Mário Lago

Mário Lago OMC (Rio de Janeiro, November 26, 1911 — Rio de Janeiro, May 30, 2002) was a Brazilian lawyer, poet, radio host, composer, writer and actor. Author of popular sambas such as "Ai! que saudade da Amélia" and "Atire a Primeira Pedra", both in partnership with Ataulfo ​​Alves, he became popular between the 1940s and 1950s.

Works

The Trapalhões

Os Trapalhões was a Brazilian comedy group and also a Brazilian television series created by Wilton Franco. Its members were Dedé Santana, Zacarias, Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó, that was played by Renato Aragão. The name Trapalhões is derived from the Portuguese verb atrapalhar, which means the opposite of helping, to do something the wrong way or to Those that confuse. The name is translated "Tramps" in English DVD subtitles. It was aired by Rede Globo from 1977 to 1999. On March 18, 1990, Zacarias died due to respiratory failure, but the group and the series didn't come to an end until July 29, 1994, when Mussum died due to an unsuccessful heart transplant.

Release Date1977-03-13

Charactersd Ele mesmo (em Campo Grande)

Episode Count1

Vote Count18

Dancin' Days

A down-on-her-luck former inmate tries to reconnect with her daughter--to the objections of her sister who raised the girl, meets a millionaire, and transforms into a strong woman, returning to society at Dancin' Days nightclub's opening.

Release Date1978-07-10

Charactersd Alberico Santos

Episode Count174

Vote Count9

Chico Anysio Show

Release Date1982-03-04

Charactersd Papai Noel

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

História de Amor

Helena is a sweet, honest, sensitive and a warrior woman who faces the premature pregnancy of her daughter Joyce, who in turn is abandoned by her boyfriend, the irresponsible Caio. The biggest problem is the girl's father, Assunção, Helena's ex-husband, who does not accept the situation. Lonely and alone, Helena awakens a passion for the endocrinologist Carlos Alberto, and has her feelings matched. But Carlos is committed to the possessive Paula. The girl's parents, Zuleika and Rômulo, anxiously await their daughter's wedding with Carlos, who will save the family from financial decay. But Carlos is the type of man that women don't really forget. Even married to Paula and in love with Helena, he is still harassed by ex-wife Sheyla, who is not satisfied with having lost him and dreams of a rapprochement.

Release Date1995-07-03

Charactersd Professor Medina

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

Hilda Hurricane

After breaking off her engagement on her wedding day and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "Hilda Hurricane", in the 50's Brazil. She could do fine if it wasn't for Malthus, a young novice said to be a saint, for whom she falls in love. However, the boy is kept under the strict, severe doctrine of Father Nelson, a conservative priest intolerant even to every minor sin. Things start getting harder when Roberto, Malthus' old friend and a communist reporter (the actual author of the story), tries to interview Hilda and disclosure the real reasons behind her radical change of mind. In the meantime, the middle-classes are terrified by the "leftist threat" in Brazilian politics.

Release Date1998-05-27

Charactersd Olavo

Episode Count32

Vote Count35

Cavalo de Aço

Cavalo de Aço

Release Date1973-01-22

Charactersd Inácio

Episode Count180

Brava Gente

Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.

Release Date2000-12-26

Charactersd Eleutério

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

Força de um Desejo

Set in the 19th century, the novel tells the story of an impossible romance. Inácio, a young man from a traditional family, falls in love with Esther, the owner of the most famous brothel in the Court.

Release Date1999-05-10

Charactersd Dr. Teodoro Bastos

Episode Count11

Vote Count10

Four Lives, Four Loves

A traffic accident causes four women's destinies to intertwine. In the series, the four enter a pact of revenge against the men who hit them and caused them to suffer. Auxiliadora struggled to help her husband Alcebíades prosper, but when he leaves her for a younger woman, is thrown out of the house. The shy Tatiana was engaged to Fortunato, who failed to show up at their wedding. The Babalu hurricane caught mechanic Raí in bed with another woman. Abigail, a preppy psychologist who is struggling in a failing marriage, decides superficially to continue it but revolts against her husband, Gustavo, who humiliates her in public at a congress. Gustavo has custody of Ângela, a girl who longs to know her true father, Bruno. Her mother died in the childbirth, traumatizing him.

Release Date1994-10-24

Charactersd Henrique Pessoa

Episode Count2

Vote Count6

Selva de Pedra

Amidst an unresolved crime, Simone protects Cristiano and falls in love with him. However, the couple faces ambition and betrayals that tear them apart. Presumed dead, she returns under a new identity seeking revenge.

Release Date1972-04-10

Charactersd Sebastião Vilhena (Sessé)

Episode Count246

Vote Count8

O Bem-Amado

O Bem-Amado is a Brazilian telenovela that first aired on Rede Globo in 1973. It is based on a play by Dias Gomes called Odorico, o Bem-Amado ou Os Mistérios do Amor e da Morte, written in 1962. It was the first Brazilian color telenovela. It was shot in Rio de Janeiro. Broadcast by Rede Globo between January 22 and October 3, 1973.

Release Date1973-01-22

Charactersd narrador

Episode Count1

Vote Count8

Dance with Me

Quinzinho and João Victor are identical twins separated at birth, unaware of each other's existence. The brothers eventually draw closer, guided by their instincts.

Release Date1981-03-16

Charactersd Amigo de Plínio

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Partido Alto

Release Date1984-05-07

Charactersd comanda a reunião da cúpula dos bicheiros, da qual participam Célio Cruz e Turquinho do Méier

Episode Count2

Vote Count4

Barriga de Aluguel

Ana and Zeca have a happy marriage, but they can't have children. To fulfill their dream, the couple hires the young Clara as a surrogate mother, which leads them into a legal dispute.

Release Date1990-08-20

Charactersd Dr. Molina

Episode Count243

Vote Count5

Verão Vermelho

Release Date1969-11-17

Charactersd Bruno (Nonô)

Episode Count209

Vote Count2

Escalada

Release Date1975-01-06

Charactersd Belmiro Silva

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Roda de Fogo

Renato Villar is an ambitious businessman. After discovering a brain tumor, his life takes a turn, and he decides to settle his debts and live his true love.

Release Date1986-08-25

Charactersd Antônio Villar

Episode Count179

Vote Count6

Um Sonho a Mais

The story begins with the arrival of millionaire Antônio Carlos Volpone in Brazil. After living in Cairo for 18 years, he returns to his homeland for two reasons: first, to clarify the murder of his father-in-law, Dr. Telles, of which he was accused; second, to get closer to his ex-wife Estela, now married to Orlando Aranha. The millionaire also attracts media attention, and reporter Amélia Bicudo decides to investigate his life. To mislead his enemies and move freely, Volpone uses numerous disguises: the executive Anabela Freire, the doctor Nilo Peixe, the industrialist Augusto Melo Sampaio, and the driver André Silva. With the help of his loyal secretary and friend, Mosca, he confronts his main rival, Orlando Aranha, and Renata, Orlando's sister, who holds secrets about the murder of Estela's father.

Release Date1985-02-04

Charactersd médico

Episode Count155

Vote Count3

Of Body and Soul

Diogo is an upright judge, professionally recognized, married to the submissive Antônia, with whom he maintains a relationship of appearances, only to preserve the family institution. Diogo falls madly in love with Bettina, and the two have an affair. Deciding to fully embrace their passion, Diogo and Bettina plan a trip together, but he ends up not having the courage to abandon Antônia and leaves his lover waiting at the airport. Upon realizing she is alone, Bettina despairs and suffers a serious car accident. Her brain death is diagnosed, and her heart is transplanted into Paloma. Upon learning of Bettina's death and the transplant of her heart, Diogo, feeling guilty, becomes obsessed with the idea of ​​getting close to Paloma, believing that in doing so he would be close to the heart of the woman he loved. Paloma is a young woman who abandoned her fiancé Tavinho at the altar to marry Juca, her first boyfriend.

Release Date1992-08-03

Charactersd Desembargador Veiga Neto

Episode Count185

Vote Count1

Brilhante

Release Date1981-09-28

Charactersd Vítor Newmann

Episode Count155

Vote Count2

O Salvador da Pátria

Sassá Mutema is a farm laborer who becomes the target of the city's powerful figures' cruelty. With Clotilde's support, he discovers that it's possible to start a new life alongside a great love.

Release Date1989-01-09

Charactersd Quinzote

Episode Count187

Vote Count9

Os Gigantes

Release Date1979-08-20

Charactersd Antônio Lucas

Episode Count147

Vote Count4

Minha Doce Namorada

Patricia, an orphan living in a traveling amusement park, believes the stars will bring her happiness. One day, an astrologer predicts the impossible: the young woman, an Aquarius, will fall in love with a Pisces boy, a sign initially incompatible with hers. The girl does, in fact, become enchanted by the wealthy student Renato, but he doesn't feel the same way. Patricia travels to Rio de Janeiro, where she befriends a gentleman whom she affectionately calls Mr. Pepe, unaware that he is Renato's great-uncle and the owner of the company where she begins working. Mr. Pepe discovers fraudulent activities committed by his family and decides to fake his death to observe the dispute over his inheritance.

Release Date1971-04-19

Charactersd César Leão

Episode Count242

Vote Count1

Rosa Rebelde

Rosa Rebelde

Release Date1969-01-15

Charactersd Barão de San Juan de la Cruz

Episode Count212

Elas por Elas

Seven high school friends reunite after 20 years. Memories of the past and coincidences of the present reveal the secrets and affections that bind the women and their families.

Release Date1982-05-10

Charactersd Miguel Aranha

Episode Count173

Vote Count5

O Casarão

Release Date1976-07-07

Charactersd Atílio de Souza (3º período)

Episode Count159

Vote Count3

Rainha da Sucata

Maria do Carmo becomes wealthy through her father's business dealings and becomes a successful businesswoman, but she retains the habits of her humble past.

Release Date1990-04-02

Charactersd Dr. Almeida

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

Plumas & Paetês

After an accident, Marcela arrives in São Paulo and decides to assume a new identity. Torn between love, she plunges into a world that is not her own.

Release Date1980-09-08

Charactersd Cristiano

Episode Count191

Vote Count5

Nina

Release Date1977-06-27

Charactersd Barão Antônio Torres Galba

Episode Count145

Vote Count2

Guerra dos Sexos

Cousins ​​Charlô and Otávio once had a romance, but today they detest each other. However, fate plays a trick on them: they will receive a large inheritance, on the condition that they live together.

Release Date1983-06-06

Charactersd Juiz

Episode Count2

Vote Count11

Mad Love

Release Date1983-04-11

Charactersd Agenor Rocha

Episode Count167

Vote Count2

Assim na Terra Como no Céu

Release Date1970-07-20

Charactersd Carlos Eduardo

Episode Count177

Vote Count3

Selva de Pedra

Selva de Pedra

Amidst an unresolved crime, Simone protects Cristiano and falls in love with him. However, the couple faces ambition and betrayals that tear them apart. Presumed dead, she returns under a new identity seeking revenge.

Release Date1975-08-26

Charactersd Sebastião Vilhena (Sessé)

Episode Count76

Pecado Capital

Carlão is a taxi driver who experiences a drama of conscience after fleeing bank robbers leave a suitcase with stolen money in his car: he doesn't know whether to hand it over to the police, running the risk of being accused of being an accomplice in the robbery, or whether to use the money to solve his problems.

Release Date1975-11-24

Charactersd Dr. Peres

Episode Count167

Vote Count4

Vamp

After making a Faustian bargain with a vampire for fame, a regretful young singer must find a sacred, lost artifact that might revert the curse.

Release Date1991-07-15

Charactersd Avô de Soninha

Episode Count179

Vote Count11

Cuca Legal

'Cuca Legal' tells the story of Mário Barroso, a single aviator involved with three women at the same time: Virgínia, Irene, and Fátima. Virgínia is a wealthy businesswoman obsessed with the direction of her late father's business; Irene is a middle-class young woman who gives private piano lessons; and Fátima is a poor widow. Mário can't decide which of them is the ideal woman to give him a child with a "cool head" (cuca legal). Things get even more complicated when Maria Joaquina, nicknamed Kinu, Virgínia's mother, also catches the aviator's attention. To escape the troubles he constantly gets into, Mário relies on the help of his mother, Dalva, and Jacaré, his great friend.

Release Date1975-01-27

Charactersd Aureliano Villaça

Episode Count119

Vote Count1

O Espigão

Lauro Fontana wants to build the biggest hotel in Brazil, but he needs to convince the Camará brothers to sell the mansion they live in, facing ethical dilemmas and personal obstacles.

Release Date1974-04-01

Charactersd Gabriel Passos

Episode Count150

Vote Count4

Cambalacho

The story follows the lives of Naná and Gegê, a pair of con artists. Gegê is the uncle of Tina Pepper, a Tina Turner fan who dreams of becoming a famous singer.

Release Date1986-03-10

Charactersd Antero Souza e Silva

Episode Count13

Vote Count5

Passo dos Ventos

Passo dos Ventos

Release Date1968-06-26

Charactersd Jean Dubois

Episode Count177

Caso Especial

Release Date1971-09-10

Charactersd santeiro

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

A Sombra de Rebecca

Release Date1967-02-21

Charactersd Tamura

Episode Count106

Vote Count1

O Fim do Mundo

Release Date1996-05-06

Charactersd Frei Luiz

Episode Count35

Vote Count4

O Homem Proibido

O Homem Proibido

Release Date1967-12-18

Charactersd Ali Yabor

Episode Count136

A Ponte dos Suspiros

A Ponte dos Suspiros

Release Date1969-06-06

Charactersd Foscari

Episode Count144

O Tempo e o Vento

It tells the story of the Camabará family for many generations, which were fundamental to the social and political formation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The stories are remembered by Dona Bibiana, who remembers the life of her grandmother Ana, her husband, the Captain Rodrigo, his son Bolivar and his daughter-in-law Luzia.

Release Date1985-04-22

Charactersd Padre Lara

Episode Count26

Vote Count8

Retrato de Mulher

Release Date1993-04-20

Charactersd Bela

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Tarcísio & Glória

Release Date1988-04-28

Charactersd Olavo

Episode Count13

Vote Count3

O Sheik de Agadir

O Sheik de Agadir

Release Date1966-07-18

Charactersd Otto Von Lucken

Episode Count155

Delegacia de Mulheres

Release Date1989-12-28

Charactersd Dr. Homero Santos

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Tenda dos Milagres

The miniseries addresses the struggle of Pedro Arcanjo, guided by Magé Bassã, his holy mother, to protect African culture and integrate it into Brazilian society, creating a new culture. The plot takes place in the Bahian setting filled with the stories of the characters who intersect in Arcanjo's struggle: the friendship with Mestre Lídio, shaken when Rosa de Oxalá, his wife, falls in love with Archanjo; loves prohibited by the incompatibility of saints; the fight against the intolerance and racial prejudice of those in power.

Release Date1985-07-29

Charactersd Juiz João Reis

Episode Count30

Vote Count2

Grande Sertão: Veredas

A cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces.

Release Date1985-11-18

Charactersd Compadre Quelemem / Narrador (voz)

Episode Count25

Vote Count3

Black August

The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar at the beginning of August. In the midst of the Vargas government crisis, the murder case is taken by police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man who is not well regarded by his co-workers, as the place is totally turned over to corruption.

Release Date1993-08-24

Charactersd Aniceto

Episode Count16

Vote Count5

Abolição

'Abolição' shows how much the liberation of the enslaved transformed the structures of Brazilian society, both in the countryside and in the city, and the changes generated in the lives of black people themselves. The narrative is centered on the period in which the Lei Áurea was about to be signed by Princess Isabel, on May 13, 1888. At that time, the abolitionist theme was widely discussed in urban centers, while in rural areas slavery relations were still established. The enslaved Iná Inerã, spiritual leader and warrior, represents the fight to maintain African identity at any price, paid with her own life, if necessary. Journalist Lucas, in turn, is a freed black man who believes in peaceful integration between whites and blacks.

Release Date1988-11-22

Charactersd Paulino de Souza

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

Padre Cícero

When accused of disobeying Church norms and having his priestly rights suspended, Father Cícero intensifies his political activity in fulfilling his pastoral mission.

Release Date1984-04-09

Charactersd Núncio Apostólico

Episode Count20

Vote Count4

The Given Word (Minisseries)

The central theme of the miniseries – an adaptation of the play of the same name by Dias Gomes – is the survival of man and his fight for what he believes in. The driving character of the narrative is the humble Zé do Burro, who, inconsolable, watches the suffering of Nicolau, his donkey, victim of an accident and decides to make a promise.

Release Date1988-04-05

Charactersd Dom Germano

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

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.

Release Date1969-01-01

Charactersd Narrador

Vote Count1

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.

Release Date1967-05-02

Charactersd Capitão

Vote Count124

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.

Release Date1968-11-26

Charactersd General Passos

Vote Count4

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.

Release Date1966-03-28

Charactersd Fortunato

Vote Count33

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.

Release Date1969-01-01

Charactersd Gonçalo

Vote Count1

The Heirs

Jorge, an ambitious journalist, marries into money and betrays colleagues to become a powerful politician during political turmoil in 1946 Brazil.

Release Date1970-09-15

Charactersd Almeida

Vote Count7

Saint Bernard

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.

Release Date1972-06-01

Charactersd Nogueira

Vote Count23

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.

Release Date1968-11-22

Charactersd Augusto

Vote Count6

O Homem de Areia

Release Date1982-10-15

Charactersd Narrador

Vote Count1

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.

Release Date2015-01-09

Charactersd Dom Germano

Vote Count1

Essa Gatinha é Minha

The troubled life of two idols of the Jovem Guarda amidst the pleasant rhythm of the contagious iê-iê-iê.

Release Date1966-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Charactersd

Vote Count1

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.

Release Date1987-04-19

Charactersd Self

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.

Release Date2022-10-06

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count7

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.

Release Date2019-07-10

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Mário Lago

Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.

Release Date2013-10-05

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count1

O Noviço

O Noviço

Eyeing the widow Florência’s inheritance, the con man Ambrósio courts her and sets out to remove her heirs from the picture. such as her foster nephew Carlos, whom he promptly sends off to a monastery. The widow’s two children, Juca and Emília, face the same threat. Carlos becomes a novice but, lacking any true calling, makes life miserable for the friars. He also courts Emília, whom he dreams of marrying. The novice repeatedly runs away from the monastery; during one of these escapes, he crosses paths with Flávio. an unscrupulous character who knows about Ambrósio’s history of fraud. and Rosa, the first woman to marry the opportunist and have her assets stolen. With Flávio and Rosa’s help, Carlos manages to expose Ambrósio.

Release Date1975-06-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count20

Papai Fanfarrão

Release Date1956-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

Cupim

Tristão dos Prazeres is a television consultor who is very popular amongst married women. In his show, he defends his theory that jealousy is a small feeling, a "termite" that destroys relationships. However, once he suspects his wife to be cheating on him, he gets enraged and sends his butler to investigate.

Release Date1959-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Vote Count1

Banana-da-Terra

A man in charge of a publicity campaign for bananas decides to kidnap the Queen of 'Bananaland', a tropical island paradise, and take her to Rio, where she falls in love with a member of Carmen Miranda's backing ensemble, 'Bando da Lua'.

Release Date1939-02-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Se Segura, Malandro!

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.

Release Date1978-08-26

DepartmentSound

JobSongs

Vote Count4

Plantão de Polícia

Release Date1979-05-25

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Mulheres, Cheguei!

Release Date1959-02-03

Vote Count1

História de Um Crápula

Release Date1965-05-26

Vote Count1

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.

Release Date1983-12-05

Vote Count1

The Shadow of Another

A drama about double personality

Release Date1950-10-27

Vote Count1

Assassinato em Copacabana

Release Date1962-05-26

Vote Count1

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.

Release Date1968-03-17

Vote Count2

Uma Luz na Estrada

An adventure film...

Release Date1948-06-06

Vote Count1

MPB Especial: Mário Lago

Mario Lago performing at TV Cultura in 1973.

Release Date1973-08-25

Balada dos Infiéis

The vacationers staying at the Barreiro Hotel in Araxá accompany the coffin of magnate Medeiros de Alcântara to the plane. Then they return to the hotel... At the beginning of the hydrotherapy season, Eduardo and Lúcia Feitosa, a wealthy couple from São Paulo, banker Belmiro and his wife, three spinster friends, Fátima, Teresa, and Belinha, Gen. Solon de Fuentes, the deposed former president of a South American country, writer Fernando Cavalcanti, banker Medeiros de Alcântara, and his wife arrive. In the hotel's halls and park, conventional life prevails, but it is in their rooms that the characters reveal their sexual and political dispositions.

Release Date1970-11-30

Vote Count2

Terra Violenta

Release Date1949-08-15

Vote Count1

Cuidado! Espião Brasileiro em Ação!

Release Date1966-12-21

Vote Count2

La menor

Release Date1976-12-01

Vote Count1

Na Onda do Iê-Iê-Iê

César wants to be a singer and, with the help of his friends Maloca and Didi, seeks an opportunity on television talent shows. When he performs on Chacrinha's show, he wins all the night's prizes and wins the affection of a young woman from a wealthy family who is dating a con man who steals cars. Realizing the girl has a crush on the singer, the con man sets a trap to get César out of the game.

Release Date1966-03-01

Vote Count5

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.

Release Date1983-05-08

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.

Release Date1967-01-01

Vote Count1

Balança Mas Não Cai

Release Date1954-01-14

Vote Count1

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.

Release Date1969-01-01

Vote Count2

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.

Release Date1999-05-07

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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.

Release Date1973-06-06

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