Isabel RibeiroFilmography

Occupation:
Actor

  • Feliz Año Velho

    Actors: Marcos Breda, Malu Mader, Eva Wilma, Isabel Ribeiro, Marco Nanini

    Synopsis: This somber political drama is taken from the best-selling autobiography of Marcelo Rubens Paiva. Mario (Marcos Breda) is a student activist who carries on in spite of losing the use of his legs in an accident. He dedicates his efforts to the memory of his late father, an activist kidnapped and Read More

    1988

  • 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

  • A Queda

    Actors: Nelson Xavier, Lima Duarte, Isabel Ribeiro, Maria Silvia, Hugo Carvana

    Synopsis: When a construction worker falls to his death due to a deliberate laxness in safety regulations, the construction foreman's son-in-law attempts to get some compensation from the construction company for the man's widow. Instead, he runs into obstruction after obstruction. This impassioned Read More

    1976

  • Toda Nudez Sera Castigada

    Synopsis: The Brazilian All Nudity Shall Be Punished is just as satirical (and silly) as its title suggests. The story concerns a straight-laced family whose very strict morals have been governed for years by their indomitable matriarch. When the old lady dies, the family tries its best to uphold her Read More

    1973

  • Amor, Carnaval E Sonho

    Synopsis: This film is by one of the founders of Brazilian "Cinema Novo," a style of filmmaking emphasizing native Brazilian themes and highly charged and stylized religious imagery. In Rio just before Carnaval (the local version of the raucous Mardi-Gras celebration) a girl deliberately smashes a small Read More

    1973

  • O Alienista

    Actors: Nildo Parente, Isabel Ribeiro

    Synopsis: A dedicated Padre (Nildo Parente) tries to get the upper class to return to the crumbling church. He also proposes an asylum be built for the alienated and mentally feeble. Soon he fills the asylum with those who do not share his religious beliefs while those in need go homeless. Eventually the Read More

    1970

  • Os Herdeiros

    Actors: Odette Lara, Paulo Porto, Isabel Ribeiro

    Synopsis: A journalist is tortured by police in the wake of political and social chaos, and the information he reveals leads to the death of a popular rebel leader. The journalist recovers and is sent to interview a plantation owner who is fighting to save his land from being nationalized. Men are helpless Read More

    1969

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