Domingos de Oliveira
Popularity:0.636
Known For:Directing
Birthday:1936-09-28
Place of Birth:Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Os Demónios da Liberdade (1976)
At the heart of an upper-middle class family resides a bizarre love triangle. Two men, one woman. An essay on the various possibilities and rituals...
Cat Skin (1962)
A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the...
Feminices (2004)
Four actresses in their mid-forties get together in the afternoon to write a play about their own experiences. But the director isn't satisfied with...
Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer (2013)
On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their...
Carreiras (2005)
Ana Laura is a 40 year-old, good looking and well-informed TV News Anchor who's also a cocaine addict. Facing her career decline as the channel she...
Separações (2003)
Cabral is a 60 year old playwright who's married to Glorinha, an actress who's 20 years younger than him. They've been together for half of her live,...
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo (1967)
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...
Juventude (2008)
David, a man in his twillight years, lives all by himself and decides to invite two childhood friends for a day at his house in Petrópolis,...
Amores (1998)
In Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of mostly middle-aged friends share their lives and experiences with each other.
Redeemer (2004)
Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a...
Paixão e Acaso (2012)
The psychoanalyst Inês intends not to be lovingly involved with anyone else. However, she ends up falling in love with two men at the same...
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar (2021)
Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues...
Suspiros Republicanos ao Crepúsculo de um Império Tropical (2002)
The film tells a little of the history of Brazil immersed in the caricature of the conditions of making cinema in this country. Flora and Carlos...
Childhood (2014)
The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is...
Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais (2011)
Divided in five segments, "Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais" follows the story of different couples, each having various problems in bed.
Vida, Vida (1977)
In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of...
Domingos (2009)
A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.
Cine Paissandu: Histórias de uma Geração (2013)
Documentary about the cinema that formed the Paissandu Generation, in the 60s, and the cultural and social impact of that period for the country's...
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...
Clarice Niskier: Teatro dos Pés à Cabeça (2024)
The documentary is a tribute to Theater based on the trajectory of Clarice Niskier who made her job her own lifestyle. As a central axis, interviews...
Helena (1970)
Cabral is a writer who decides to spend his summer writing a series about love stories. It is then that he begins to look back over his life and his...