short on Glauber Rocha's mother Lúcia.

Luz-Lux-Lúcia

2005

A Voz do Provocador - O Ouro Roubado poster
NR

In a monologue, a man explains his thoughts on the exploitation of Brazil's native people's resources.

A Voz do Provocador - O Ouro Roubado

2006

Era Uma Vez Babu poster
NR

An experiment of poetic fiction involving the personality of an important actor in an abstract vision, that goes through past, present and future.

Era Uma Vez Babu

2021

O Poder Negro poster
NR

An excerpt from Neville D'Almeida's debut feature "Jardim de Guerra" (1968), focusing on the Black Power speech made by a character played by Antonio Pitanga.

O Poder Negro

2018

O Poder Negro poster
NR

An excerpt from Neville D'Almeida's debut feature "Jardim de Guerra" (1968), focusing on the Black Power speech made by a character played by Antonio Pitanga.

O Poder Negro

2018

O Diário Secreto de Jane Joy: Calcinha poster
NR

A woman explains her distaste for the use of underwear.

O Diário Secreto de Jane Joy: Calcinha

2007

Humanos Causa poster
NR

A loose adaptation of a scene from a theatre play written and directed by Thiago Justino, "Humanos Causa" shows the people of a city reclaiming their rights.

Humanos Causa

2019

Acquawater poster
NR

An experimental short film directed by Neville D'Almeida, based on the ambience of Cosmococa CC4, one of the installations planned by the filmmaker in partnership with visual artist Helio Oiticica.

Acquawater

2005

Redemption poster
5.0

A young woman travels to solve a matter of life or death. As she seeks to do what she needs, the city exposes itself with its curious characters.

Redemption

2017

Redemption poster
5.0

A young woman travels to solve a matter of life or death. As she seeks to do what she needs, the city exposes itself with its curious characters.

Redemption

2017

Bye Bye Amazonia poster
NR

Neville D'Almeida’s “Bye Bye Amazônia” tackles on the problems that plague the world’s biggest rainforest and its native people.

Bye Bye Amazonia

2023