David Cardoso

Acting

David Cardoso

Born 1943-04-09 · Maracaju, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

José Darcy Cardoso, better known by his stage name David Cardoso, is a Brazilian actor of film, stage and television, who has also worked as a filmmaker and producer. Founder of production company DaCar Produções Cinematográficas , he's known as one of the main names among the erotic and pornographic productions of São Paulo's "Boca do Lixo". Born and raised in Maracaju, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, by 1963 Cardoso moved to São Paulo and began searching for gigs as a technician in filmmaking. Working as continuity supervisor and production director at Pam Filmes, Amacio Mazzaropi's production company, he got his debut as an actor in a short role in Mazzaropi's O Lamparina (1963). He would have his first substancial role in Walter Hugo Khouri's "O Corpo Ardente", in 1966. By the early 1970s Cardoso already had gain notoriety as a star, after acting in Glauco Mirko Laurelli's "A Moreninha" (1970). In 1973 he founded DaCar Produções Cinematográficas, which would go on to produce most of his later films. His debut as a director was 1977's DaCar production "Dezenove Mulheres e Um Homem". As an actor, Cardoso was featured in more than 40 films, from pornographic features to family-friendly movies such as Roberto Farias' "Roberto Carlos em Ritmo de Aventura" (1968), including avant-garde and cult films like Ozualdo Candeias' "A Herança" (1971). He played the main part in Rede Globo's soap opera "O Homem Proibido" (1982), leading to a series of protests from a conservative part of the public in account of his well-known connection to erotic productions. Cardoso is father to actors David Cardoso Júnior and Tallytha Cardoso, and currently lives in a farm in his home state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Acting credits

Porno! poster
5.1

Three tales of the erotic: Two young ladies experiment with lesbianism, a handsome and wealthy socialite makes a beautiful woman patiently wait to make love to him, and a gorgeous, but controlling and dominating blind woman makes a hunky stud her sexual hostage in her swanky mansion home.

Porno!

1981

The Inheritance poster
7.2

An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle.

The Inheritance

1970

Tentação na Cama poster
6.1

Roberto is a successful businessman. Persecuted by the police, he will have a dilemma: give a secret or keep on running.

Tentação na Cama

1984

Vidas Estranhas poster
7.0

A rich man's cruel behavior is making his family unhappy. A psychiatrist in love with his daughter tries to understand his actions.

Vidas Estranhas

1968

Sedução - A Mulher Fatal poster
7.0

An wealthy Italian immigrant from São Paulo, watches closely the suitors of his daughter Fiametta, whose two previous husbands "suffered accidents" because they did not bear good children. She can only get pregnant of someone who, like her, bears the blood of the rare K factor.

Sedução - A Mulher Fatal

1974

Mazzaropi poster
8.5

A documentary on the life and work of Amácio Mazzaropi, a phenomenon of popularity and profitability of Brazilian cinema.

Mazzaropi

2013

Sinal Vermelho - As Fêmeas poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sinal Vermelho - As Fêmeas

1972

Men and Women poster
6.9

Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes, uncovering their anguish and deeper feelings, and the emptiness of their lives.

Men and Women

1964

O Guarani poster
4.5

The love affair between Ceci, a white woman and a handsome Indian, Peri, in Brazil.

O Guarani

1979

Desejo Selvagem poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Desejo Selvagem

1979

Trindad... É Meu Nome poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Trindad... É Meu Nome

1974

Body and Soul of a Woman poster
4.7

A young couple, Rodrigo and Aimé, who love each other deeply and possess everything to achieve full happiness, are hit by fate: She suffers an accident and becomes paralyzed.

Body and Soul of a Woman

1983

Quando as Mulheres Paqueram poster
4.0

Three English women on vacation in Brazil shake the structures of a Brazilian bourgeois family, but while one of them finds love, the other two are disappointed in flirting.

Quando as Mulheres Paqueram

1971

Se Meu Dólar Falasse... poster
6.0

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.

Se Meu Dólar Falasse...

1971

The Burning Body poster
6.5

Márcia discovers that her husband is having an affair and decides to take a trip out into an isolated part of Brazil with little human contact. There she finds a black stallion roaming the fields.

The Burning Body

1966

Sem Defesa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sem Defesa

2015

Estou com AIDS poster
4.0

A docufiction that reveals the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. Interviews with famous Brazilian personalities and anonymous people about the disease’s pandemic all over the world, their opinions, and hopes for a future cure.

Estou com AIDS

1986

Cabeça a Prêmio poster
3.6

The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent times, they've watched as the system that protected them for so many years slowly disintegrates. Mirão Menezes lives at the mercy of the drug-trafficking industry, the ever-encroaching authorities, and the constant and violent power struggle with his brother Abílio. Mirão's daughter Elaine becomes involved with her father's pilot, finds herself pregnant and decides to flee with him after her Uncle Abílio bribes them. Brito, the hitman sent to find the couple and finish them off, is ironically also victim of a love story.

Cabeça a Prêmio

2010

O Dia do Gato poster
9.0

Gato is an experienced thief who breaks into a doctor's house with two cronies for a complicated plan: "sell" the guy's Mercedes to several buyers, as if the car were his, and pocket the thousands of dollars that "buyers" give as input.

O Dia do Gato

1987

Foi Bom pra Você, Benzinho? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Foi Bom pra Você, Benzinho?

2006

Erotic Hunts poster
7.5

Film in three episodes. On the first, man is seduced by strange woman. The second shows orgies with couples. Punk girls kidnap and rape men on the third segment.

Erotic Hunts

1984

O Amante de Minha Mulher poster
3.7

Alberto Verani is a married farmer and a relentless womanizer. When his wife Marina is away he tries to seduce Condessa Arduini sending her a bouquet signed anonymously. However Marina is the one to find the gift and hides it from Alberto, believing she have a secret admirer. So the husband keeps sending her flowers to test the fidelity while an outsider man discovers the plot and start to takes advantage of it.

O Amante de Minha Mulher

1979

The Night of the Terrace 2 poster
4.5

In "Solo de Violino", bank clerk and aspirant violinist Rodrigo is a serial killer. When his next door neighbor reveals that she is in love with his music and Rodrigo, he has difficulties in controlling his killing impulses. In "A Guerra da Malvina", four female thieves break in the house of the porn star David Cardoso to rob money and jewelry, but they end having sex with the actor.

The Night of the Terrace 2

1982

Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor poster
4.7

Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one of his best friends and marries her; soon after, she cheats on him.

Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor

1989

Behind the camera

Porno! poster
5.1

Three tales of the erotic: Two young ladies experiment with lesbianism, a handsome and wealthy socialite makes a beautiful woman patiently wait to make love to him, and a gorgeous, but controlling and dominating blind woman makes a hunky stud her sexual hostage in her swanky mansion home.

Porno!

1981

Porno! poster
5.1

Three tales of the erotic: Two young ladies experiment with lesbianism, a handsome and wealthy socialite makes a beautiful woman patiently wait to make love to him, and a gorgeous, but controlling and dominating blind woman makes a hunky stud her sexual hostage in her swanky mansion home.

Porno!

1981

Sexo Cruzado poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sexo Cruzado

1986

Woman Temptation poster
5.8

The erotic mishaps of a family: the voyeur pervert father spies and harasses all the maids in the mansion and watch them have sex. The wife is a sex starved woman, who has sex with a young boy working in the house, then steals her daughter's boyfriend and the daughter finds a new one in the park immediately. And father watches all three group have sex in different rooms in the mansion.

Woman Temptation

1982

Desejo Selvagem poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Desejo Selvagem

1979

Desejo Selvagem poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Desejo Selvagem

1979

Body and Soul of a Woman poster
4.7

A young couple, Rodrigo and Aimé, who love each other deeply and possess everything to achieve full happiness, are hit by fate: She suffers an accident and becomes paralyzed.

Body and Soul of a Woman

1983

Sem Defesa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sem Defesa

2015

Sem Defesa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sem Defesa

2015

Estou com AIDS poster
4.0

A docufiction that reveals the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. Interviews with famous Brazilian personalities and anonymous people about the disease’s pandemic all over the world, their opinions, and hopes for a future cure.

Estou com AIDS

1986

Estou com AIDS poster
4.0

A docufiction that reveals the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. Interviews with famous Brazilian personalities and anonymous people about the disease’s pandemic all over the world, their opinions, and hopes for a future cure.

Estou com AIDS

1986

Estou com AIDS poster
4.0

A docufiction that reveals the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. Interviews with famous Brazilian personalities and anonymous people about the disease’s pandemic all over the world, their opinions, and hopes for a future cure.

Estou com AIDS

1986

O Dia do Gato poster
9.0

Gato is an experienced thief who breaks into a doctor's house with two cronies for a complicated plan: "sell" the guy's Mercedes to several buyers, as if the car were his, and pocket the thousands of dollars that "buyers" give as input.

O Dia do Gato

1987

Erotic Hunts poster
7.5

Film in three episodes. On the first, man is seduced by strange woman. The second shows orgies with couples. Punk girls kidnap and rape men on the third segment.

Erotic Hunts

1984

Erotic Hunts poster
7.5

Film in three episodes. On the first, man is seduced by strange woman. The second shows orgies with couples. Punk girls kidnap and rape men on the third segment.

Erotic Hunts

1984

The Night of the Terrace 2 poster
4.5

In "Solo de Violino", bank clerk and aspirant violinist Rodrigo is a serial killer. When his next door neighbor reveals that she is in love with his music and Rodrigo, he has difficulties in controlling his killing impulses. In "A Guerra da Malvina", four female thieves break in the house of the porn star David Cardoso to rob money and jewelry, but they end having sex with the actor.

The Night of the Terrace 2

1982

The Night at the Terrace poster
4.9

Three exploitative short stories of sailors trying their luck in the São Paulo night.

The Night at the Terrace

1980

The Night at the Terrace poster
4.9

Three exploitative short stories of sailors trying their luck in the São Paulo night.

The Night at the Terrace

1980

Bandido, Fúria do Sexo poster
7.0

Teo, a private detective, never decides to heed his fiancée Sonia's requests to abandon his dangerous profession and go work for her father, a wealthy industrialist. A new case always comes up, causing Teo to postpone his visit to his future father-in-law. However, one day he is hired under mysterious circumstances: he receives orders from a woman he doesn't know to do something that is still unclear. Nevertheless, the woman pays him handsomely and gives him a vague idea of the case. To his surprise, as soon as the woman leaves, Teo is attacked by four men. Recovering from his injuries, he begins to investigate his client...

Bandido, Fúria do Sexo

1979

Bandido, Fúria do Sexo poster
7.0

Teo, a private detective, never decides to heed his fiancée Sonia's requests to abandon his dangerous profession and go work for her father, a wealthy industrialist. A new case always comes up, causing Teo to postpone his visit to his future father-in-law. However, one day he is hired under mysterious circumstances: he receives orders from a woman he doesn't know to do something that is still unclear. Nevertheless, the woman pays him handsomely and gives him a vague idea of the case. To his surprise, as soon as the woman leaves, Teo is attacked by four men. Recovering from his injuries, he begins to investigate his client...

Bandido, Fúria do Sexo

1979

19 Mulheres e 1 Homem poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

19 Mulheres e 1 Homem

1977

19 Mulheres e 1 Homem poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

19 Mulheres e 1 Homem

1977

The Nun and the Torture poster
4.1

Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her, but is startled to learn that she's also a nun. The revelation doesn't alter the natural course of events: he must torture her in order to obtain a confession, and gets increasingly attracted to her.

The Nun and the Torture

1984

Caçada Sangrenta poster
4.4

A sculptor, protected by a millionaire woman, becomes suspect of her murder. He flees to the country, where a violent pursuit takes place.

Caçada Sangrenta

1974