Leila Diniz
Biography: Leila Roque Diniz (25 March 1945 – 14 June 1972) was a Brazilian television, movie and theatre actress, whose liberal ideas and attitudes about sex had raised the discontent of both the feminists and the Brazilian military government of the 1960s. Born in a middle-class family and the daughter of a communist activist, Leila worked as a kindergarten teacher at age 15. At age 17, she met movie director Domingos de Oliveira, with whom she lived until age 21. Between 1962 and 1964 she had minor roles on stage. In 1965, Diniz started working in television, where she made several telenovelas and various commercials. In 1967, she also started to make movies. She died on 14 June 1972, aged 27, at the peak of fame, coming back from a movie festival in Australia, where she won a Best Actress award for the movie Mãos Vazias ("Empty Hands"), in the Japan Airlines Flight 471 crash in India.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 25, 1945
Deathday: June 14, 1972
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A Public Opinion
1967-01-01
A Public Opinion
Overview: Documentary about middle-class people in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1960s, when Brazil was going through a hard period in its history, with the military coup and the following dictatorship. Interviews with people in the street disclose their fears, aspirations and political alienation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997-01-01
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Overview: "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Naked Man
1968-03-04
The Naked Man
Overview: A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-03-04
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Love, Carnival and Dreams
1972-02-11
Love, Carnival and Dreams
Overview: On Carnival's eve, girl dreams of a man to stay with her during these four days. She meets a photographer, with whom she has an affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-02-11
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All the Women in the World
1966-02-02
All the Women in the World
Overview: When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to go on with his old life, or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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Edu, Coração de Ouro
1968-01-22
Edu, Coração de Ouro
Overview: A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had managed to make him fall in love, until he met with mysterious Tatiana.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-22
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Mãos Vazias
1971-01-01
Mãos Vazias
Overview: In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a woman rebels against local morality after her child dies, with tragic results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
1969-09-29
Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
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Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-09-29
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Leila Para Sempre Diniz
1976-07-23
Leila Para Sempre Diniz
Overview: A documentary that presents home movies and several excerpts of known films of famous actress Leila Diniz. Friends of the late actress, tragic killed on a plane crash in 1972, discuss about her life, her work and her legacy in Brazilian culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-23
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O Donzelo
1971-02-01
O Donzelo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-02-01
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
1967-01-01
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Overview: Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Domingos
2009-01-01
Domingos
Overview: A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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A Madona de Cedro
1968-05-21
A Madona de Cedro
Overview: Delfino, a quiet man who lives in Congonhas do Campo, a small historical town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is urged by his friend to steal the image of the Madona de Cedro (the Cedar Madonna), sculpted by Aleijadinho in the 18th century, from the town sanctuary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-05-21
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Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
1967-05-26
Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
Overview: Based on real-life Brazilian bandit "Mineirinho", the film follows the story of Zezé, a man falsely accused by sensasionalist press of being a high-caliber criminal who suddenly becomes one of the most wanted men of Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-26
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The Alienist
1970-09-21
The Alienist
Overview: Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-09-21
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Os Paqueras
1969-01-01
Os Paqueras
Overview: Two ladykillers living in Rio de Janeiro know no limits when courting a beautiful woman. A problem arises when one of them starts coming on to a girl, not knowing she's his buddy's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Hunger for Love
1968-10-15
Hunger for Love
Overview: An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-10-15
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O Mundo Alegre de Helô
1967-02-05
O Mundo Alegre de Helô
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-02-05
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Mulheres de Cinema
1978-06-06
Mulheres de Cinema
Overview: Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-06-06
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Dangerous Game
1967-07-20
Dangerous Game
Overview: Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-07-20
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021-10-28
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Overview: Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-10-28
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