Carlos Diegues
Born: 1940-05-19 in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Died: 2025-02-14
Known For: Directing
Biography
Carlos José Fontes Diegues OMC, known as Cacá Diegues (Maceió, May 19, 1940 – Rio de Janeiro, February 14, 2025), was a Brazilian filmmaker. He was one of the founders of Cinema Novo.
Filmography
2026
- God Is Still Brazilian ... (Director)
- Fernando Coni Campos: Cada um Vive como Sonha as himself
2025
- Chico Anysio: Um Homem à Procura de Um Personagem as Self
- Malês ... (Associate Producer)
- White House ... (Associate Producer)
- 1961 as Self
2024
- Turn It Up, It's Rock 'n' Roll ... (Producer)
- Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico” as Self
- Tributo: Zezé Motta as Self
2023
2022
- 45 do Segundo Tempo ... (Associate Producer)
- Suspension Points ... (Associate Producer)
- Uma Pitada de Sorte ... (Associate Producer)
- Our Children ... (Associate Producer)
- O Canto Livre de Nara Leão as Self
- Quando a Coisa Vira Outra as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Insensate ... (Associate Producer)
- Dr. Gama ... (Producer)
- Juntos e Enrolados ... (Associate Producer)
- The Good Cinema as Self
2020
- De Perto Ela Não é Normal ... (Associate Producer)
- Não Vamos Pagar Nada ... (Associate Producer)
- Three Summers ... (Associate Producer)
- Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self
- Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude as Self
- Burning Night ... (Associate Producer)
- Verlust ... (Associate Producer)
- Arroz, Feijão e Cinema as Self
2019
- Bacurau ... (Associate Producer)
- Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta as Self
- Os Parças 2 ... (Associate Producer)
- O Juízo ... (Associate Producer)
- Head Over Heels 3 ... (Associate Producer)
- Simonal ... (Associate Producer)
- O Amor Dá Trabalho ... (Associate Producer)
- Vai que Cola 2: O Começo ... (Associate Producer)
- Memórias do Grupo Opinião as Self
- Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos as Self
2018
- Running After ... (Associate Producer)
- The Great Mystical Circus ... (Director)
2017
- The Movie of My Life ... (Associate Producer)
- João, o Maestro ... (Associate Producer)
- Fala Sério, Mãe! ... (Associate Producer)
- Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl ... (Associate Producer)
- Party Crashers 2 ... (Associate Producer)
- Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century as Self
- Os Saltimbancos Trapalhões: Rumo a Hollywood ... (Associate Producer)
- Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
2016
- Aquarius ... (Associate Producer)
- Cinema Novo as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- Elis ... (Associate Producer)
- Pitanga as Self
- O Shaolin do Sertão ... (Associate Producer)
- A Boyfriend for My Wife ... (Associate Producer)
- Um Suburbano Sortudo ... (Associate Producer)
2015
- Till Luck Do Us: Part 3 ... (Associate Producer)
- Operações Especiais ... (Associate Producer)
- Meu Passado Me Condena 2: O Filme ... (Associate Producer)
- Loucas pra Casar ... (Associate Producer)
- Little Book of Love 2 ... (Associate Producer)
- Any Stray Cat 2 ... (Associate Producer)
- Drop Dead Gorgeous ... (Associate Producer)
- Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro as Self
- Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema as Self
2014
- Getulio ... (Associate Producer)
- A Noite da Virada ... (Associate Producer)
2013
- Giovanni Improtta as Vizinho
- Dossiê Jango as Self
- VINTE - RioFilme, 20 anos de cinema brasileiro ... (Director)
- River of Faith - An Encounter with Pope Francis ... (Director)
2011
- Consideração do Poema
- Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro as Self (archive footage)
2010
- 5x Favela, Now by Ourselves ... (Producer)
- Bróder ... (Associate Producer)
2009
2006
- The Greatest Love of All ... (Director)
- Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra ... (Director)
- Referências as Self
- Depois do Transe as Self
2005
2003
- God Is Brazilian ... (Director)
- Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth as Self / Interviewee
2002
- At the Edge of the Earth as Self
2001
- Bufo & Spallanzani ... (Associate Producer)
- 1968 - Without Losing Tenderness as Self
1999
- Orfeu ... (Director)
1997
- Dib as Self
- Nelson Sargento as Self
1996
- Tieta of Agreste ... (Screenplay)
1994
1991
1989
- Better Days Ahead ... (Director)
- Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo as Self
1988
- Luzia Homem ... (Screenplay)
1987
- Subway to the Stars ... (Director)
1986
1984
- Quilombo ... (Director)
- Claves, 3: Small mother country, great mother country as Self
- Claves, 2: We will return younger as himself
- Making of - Quilombo as Self
- Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman as himself
1980
- Bye Bye Brazil ... (Writer)
- Fênix as Self
- Cinématon IX as N°83
1979
- Na Boca do Mundo ... (Story)
1978
- Summer Showers as Homem lendo jornal
- Ponto das Ervas ... (Executive Producer)
1976
- Xica ... (Director)
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- The Star Rises ... (Writer)
1973
- Joanna Francesa ... (Director)
1972
- The Suns of Easter Island
- When Carnaval Comes ... (Director)
1969
- Pobre Príncipe Encantado ... (Screenstory)
1968
- Capitu ... (Producer)
1967
- Entranced Earth ... (Associate Producer)
- Adorável Trapalhão ... (Writer)
- Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo as Self
- Oito Universitários ... (Director)
1966
- The Big City ... (Producer)
1965
- O Circo ... (Editor)
1963
- Ganga Zumba ... (Director)
1962
- Five Times Favela ... (Director)