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.

Filmography

• 2026Cineastas de Invenção
• 2026Corredor Cinéfilo - Neville D'Almeida
• 2025Tiro Certo - Rio em Chamas — Chefe
• 2023Bye Bye Amazonia — Writer, Director, Producer
• 2023Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
• 2022Obsessão — Director
• 2021Era Uma Vez Babu — Director
• 2020Os Espetaculares
• 2019Humanos Causa — Director, Director of Photography
• 2018O Poder Negro — Director, Writer
• 2017Redemption — Lauro, Screenplay, Original Story, Adaptation, Dialogue, Director
• 2016The Cold Front Brought by the Rain — Director, Producer, Art Direction, Adaptation
• 2012Planeta Gigóia — Director
• 2010Boa Noite Cinderela — Director, Screenstory, Original Story
• 2008Ecos de Cannes
• 2007Maksuara – Crepúsculo dos Deuses — Director
• 2007O Diário Secreto de Jane Joy: Calcinha — Director
• 2007O Diário Secreto de Jane Joy: Receita de Sedução — Director
• 2006A Voz do Provocador - O Ouro Roubado — Director
• 2006A Voz do Provocador — Parte 1: Os Artísticos — Director
• 2006A Voz do Provocador: Internacionalização da Amazônia — Director
• 2006Guará, Ladrão de Estrelas
• 2005A Água, a Mulher e o Regador — Director
• 2005Acquawater — Director
• 2005Luz-Lux-Lúcia — Director
• 2005Tempo Glauber — Director
• 1999Hoje É Dia de Rock! — Director
• 1997Razor in the Flesh — Man in Club (Cameo), Screenplay, Director
• 1991Killed the Family and Went to the Movies — Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited), Screenplay, Music Supervisor, Adaptation, Producer, Executive Producer, Director
• 1991Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?
• 1989Sermões
• 1988Moon Over Parador — Family Member
• 1985Areias Escaldantes — Espião
• 1985Noite — Padre
• 1982Rio Babilonia — Original Story, Screenplay, Director
• 1982The Brazilwood Man — Crítico de teatro
• 1980Música para Sempre — Director
• 1980The Seven Kittens — Screenplay, Adaptation, Producer, Director
• 1978Lady on the Bus — Associate Producer, Adaptation, Screenplay, Director
• 1973Cosmococa — Himself, Director
• 1973New York, 70s — Himself, Director
• 1971Mangúe-Bangúe — Writer, Director
• 1971Piranhas no Asfalto — Director
• 1970No Way, Spider
• 1969Garden of War — Set Decoration, Writer, Producer, Director
• 1969The Angel Was Born
• 1968BLABLABLÁ — (as Neville Duarte D'Almeida)
• 1968Hunger for Love
• 1968The Red Light Bandit
• 1966O Bem-Aventurado — Director, Writer, Editor
• Surucucu Catiripapo — Director

Appearances as themselves (16)

• 2026Drops de Anis — Self
• 2023Com as Próprias Mãos — Self
• 2020Candango: Memoirs from a Festival — Self
• 2020Ivan, the TerrirBle — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude — Self
• 2019Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos — Self
• 2017Dunas do Barato — Self
• O País do Cinema — Self
• 2016Pitanga — Self
• 2013Plínio Marcos — Nas Quebradas do Mundaréu — Himself
• 2008Milagrez — Self
• 2005A Marca do Terrir — Self
• 2005A Miss e o Dinossauro — Himself (archive footage)
• 2003Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth — Self / Interviewee
• 1997Dib — Self
• 1978Horror Palace Hotel — Himself