Neville D'Almeida
A Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, photographer and multimedia artist, involved with contemporary art, installations, art objects and performances, Neville Duarte Almeida was born in 1941 in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. Raised by a Methodist Christian family, he studied theater at the Scholastic Theatre of Minas Gerais and participated at the local Center of Film Studies, where he started to work as an filmmaker.
Some of his transgressive, avant-garde films were censored or banned by the Brazilian military dictatorship, after which he went on to directing films aimed to a more commercial approach. His 1978 film "Lady on the Bus", starring Sônia Braga, was a box-office champíon and still holds its place as the the third highest-grossing Brazilian film of all time.
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Movies (67)
Corredor Cinéfilo - Neville D'Almeida
2026
Drops de Anis
2026 · Self
Cineastas de Invenção
2026
Ninguém Pode Provar Nada: A Inacreditável História de Ezequiel Neves
2025 · Self
Tiro Certo - Rio em Chamas
2025 · Chefe
Com as Próprias Mãos
2023 · Self
Bye Bye Amazonia
2023 · Writer, Director, Producer
Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
2023
Obsessão
2022 · Director
Era Uma Vez Babu
2021 · Director
Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude
2020 · Self
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020 · Self
Os Espetaculares
2020
Ivan, the TerrirBle
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
2019 · Self
Humanos Causa
2019 · Director, Director of Photography
O Poder Negro
2018 · Director, Writer
Dunas do Barato
2017 · Self
Redemption
2017 · Lauro, Screenplay, Original Story, Adaptation, Dialogue, Director
Pitanga
2016 · Self
The Cold Front Brought by the Rain
2016 · Director, Producer, Art Direction, Adaptation
Plínio Marcos — Nas Quebradas do Mundaréu
2013 · Himself
Planeta Gigóia
2012 · Director
Boa Noite Cinderela
2010 · Director, Screenstory, Original Story
Ecos de Cannes
2008
Milagrez
2008 · Self
O Diário Secreto de Jane Joy: Receita de Sedução
2007 · Director
O Diário Secreto de Jane Joy: Calcinha
2007 · Director
Maksuara – Crepúsculo dos Deuses
2007 · Director
Guará, Ladrão de Estrelas
2006
A Voz do Provocador: Internacionalização da Amazônia
2006 · Director
A Voz do Provocador — Parte 1: Os Artísticos
2006 · Director
A Voz do Provocador - O Ouro Roubado
2006 · Director
A Marca do Terrir
2005 · Self
Luz-Lux-Lúcia
2005 · Director
Tempo Glauber
2005 · Director
A Miss e o Dinossauro
2005 · Himself (archive footage)
A Água, a Mulher e o Regador
2005 · Director
Acquawater
2005 · Director
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
2003 · Self / Interviewee
Hoje É Dia de Rock!
1999 · Director
Razor in the Flesh
1997 · Man in Club (Cameo), Screenplay, Director
Dib
1997 · Self
Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?
1991
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
1991 · Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited), Screenplay, Music Supervisor, Adaptation, Producer, Executive Producer, Director
Sermões
1989
Moon Over Parador
1988 · Family Member
Areias Escaldantes
1985 · Espião
Noite
1985 · Padre
Rio Babilonia
1982 · Original Story, Screenplay, Director
The Brazilwood Man
1982 · Crítico de teatro
Música para Sempre
1980 · Director
The Seven Kittens
1980 · Screenplay, Adaptation, Producer, Director
Horror Palace Hotel
1978 · Himself
Lady on the Bus
1978 · Associate Producer, Adaptation, Screenplay, Director
Cosmococa
1973 · Himself, Director
New York, 70s
1973 · Himself, Director
Mangúe-Bangúe
1971 · Writer, Director
Piranhas no Asfalto
1971 · Director
No Way, Spider
1970
Garden of War
1969 · Set Decoration, Writer, Producer, Director
The Angel Was Born
1969
The Red Light Bandit
1968
Hunger for Love
1968
BLABLABLÁ
1968 · (as Neville Duarte D'Almeida)
O Bem-Aventurado
1966 · Director, Writer, Editor
Surucucu Catiripapo
· Director
