Milton Gonçalves — Actor (24)
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The Naked Man (1997)
O Homem Nu
director: Hugo Carvana actor: Cláudio Marzo / Isabel Fillardis …
other title: O Homem Nu
Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.
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Lucio Flavio (1977) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Lúcio Flávio, o Passageiro da Agonia
director: Héctor Babenco actor: Reginaldo Faria / Ana Maria Magalhães …
other title: Lúcio Flávio, o Passageiro da Agonia
Story of Brazilian bank-robber Lúcio Flávio, who fascinated some people in Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s for his bold robberies and spectacular escapes, and also because he was thought to be intelligent and "politically aware". Before dying, he disclosed a network of corruption in Brazilian Police, and its involvement with the infamous "Death Squad" of the time, a group of policemen who went about killing criminals without giving them a fair trial.
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Moon Over Parador (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Moon Over Parador
director: Paul Mazursky actor: Richard Dreyfuss / Raúl Juliá …
other title: Il dittatore del Parador in arte Jack / Mond über Parador …
Underappreciated actor Jack Noah is on location in Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse... to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.
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Kickboxer 3: The Art of War (1992) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kickboxer 3: The Art of War
director: Rick King actor: Sasha Mitchell / Dennis Chan Kwok-San …
other title: Kickboxer 3 - Mani di pietra / Karate Tiger 6 - Entscheidung in Rio …
Kick-box champion David Sloan arrives in Rio de Janeiro for an exhibition fight. He and mentor Xian take pity on Brazilian rascal Marcos Coasta, an urchin who offers guide services but routinely steals from tourists for himself and his older sister Isabella. David is shocked when he sees how his Argentinian opponent Marcelo needlessly abuses a courteous local sparing partner. That's the doing of his evil US manager, Lane. He has nasty plans to force David to cheat and runs a white slavery racket.
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Quilombo (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Quilombo
director: Carlos Diegues actor: Tony Tornado / Antônio Pompêo …
1984 film by Carlos Diegues
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The Angel Was Born (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
O Anjo Nasceu
director: Júlio Bressane actor: Hugo Carvana / Milton Gonçalves …
other title: L'angelo è nato / O Anjo Nasceu …
Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.
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Cat Skin (1962) IMDb TMDB
Couro de Gato
director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade actor: Paulinho / Riva Nimitz …
other title: Couro de Gato
A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.
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Grande Sertão (1965) 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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What Is It Worth? (2005) TMDB
Quanto Vale ou É por Quilo?
director: Sérgio Bianchi actor: Danton Mello / Leona Cavalli …
other title: Quanto Vale ou É por Quilo?
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
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They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Eles Não Usam Black-Tie
director: Leon Hirszman actor: Carlos Alberto Riccelli / Bete Mendes …
other title: Eles Não Usam Black-Tie / Eles Não Usam Black Tie …
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
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Pitanga (2016) TMDB
Pitanga
director: Beto Brant / Camila Pitanga actor: Antônio Pitanga / Camila Pitanga …
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
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Macunaima (1969)
Macunaíma
director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade actor: Grande Otelo / Paulo José …
other title: Macunaíma / Macunaïma …
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
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Four Days in September (1997) IMDb TMDB
O Que é Isso, Companheiro?
director: Bruno Barreto actor: Alan Arkin / Pedro Cardoso …
other title: O Que é Isso, Companheiro? / 4 giorni a settembre …
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.