Charles Paraventi

Acting

Charles Paraventi

Born July 4, 1969 · Queens, New York City, New York, USA (age 57)

Charles Adrian Paraventi Essabba (Queens, New York, July 4, 1969) is an American actor naturalized Brazilian.

Known For

City of GodCity of God · 2002
City of God
★ 8.42002
MovieDramaCrime
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Man on FireMan on Fire · 2004
Man on Fire
★ 7.52004
MovieActionDrama
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
DominoDomino · 2005
Domino
★ 5.92005
MovieActionDrama
The story of the life of Domino Harvey, who abandoned her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.
Yakuza PrincessYakuza Princess · 2021
Yakuza Princess
★ 6.12021
MovieActionThriller
In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a gaijin (foreigner) who's been protecting her all this time, Shirô, may have been actually sent to kill her.
Dark Horse
Nov 19, 2026
Dark Horse · 2026
Dark Horse
2026
MovieDramaCrime
Follows Jair Messias Bolsonaro, a man driven by his political career after disappointment with the direction of his country, in the journey to become the 38th president of Brazil.
ZoomZoom · 2016
Zoom
★ 5.82016
MovieAnimationComedy
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
MarighellaMarighella · 2021
Marighella
★ 7.62021
MovieDramaHistory
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
The Oyster and the WindThe Oyster and the Wind · 1997
The Oyster and the Wind
★ 6.61997
MovieDramaFantasy
A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world outside her home is by a boat with four sailors that pays a visit to the island in order to take them supplies. Daniel, who not only protects her from her dad's strictness but also teaches her how to be literate, is her source of tenderness. Her dad thinks she should be away from the world - though she wishes she could spend a few days in town. Then one day, as she has her first period and becomes a woman, she starts feeling sexuality through the blowing wind, which she talks to.

Filmography

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Two RabbitsTwo Rabbits · 2012
Two Rabbits
★ 6.82012
MovieActionCrime
Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.

Robério (Tanajura)