João Miguel

João Miguel

Born: January 1, 1970
in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
João Miguel Serrano Leonelli, better known simply as João Miguel (Salvador, January 1, 1970), is a Brazilian actor, screenwriter and director, son of politician Domingos Leonelli and artist Magali Serrano. Known for his performances in film, television and theater, he has received numerous awards including three Grande Otelos, one Kikito, one ACIE, three Guaranis, one Shell and one APCA.

Movies for João Miguel...

Estômago 2: O Poderoso Chef
Title: Estômago 2: O Poderoso Chef
Character: Raimundo Nonato
Released: August 15, 2024
Type: Movie
Sequel to the award-winning 2007 film, Stomach 2 tells the tasty and bloody dispute between a faction leader and an Italian boss for control of the prison where they are held and the privilege of being served by the talented cook Raimundo Nonato
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Anna Mariani - Photographic Notes
Title: Anna Mariani - Photographic Notes
Character: Narrator
Released: April 6, 2024
Type: Movie
The paths that the artist traveled to create two essays that are landmarks of contemporary Brazilian photography.
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Atmosfera
Title: Atmosfera
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Edmundo is the caretaker of a ranch in São Paulo. He lives isolated in nature. His mother's presence haunts him with poetry and memories of the hinterland where he was born. The fine line between memory and delirium leads Edmundo to plunge into fantasies. The poet-caretaker, face to face with death, seeks to give significance to life.
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Beyond the Universe
Title: Beyond the Universe
Character: Alberto
Released: October 27, 2022
Type: Movie
While waiting for a kidney transplant, a young pianist finds an unexpected connection with her doctor — and the courage to fulfill her musical dreams.
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To Kill the Beast
Title: To Kill the Beast
Character: Lautaro
Released: December 10, 2021
Type: Movie
Emilia arrives at her Aunt Inés' hostel located on the Argentina-Brazil border, looking for her missing brother. In this lush jungle a dangerous beast which takes the form of different animals seems to be roaming around.
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Pacarrete
Title: Pacarrete
Character: Miguel
Released: June 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teacher who dreams of getting a big shot and starring at a dance spectacle for the whole town to see. She's close to fulfilling that dream, but not without overcoming a few impediments along the way.
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Sou Carnaval de São Salvador
Title: Sou Carnaval de São Salvador
Character: Narrador
Released: January 24, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: Harassment
Character: Odair
Released: September 21, 2018
Type: TV
A group of women gets together on social media to expose the sexual harassment they all suffered from a renowned specialist in reproductive medicine. The saga of perseverance and courage of these women begins when one of them decides to talk and reveal what was until then confined by the doctor’s office walls.
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Eduardo Galeano, Vagamundo
Title: Eduardo Galeano, Vagamundo
Character: Self
Released: August 7, 2018
Type: Movie
A hug movie, for the biggest storyteller in Latin America.
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Title: 3%
Character: Ezequiel
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: TV
In a future where the elite inhabit an island paradise far from the crowded slums, you get one chance to join the 3% saved from squalor.
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Ballad of Return
Title: Ballad of Return
Character: Eduardo
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
One day, Eduardo arrives at his house and discovers that Julia, his wife, tried to commit suicide. She left her husband and two children without saying goodbye. After some time, she comes back home. He tries everything to set her straight, but the impossibility of knowing her fully grieves him. The shadow of the suicide and the inevitable ghost of a new chance hover over their heads. Eduardo insists on understanding his wife, but an increasing jealousy and an unexpected discovery of her past torture him. He does not realize that, most of the time, the search for control easily becomes an obsession.
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Oblivious Memory
Title: Oblivious Memory
Character: Ernesto
Released: October 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Carlos is a man doomed by restless memories, that meets with himself, in a time warp. Young Carlos faces the forgetfulness of old Carlos, who doesn't recognize his own appearance. They get a package. But the package seems odd. The knot that ties, the smell, the handwriting on the envelope: this could only be sent by his father, Ernesto, who has been dead for many years. A father who always created unusual situations. In this time warp, Carlos is split in two: one Carlos remembers and the other forgets the moments he spent with his father.
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Periscópio
Title: Periscópio
Released: August 27, 2015
Type: Movie
Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship between the two deteriorates until one day, mysteriously, a periscope appears in the room.
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Title: Happily Ever After?
Character: Hugo Drummond
Released: January 26, 2015
Type: TV
When the mysterious call girl Danny Bond comes on the scene, a crime of passion changes forever the lives of all involved. Who will the victim be? And the villain? After all, in a story so full of secrets and infidelity, who can get away with it to live happily ever after?
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Title: A Teia
Character: Jorge Macedo / Carlos
Released: January 28, 2014
Type: TV
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Cute, But Ordinary
Title: Cute, But Ordinary
Character: Edgar
Released: May 24, 2013
Type: Movie
Edgard works as a subordinate in the company of millionaire Werneck and is in love with Ritinha, a simple woman who works as a teacher to support her mother and her three sisters. One day, Peixoto, Werneck's son-in-law, makes him a proposal to marry Maria, the boss's daughter. The reason is that Maria was abused and now is being forced to marry by her family. Edgard hesitates first but accepts the offer. From then on he enters into a great doubt: should he deposit the check and marry Maria or stay with Ritinha, his great love?
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Title: Gonzaga: De Pai pra Filho
Character: Miguelzinho
Released: January 15, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: O Canto da Sereia
Character: Beroaldo (Só Love)
Released: January 8, 2013
Type: TV
Meet Sereia, a young and beautiful singer whose world of fame and fortune is interlaced with envy and hate. Her murder in the midst of carnival shocks the entire country and the hunt for her killer reveals a new suspect with each new day of investigation. Holding the status of a big-budget thriller, the miniseries brings about mysticism, sensuality and suspense that hooks the viewer until the astonishing end.
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Gonzaga: From Father to Son
Title: Gonzaga: From Father to Son
Character: Miguelzinho
Released: October 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.
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Eden
Title: Eden
Released: October 5, 2012
Type: Movie
Rio de Janeiro, 2012. 30 year-old Karine, 8 months pregnant, loses her husband in a senseless murder. She and her brother almost die, but are saved by Pastor Naldo, an evangelical pastor from the Church of Eden. Karine carries within her the conflict of salvation via the church or via the birth of her child.
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Once Upon a Time Veronica
Title: Once Upon a Time Veronica
Character: Gustavo
Released: September 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Veronica, a young woman, lives in Recife, one of the most violent cities in Brazil. Her life is filled with fleeting love affairs and passing romances. As her father feels his death approaching, he asks a favor: that she finds true love before he passes away.
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Along the Way
Title: Along the Way
Character: João
Released: August 10, 2012
Type: Movie
To escape past traumas, a truck driver João decides to leave his hometown behind and travel cross the country. Alone and lonely he drives all over Brazil until João discovers hiding in his truck a motherless boy looking for his father. Reluctantly, João agrees to take the boy to the nearest town and, during the trip, he finally finds the courage to face his past.
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Title: Xingu: A Saga dos Irmãos Villas-Boas
Character: Cláudio Villas Bôas
Released: April 6, 2012
Type: TV
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Xingu
Title: Xingu
Released: April 6, 2012
Type: Movie
In the '40s, three brothers decide to live a great adventure and enlisting in the Roncador-Xingu Expedition, which has a mission to tame the Central Brazil. The Villas Boas brothers: Orlando, 27, Claudius, 25, and Leonardo, 23, engage in a fantastic and incredible saga. Soon start to lead the expedition that opens new paths 1,500 km, navigates over 1,000 miles of unspoilt rivers, opens 19 airfields for airplanes Army, gives rise to the creation of 43 towns and 14 make contact with wild Indian tribes, unknown, as the Xavante, courageous and feared warriors, no casualties on both sides. This adventure allows the Villas Boas brothers the creation of the Xingu National Park, the first major Amerindian reservation in Brazil, the size of Belgium, transforming them into true contemporary heroes.
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Jardim das Folhas Sagradas
Title: Jardim das Folhas Sagradas
Character: Castro
Released: November 4, 2011
Type: Movie
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Ex-It
Title: Ex-It
Character: René Descartes
Released: August 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Freely inspired by the work Catatau, by Paulo Leminski, the plot begins with the historical hypothesis imagined by the poet from Curitiba: “What if René Descartes had come to Brazil with Maurício de Nassau?” The film materializes this hypothesis and joins the father of modern philosophy in his journey through the tropics. Under the effect of hallucinatory herbs, he investigates questions revolving around geometry and optics in the face of an absolutely strange world. Known for his famous sentence “I think, therefore I am”, Descartes faces his doubt towards phenomena reason doesn’t explain. René, Renatus, Re born.
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The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga
Title: The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga
Character: Augusto Matraga
Released: January 2, 2011
Type: Movie
Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a trap that nearly kills him. Born again, Matraga resorts to faith and hard work in the pursuit of redemption. Years later, he arrives at the village reigned by the hinterland's ruler and his thugs. This new friendship will challenge his destiny. Inside Matraga, the Saint and the Warrior will duel until his time comes.
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Extreme Happiness
Title: Extreme Happiness
Character: Bené
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the dreams – or nearly all – seem possible. In this exciting scenery of transformation, Paulo discovers love, friendship and sex through his childhood and adolescence in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
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Hotel Atlântico
Title: Hotel Atlântico
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations.
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If Nothing Else Works Out
Title: If Nothing Else Works Out
Character: Wilson
Released: August 8, 2008
Type: Movie
In 2006, a journalist in financial problems, a woman who dresses as a man and a troubled taxi driver become friends, and gradually, an awkward, strong emotional bond emerges among them, especially when they decide to play a confidence game.
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Mutum
Title: Mutum
Character: father
Released: November 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.
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Ervas
Title: Ervas
Character: Alecrim
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Short film based on the story of feature-length film "Estômago"
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Estômago: A Gastronomic Story
Title: Estômago: A Gastronomic Story
Character: Raimundo Nonato / Alecrim
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: Movie
In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.
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Esses Moços
Title: Esses Moços
Character: Bispo do Rosário
Released: May 25, 2007
Type: Movie
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Happy Desert
Title: Happy Desert
Released: April 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him.
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Love for Sale
Title: Love for Sale
Character: João
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: Movie
In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.
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I Remember
Title: I Remember
Character: Daniel
Released: December 1, 2005
Type: Movie
The memories of Guiga, from early childhood to young adulthood: his family, relatives, friends, fears, dreams and reality in a still provincial city of Salvador, Bahia, from the 50s to the 70s.
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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Title: Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Character: Ranulpho
Released: May 17, 2005
Type: Movie
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
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Lower City
Title: Lower City
Character: Edvan
Released: May 16, 2005
Type: Movie
Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.
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Title: Pastores da Noite
Character: Chico Pinóia
Released: November 26, 2002
Type: TV
The Night Shepherds universe is inhabited by prostitutes, priests, rogues, saint's parents and street vendors. For a very Brazilian people who fight every day for survival and only rely on the solidarity spirit and friendship of each other. The seductive Cabo Martim, the romantic Curió, the noble Massu, the artful Foot of Wind and the Jesuit master live their adventures in four independent episodes, which are completed in their poetry and the strength of each story.
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Meu Último Desejo
Title: Meu Último Desejo
Character: José
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Malês
Title: Malês
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie