Jards Macalé

Known for: Acting
Born: March 3, 1943, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: November 18, 2025
Movies: 48

Jards Anet da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, March 3, 1943), known as Macalé, is a Brazilian composer, singer and actor, known for his influential role in Brazil's tropicália movement in the 1960s.

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Best-Known Movies

7.8

O Barato de Iacanga

2019

7.7

ABC of a Strike

1990

4.7

Big Jet

2015

6.4

The Amulet of Ogum

1974

5.2

Tent of Miracles

1977

8.0

Cartola: The Samba Legend

2007

6.3

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

2003

7.8

Bethânia Bem de Perto: A Propósito de um Show

1966

5.6

Pitanga

2016

6.0

Flamengo Paixão

1980

Filmography

2026	Vulto Sagrado
2025	Noites de João
2025	Amuleto
2025	Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil	Self (archive footage)
2024	Os Afro-Sambas: The Brazil of Baden and Vinicius	Self
2024	Moacyr Luz, O Embaixador Dessa Cidade	Self
2023	Macaléia	self
2022	Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer	Self
2022	Rubens Gerchman: O Rei do Mau Gosto	Self
2021	Cafi	Self
2020	Todas as Melodias	Self
2020	Salve o Prazer!	Self
2019	O Barato de Iacanga	Self (archive footage)
2018	Dê Lembranças a Todos	Self
2018	A Summer in Rildas
2017	Dunas do Barato	Self
2017	Inauditoo	Himself
2017	Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End	Self (archive footage)
2016	Pitanga	Self
2016	Beard, Hair & Stache	Self
2015	Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro	Self
2015	Big Jet	Príncipe
2015	Um Filme Francês
2013	Jards	Himself
2012	Straight to the Point
2011	Daquele Instante em Diante	Self (archive footage)
2011	Um Sampaio Teimoso	Ele mesmo
2011	Canções do Exílio: A Labareda Que Lambeu Tudo	Self
2011	House 9	Self
2008	Tira Os Óculos E Recolhe O Homem
2008	Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal	Self
2007	Conceição - Autor Bom é Autor Morto
2007	Cartola: The Samba Legend
2005	A Degola Fatal	Self (archive footage)
2003	Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth	Self
2003	Abry	(voice)
2001	B2
2000	Walter Franco Much Everything
1992	Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália	Self
1990	ABC of a Strike	Self
1986	Infinita Tropicália	Self
1982	O côco do Macalé	himself
1980	Flamengo Paixão
1977	Tent of Miracles	Pedro Archanjo (jovem)
1976	The Vampire of the Cinematheque
1974	The Amulet of Ogum	Cego Firmino
1972	The Demiurge
1966	Bethânia Bem de Perto: A Propósito de um Show	Self

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