Babu Santana
Alexandre da Silva Santana (born December 10, 1979), known professionally as Babu Santana, is a Brazilian actor. Born in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, Santana acted in plays at school since his 12 years and joined the theater group "Nós do Morro" when he was 17. His first roles in films were in 2002 when he acted in "City of God" and "Something in the Air". He's the winner of two Grande Otelos, the greatest award of Brazilian cinema and a former participant in reality TV show Big Brother Brasil.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.705 |
Birthday | 1979-12-10 |
Place of Birth | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Also Known As | Babu, |
2007
Estômago: A Gastronomic Story
7.9/261
In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent y...
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Estômago: A Gastronomic Story
2016
In Dog's Words
6.1/28
São Paulo, 2007. Santana works as a dogcatcher, picking up stray animals. He is a friendly guy, averse to trouble, who has always kept violence away f...
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In Dog's Words
2011
Não Se Pode Viver Sem Amor
8/1
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Não Se Pode Viver Sem Amor
2014
Elite Cup
4.4/51
Police officer Jorge Capitão is a competent BOP captain and a Brazilian idol. But after he saved Argentina's greatest ace from a kidnapping, on the ev...
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Elite Cup
2014
Tim Maia
7.2/155
Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55, including his passage by the US, where he discove...
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Tim Maia
2002
City of God
8.428/7220
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
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City of God
2002
Uma Onda no Ar
6.3/10
Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give voice to t...
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Uma Onda no Ar
2008
Mais Uma História no Rio
6/1
Rodolfo Guerra, a young man from the upper class of Rio de Janeiro, has his fancy imported car taken from him at gun point in front of his condo by tw...
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Mais Uma História no Rio
2003
As Alegres Comadres
7/1
Scoundrel João Fausto, a former Portuguese officer, arrives in Tiradentes,in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Using his status of former Imperial Co...
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As Alegres Comadres
2018
Coffee with Cinnamon
7.8/30
Five friends drink beer and chat at Violeta's house. Bit by bit, their stories of love, loss and suffering are told, revealing the acts of love and fr...
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Coffee with Cinnamon
2017
How Do You See Me?
6/2
How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness t...
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How Do You See Me?
2009
Os Normais 2
6.53/67
After thirteen years of engagement, the boring sex life of Rui and Vani is limited to one intercourse every other week. They decide to seek excitement...
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Os Normais 2
2007
Achados e Perdidos
5.154/13
Ex-cop Vieira is involved in the death of his lover , a prostitute who works in the streets of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. After her death, some stran...
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Achados e Perdidos
2018
Bandeira de Retalhos
0/0
Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the news that the corrupt Rio de Janeiro mayor decide...
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Bandeira de Retalhos
2017
Praça Paris
6.706/17
Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator. Throughou...
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Praça Paris
2008
Maré, Our Love Story
5.9/4
Free adaptation of Romeo and Juliet translated to the harsh life in Favela da Maré, one of largest and most violent slums in Rio de Janeiro. Living in...
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Maré, Our Love Story
2007
Cobrador: In God We Trust
3.8/12
Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is ex...
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Cobrador: In God We Trust
2013
Memories They Told Me
6/10
A group of friends, who resisted the military dictatorship, and their children will face the conflict between the daily life of today and the past whe...
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Memories They Told Me
2009
Plastic City
3.9/6
Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods...
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Plastic City
2011
Love is All
2.2/4
A family with financial difficulties has a brilliant idea: to make their daughter Lindinha get pregnant of the famous singer Ivan Cláudio to inherit a...
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Love is All
2021
Intervenção
6.4/27
Larissa competed for the Rio Military Police in search of the ideal of “protecting the citizen”.
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Intervenção
2012
AE-Autoexposure
4.3/6
After a shooting assignment, Henrique is mugged by two armed motor-bikers who steal his camera and speed off. Seconds later, he watches both get hit b...
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AE-Autoexposure
2007
Germano
0/0
A short contemporary story about the crew of a small Brazilian fishing boat. Part of the anthology The State of the World.
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Germano
2015
A Culpa é do Neymar
10/2
A typical kid from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro starts to support the team that his idol, Neymar, plays for. To his father, this is an unforgivable b...
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A Culpa é do Neymar
2004
Redeemer
6.8/23
Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the...
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Redeemer
2007
The State of the World
5.2/9
An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.
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The State of the World
Welcome Maguila
0/0
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Welcome Maguila
2007
City of Men
7.085/270
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, i...
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City of Men
2014
Julio Sumiu
5.4/15
Rio de Janeiro, in the period in which the Police Pacification Units (PPUs) were beginning to be deployed in the city. Edna (Lilia Cabral) is the moth...
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Julio Sumiu
2020
Falas Negras
9.8/4
The special features 22 real testimonials from people like Mandela, Martin Luther King and Marielle Franco, who fought racism and freedom in favor of...
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Falas Negras
2008
My Name Ain't Johnny
7.1/257
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the ea...
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My Name Ain't Johnny
2002
Na Idade da Imagem ou Projeção nas Cavernas
0/0
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Na Idade da Imagem ou Projeção nas Cavernas
2017
Rio Mumbai
5/1
Nelson, a skeptical and disillusioned journalist, is having strange experiences. The old scientist who lives in his building tries to convince him tha...
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Rio Mumbai
2004
Almost Brothers
5.4/12
The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970...
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Almost Brothers
2006
Memórias da Chibata
0/0
Juca, a black kid, sees his friends and his mother being hit by his stepfather, without being able to do anything against it, but when he knows that h...
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Memórias da Chibata
2024
A Festa de Léo
5/1
The film is set in Morro do Vidigal, one of the most famous favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Rita needs to give her son Léo a party that means a lot to her....
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A Festa de Léo
2023
Rule 34
5.4/13
Simone is a young law student who studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights. On her free time, she's a cam girl that makes live sexual per...
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Rule 34
2022
Os Suburbanos: O Filme
5.1/5
Driver Jeferson is the biggest fan of pagode and is willing to do anything to make his dream of being a singer come true, even cleaning the pool of th...
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Os Suburbanos: O Filme
2022
O Vampiro Que Pensa Vozes
0/0
Maurino (Marcelo Mac) suffers from auditory hallucinations and thinks he is a vampire, even though he is terrified of blood. After a conversation with...
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O Vampiro Que Pensa Vozes
2022
Quatro Amigas Numa Fria
7.2/5
Dani is about to get married and travels with three other friends to Bariloche for her bachelorette party. The girls expect a fun and peaceful trip,...
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Quatro Amigas Numa Fria
2021
Era Uma Vez Babu
0/0
An experiment of poetic fiction involving the personality of an important actor in an abstract vision, that goes through past, present and future.
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Era Uma Vez Babu
2008
Once Upon a Time in Rio
7.423/78
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mou...
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Once Upon a Time in Rio
2007
Baptism of Blood
7.383/30
In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. M...
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Baptism of Blood
Kasa Branca
0/0
Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the...
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Kasa Branca
2024
Same Old West
0/0
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Mamãe Saiu de Férias
0/0
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Mamãe Saiu de Férias
2023
Firmina
0/0
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