Cast: Joel Barcellos

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joel Barcellos. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Guns

1963 · Movie · 114 min. · Brazil

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Átila Iório · Nelson Xavier · Maria Gladys · Leonidas Bayer

Plot In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit.

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Rio Babilonia

1983 · Movie · 115 min. · Brazil

Direction Neville de Almeida

Cast Ovídio Abreu · Pedro Aguinaga · Tamur Aimara · Arminda Amorim

Plot Public relations man is invited to guide American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. In this course, he gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties...

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A Virgem da Colina

1977 · Movie · 85 min. · Brazil

Direction Celso Falcao

Cast Cristina Amaral · Miriam Amaral · Wildemilson Artur · Joel Barcellos

Plot Ring whose previous owner was a prostitute with supernatural powers causes double personality in a young woman about to marry. After some time, her face gets disfigured, forcing her to...

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Fronteira das Almas

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · Brazil

Direction Hermanno Penna

Cast Antonio Leite · Orlando Vieira · Fernando Bezerra · Joel Barcellos

Plot Cassiano and Tião are brothers living apart from one another in the Amazon. Cassiano holds a tract of land in Rondônia he received from the Brazilian Institute of Land Reform...

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Sagarana: The Duel

1974 · Movie · 110 min. · Brazil

Direction Paulo Thiago

Cast Joel Barcellos · Milton Moraes · Ítala Nandi · Rodolfo Arena

Plot In Northeast Brazil, after carrying out some comissioned killing, hitman returns home to find his wife involved with a man who is a hitman hunter. A conflict ensues.

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Neville D'Almeida: Cronista da Beleza e do Caos

2018 · Documentary · 106 min. · Brazil

Direction Mario Abbade

Cast Ruy Gardnier · Jorge Mautner · Pedro Aguinaga · Marco Altberg

Plot This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.

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Agonia

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Grande Otélo · Joel Barcellos · Maria Gladys · Wilson Grey

Plot She is a fortune teller, he is a killer on the run. He gives her a ride and an tragic love affair begins.

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Copacabana Me Engana

1968 · Movie · 96 min. · Brazil

Direction Antonio Carlos da Fontoura

Cast Odete Lara · Carlo Mossy · Paulo Gracindo · Lícia Magna

Plot Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just...

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Improvisiert und zielbewusst (TV)

1967 · Documentary · 30 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Cast Paulo Autran · Joel Barcellos · Luiz Carlos Barreto · María Bethânia

Plot German documentary for TV about the "Cinema Novo" movement (Brazilian New Wave).

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The Dare

1965 · Movie · 81 min. · Brazil

Direction Paulo Cesar Saraceni

Cast Isabella · Joel Barcellos · María Bethânia · Sérgio Britto

Plot Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist's wife, who...

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Jardim de Guerra

1969 · Movie · 100 min. · Brazil

Direction Neville de Almeida

Cast Joel Barcellos · Maria Do Rosario · Paulo Villaça · Zózimo Bulbul

Plot Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is...

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Tereza Batista (TV Miniseries)

1992 · Series · 50 min. · Brazil

Direction Paulo Afonso Grisolli

Cast Patrícia França · Humberto Martins · Herson Capri · Jorge Dória

Plot Based on the novel by Brazilian Jorge Amado. Tereza is the story of a beautiful orphan and her struggles in life.

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Voyage to the End of the World

1968 · Movie · 96 min. · Brazil

Direction Fernando Cony Campos

Cast Fábio Porchat · Joffre Soares · Vera Vianna · Annik Malvil

Plot During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.

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Rua Aperana 52

2012 · Documentary · 80 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Fernando Eiras · Giulia Gam · Drica Moraes · Maria Gladys

Plot In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of...

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Di Cavalcanti (S)

1977 · Documentary · 18 min. · Brazil

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Memories of Helene

1969 · Movie · 80 min. · Brazil

Direction David Neves

Cast Rosa Maria Penna · Adriana Prieto · Arduino Colasanti · Joel Barcellos

Plot Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal friend, has an...

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Girl of Ipanema

1967 · Movie · 90 min. · Brazil

Direction León Hirszman

Cast Márcia Rodrigues · Adriano Reys · Arduino Colasanti · Irene Stefânia

Plot Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians,...

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Tropics

1968 · Movie · 87 min. · Italy

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