Director
Neville D'Almeida
May 15, 1941 · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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.
Often works with
Guará Rodrigues
10 titles together
The Seven Kittens, Killed the Family and Went to the Movies, Rio Babilonia
Paulo Villaça
5 titles together
The Red Light Bandit, Lady on the Bus, Rio Babilonia
Sandro Solviatti
5 titles together
The Seven Kittens, Killed the Family and Went to the Movies, Rio Babilonia
Maria Gladys
5 titles together
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies, Rio Babilonia, The Angel Was Born
Cristina Aché
4 titles together
The Seven Kittens, The Brazilwood Man, Areias Escaldantes
Paulo César Peréio
3 titles together
Lady on the Bus, Rio Babilonia, Noite
Full filmography · 46
Cineastas de Invenção
cast
2026
Tiro Certo - Rio em Chamas
as Chefe
2025
Bye Bye Amazonia
Director and Writer
2023
Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
cast
2023
Obsessão
Director
2022
Era Uma Vez Babu
Director
2021
Os Espetaculares
cast
20206.8
Humanos Causa
Director
2019
O Poder Negro
Director and Writer
2018
Redemption
as Lauro and Director
2017
The Cold Front Brought by the Rain
Director
20165.7
Planeta Gigóia
Director
2012