Abrahão Farc

Abrahão Farc

Born: July 28, 1937
Died: September 24, 2012
in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Movies for Abrahão Farc...

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Title: Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Character: Self
Released: April 10, 2021
Type: Movie
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
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Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Title: Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
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A Grande Viagem
Title: A Grande Viagem
Character: Mário
Released: August 26, 2011
Type: Movie
Mr. Mario can't distinguish anymore the past from the present. He lives again, inside his own mind, a period of his life when he was a salesman going door to door selling travel guides. However, Mr. Mario has never traveled, but now, an opportunity to see the world arises. Felipe, his grandson, will be his loyal partner on this great journey.
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Drained
Title: Drained
Character: Homem dos Soldadinhos de Chumbo
Released: September 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.
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Cafundó
Title: Cafundó
Character: Judge
Released: September 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. João de Camargo represents the genesis of religious and cultural syncretism in Brazil.
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Nina
Title: Nina
Character: Sr. Freak
Released: January 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Psychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
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Manual for Love Stories
Title: Manual for Love Stories
Character: Mordomo
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Laura and Alan fall in love, but have to deal with the strange death of Alan's wife and with a rival, Lilith, who wants to break their relationship. At the same time, a narrator gives lessons on how to make a love story movie, exposing all clichés on that kind of film.
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Buccaneer Soul
Title: Buccaneer Soul
Released: July 7, 1993
Type: Movie
50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.
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Oswaldianas
Title: Oswaldianas
Released: February 21, 1992
Type: Movie
Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
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Title: Salomé
Character: Albino
Released: June 3, 1991
Type: TV
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Vera
Title: Vera
Character: Librarian
Released: October 24, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer who committed suicide at the age of 20, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a transman who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with young librarian Clara.
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It's Not All True
Title: It's Not All True
Released: August 22, 1986
Type: Movie
Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
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Title: Dona Beija
Character: Coronel Paulo Sampaio
Released: March 31, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: Livre Para Voar
Character: Seu Lau
Released: September 17, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: A Máfia no Brasil
Released: September 10, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: Meu Destino É Pecar
Character: Saul
Released: May 21, 1984
Type: TV
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Act of Violence
Title: Act of Violence
Character: Diretor da PE
Released: April 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.
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The Ripper of Women
Title: The Ripper of Women
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case.
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Beautiful and Corrupted
Title: Beautiful and Corrupted
Released: September 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers.
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Excitation
Title: Excitation
Character: Delegado
Released: May 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Helena and Renato are a couple who leave behind the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house and help Helena recover from her nervous crises. But soon she begins to suffer from increasingly worrying hallucinations, and the house’s appliances begin to come to life. Is it all real or in her head?
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Tiradentes, O Mártir da Independência
Title: Tiradentes, O Mártir da Independência
Released: April 4, 1977
Type: Movie
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O Mulherengo
Title: O Mulherengo
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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O Predileto
Title: O Predileto
Character: Mestre de obras
Released: December 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais, Totônio is a symbol of the golden age of state farms: old and accustomed to having all his wills obeyed. However, after moving to his son's home because of his wife's death and the resulting loneliness, he realizes that he has lost his job as a boss and is struggling to regain his prestige by moving to a brothel.
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Cada um Dá o Que Tem
Title: Cada um Dá o Que Tem
Released: June 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.
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O Detetive Bolacha Contra o Gênio do Crime
Title: O Detetive Bolacha Contra o Gênio do Crime
Released: December 22, 1973
Type: Movie
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Bang Bang
Title: Bang Bang
Character: Fat Man
Released: February 11, 1971
Type: Movie
An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature.
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The Woman of Everyone
Title: The Woman of Everyone
Character: Tourist
Released: October 24, 1969
Type: Movie
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.