Marcos Contreras
Acting
Biography
Marcos Contreras is a Brazilian Actor, Director and Producer, mostly known for his performances at Um Animal Menor (2010), Restless Sea (2016), Camel On The Tarmac (2015), Resistance (2019), City of Pirates (2018), Pineapple Pizza and The End of World (2023), Waiting Room (2009) Stray Dog (2007), The Movie of My Life (2017), 1961 (2023), Rend Your Heart (2018), The Babbling Boil (2022), The Nightshifter (2019) and A Última Estrada da Praia (2010).
Place of Birth: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Known For
Pineapple Pizza and The End of the World
The motel room destroyed, a hell of a hangover and a dead body; the world really should have ended.
The Staple of News
Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play “The Staple of News” provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and focus of their subjects, the resistance of the media in accepting itself as a political agent, the inevitability of interpretation as there are no hard facts in nature, and above all the search for an always complex balance between credibility and the public’s growing demand for news.
Through Ernesto's Eyes
Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl.
The Movie of My Life
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.
Rend Your Heart
40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.
The Babbling Boil
Daniel has a misunderstanding with a witch and recieves an interesting curse;
The Nightshifter
Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
Camel on the Tarmac
Camel on the Tarmac is made of two movements: the walking and the feeling. Walking under the sky of platinum winter; and on the asphalt. Feeling under the silence of the journey; relive the emotional memories. Peter walks and feel; walks and crosses the border between sister countries, Brazil and Uruguay. Follows in search of man who, like him, live recluse addition in their own digressions: his father.
Resistance
Brazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros and the movement to keep vice-president João Goulart from taking office. Using the radio transmitter from his improvised bunker, Brizola sets up the Legality movement, to ensure Goulart's right to the presidential chair. Caught in the crossfire, two brothers who are in love with the same woman unite to fight alongside Brizola.
The City of Pirates
A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
Filmography
as Geraldo
as Turco
as Dr. Heleno
as Paramédico
as Gustavo
as Pereio
as Interrogador
as Capitão (voice)
as Irmão Paco 1
as Gomes
as Marido
as Chico
as Andarilho
as Lárcio