
Birthday:
08-31-1923
Deathday:
10-03-2005 (82 years)
Birthplace:
Not available
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De Pernas Pro Ar
event1957
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A street vendor and a servant theater, newly unemployed, accidentally swap their briefcases trinkets for one of three bandits who just rob a bank. The chase, which also involves two "rapas" only ends when, aided by a chorus girl, unwittingly participating in a musical number of the show's theater company.
007½ no Carnaval
Act like Self
event1966 star_border 4.8
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British secret agent 007½ is sent to Rio de Janeiro to recover the plans stolen from a new metal alloy. His contact is a taxi driver, who ends up being murdered by enemy agents.
Shut Up, Etelvina
event1958 star_border 5
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Alligator raiser from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, travels to his nephew's, and takes the maid Etelvina for his nephew's wife.
O Petróleo é Nosso
event1954
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A lady, owner of a large area of land where it is believed there are several oil wells, is almost fooled by the president of a pseudo petroleum company into giving up her property for nothing, but is saved by his son's noble intervention.
Carnival on Mars
event1955
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A woman impressed by news reports about flying saucers, gets hit on the head by a vase, passes out and dreams that she is the 'Queen of Mars', from where she sends an expedition to Earth in order to bring back Rio's Carnaval to the planet.
Com Jeito Vai
event1957 star_border 7
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Two new recruits at a fire station headquarter engage in a competition between two sergeants in personal rivalry
Barnabé, You Are Mine
event1952
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A cleaner accidentely stills a secret formula and get mistaken for the heir prince of an old kingdom.
É com Este que Eu Vou
event1948
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A hard working man goes to São Paulo to look for his twin brother unaware that he's famous for his lazyness.
O Rei do Movimento
event1955 star_border 4.5
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Clementino is a postman who doesn't have much talent for the job and is six months behind in the payment of his apartment. While delivering a correspondence, he is kidnapped by a masked bandit, but manages to escape, and ends up helping the police in the capture of the whole gang, getting a lot of money as reward.
Aviso aos Navegantes
event1950 star_border 6.5
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In Buenos Aires, Frederico hides in a ship going to Rio de Janeiro to travel for free. But Azulão, the cook, finds him and blackmails him into working in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Alberto, the captain, receives a radio message saying that there was a dangerous international spy on board. Things get worse when some passports are mixed-up.
Carnaval Barra Limpa
event1967 star_border 4.3
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The Syndicate of Brazilian Thieves tries to steal the world's greatest diamond, owned by the international star Iraya, who comes to spend the carnival in Rio. Interpol kicks in.
The World is a Tambourine
event1947
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A Brazilian musical comedy
É de Chuá!
event1958 star_border 5
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The film narrates the adventures of the trickster Juca Moleza in the carnival while he has to deal with the consequences of the scams he applied to people of high society.
É Fogo na Roupa
event1952
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A precious necklace is stolen during a convention at Quitandinha Palace, a hotel in which a wives conference is deciding whether or not unfaithful husbands should receive the death penalty.
Naked Eye
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2014 star_border 6
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“Naked Eye” is a film-documentary of long-length of the artistic and existential universe of the singer Ney Matogrosso, which proposes to recreate through archive’s images in counterpoint with the current production of the artist, thirty-five years of career marked for inventive and transgressing spectacles, always symphonize with its time. Through a coherent boarding with its intransigent trajectory, the film intends to translate the language musical-corporal of Ney Matogrosso, trying audiovisuals resources that express signs evoked poetical politicians and in the repertoire of the singer. A film-song that that looks for to, ultimately, embody the voices of an artist who searches for a nation.
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