José DumontFilmography

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Lower City

Actors: Alice Braga, Lazaro Ramos, Wagner Moura, José Dumont

Synopsis: A simple cruise turns into a jealous battle for the affections of a sultry prostitute as the co-owners of a small cargo boat make their way down the Brazilian coastline in director Sergio Machado's stylish and sultry erotic drama. Deco (Lazaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) are best friends Read More

6/16/06
Blood and Wine: A Brazilian Story

Actors: Simone Spoladore, Ailton Graca, José Dumont, Eva Wilma, Leonardo Vieira

Synopsis: Celebrated Brazilian director João Batista de Andrade's Blood and Wine: A Brazilian Story operates on two levels - the personal and the sociopolitical - thus suggesting a Brazilian version of Marco Tullio Giordana's 2003 La Meglio Gioventu. On one plane, it observes daily events from the lives of Read More

2006
Two Sons of Francisco: The True Story Of Zeze Di Camargo & Luciano

Actors: Ângelo Antônio, Dira Paes, José Dumont, Lima Duarte, Jackson Antunes, Paloma Duarte, Marcio Kieling, Thiago Mendonça

2005
Olga

Actors: Camila Morgado, Caco Ciocler, Fernanda Montenegro, Luis Mello, Eliane Giardini

2004
Narradores de Jave

Actors: Nelson Xavier, Nelson Dantas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Gero Camilo, José Dumont

2003
Behind The Sun

Actors: José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany, Luis Carlos Vasconcelos, Ravi Ramos Lacerda

Synopsis: A young man is forced to choose between family tradition and his own dreams and desires in this drama from Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles. In 1910 in a remote farming community, two families, the Breveses and the Ferreiras, both of whom earn their living growing sugar cane, have been squabbling Read More

12/12/01
At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Actors: Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: In a remote branch of the Brazilian Amazon, Americans Lewis (Tom Berenger) and Wolf (Tom Waits) are stranded when their plane runs out of gas. They are kept company by an evangelist missionary (John Lithgow) and his wife (Darryl Hannah). The preacher and his followers want to preach to the Read More

12/6/91
Avaete, A Semente Da Vinganca

Actors: Hugo Carvana, Renata Sorrah, Milton Rodriguez

Synopsis: In a fictional story that exaggerates and condenses historical realities for the sake of dramatic impact, an isolated, quiet village of the Avaete people along the Amazon River is attacked by murderous psychos in the pay of a corrupt politician. Villagers are strafed from the air, bombed, and shot Read More

1986
Mick Jagger: Running Out of Luck

Actors: Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, Dennis Hopper, Rae Dawn Chong

Synopsis: In a story powered by the songs on an LP by Mick Jagger, this film is really one long video clip advertising Jagger's album. The plot takes the music from one number to the next, and begins with the rock star and his wife having an argument in Rio which leads to his being mugged and taken to the Read More

1986
A Hora da Estrela

Actors: Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman, Fernanda Montenegro, Umberto Magnani

Synopsis: This is a sympathetic, observant drama about the trials and tribulations of Macabea (Marcelia Cartaxo) who has left her home in northeastern Brazil to seek her fortune in Sao Paulo. Macabea misses her friends and family but stays with her dreams for the future -- even in the face of unfair Read More

1985
Tigipio

Actors: José Dumont, D. de Paiva, Regina Dourado, Joao Falcao, Richardo Guilherme

Synopsis: The setting for this engaging, well-acted drama is the arid northeastern region of Brazil in the first decade of the 20th century. An engineer named Heitor arrives in the middle of a drought to work on a project for the federal government and he takes an interest in a particular young woman Read More

1985
Memoirs of Prison

Synopsis: The horror of life in a Brazilian prison from an inmate's view is chronicled in this drama based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Gracilano Ramos. The tale takes place in the 1930s when Brazil was run by dictator Getulio Vargas. It begins as the Marxist oriented protagonist is arrested with no Read More

1984
Memorias Do Carcere

Actors: Carlos Vereza, Gloria Pires, Jofre Soares, José Dumont, Nildo Parente

Synopsis: Based on the first-hand writings of Brazilian political-activist Graciliano Ramos, Memories of Prison, stars Carlos Vereze as Ramos. The time-frame is the 1930s, during the dictatorial regime of Getulio Vargas. Because of his anti-Vargas sentiments, Ramos is shipped off to a hellhole of a prison Read More

1984
O Baiano Fantasma

Actors: José Dumont, Regina Dourado

Synopsis: In this engaging drama of suspense and intrigue, Lambusca (José Dumont) is an innocent Brazilian from the northwestern region of the country who comes into Sao Paulo looking for work and finds trouble in the process. When Lambusca finally lands a job as a loan collector, he does not realize he is Read More

1984
Parahyba Mulher Macho

Actors: Claudio Marzo, Walmor Chagas, José Dumont, Oswaldo Loureiro

Synopsis: On the eve of the October, 1930 installation of Getulio Vargas as a dictator in Brazil, a leader of the opposition Liberal Alliance Party was murdered. This imaginative and well-wrought, fictional film is about the indirect involvement of Anayde Beiriz (Tania Alves) in that murder, but rather than Read More

1983
O Sonho Nao Acabou

Actors: Lucelia Santos, Chico Diaz, Miguel Falabella, Louise Cardoso

Synopsis: Two young friends grow up in the same region and share the same music and dances, and the same religious and cultural customs, yet their paths slowly diverge 180 degrees because one is the son of a politician and the other the son of a laborer. As the two grow apart, each has to address problems Read More

1982
O Homem Que Virou Suco

Actors: José Dumont, Denoy de Oliveira

Synopsis: Two men from the agricultural northeast sector of Brazil head to Sao Paulo to find a better life (both men are played by Jose Dumont who won three "Best Actor" awards for the dual role). One of the men decides to make money working in a factory and sacrifices his own ethics in order to get ahead Read More

1981
Amada Amante

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