
Rubens Pignatari
Known For & Full Filmography18 Titles

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Dr. Godói
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Mariano
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Mãozinha
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Décio
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as escrivão
The story takes place in São Paulo, in the late 1920s, and has Mariano's memories as its starting point. Orphaned, he loses the aunt who raised him and ends up in Madame Iara's brothel, where he meets two people who transform his life: Esmeraldo, a gigolo who loves the good life who becomes his master; and the prostitute Guadalupe, known as Lu, a sweet and extremely sensual woman. Esmeraldo is Lu's boyfriend, whom he loves unconditionally. Mariano enters the couple's lives and ends up falling in love with her, thus forming the love triangle that drives the entire narrative.

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Paulo
A story of a young woman who is cheating her impotent husband with the surrounding teenagers.

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Médico I
An affluent but bored housewife and mother pays for her kinky sex fantasies to come true. |

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Radialista
An unemployed radio worker obsessed with suicide meets a rich brat.

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Dr. Artur
In São Paulo, Vanessa who is normally spoiled rotten, is neglected and rejected by her mother, practically raised alone by her butler and driver Pedro and the maid, Dalva. Vanessa has disturbing daydreams and sexual fantasies, but doesn't let Arlindo, a teenager that flirts with her get close to her. Her best friend is Denise, a promiscuous girl that has intercourse with different men. When Vanessa discloses to Denise her problem, Denise gives the address of her psychotherapist Dr. Artur, to her friend. The unethical shrink pushes Vanessa to the edge, bringing memories of a severe trauma of her childhood. Then the disturbed Dr. Artur induces the girls to commit suicide.

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An aspiring actress is hired to dub a recently deceased movie star in an upcoming erotic thriller. As the recording sessions go on, the voice actress finds herself slowly being influenced by the dead star’s presence.

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Felipe
Luiz Antônio, a sociologist, had his political rights suppressed, during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also, his wife Ruth had been tortured and killed. So he decides to hide in his niece Natércia and her husband Felipe's country house for a while. But she invites the intellectual Marcela and broker Ricardo for a weekend together. Luiz's world is upset and the existential problems of all get entangled, with unexpected results.

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Dangerous bandit falls in love with high school. He tries to declare himself, but she refuses his harassment. To get revenge, he convinces his fellow gang members to break into the girl's family apartment, with the intention of raping her.

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Family gets involved with a new resident of a building, who loves classical music.

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
With the woman's death in the birth of her child, a father starts to raise him with comfort and affection. When the time is right, the father, in middle age, makes the boy his companion in bohemian and non-committal amorous adventures. Father and son meet at a nightclub frequented by women who make appointments easier.