José Cañizares
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41 Works
Tödlicher Karneval
The shooting of a movie is to take place in Rio de Janeiro. The script states that an actor is to shoot himself. The director wants to demonstrate how he imagines this scene. When he takes the revolver and pulls the trigger, he actually falls to the ground. The crew is horrified when they realize that the ammunition was live and the director is lying dead on the floor. Inspector Moura is assigned to investigate the case. He suspects a jealous motive.0.0
Year:
1963
The Violent and the Damned
When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives, who have fled by foot and boat and now have begun to turn on each other.3.5
Year:
1962
Nudismo Não É Pecado
0.0
Year:
1961
Dona Violante Miranda
5.7
Year:
1960
Dona Violante Miranda
5.7
Year:
1960
Moral em Concordata
Rosario is a prostitute who lives in her married sister's house. When the latter wants to be a hooker too, she doesn't approve.1.0
Year:
1959
Moral em Concordata
Rosario is a prostitute who lives in her married sister's house. When the latter wants to be a hooker too, she doesn't approve.1.0
Year:
1959
O Drama das Secas
Documentary sponsored by ASCOFAM - World Association for the Fight Against Hunger, on the recommendation of Josué de Castro, former director of FAO. Filmed in the interior of the states of Bahia, Pernambuco, Ceará, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.0.0
Year:
1958
Uma Certa Lucrécia
6.0
Year:
1957
Uma Certa Lucrécia
6.0
Year:
1957
Absolutely Right
A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness.5.5
Year:
1957
Scarlet Macaw
A mine boss hires a policeman to chase some runaways who stole a precious diamond.0.0
Year:
1957
The Wind Rose
An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.5.0
Year:
1957
A Pensão de D. Estela
The story takes place in a boarding house, on the verge of bankruptcy, where the most different characters parade: a solitary woman, a womanizer singer, a musical group, an unemployed doctor, a football player and a radio singer, and where everyone gets involved to pay the mortgage that threatened the pension.0.0
Year:
1956
Bloody Hands
Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang of dangerous convicts escape from a penal colony. With the police in hot pursuit, the escapees cut a gory swath through the countryside. As his comrades are killed off one by one, the leader of the group descends into gibbering madness. In contrast to this, a subplot develops involving the least dangerous of the escapees, who murdered his wife in a peak of self-righteous rage and is now seriously in doubt about the wisdom of his deed. Principal scenes reworked in 1962 to make the film The Violent and the Damned (q.v.).5.0
Year:
1955
A Real Woman
A nurse falls in love with her patient and secretly marries him. When treating another patient, he falls in love with her and, pretending to be in agony, asks for one last wish: to marry him, and she accepts.5.0
Year:
1955
Rosas no Céu, Milagres na Terra
The film depicts part of Priest Donizetti Tavares de Lima's trajectory in a little town in the State of São Paulo called Tambaú, where he performed a series of miracles.0.0
Year:
1955
Carnival in A Major
0.0
Year:
1955
Leonora of the Seven Seas
A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.5.0
Year:
1955
Song of the Sea
In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to Recife, to get a vessel to Santos expecting to have a better life in the Southern. In the poor area of Recife, an old washerwoman launders clothes to survive and support her family. Her husband Zé Luis, a former sailor, is crazy due to a hit of the boom of a mast on his head. Her older son Raimundo works in a grocery and selling mangoes on the street, trying to save money to move to the Southeastern with his girl-friend Aurora. Her daughter wants to be a prostitute to have a better quality of life. Her younger son is seriously sick.6.0
Year:
1953
Simão, o Caolho
A one-eyed businessman wants to become rich and retrieve his lost eye at any cost. He tries many schemes, and eventually regains his eye with a vengeance: the power of invisibility. He becomes multi millionaire in the meat market and after entering politics he is elected president of Brazil.5.0
Year:
1952
Meu Destino é Pecar
The story of Leninha, a young Brazilian woman whose life become a turbulent tragedy in the midst of trades involving lust and power.0.0
Year:
1952
O Comprador de Fazendas
Seeing his farm in ruins, swindler tries to sell it to the first interested person, who happens to be a man who fakes being a millionaire but in fact cannot pay for the estate.0.0
Year:
1951
Suzana e o Presidente
Country girl arriving in a big town falls in love with her boss, without knowing who he was.0.0
Year:
1951
Mi divina pobreza
A millionaire commits suicide by leaving his fortune to a poor young rival and then, as a ghost, teaches him the true importance of money.0.0
Year:
1951
The Islanders
Leandro and Carancha inhabit the islands located in the Parana delta. When their son brings home a girlfriend, her presence makes Carancha jealous and dramatic consequences ensue.5.6
Year:
1951
Los árboles mueren de pie
For over twenty years, an elderly man convinces his wife that their long-lost criminal grandson has changed his ways to become a successful professional and loving husband. When he learns of his grandson’s death, he decides to keep yet another secret and arranges for a false couple to pose as their exiled grandson and his wife. As the couple enters, uncertainties arise. Will they be able to convince her?8.0
Year:
1951
Escuela de campeones
It is the reconstruction of the history of the Buenos Aires English High School and of the legendary Alumni club, made up of its students, who dominated Argentine football in the first decade of the 20th century and its president, Alejandro Watson Hutton, The first president of the Argentine Football Association, considered the father of Argentine football.0.0
Year:
1950
Strange World
During an archeological expedition in the Amazon, a group of explorers -- including a father and a son -- finds a beautiful golden statue. The party is attacked by remnants of a lost civilization, and the son is rescued by Indians. Years later, living in the city, he discovers in a magazine article photographic evidence of the golden god in the jungle. Willing to find his father, he quits his job and travels to the Amazon.2.0
Year:
1950
El último payador
The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.8.5
Year:
1950
La otra y yo
0.0
Year:
1949
Las aventuras de Jack
In the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.0.0
Year:
1949
El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
A woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.0.0
Year:
1949
El tambor de Tacuarí
After the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.0.0
Year:
1948
Rodríguez supernumerario
A humble employee is believed to be responsible for the dishonest actions of his colleagues.6.0
Year:
1948
La caraba
A mythomaniac woman rejects her humble status and falls in the trap of a wealthy lawyer.0.0
Year:
1948
Mirad los lirios del campo
5.0
Year:
1947
Siete para un secreto
Two men fight for a woman.0.0
Year:
1947
Soy un infeliz
A man who arrives in paradise explains his earthly misfortune.0.0
Year:
1946
Inspiración
Film about the biography of the musician Franz Schubert.0.0
Year:
1946
El tercer huésped
A threatened financier is impersonated during a train ride by an identical-looking salesman.0.0
Year:
1946
El Capitán Pérez
To avoid the romantic approaches of a mature man with whom her elder sister is in love, a young girl invents a boyfriend: Captain Perez.0.0
Year:
1946
Allá en el setenta y tantos
The life of Élida Passo, pioneer of medicine of the Buenos Aires of the XIX century. By 1870, the first women tried to practice medicine in an area reserved for men; and through sacrifice and struggle, they begin the path towards a more egalitarian society.6.3
Year:
1945
Juvenilia
A group of young people from the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires recount their wanderings and their days in high school at the time of the National Organization in Buenos Aires.5.0
Year:
1943