Neville D'Almeida
Birthday: 1941-05-15
Place of Birth: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Biography: A Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, photographer and multimedia artist, involved with contemporary art, installations, art objects and performances, Neville Duarte Almeida was born in 1941 in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. Raised by a Methodist Christian family, he studied theater at the Scholastic Theatre of Minas Gerais and participated at the local Center of Film Studies, where he started to work as an filmmaker. Some of his transgressive, avant-garde films were censored or banned by the Brazilian military dictatorship, after which he went on to directing films aimed to a more commercial approach. His 1978 film "Lady on the Bus", starring Sônia Braga, was a box-office champíon and still holds its place as the the third highest-grossing Brazilian film of all time.
Movies
BLABLABLÁ
The tensions experienced by three different people during the military dictatorship in Brazil: a pol...
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Moon Over Parador
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the...
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The Angel Was Born
Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mys...
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Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo C...
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Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude
A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato. Such as the maga...
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Areias Escaldantes
In the near future, in the country of Kali, a group of young terrorists carry out robberies, kidnapp...
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema N...
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Dunas do Barato
A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the l...
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Hunger for Love
An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant...
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Pitanga
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Blac...
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No Way, Spider
Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his t...
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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerou...
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Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills h...
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The Red Light Bandit
Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo ...
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Noite
Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of pol...
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Razor in the Flesh
The story of three characters in a brothel room: the prostitute Neusa Sueli, the gigolo Vado and the...
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Horror Palace Hotel
An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable ...
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A Miss e o Dinossauro
A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five month...
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A Marca do Terrir
Compilation of early Ivan Cardoso's films in Super 8, including "Nosferato no Brasil (Nosferato in B...
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Os Espetaculares
An egotistical stand-up comedian fights with a spectator and gets fired. To be able to pay his son's...
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Redemption
A young woman travels to solve a matter of life or death. As she seeks to do what she needs, the cit...
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capit...
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Garden of War
Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he...
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Cosmococa
In 1973, exiles from Brazil during the military dictatorship, artist Hélio Oiticica and filmmaker Ne...
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Plínio Marcos — Nas Quebradas do Mundaréu
The theatrologist, actor, director and overall polemist Plínio Marcos gets his life traced through i...
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Mangúe-Bangúe
The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light dis...
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Tiro Certo - Rio em Chamas
The film brings the story of Benito Terranova, a sniper on the edge of the psychological abyss who f...
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Sermões
Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador,...
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Ivan, the TerrirBle
Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and c...
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Dib
Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, co...
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The Brazilwood Man
Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernis...
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Com as Próprias Mãos
Police reporter Luarlindo Ernesto is the only eyewitness to the creation of the death squad, the fir...
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