The best Danton Mello’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Danton Mello’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Danton Mello.
The Clown
7.2/10
The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
Hebe
6.5/10
Hebe Camargo is one of the most emblematic entertainments in Brazil. At her 60s, she went on to control her own career and, despite the criticism, the dreadful husband and the powerful and sexist bosses, she revealed herself to the public as an extraordinary woman, capable of overcoming any personal or professional crisis.
Predestinado: Arigó e o Espírito do Dr. Fritz
7.2/10
O Concurso
4.6/10
Four candidates for a federal judge position embark on a madcap, no-holds-barred race to outdo one another, each committing his own brand of mayhem.
Superpai
5.6/10
Diogo's 20th high school class reunion is coming up, and although he's married, sees it as an opportunity to hook up with his high school crush who will also be at the reunion. He and his wife have a young son, and everything is lined up so he can go to the reunion alone, hook up with the woman, and go home without his wife suspecting anything. Unfortunately for him, his wife's mother breaks her arm the night of the reunion and can't watch their son. Diogo scrambles to find a babysitter, ultimately settling on a nursery in a strange building. He goes to the party, meets up with the crush, but then has to leave. He and his three friends then go back to the nursery and pick up his son, who is wearing his favorite dog mask. While Diogo and his friends are on their way back to the reunion (he still hasn't hooked up with his former crush) he removes the dog mask and realizes the boy isn't his.
Vai Que Dá Certo 2
5.6/10
After going through a failed heist, 5 friends, apparently back to their normal lives, are involved in an opportunity to pull off another one.
Vai Que Dá Certo
5.8/10
5 friends have a plan to rob a transporter that can change their lives.
What Is It Worth?
7.2/10
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
Antes Que Eu Me Esqueça
6.6/10
At 80, Polidoro decides to demolish the stability of his comfortable life as a retired judge and become owner of a strip club.
A Esperança é a Última Que Morre
4.7/10
Benjamim
6/10
Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the woman he loved was hiding with her guerilla lover. As a result, the two were killed. One day, he casually meets a woman who looks very much like his former love, and this fact changes his life. Could she be the daughter of his great love? Or her reincarnation?
Party Crashers 2
4.4/10
The quartet of coup plotters is back, but before they need to resolve some minor internal disagreements, since Marco has struck a blow at his best friend, Beto, who, desolate, stops at a psychiatric clinic. It is up to Laura and Nelson to help him out of the institution.
Um Tio Quase Perfeito 2
6.7/10
Dercy de Verdade
7.7/10
The life story of Brazilian actress Dercy Gonçalves, told from her childhood days in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro all the way to her stardom.
MAR ME QUER
If we were born from Portuguese sails and pay so dearly to live close to the sea, why do we enjoy it so little? What made the Brazilian so little fan of candles? And if we are so few seagoers, what makes Brazil one of the biggest names in world yachting? Starting from these questions, the documentary tries to answer them through testimonies of several names of national sailing and rich historical research.
The Price of Peace
7.6/10
In 1984, with a coup d'état, President Floriano Peixoto closed down The National Congress, soon reinstated with co-religionaries in key positions. In the south of Brazil, the Maragatos revolutionaries would not come to terms with this. They rebelled and marched to Rio de Janeiro to join Admiral Saldanha's troops and depose the President in an episode known today as the Federalist Revolution. The rebels fought bloody battles with Floriano soldiers during the march. Idelfonso Corrêa is a quiet, reserved citizen of humble origin who becomes the Baron of Serro Azul. His mature demeanor makes him a choice for mediator between both groups. Midst negotiations and difficulties to safeguard the family and his protegés, the Baron expands his domains, starts a newspaper, a bank, and exports herva-mate. With the battle over, his form of address, Baron, becomes synonymous with traitors.
