Personal Info
Birth date
1936-11-27 (88 Years)
Day of death
2018-11-10
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Also known as
Жуэл Барселлус
Joel Martins
Joel Barcellos
Biography
Joel Dias Barcellos, better known as Joel Barcelos (Vitória, November 27, 1936 – Rio das Ostras, November 10, 2018), was a Brazilian actor, having also worked as a screenwriter and director. In some films, he was credited as Joel Martins. He was a very active actor in New Cinema, especially in the 1960s. He received the Candango Award for Best Actor at the Brasília Festival for his performance in Jardim de Guerra, in 1968. He was also elected 'Best Supporting Actor' by the same award when acting in Kiss 2348/72. Despite preferring cinema, he also played roles on television, mainly in miniseries.
Filmography
Secrets of Sand
7.3
Overview:
The story of the rivalry between the twin sisters Ruth and Raquel takes place in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro. They have very different personalities. Ruth is sweet, calm and has a good heart. Raquel, on the other hand, is selfish, aggressive and mean.Engraçadinha... Seus Amores e Seus Pecados
5.25
Overview:
18 years old Engraçadinha starts a secret love affair with her cousin Sílvio, who's engaged to her best friend Letícia, who is secretly in love with Cutie Pie. Twenty years later, Cutie Pie is a deeply religious married woman who's afraid her teenage daughters might end up making the same mistakes she did in the past.A Justiceira
8
Overview:
Diana is woman who lost her child for her Husband. A evil man behind a series of crime operations. Searching for her son, Diana is hired for a underground organization to fight crimes all over Brazil. Now, Diana has the meanings to locate her former husband and search for her son.The Conformist
7.7
Overview:
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.Entranced Earth
7.3
Overview:
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.The Guns
7.5
Overview:
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring
6.6
Overview:
In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled with the chance of overtaking the place.Rio Babilonia
5.3
Overview:
A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
NYR
Overview:
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."The Naked Man
5.2
Overview:
Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.The Agony
7.8
Overview:
Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by the roadside. Strongly painted lips, printed dress with round skirt and red shoes matching the color of the lipstick, she catches his attention. He gives her a ride, the two of them stare in silence for a few moments. They introduce themselves to one another and between the two establishes an absurd dialogue and full of metaphors. And they are driving around in corners of Rio de Janeiro, to the sound of Noel Rosa and Lamartine Babo. Eva and Antena, she a seer, he, an assassin on the run, initiate an unusual case of love, a marginal love, where boredom often gives way to tragedy, creating the agony of a holiday spent in an abyss.Fire Light
5.1
Overview:
Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.Kiss 2348/72
6.8
Overview:
Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the hardships of the labor lawsuit he filed against the company.Copacabana Fools Me
7
Overview:
Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.The Girl from Ipanema
6.2
Overview:
Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.Aperana Street 52
5.2
Overview:
In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber
6.1
Overview:
This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.My Home Is Copacabana
6.6
Overview:
Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by shining shoes, stealing, and cutting the strings of the kites to sell them later to others. Tired of life on the streets, one boy turns himself over to the police in hopes he will be sent to reform school in a last desperate attempt to survive. This feature from acclaimed Swedish director Arne Sucksdorff appeared at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.The Secret of the Mummy
4.5
Overview:
A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.Feminino Plural
NYR
Overview:
"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the behavior imposed on women, they seek to rescue the strength of the feminine. The new woman, born in the Brazilian land, incorporates the Amazons and Santa Guerreira. At his side, the new man, more loose and creative. Closing the cycle, the initial road is resumed. " (HBH / QC)The Big City
5.7
Overview:
In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, later, the company of Inácio.The Deceased
7.35
Overview:
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.Five Times Favela
7.8
Overview:
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.Vampire Eyes
2.2
Overview:
A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is assigned to investigate the murder together with fetishist photographer Oscar. Without any lead, they decide to follow a sexy and popular night-club dancer on the streets of São Paulo, trying to identify possible suspects.Brasília - A Última Utopia
NYR
Overview:
Six episodes set in and focusing on the history of Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Episode list: A Paisagem Natural (dir. Vladimir Carvalho), O Sinal da Cruz (dir. Pedro Jorge de Castro), A Volta de Chico Candango (dir. Roberto Pires), Além do Cinema do Além (dir. Pedro Anísio), Suíte Brasília (dir. Moacir de Oliveira) and A Capital dos Brasis (dir. Geraldo Moraes).Bahia de Todos os Sambas
NYR
Overview:
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of these great names in Bahia's music.The Dare
7.7
Overview:
Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her sonSonhei com Você
NYR
Overview:
Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.L'inchiesta
NYR
Overview:
The events of Giuliano Sartori, correspondent from Genoa for a newspaper in the capital, involved in a complicated investigation set in a psychiatric clinic. Not a simple Italian thriller but a "Russian doll", an open story with different levels of reading and interpretation, in which the distance between the madness of authenticity of feelings and the sprawling social normality that leads to 'annulment of the person and loneliness. Collaborators on the subject and the script of the film are Bernardo Bertolucci and Enzo Carra.Acting
TBAArrepio as Unknown
2019Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos as Self
2019Memórias do Grupo Opinião as Self (archive footage)
2014Plano B as Unknown
2012A Dama do Estácio as Unknown
2012Aperana Street 52 as Self
1997A Justiceira (1 Episode) as Unknown
1997Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional as Self
1997The Naked Man as Unknown
1996Vampire Eyes as Vampa
1995Engraçadinha... Seus Amores e Seus Pecados (18 Episodes) as Aprígio
1993Sant'Anna dos Pescadores as Unknown
1993Secrets of Sand (203 Episodes) as Chico Belo
1993Brasília - A Última Utopia as Unknown
1990Kiss 2348/72 as arquivista
1989Jardim de Alah as Danilo
1988Sonhei com Você as Pistoleiro
1988Soul's Boundary as Unknown
1988Presença de Marisa as Bruno
1987Images of the Unconscious as Carlos Pertuis
1986Exu-Piá, Coração de Macunaíma as Unknown
1984Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática as Unknown
1983Corações a Mil as Unknown
1982Rio Babilonia as Marciano
1982The Secret of the Mummy as Unknown
1982Fire Light as Canário
1982Insônia as Unknown
1980Crônica À Beira do Rio as Pescador
1978Batalha dos Guararapes as Conselheiro
1978Stop 88 as Joaquim Porfírio
1977Virgin on the Hill as Unknown
1977Anchieta, José do Brasil as Tibiriçá
1977Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber as Self
1977Encarnação as Unknown
1976The Agony as Antena, o malandro
1976Feminino Plural as Unknown
1974A Man and His Cage as Delegado
1974Sagarana: O Duelo as Turíbio Todo
1974France, Incorporated as The Brazilian
1974Ovelha Negra, Uma Despedida de Solteiro as João
1973O Picapau Amarelo as Visconde de Sabugosa
1971L'inchiesta as Unknown
1971Rua Descalça as Unknown
1971Tatu Bola as Unknown
1970The Conformist as Pupil Prof. Quadri (uncredited)
1969Memories of Helen as André
1969Garden of War as Edson
1969Tropico as Unknown
1969Copacabana Fools Me as Macalé
1968Journey to the End of the World as Unknown
1967Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring as Pegador de Almas
1967The Girl from Ipanema as Paquera
1967Entranced Earth as (uncredited)
1967Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo as Self (archive footage)
1966The Big City as Inacio
1965The Deceased as Unknown
1965The Dare as Carlos
1965My Home Is Copacabana as Unknown
1964The Guns as Man with dead child
1963The Beggars as Unknown
1962Five Times Favela as (segment "Pedreira de São Diego")
Crew
1996Bahia de Todos os Sambas ... Thanks
Directing
1971Tatu Bola ... Director
Production
1968Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City ... Production Manager