Antonio FagundesFilmography

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A Dona da História

Actors: Marieta Severo

2004
God Is Brazilian

Actors: Antonio Fagundes, Paloma Duarte, Wagner Moura, Bruce Gomlevsky, Stepan Nercessian

Synopsis: Directed by Carlos Diegues, Deus é Brasileiro (God Is Brazilian) is based on author Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro's short story The Saint Who Didn't Believe in God. The plot centers around Taoca (Wagner Moura), a part-time fisherman and petty con artist, and a man who claims he is God (Antonio Fagundes). Read More

2003
Emilio Santiago: Bossa Nova

Actors: Amy Irving, Antonio Fagundes, Alexandre Borges, Debora Bloch, Drica Moraes, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: Recalling late period films from Francois Truffaut and American 1930s screwball comedies, Bruno Barreto directs this elegant romantic comedy set in Brazil. Mary Ann Simpson (Amy Irving) is a middle-aged American widow teaching English in Rio de Janeiro. Since her pilot husband died two years Read More

4/28/00
Villa-Lobos: Uma Vida De Paixao

Actors: Antonio Fagundes, Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Jose Wilker

Synopsis: The life and career of the renowned Brazilian composer Hector Villa-Lobos is portrayed in this biographical drama, which begins with the legendary musician looking back at his own life in his declining years, then leaps back and forth in time to show the highlights of his story. Villa-Lobos Read More

2000
Doces Poderes

Synopsis: In this drama, a Brazilian news producer wages war on her colleagues in order to force them to cover upcoming political elections from a non-partisan viewpoint. It proves to be an uphill battle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
O Corpo

Actors: Antonio Fagundes, Marieta Severo, Carla Camurati

Synopsis: In this black comedy, Xavier owns a pharmacy and does well enough at it to support two households comfortably, which is exactly what he does. In fact, he is a bigamist. Not content with two wives, he even has a mistress, a cabaret singer. His male friends and neighbors are privy to his situation Read More

1992
Eternamente Pagu

Actors: Carla Camurati, Nina de Padua, Antonio Fagundes, Esther Goes, Octavio Augusto

Synopsis: Carla Camuratti stars as the revolutionary female intellectual Pagu in this film biography directed by Norma Bengell. When she meets writer Oswald de Andrade (Antonio Fagundes), leader of the Modernist movement, Pagu joins the social elite of Brazil who advocate the values of the bourgeois while Read More

1989
Leila Diniz

Actors: Louise Cardoso, Diogo Vilela, Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Tony Ramos, Marieta Severo

Synopsis: Every country no doubt has its golden youths who die before they have had a chance to come to full flower and who leave a romantic legend behind them. In the U.S., one of these was James Dean. In Brazil, the fans of the actress Leila Diniz were similarly bereft when she died in the late 1960s. Read More

1987
Besame Mucho

Actors: Antonio Fagundes, Jose Wilker, Gloria Pires, Isabel Ribeiro

Synopsis: The story in this inventive and critically well-regarded film is told backwards, beginning in the 1980s and detailing the lives of two couples who were deeply affected by the popular song of the 1960s "Besame Mucho". From then until the 1980s, pop music defines the key moments in their lives. The Read More

1987
Anjos da Noite

Actors: Zeze Motta, Antonio Fagundes, Marilia Pera, Marco Nanini

Synopsis: This highly stylized Brazilian drama contains a nonlinear storyline that effectively erases the thin line between reality and illusion as it follows the night lives of people living on the teeming streets of Sao Paulo. The story begins with a drag queen and the man he just murdered. The scene Read More

1987
A Dama Do Cine Shanghai

Actors: Antonio Fagundes, Maite Proenca, Paulo Villaca, Jose Lewgoy

Synopsis: American gangster movies of the 1940s are spoofed in this complex crime thriller and comedy. Lucas takes time out from his everyday life in a nearly deserted cinema which is playing a gangster movie. One of the other patrons is a woman who looks almost exactly like the heroine of the movie on the Read More

1987
Jogo Duro

Actors: Cynthia de Paula, Carlos Augusto Carvalho, Jesse James, Valeria de Andrade, Antonio Fagundes

Synopsis: The setting of this drama is a beautiful and costly home in Sao Paulo that has recently come on the market. When a real estate agent starts handling the house, he discovers a woman and her daughter have moved in as squatters on the premises. Meanwhile, the night watchman of the estate has his own Read More

1986
A Proxima Vitima

Actors: Antonio Fagundes, Louise Cardoso, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Othon Bastos

Synopsis: Real political events captured on film are mixed in with this fictional story about David (Antonio Fagundes), a television reporter who strays so close to his subjects on the streets of Sao Paulo that his own world seems to merge with theirs. Soon his investigation into murders involving Read More

1984
Das Tripas Coracao

Actors: Dina Sfat, Xuxa Lopes, Antonio Fagundes, Ney Latorraca

Synopsis: When a government official arrives to close down a girls' school, he is left alone for awhile to wait for the arrival of the school's administrators so he can give them official notice of the closure. In the meantime, he starts to daydream about the people he will soon be dismissing -- daydreams Read More

1982
Pra Frente Brasil

Actors: Reginaldo Farias, Antonio Fagundes

Synopsis: The torturing of prisoners in the 1970s is the focus of this film that was banned in Brazil, and banned at Cannes or in private screening rooms by the head of the Embrafilme studios who paid for Pra Frente Brazil. The former head of the studio was fired for making the film. The story concerns a Read More

1982
Gaijin - Caminos Da Liberdade

Actors: Kyoko Tsukamoto, Antonio Fagundes, Jiro Kawarasaki, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri

Synopsis: Gaijin is one of those meticulously detailed persevering-through-the-years tales so beloved of Japanese filmmakers. Kyoko Tsukamoto plays a young Japanese girl who, at the turn of the century, seeks out better life opportunities in the New World. She heads to Brazil, where she goes to work in a Read More

1980
Doramundo

Actors: Antonio Fagundes, Rodrigo Santiago

Synopsis: In a remote mining and railroad town on the Brazilian frontier in 1939, someone is murdering a succession of men. The British owners of the railroad want the murders solved quickly and don't care what has to be done to accomplish this. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
O Negrinho do Pastoreio

Crew: Director

1973
A Compadecida

Actors: Regina Duarte

Synopsis: This Brazilian morality play finds a circus con man talking the authorities into giving a Christian burial to a dog, the beloved pet of the town's wealthy baker. He convinces the local officials and clerics that the dog has left a last will and testament. Appearing for the ceremony is a black monk Read More

1969