Rodolfo Arena
Total Credits at Criticker: 39 (Actor)
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Our story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born full grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family/followers on a journey to the Big City. On the way, more miracles occur, but Macunaima still has the heart and mind of a child. In the Big City, he is co-opted by terrorists who enlist him in their revolutionary schemes. In the Big City he learns that nuts are not always food and other hilarious lessons of life. (imdb)
Adaptation of Machado de Assis's classic novel "Dom Casmurro". Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not really his. (imdb)
In this experimental work, there is no story, just a device trampled the classic horror films with several characters, including an old maniac baron by corpses, murder and rape.
In colonial Brazil, boy is sent to live with some parents in a sugarcane plantation, after losing his mother. His adaptation will be difficult and painful. (imdb)
There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents with an open razor and then goes to the movies. At the same time, other violent events happen when two girls realize they are in love with each other. (imdb)
Reg owns the store "Tem Tudo... E Muito Mais" (Has Everything... And Much More). To satisfy his customers, he is forced to perform the most strange functions.
The story of Paulo Honório, a poor kid who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways. (imdb)
The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine attributes" in order to get power. (imdb)
Fable about the financial and social ascension of a black man in a small town, in the interior of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and his existential crisis when he begins to believe the world is going to end. (imdb)
It is the year after World War 3 and the film follows the odyssey of a girl and her mother as they explore a devastated Brazil. (imdb)
Anthropological and scientific experiments are conducted on a desert island by Dr. Blum (Pereio) and Elza (Ruth de Souza). They have the help of an old fisherman and the employee responsible for tasks.
Old couple are being evicted and turn to their five children for help. Since no one can accommodate the two of them, the children decide to separate the couple. (imdb)
Biography of a real-life Brazilian Robin Hood, a reasonably wealthy man who fought for the poor and the slaves in the second half of 19th-century Northeastern Brazil. (imdb)
After the death of her father in Argentina, Elza returns to Brazil to see her remaining family. When visiting her mother's grave, she steals a flower off an unknown grave and put it in her mother's. After that, she begins to receive strange phone calls, from an unknown voice that claims: "Give back my flower!". She becomes terrified and obsessed with the stranger's voice, and starts believing that it's the spirit of the deceased. (imdb)
A famous soap opera actress discovers her sexuality after breaking up with her former boyfriend, an important TV executive.
70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.
Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him. (imdb)
A locksmith dreams of being a famous detective. Luck helps bringing a complicated case to solve: the theft of the famous emerald. Adventure, dream and reality inhabit the life of John Junior Joey, the friend of Superman.
Documentary on the life and work of José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), one of Brazil's greatest 20th century literary authors, writer of celebrated novels "Menino de Engenho", "Fogo Morto", "Moleque Ricardo", "Riacho Doce" and many more. (imdb)
Simple-minded young woman becomes a successful prostitute. (imdb)
Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at Sao Paulo, and with him the frivolity of tea-parties and comfort. Her wild inner-soul will develop into the wild forest surroundings of a landlord's farmhouse..... (imdb)
Erotic comedy in five segments, starring the same actor (Chico Anysio)
Bububu no Bobobó shows the decline of the brazilian "Teatro de Revista" in te middle of the 20th century.
A hitman from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is assigned to kill landowner "colonel" who had killed the former mayor of Degredo. But he unexpectedly falls in love with the colonel's stepdaughter, and his mission becomes compromised. (imdb)
Three bandits compel a scientist to reveal the region where lives King Mong, a gorilla of 15 meters, and go into the jungle with the intention to bring the monkey to show it in big cities. Costinha and his friend Ferrugem, who inhabit the realms of King Mong, are trapped by leopard men and, by decision of their fat queen, are destined to be sacrificed by God Mong.
In 1910, in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, a man is expelled from his own land by the ruthless colonel who owns the sugar mill. He asks some outlaws to help him retrieve his land. (imdb)
Anxious to please his boss, Roberto agrees to host the chief's lover in his own home, unaware of the problems this could cause among his family. (imdb)
The story revolves around a group of squatters who assaults a film crew during the carnival, and with the equipment stolen, decides to make a film on slum.
Low-budget comedy of errors about false miracles, Catholic priests, greedy politicians and a prostitute in a small Brazilian town, with popular Brazilian comedy stars of the time. (imdb)
Wanderley, a young and dreamy Army parachutist, arrives in Teresópolis, a resort mountain town, to enjoy his holidays with his father, a housekeeper for a rich family. Wandering around the woods, he meets Débora, an extremely good-looking girl, but doesn't reveal his true identity, saying only he was a Prince Charming in search of a Sleeping Beauty. (imdb)
A street vendor, Vincent, after confusion backstage at a nightclub, exchange his bag of swag by another containing counterfeit money. Ignoring the fact, does not benefit the "money" that is discovered by the landlady where he lives and ends up using the most unethical arrangements to sell their merchandise. But, even so finds it difficult to pay back rent ...
Four years despois the success of 'The Adventures with Uncle Maneco', Flávio Migliaccio came to embody the coolest uncle in the world who does not think twice in ready with all the nephews. Migliaccio, creator of the character, the film's plot constructed from an adaptation of the short story 'The Canterville Ghost'.
Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars. (imdb)
An uncle travels with his three nephews once a year, during the holidays, looking for adventure. (imdb)
The daughter of a mechanic begins to date his father's boss. One of her ex-boyfriends tries to spoil the romance.
A good-hearted man, betrayed by his wife and friends, fakes his death and takes up a new identity, as a nameless, wandering drunkard.