Jonas Bloch

Jonas Bloch

Nacimiento : 1939-02-08, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Perfil

Jonas Bloch

Películas

Apaixonada
Orlando
Based on the book by Cris Souza Fontes, Apaixonada tells the story of a woman who realizes how monotonous her life is. She finds herself desperate and facing an identity crisis. From then on, she is forced to begin an exciting journey of self-discovery that takes her close to all the passions that life has to offer.
Vida a Vida!
Eike: Tudo ou Nada
In 2006, when the Brazilian economy was taking off due to the discovery of oil in the pre-salt layer, Eike Batista decided to create the oil company OGX and hired the best men from Petrobras to participate in the pre-salt auction. But megalomaniacal plans and a series of misguided decisions and alliances cause their empire to crumble as spectacularly as it had grown. And Brazil watches, perplexed, the fall of Eike, who loses all his fortune, power and prestige. Inspired by the book by journalist Malu Gaspar.
Hermanoteu na Terra de Godah: O Filme
Hermanoteu is a young shepherd boy who, enlightened by the "Divine Light", travels to the land of Godah to free the people from the oppressive hands of cruel tyrants. A comedy based on the hugely successful play "Hermanoteu in the Land of Godah" by the Brazilian theater company "The Best of the World".
El traidor
Palermo, Sicilia, 1980. Tommaso Buscetta, miembro de la mafia siciliana, decide mudarse a Brasil con su familia huyendo de la guerra constante entre los diferentes clanes de la organización criminal. Pero cuando, después de vivir varias desgracias, se ve obligado a regresar a Italia, toma una decisión audaz que cambiará para siempre su vida y el destino de la Cosa Nostra.
Doidas e Santas
Olavo Prado
Beatriz is a famous psychoanalyst who teaches others to be happy, but isn't able to be happy herself. Things take a turn when her mother's death takes her traveling with her sister to Buenos Aires to comply with the unusual directives she left in her will.
The Trace We Leave Behind
Heitor
A young physician coordinating the transfer of patients between state-run hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro struggles with a mystery: a patient goes missing one night and completely disappears from the system. As the doctor attempts to find out the truth, he slowly loses his sense of reality.
Rota de Fuga
Marconi
Maresia
Nord Klein
Where do you draw the line between fact and fiction in one man's life? That's the issue confronting an art expert delving into the biography of a painter who drowned 50 years ago, whose presence suddenly makes itself felt through the appearance of a contemporary friend.
The Devil's Scarab
Padre Paulo Afonso
A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to investigate what is happening and is helped by the experienced but forgetful Inspector Pimentel.
Vidas Partidas
Promotor
A married couple lives peacefully with two children until the husband starts getting violent.
The Other Side of Paradise
Simeão
Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.
A Tragédia da Rua das Flores
Timóteo
Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
Gomes
The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto.
Daughters of the Wind
Cara Pálida
É uma lírica história de redenção amorosa entre irmãs, mães e filhas, em uma pequena cidade do interior de Minas Gerais, onde os fantasmas da escravidão e do racismo acentuam os dramas de forma sutil e poderosa.
Playing in the Dark
A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life.
Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
General
Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women and idolized by his audience and friends. His contagious joy attracts the attention of American scientist Dr. Boris Lewitsky, who comes to Brazil in order to interview Apolônio's close friends and make them a most unusual offer concerning the remains of the late musician.
Mango Yellow
Isaac
In a poor neighborhood in Recife, the lives of exotic and bizarre characters entwine in a bar and in a very low-budget hotel. The queer Dunga works in the hotel and has a crush on the butcher Wellington that is married with the religious Kika and has an affair with his mistress Dayse. The sick necrophiliac Isaac owns a yellow Mercedes Benz and wants to have sex with Lígia that owns of Bar Avenida.
Woman on Top
Pierre Laroche
Isabella es una gran cocinera brasileña que ha permitido que el restaurante de su marido en Bahia sea un éxito. Para controlar su enfermedad, debe colocarse encima de su marido, Toninho, cuando practican el sexo, lo que conduce a su machista esposo a cometer toda clase de infidelidades. Despechada lo abandona y se dirige a San Francisco junto a su amiga Mónica. Para curar su corazón partido se ofrece a la diosa del mar, Yemanja. Ésta le responderá... (FILMAFFINITY)
O Dia da Caça
Branco
Ex-drug dealer is forced to go back to business by a corrupt policeman. He must go to Colombia and bring back some cocaine, but discovers the whole thing is a set up. He then devises a suicidal plan for revenge.
O Circo das Qualidades Humanas
A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar
The ideological conflict between Joaquim Bolívar, a young barber member of the Communist Party and the powerful Coronel Gaudêncio, a typical province political leader.
Texas Hotel
An overlook at some urban characters in the city of Recife through their passages in a hotel.
Kenoma
Gerônimo
In the village of Kenoma, inside Brazil, the artisan Linnaeus tries to make a big and quixotic dream: to build a perpetual motion machine. His contract is opposed by Jerome, powerful local landowner, but he wins the aid of mysterious drifter who decides to stay in town after charmed with the beauty of the young Tari.
Uma Aventura do Zico
Frederico Mondo
Rich and spoiled kid, frustrated for not being chosen to join the soccer lessons his idol Zico was going to give, asks his father to clone the player. But a small girl smells something fishy going on and asks her friends to help save the Brazilian soccer star.
The Patriot
Dr. Mendonça
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.
Doces Poderes
A journalist is placed upon the management of a large broadcasting company to the capital of Brazil at the time of local elections. She must now face ideological and ethical questions, brought back by a left-wing former boyfriend and her own colleagues. At the same time, a free-lancer spy is sent by an obscure figure in politics to manipulate the elections and its media coverage.
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Discretion Assured
Three American businessmen have a problem with their Brazilian company: someone is embezzling millions of dollars. Michael is having an affair with Frank's wife Paige, but wants to end it. Paige is not so accommodating, and causes trouble with Michael's wife Kitty and his new interest, local artist Miranda. When someone is murdered Michael becomes a suspect, and must try to find the murderer and catch the embezzler while sorting out the wreckage of his personal life.
A Maldição do Sanpaku
Bruce
Gafanhoto is a smuggler who tries to take a hit by stealing a valuable stone. He awakens the fury of the old boss of the gang, and ends up involving in the plot a former colleague, Poeta and his girlfriend Cris, a beautiful woman who brings in the eyes the mark of the tragedy.
O Diabo na Cama
The Man in the Black Cape
Adolfo
Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.
Avaete, Seed of Revenge
le père Bruno
Little Indian boy survives his tribe massacre, growing up together with his wish for revenge and his quest for his own identity. Based on a true story.
Tropclip
Enterprising youths live many adventures when they decide to start a business specializing in making video clips for rock groups.
Quilombo
Samuel
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
Bandidos da Falange
Doce Delírio
Retrato Falado de Uma Mulher Sem Pudor
Cacá Salles
A model is found dead in the bathtub of her own mansion. A policeman tries to investigate, inquiring the rich and powerful men who knew her.
O Paraíso Proibido
Celso Felix
Celso Felix, a successful radio broadcaster in the metropolis, is disillusioned with his everyday life and leaves his wife and children to live in a small beach town on the brazilian coast.
The Claudia Case
Pierre Dorf
Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress Márcia Rodrigues's sister, was found in the seashore. After Police investigation, it was found she had been murdered on a party by a rich industrialist's son and his socialite hairdresser buddy, after much sex, alcohol and drugs, specially Mandrax (methaqualone). She'd probably resisted being raped and the killers threw away the body in the water. One of the guys tried to escape flying to Switzerland.
Inquietações de Uma Mulher Casada
Unhappy with her marriage, woman looks for sexual satisfaction by any means.
Bloody Gold
The son of a millionaire who owns gold mines in Transopia, Africa, Antoine Leblanc, who lives in a mansion in Rio, one day receives a letter from his father asking him for help against the gold smugglers from Transopia to Brazil.
A Santa Donzela
Jordão Magalhães, a young plastic artist from a small inland city, is hired to sculpt the statue of the local virgin patron. The model that inspires her is Verinha, with whom she maintains a loving relationship.
Touchy
Luiz
Drama teacher and writer of soap operas keeps his frustrating marriage because he doesn't have the existencial courage to get divorced. But he meets a temperamental and rich student, with whom he engages in a neurotic relationship.