Bruno BarretoFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Brazilian director and screenwriter Bruno Barreto was a flash-in-the-pan filmmaker who made one international hit and a number of only competently directed films. He had his one major success at age 22 with his second film Doña Flor and her Two Husbands (1977). He made an Americanized version of...Read More

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Caixa Dois

Crew: Director

2007
Money on the Side

Crew: Director

2007
Last Stop 174

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Michel de Souza Gomes, Cris Vianna, Marcello Melo, Jr., Gabriela Luiz, Anna Cotrim

Synopsis: The tragic events that informed José Padilha's 2003 documentary Bus 174 serve as the inspiration for this docudrama detailing the events that unfolded when, on the morning of June 12, 2000, the passengers on a bus traveling through the wealthy Rio de Janeiro district of Jardim Botânico were taken Read More

2007
Romeo and Juliet Get Married

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Luis Gustavo, Luana Piovani, Marco Ricca, Martha Mellinger, Berta Zemel

Synopsis: Shakespeare-style storytelling meets soccer fan sensibilities in this tale of two Brazilian sweethearts whose families root for rival teams, and the lengths the pair go to in order to keep their love alive. While Romeo and his family are ardent supporters of the Corinthians, Juliet father is the Read More

2005
View from the Top

Crew: Director

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Candice Bergen, Christina Applegate, Mike Myers

Synopsis: Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto directs this comic look at the world of flight attendants starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a small town Nevada woman who dreams of seeing the world by becoming a first class international stewardess. Lacking the requisite poise and class, Donna finds a mentor in Read More

3/21/03
Emilio Santiago: Bossa Nova

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

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
One Tough Cop

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Chris Penn, Mike McGlone, Gina Gershon, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: Brazilian director Bruno Barreto helmed this Jeremy Iacone screenplay "inspired by" New York detective Bo Dietl's 1988 autobiography, One Tough Cop: The Bo Dietl Story. However, the credits display this line: "Except for the character of Bo Dietl, all characters and situations portrayed in this Read More

10/9/98
Four Days in September

Crew: Director

Actors: Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Alan Arkin

Synopsis: Bruno Barreto returned to his native Brazil after a ten-year absence to direct this fact-based political thriller that was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Pedro Cardoso stars as Rio de Janeiro journalist Fernando Gabeira, who decides with his friend Cesar (Selton Mello) to take Read More

1997
Carried Away

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving, Amy Locane, Julie Harris, Gary Busey

Synopsis: Based on the novel Farmer by Jim Harrison, this drama concerns Joseph Svenden (Dennis Hopper), a one-time farmer in his late forties who took up teaching when he permanently injured his leg in an accident. Joseph's life is orderly, precise, and rather dull. He teaches with as much enthusiasm as he Read More

1996
The Heart of Justice

Crew: Director

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Price

Synopsis: In this tense drama a reporter tries to figure out the reason a wealthy young man shot a popular pulp-fiction writer and then shot himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
A Show of Force

Crew: Director

Actors: Amy Irving, Robert Duvall, Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis: In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Melendez (Amy Irving) investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

5/11/90
Romance da Empregada

Crew: Director

Actors: Betty Faria, Daniel Filho, Brandad Filho, Cristina Pereira, Antonio Pedro

Synopsis: This Brazilian feature lifts a few elements from the old, oft-filmed erotic chestnut The Woman and the Puppet. Fausta (Betty Faria) is fed up by her shabby treatment at the hands of her boorish husband. She seeks out more rewarding male companionship, finding it in the form of a wealthy but lonely Read More

1988
Alem Da Paixao

Crew: Director

Actors: Regina Duarte, Paul Castelli, Patricio Bisso, Flavio Galvao, Flavio Sao Thiago

Synopsis: Released in Brazil as Alem Da Paixao, Happily Ever After is all about ostensibly happy housewife Regina Duarte. She has a dream one night in which she dances with a woman who "morphs" into a gorgeous hunk of man. While musing on this dream, Duarte hits a handsome young pedestrian with her car. Read More

11/2/86
Where the River Runs Black

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charles Durning, Alessandro Rabelo, Ajay Naidu, Peter Horton, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: This drama concerns the clash of two worlds in the person of a young boy. The small boy (Alessandro Rabelo) is the offspring of a missionary who died before the he was born, and a Native American who is later killed by white prospectors. Father O'Reilly (Charles Durning) comes to hear about the Read More

9/19/86
Gabriela

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sonia Braga, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonio Cantafora, Paulo Goulart, Nelson Xavier

Synopsis: Gabriela was based on Jorge Armado's novel Gabriela, Clove and Cinammon, which also served as the source of a typically steamy Brazilian TV soap opera. Set in 1925 (when the novel was first published), the film stars Marcello Mastrioanni as Nacib, a bartender in the Bahian village of Parati. When Read More

1983
Kiss Me Goodbye

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Sally Field, James Caan, Jeff Bridges, Paul Dooley, Claire Trevor

Synopsis: Robert Mulligan directed this Americanized re-make of the successful Brazilian comedy Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Sally Field stars as Kay Villano, a lonely widow of three years who can't forget the memory of her dead husband, Jolly (James Caan). Jolly was a selfish and unfaithful Broadway Read More

1982
Menino do Rio

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nina de Padua

Synopsis: This Brazilian version of sun, surfing, sex, drugs, love, and comedy -- a cousin of California-based beach films -- involves the usual teenagers, their dilemmas, and distant views of Rio from various shorelines. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
O Beijo No Asfalto

Crew: Director

Actors: Tarcisio Meira, Ney Latorraca, Oswaldo Loureiro

Synopsis: Based on a play by Nelson Rodrigues, the Kiss turns like a whirlwind around one innocent act: after an accident, a dying man is kissed by another man, out of compassion -- but this unusual gesture violates an ingrained social taboo that colors everyone's perception of what exactly happened. The Read More

1981
Amada Amante

Crew: Director

Actors: Paulo Gracindo, Cristina Ache, Paulo Guarniero, Flavio Sao Thiago

Synopsis: In this Brazilian film, an unlikely couple fall in love amid the violence of the sexual underworld. Sandra, the daughter of a police detective, is a stripper. She meets Toninho when he comes to her apartment hoping to discover a photograph which shows Toninho in the same picture with his lover Read More

1979
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sonia Braga, Jose Wilker, Mauro Mendonca, Dinorah Brillanti, Nelson Xavier

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jorge Amado, this Brazilian comedy follows the strange events that befall Doña Flor (Sonia Braga) after she is left a widow by the death of her wild, irresponsible husband. (He died after another wanton night of carousing) Attempting to marry more wisely the second time Read More

1977
Place Called Today

Crew: Director

Actors: Cheri Caffaro

Synopsis: City in Fear was an attempt at socio-political commentary by soft-core porno star Cheri Caffaro and her director/husband Don Schain. The film takes place during a heated political campaign, wherein the "race card" is played up for all it's worth. The bigoted whites attack the blacks, the militant Read More

1972