Fábio Barreto
Birth : 1957-06-06, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Death : 2019-11-20
History
Filho de Luís Carlos Barreto, e irmão do também cineasta Bruno Barreto. Atuou no primeiro curta-metragem, "Três Amigos que Não se Separam", quando tinha nove anos; no filme também atuaram sua irmã (Paula Barreto) e a cadela Baleia, coadjuvante no filme Vidas Secas (1963).
Foi assistente de direção de Carlos Diegues em Bye Bye Brasil (1979). Iniciou sua carreira no cinema aos 20 anos, dirigindo o curta-metragem A Estória de José e Maria (1977). E estreou como diretor de longa-metragem no Festival de Cannes de 1982, com Índia, a Filha do Sol (1982), inscrito na Quinzena dos Realizadores; tinha 24 anos.
Seu filme O Quatrilho (1995) foi indicado para o Oscar de melhor filme estrangeiro de 1995.
Trabalhou como ator em dois filmes — For all - O trampolim da vitória (1997) e Memórias do cárcere (1984) — e dirigiu 9 longas.
Director
The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.
Producer
After being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his father-in-law, Zé Araújo becomes the mythical Ojuara, an unconventional hero devoted to debauchery.
Director
Producer
A young student (Mel Lisboa), a literature professor (Felipe Camargo) and a wounded warrior who is always with his face covered (Sergio Marone) are three militants, who are confined in an apartment in Belo Horizonte. There they confront their emotional and political options, involving loyalty, betrayal and desire.
A star medical examiner is called to Brasília, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young congressional aide's dead body. But his scientific rigor soon leads him to details of a multi-layered political scandal.
Director
Director
American couple move to the State of Ceará, Brazil, in the 1930s. The husband is looking for oil. His beautiful wife, Donna, soon falls in love with a rude but charming fisherman. The forbidden romance may destroy her marriage and upset the morals of the small village where they live.
1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies. Giancarlo, an Italian immigrant married to a Brazilian woman, lives nearby the Parnamirin Field, the largest military base built by the USA outside of their territory. In this new base, Brazilian recruits who speak English suddenly find themselves reaching privileged positions.
Gaudério
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.
Director
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.
Director
After witnessing the assassination of her parents, Luzia is raised by a cowboy and starts behaving like the men of Brazilian "Sertão". As a grown-up, she sets out to find her parent's murderer, but ends up discovering love.
Writer
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
Director
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
Siqueira Campos
Adaptation of Graciliano Ramos's novel about his arrest and imprisonment.
Screenplay
A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.
Director
A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.
Producer
When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality.
Production Director
As soon as Mauro, an Administration student, discovers a strong vocation for mediumship, he drops everything to go deeper and dedicate himself to Umbanda, a religion he embraces so strongly that it makes him give up his studies. Determined to open his own spiritist center, Mauro moves to the countryside.
Assistant Director
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe.
Assistant Director
Rio de Janeiro police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he tracts a serial killer of taxi-drivers, he also seeks his estranged daughter, Sandra, who he had thrown out of the family home when she adopted a promiscuous teenage lifestyle. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho, a young man of unsavoury connections, befriends Sandra, now an exotic dancer and prostitute living and working in the seamy underside of late 1970s Rio.
Director
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