Domingos de Oliveira

Domingos de Oliveira

Born: September 28, 1936
Died: March 23, 2019
in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Domingos José Soares de Oliveira (September 28, 1936 — March 23, 2019) was a Brazilian actor, playwright, stage director, TV host, poet and filmmaker.

After getting a bachelor's degree in Engineering, he got involved in amateur theatre and soon started to get involved with cinema, specially with the Brazilian New Wave (Cinema Novo) movement. He served as assistant director to Joaquim Pedro de Andrade in short films "Manuel Bandeira, o Poeta do Castelo" and "Couro de Gato", and debuted as a film director with 1966's "Todas as Mulheres do Mundo". After that, Oliveira wrote over 20 stage plays, directed 18 films and hosted 3 TV shows, all in which he constantly worked with his partner Priscilla Rozenbaum.

For his plays and occasionally self-starred very low-budget films often deal with themes of love and sex in a humorous and intelligent key, he became known as the "Brazilian Woody Allen".

During his late years, Oliveira struggled with Parkinson's Disease, but kept working until his passing in March 2019.

Movies for Domingos de Oliveira...

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Title: Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Character: Self
Released: October 28, 2021
Type: Movie
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 the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Title: Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
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 of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
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Childhood
Title: Childhood
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: Movie
The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behavior.
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Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer
Title: Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer
Character: Napoleão
Released: November 29, 2013
Type: Movie
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 crisis and limitations, and search for a meaning for their lives.
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Cine Paissandu: Histórias de uma Geração
Title: Cine Paissandu: Histórias de uma Geração
Released: February 7, 2013
Type: Movie
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 history.
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Paixão e Acaso
Title: Paixão e Acaso
Released: October 25, 2012
Type: Movie
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 time, unaware that they are father and son.
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Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais
Title: Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais
Released: May 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Divided in five segments, "Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais" follows the story of different couples, each having various problems in bed.
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Domingos
Title: Domingos
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.
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Juventude
Title: Juventude
Character: Antônio
Released: November 3, 2008
Type: Movie
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, where they spend hours talking about the past.
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Carreiras
Title: Carreiras
Character: Esteves (as Domingos Oliveira)
Released: August 15, 2005
Type: Movie
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 works in starts to give more space to younger professionals, she faces a night of unusual events as she dives further into drug abuse.
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Redeemer
Title: Redeemer
Character: Justo (jovem)
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
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Feminices
Title: Feminices
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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 the outcome.
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Separações
Title: Separações
Character: Cabral
Released: January 3, 2003
Type: Movie
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, and now they're getting bored...
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Amores
Title: Amores
Character: Vieira
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Helena
Character: Brandão
Released: May 4, 1987
Type: TV
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Vida, Vida
Title: Vida, Vida
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town.
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Demónios da Liberdade
Title: Demónios da Liberdade
Released: May 10, 1976
Type: Movie
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 of recent freedom, Os Demónios da Liberdade is also a manifest of sexual freedom. But the demons are still around.
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Deliciosas Traições do Amor
Title: Deliciosas Traições do Amor
Released: October 6, 1975
Type: Movie
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Title: Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.
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Cat Skin
Title: Cat Skin
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.