26-11-1911
Birthday
Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
35
Total Films
Also known as (male)
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Place of Birth
26-11-1911
Birthday
Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
35
Total Films
-
Also Known As (male)
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Place of Birth
actor
35 Works
producer
0 Works
director
5 Works
writer
4 Works
other
1 Works
Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her lifetime.Year:
2022
Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo
The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registered through the keen and sensitive perspective of photographer Orlando Brito, in a career spanning 50 years as a professional. From the political sidelines to the lives of Brazilians from the interior, Brito recalls experiences and discusses the role of the photographer and the pain of registering someone’s grief.Year:
2019
Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell
Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.Year:
2017
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: O Pagador de Promessas - O Filme
Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from death. The payment is to carry a heavy cross from the interior of Bahia to a church in Salvador. When you reach the steps of the church, with injured shoulders, you have to deal with the incomprehension of a conservative priest.Year:
2015
Mário Lago
Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.Year:
2013
A Maestrina Chiquinha Gonzaga
Documentary about the life of one of the greatest composers in the history of Brazilian music. Pianist, composer and conductor, Chiquinha Gonzaga was ahead of her time and revolutionized the customs of a sexist society.Year:
1999
Impressões do Brasil
"Impressões" rescues the history of the Brazilian press since 1808, when the "Correio Brasiliense" clandestinely reached Rio de Janeiro after being edited in London by Hipólito José da Costa, and spans until 1986. It's the first documentary to depict the history of the Brazilian journalistic press.Year:
1987
Idolatrada
Luís celebrates his golden wedding anniversary with his wife Alice. After the party, when the couple recalls some of the moments they built, he reveals a secret: he had a great passion in the past.Year:
1983
The Monkey's Paw
After being evicted, a family in serious financial difficulties moves into a tenement next to a cemetery. As soon as they settle in, they meet the neighboring couple who, upon learning of the financial problems of the newcomers, offer them a pact to be made through a magical amulet: the monkey paw.Year:
1983
O Homem de Areia
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1982
La menor
Year:
1976
MPB Especial: Mário Lago
Mario Lago performing at TV Cultura in 1973.Year:
1973
Café na Cama
In order to become an actress, young woman tries many jobs, but in all those places she finds a man trying to have sex with her.Year:
1973
S. Bernardo
The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.Year:
1972
Balada dos Infiéis
Year:
1970
The Heirs
An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.Year:
1970
Time of Violence
Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find out about him, Antônio and his wife are both targeted and pursued by the criminals.Year:
1969
Incredible, Fantastic, Extraordinary
Based on a radio show that was broadcast for 11 years (1947-1958) and ended only when the host and creator, the genius Henrique Foreis "Almirante" Domingues, had a stroke. There were hundreds of horror stories, supposedly true, sent by listeners from all corners of the country, radiophoned and broadcast by Rádio Tupi in Rio de Janeiro. It became a book in 1951 (reissued in 1984), a film in 1969 and a TV show in 1994-1995, broadcast by the extinct Rede Manchete.Year:
1969
Pedro Diabo Loves Rosa Meia Noite
Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls.Year:
1969
On Borrowed Time
During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.Year:
1968
The Brave Warrior
Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.Year:
1968
Desesperato
Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leaves his home to carry out literary research in the country's most obscure settings. Unhappy with the current national situation, the historian joins a guerrilla force with serious consequences.Year:
1968
Entranced Earth
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.Year:
1967
Na Mira do Assassino
A common robber is turned into a killer when he discovers that his sister was sexually assaulted by a policeman. After his act of vengeance, the police force begins a man hunt which corners the man into the building of a district attorney of whom he takes hostage.Year:
1967
Cuidado! Espião Brasileiro em Ação!
Year:
1966
Essa Gatinha é Minha
Year:
1966
The Priest and the Girl
In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair soon turns into an unbridled passion.Year:
1966
Na Onda do Iê-Iê-Iê
Year:
1966
História de Um Crápula
Year:
1965
Assassinato em Copacabana
Year:
1962
Mulheres, Cheguei!
Year:
1959
Balança Mas Não Cai
Year:
1954
The Shadow of Another
A drama about double personalityYear:
1950
Terra Violenta
Year:
1949
Uma Luz na Estrada
An adventure film...Year:
1948
