Alexandre Rodrigues

Alexandre Rodrigues

Born: May 21, 1983
in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alexandre Rodrigues is a Brazilian actor. He is most famous for playing the part of Buscapé, the narrator and protagonist in the 2002 film City of God. He has most recently appeared in American singer John Legend's music video for the song "P.D.A. " released in 2007

Movies for Alexandre Rodrigues...

Title: Justiça 2
Released: April 11, 2024
Type: TV
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Buscapé
Title: Buscapé
Character: Buscapé
Released: September 12, 2022
Type: Movie
With executive production by Fernando Meirelles and direction by Fred Luz, actors Alexandre Rodrigues and Edson Oliveira are Buscapé and Barbantinho, two friends who meet again in today's City of God: bigger, more diverse and connected.
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Christabel
Title: Christabel
Character: Noivo
Released: May 31, 2018
Type: Movie
A new look at the poem, "Christabel" (1816), by the British S. T. Coleridge. The only daughter of a rural worker, Christabel meets Geraldine, a mysterious woman who claims to have been attacked by men and needs help. In her innocence and purity, Christabel welcomes Geraldine into her father's house. From then on, the two protagonists relate in a way that Geraldine has a great influence on Christabel, destabilizing her convictions and promoting rupture of the traditions, but that bring a feeling of passion and freedom never experienced by her. In this adaptation, instead of England, the history takes place in the rural zone, in the middle of the closed Goian; The character Geraldine is a mysterious, free and independent woman who appears to swing the established structure and pre-framed relationships, which weigh on Christabel and her father.
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EAS
Title: EAS
Character: Beto
Released: November 30, 2017
Type: Movie
A group of terrorists kidnaps a soccer player's daughter and plans to blow up the Maracanã in the middle of the World Cup. Rafael, a former member of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, has a mission to save the girl and prevent this disaster.
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Anita & Garibaldi
Title: Anita & Garibaldi
Character: Jacinto
Released: December 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Giuseppe Garibaldi (Gabriel Braga Nunes), 32 years old, commander of the republican rebels that invade Laguna, Santa Catarina, during the Farrapos War (1835 - 1845), finds his soul mate in Anita (Ana Paula Arósio), 18 years old, wife of local shoemaker. Between passion and battles, they will define the course of their lives and influence the course of the revolution.
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City of God: 10 Years Later
Title: City of God: 10 Years Later
Character: Himself
Released: October 5, 2013
Type: Movie
City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?
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Title: Precious Pearl
Character: Josué
Released: September 16, 2013
Type: TV
In 1934 two supposed brothers survived an avalanche in the Himalayas: the millionaire Franz Hauser (Bruno Gagliasso), who is saved by Buddhist monks, and Manfred (Carmo Dalla Vecchia), rescued by a team of climbers. Manfred returns to Brazil with a terrible secret: he sabotaged Franz’s equipment in order to take his place in the family business. After an exhaustive search, Ernest Hauser gives his son up for dead and appoints his bastard son as the director of the Hauser Group.
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O Fim de Arsênio Godard
Title: O Fim de Arsênio Godard
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Written in the Stars
Character: Seth
Released: April 12, 2010
Type: TV
Ricardo Aguillar, a powerful physician, loses the only and beloved son, the young Daniel, in an accident. After some time he discovers that the boy had frozen the semen before he died. From there he decides to go hunting for the "ideal woman", worthy of being inseminated and become the mother of his grandson. Only fate is about to play a part. When the insemination is finally done and the young woman chosen - the young Viviane - becomes pregnant, the man discovers himself hopelessly in love with her. From then on an unusual and surprising situation will give an electrifying direction to the story: the boy's spirit begins to prowl the family and, although they are in different plans, father and son will dispute the love of the same woman. It will be a clash between the impossible love, therefore idealized, and the realizable love, carnal, with all that it brings of joy and fulfillment, but also of hurts and uncertainties.
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Title: Paraíso
Character: Tobi
Released: March 16, 2009
Type: TV
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Forbidden to Forbid
Title: Forbidden to Forbid
Character: Leon
Released: October 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Three young Brazilian try to help a terminally ill woman who lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Their youthful idealism is shattered with the cruel reality of police brutality.
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Memórias da Chibata
Title: Memórias da Chibata
Character: João Cândido
Released: June 9, 2006
Type: Movie
Juca, a black kid, sees his friends and his mother being hit by his stepfather, without being able to do anything against it, but when he knows that he is the great-grandson of João Cândido, the leader of the sailors rebellion against the chibata hits adopted by Brazilian Navy till 1910, he takes an extreme attitude towards changing the course of his life.
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Title: Sinhá Moça
Character: Bentinho
Released: March 13, 2006
Type: TV
Monarchists and republicans meet in Araruna, a small fictional town in the interior of São Paulo, in 1886. The novel portrays the love story of the beautiful and wealthy Sinhá Moça - daughter of the slave, Barão Ferreira de Araruna, and sweet and submissive Mother Candida - , with the young abolitionist lawyer Dr. Rodolfo Fontes - son of Dr. Fontes, and the housewife Inêz. Together, they face the difficulties in the campaign for the abolition of slaves.
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Cafundó
Title: Cafundó
Character: Natalino (adult)
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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Title: Cabocla
Character: Zaqueu
Released: May 10, 2004
Type: TV
Brasil República, 1918. Luís Jerônimo is a rich young man. Womanizer, spends all night on the street drinking and having fun with prostitutes, the boy finds out that he has an injury to his right lung. Advised by Edmundo Esteves, his doctor, he decides to spend a season at a cousin's farm in the small town of Vila da Mata in Espírito Santo, in search of fresh air, to prevent the disease from developing into tuberculosis.
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Stray Bullet
Title: Stray Bullet
Character: Assaltante
Released: August 1, 2003
Type: Movie
The path of five bullets and the people they pass during a shootout in a square. Anyone can die.
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Cidade de Deus: Oficina dos Atores
Title: Cidade de Deus: Oficina dos Atores
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Documentary on the preparation of actors for "City of God".
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City of God
Title: City of God
Character: Buscapé
Released: August 30, 2002
Type: Movie
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
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Title: Cidade de Deus: A Série
Character: Buscapé
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV