Jofre Soares — Actor (20)
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Tragic Jungle (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Selva Trágica
director: Roberto Farias actor: Reginaldo Faria / Rejane Medeiros …
other title: Selva Trágica
In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.
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The Trapalhões and the Wizard of Oróz (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz
director: Dedé Santana / Victor Lustosa actor: Renato Aragão / Dedé Santana …
other title: Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oroz / Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz
Didi, Soró and Tatu in search food and water head for the town of Oróz. On their journey they find a Scarecrow, a man in a metal vat, and later are arrested by a Lion Sheriff.
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Journey to the End of the World (1968) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Viagem ao Fim do Mundo
director: Fernando Coni Campos actor: Jofre Soares / Karin Rodrigues …
other title: Viagem ao Fim do Mundo / Voyage to the End of the World …
During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.
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The Prophet of Hunger (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
O Profeta da Fome
director: Maurice Capovila actor: José Mojica Marins / Maurício do Valle …
other title: O Profeta da Fome
The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.
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The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga
director: Roberto Santos actor: Leonardo Villar / Jofre Soares …
other title: A Hora e a Vez de Augusto Matraga / Matraga …
Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who, after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enemies, is bitten up and left for dead, being rescued by a couple of humble small farmers who nurse him for a long time until he is well again. Influenced by the couple, Matraga starts a long penitent life while waiting for his hour and chance to payback, starting a fight between his violent nature, his hidden desire of vengeance and the mysticism and goodness which is also part of him.
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Quilombo (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Quilombo
director: Carlos Diegues actor: Tony Tornado / Antônio Pompêo …
1984 film by Carlos Diegues
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João and the Knife (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Faca e o Rio
director: George Sluizer actor: Jofre Soares / Ana Maria Miranda …
other title: A Faca e o Rio / João et le Couteau
Against all advice, a destitute Brazilian old man marries a nineteen-year-old girl. Because he can’t give her any children, he moves to the interior to make money, so she will at least have a good life. When he returns, he is told she has a three-year-old daughter. He buys himself a knife.
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The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe (1974) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
O Exorcismo Negro
director: José Mojica Marins actor: José Mojica Marins / Jofre Soares …
other title: O Exorcismo Negro / Exorcismo Negro …
Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the story for his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force.
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Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Nudo e selvaggio
director: Michele Massimo Tarantini actor: Michael Sopkiw / Suzane Carvalho …
other title: Nudo e selvaggio / Perdidos no Vale dos Dinossauros …
A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety.
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Time for Revenge (1981) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Tiempo de revancha
director: Adolfo Aristarain actor: Federico Luppi / Julio De Grazia …
other title: Tiempo de revancha
Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident.
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Saint Bernard (1972) [Movie]
S. Bernardo
director: Leon Hirszman actor: Othon Bastos / Isabel Ribeiro …
other title: S. Bernardo
The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman 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.
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Grande Sertão (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Grande Sertão
director: Renato Santos Pereira / Geraldo Santos Pereira actor: Maurício do Valle / Sônia Clara …
Cowboy Riobaldo is attracted to same sex Diadorim, not knowing that "he" is a girl dressed in man's clothes. After Diadorim's father is killed, she swears revenge, being joined by Riobaldo in this mission.
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Antonio das Mortes (1969) [Movie]
O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro
director: Glauber Rocha actor: Maurício do Valle / Odete Lara …
other title: O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro / Antonio Das Mortes …
A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.
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The Amulet of Ogum (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
O Amuleto de Ogum
director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos actor: Jofre Soares / Anecy Rocha …
other title: O Amuleto de Ogum / L'Amulette
An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an amulet bearing Ogum's blessings. As time goes by, he becomes a valuable member of a mobster's hit-team, but ends up joining a group of people who resist his original employers.
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Bye Bye Brazil (1980) [Movie]
Bye Bye Brasil
director: Cacá Diegues actor: José Wilker / Betty Faria …
other title: Bye Bye Brasil / Bye Bye Brésil
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.
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Entranced Earth (1967) [Movie]
Terra em Transe
director: Glauber Rocha actor: Jardel Filho / Paulo Autran …
other title: Terra in trance / Terra em Transe …
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
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Morte e Vida Severina (1977) [Movie] TMDB
Morte e Vida Severina
director: Zelito Viana actor: Tânia Alves / José Dumont …
The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads for Recife, passing through desert and forest regions, expecting to find a better life.
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Barren Lives (1963) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Vidas Secas
director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos actor: Átila Iório / Maria Ribeiro …
other title: Vidas Secas / Nach Eden ist es weit …
In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.