
Acting
Sep 6, 1955
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Cacá Amaral
Acting
Biography
Carlos Amaral (São Paulo, September 7, 1955), known as Cacá Amaral, is a Brazilian actor. Cacá Amaral has a career that spans theater, TV and cinema. He worked for many years as an actor and director at Grupo TAPA, a traditional São Paulo theater group, winning the most important Brazilian theater awards.
Feature Films (19)

The story of a young black man, Héracles, who after being released from a juvenile institution, tries to apply for his first honest job as a motorcycle delivery boy. To get the job, he has to perform 12 hard tasks in São Paulo.
The Twelve Labours

A day in the life of Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, in a troubled period of his term, while he maintains a secret love affair.
Bela Noite Para Voar

A farm laborer is stunned for pain and for the jealousy when its godson assures to it that his wife is betraying with the proper brother. Both they go in revenge search, following for a tragic destination.
Olho de Boi

Film about an important episode in Brazilian History: the Araguaya guerrilla. In the 1970s, when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, some left-wing militants and peasants took arms against the Army, in the Amazon. Right in the middle of the conflict, there stood a French priest who had come to the region in the 1960s, and got involved in the events leading to the rebellion.
Araguaya - A Conspiração do Silêncio

Francisca and Carlos struggle to adapt to their new reality after the suicide of their only son, Felipe. Immersed in fantasies, fears and melancholy, the couple go through radical experiences. Carlos moves into Felipe's old apartment, alienating himself in the world of his dead son. Francisca, haunted by guilt, dedicates herself to unraveling the enigma of suicide.
A Part of Us

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.
Friendly Fire

Biela, a humble young woman, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her bourgeois cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
A Hidden Life

A married couple lives peacefully with two children until the husband starts getting violent.
Vidas Partidas

Rosália is a woman from São Paulo who has spent decades of her life working in a factory. One day, she is fired.
A Window to Rosália
Television & Series (11)

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.
Written in the Stars

In this romantic police comedy, after a luxury hotel is robbed by four of its employees, the lives of all people involved are turned upside down. With different motivations, they will do all they can not to be discovered, bringing all sorts of conflicts into the hotel. The confusion escalates when the detective trying to solve the case falls in love with one of the robbers, unaware he is one.
The Big Catch

Disillusioned, Congressman Paulo Ventura takes over the Chamber following a maneuver by his adversaries. However, the deaths of the Speaker and his deputy give him the chance to do things differently.
O Brado Retumbante

Three friends leading a nonprofit organisation investigate environmental crimes in the Amazon involving a major mining company.










