Marília Pêra
Also Known As: Marília Soares Pêra, Марилия Пера, マリリア・ペーラ, 마릴리아 배
Biography: Marília Soares Pêra (Rio de Janeiro, January 22, 1943 — Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 2015) was a Brazilian actress, singer and theater director. Throughout her career, she won around 80 awards, acting in 49 plays, 29 soap operas and more than 20 films. Pêra won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1982 for her role in Hector Babenco's acclaimed Pixote, and received Best Actress awards at the Gramado Film Festival (Triple Award Winner) and at the Cartegena Film Festival for Carlos Diegues' Better Days Ahead. Other films include Bar Esperança, Angels of the Night and Diegues' Tieta do Agreste.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: January 22, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 05, 2015
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Central Station
Overview: An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-03
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Pixote
Overview: 10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
Overview: The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-15
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Tieta of Agreste
Overview: After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-08-30
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Dzi Croquettes
Overview: A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-04
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Playing
Overview: Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-09
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Urban Snap-Shots
Overview: Comedic portrait of middle-aged women in Rio de Janeiro, including overworked housewife Magali and her over-the-top twin sister Magda, psychoanalyst Paula and her troublesome daughter Melanie, and stage star in crisis Lise.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-02-29
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Traveller
Overview: Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards, leaving a poetic feeling in the air, which is always deadly to the ones who stay. Mrs. Ana de Lara, the proud rich widow, and Missy, still a child, whose beauty and innocence are like the Tiê-Sangue, a red bird, are the travelers victims. There is also Master Juca do Vale, a criminal, whose passion turns him incredibly human, in this story of love, death, forgiveness and resurrection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-11-01
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Better Days Ahead
Overview: Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-03-01
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Now Boarding
Overview: Wagner is a 22-year old Brazilian guy, who dreams about leaving the country for a better life, until he meets Justina, an experienced woman who turns his life upside down. Together they will discover that life has a lot more to offer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-12-11
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Consideração do Poema
Overview: Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Torres, Marilia Pera, Antonio Cicero and others.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-03-03
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Amélia
Overview: Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induced by her personal Brazilian maid, Amélia, to make a performance in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, she is forced to stand the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-08-25
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King of the Night
Overview: In the 1940s, São Paulo nightlife is the setting for Tezinho's love affairs. In love with Aninha, he needs to get away from the girl and ends up getting involved with other women, including an obsessive relationship with a prostitute.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-11-20
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Seja O Que Deus Quiser!
Overview: After getting involved with an MTV VJ, a musician ends up being accused of setting up a robbery against her. To clear his name, he goes to São Paulo, but gets involved in situations that distance him from his peaceful life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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O Donzelo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-02-01
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Vestido de Noiva
Overview: While in the hospital, after being run over, Alaíde thinks about her life, specially after the moment she'd found the diary of Madame Clessy, in the house where her family had moved in, which was a former bordello.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-10
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Marília Pêra canta Carmen Miranda
Overview: Directed by Maurício Sherman, the actress Marília Pêra sings hits by Carmen Miranda with 43 songs from the repertoire of The Brazilian Bombshell in 24 numbers, among them: “Na Batucada da Vida”, “As Cinco Estações do Ano”, “Uva de Caminhão” and “Me Respeite, Ouviu?”.
Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-10-15
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Bar Esperanza
Overview: A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-19
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Mixed Blood
Overview: On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine. When Rita and her young gang members get involved in a minor turf war, the violence escalates out of control, touching everyone and sparing no one.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Garrincha: Lonely Star
Overview: The life of Brazilian soccer player, Garrincha, considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, with his uniquely original style. He had arched legs, a passion for women and booze. Also had a much talked extramarital affair with singer Elza Soares and died in relative decadence. The movie focuses on his zenith, from 1953 until the World Championship and the Rio Regional Championship, in 1962.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-07-08
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Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela
Overview: Elas por Ela reconstituted the history of MPB between 1920 and 1970, from the female perspective, also showing the transformation of the role of women in society over these years. Marília Pêra chose 35 singers to honor and, from 50 songs, put together the script for the show.
Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-01-02
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
Overview: Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-11-26
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Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman
Overview: The life and work of Zezé Motta.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Tô Ryca!
Overview: Selminha is a lower-class woman who receives a family inheritance, but only if she meets the challenge of spending 30 million reais in 30 days, without accumulating anything. However, in this marathon, she will find out that there are things that money does not buy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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Angels of the Night
Overview: Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, a drag queen; Teddy, a hustler; Guto, a gay reporter; and Marta, an actress.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-04-27
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The Man Who Bought the World
Overview: In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-09-16
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The Interview
Overview: Henry Czerny plays American journalist Michael Coleman, a strung-out expatriate writing for a Brazilian newspaper. His professional obsession is Father Stephen Louis, a mildly popular and charismatic priest who has been the major political opponent of the greedy and ruthless landowners of the Bahia region. Mysteriously, the usually outspoken Father Louis has been silent for three months. With the Brazilian Congress about to vote on a major land-redistribution bill that could potentially tip the balance of power even further, Father Louis’s support of the peasants and his condemnation of the landowners is more important than ever. Coleman sets out alone for the politically unstable Bahia region to capture a highly anticipated interview with the elusive priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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Pixote In Memoriam
Overview: A tribute documentary on Fernando Ramos da Silva, the famous child star of the acclaimed film by Hector Babenco, "Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco" (1981). 20 years after his assassination by the police, his co-stars and Babenco talk about Fernando's contributions to the film, his troubled life when his acting works didn't took off as expected (since he was typecast) and which made him turn back to his past life of poverty and crimes. The project also presents that film's influence to many directors and artists around the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-10-30
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É Simonal
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-06-26
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O Grande Desbum
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-10-31
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Areias Sagradas (Parábola em Ipanema)
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-06
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Ana, a Libertina
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-09-01
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Incidente em Antares - O Filme
Overview: Film adaptation of the TV Show in 1994, based on the novel of the same name by Érico Veríssimo. During a general strike in the city of Antares, gravediggers refuse to carry out burials, to increase pressure on employers. During the night, however, the dead claim the right to be buried.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
Overview: "All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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Alô, Dolly!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-06-06
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Viva Marília
Overview: The historical, political, and social context of Brazil in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and the impact of each decade on the life and work of the acclaimed actress Marília Pêra.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-04-03
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Living the Dream
Overview: "Living the Dream" is a docudrama about two friends who after being bullied as children become corrupt when growing up because they have been conditioned to believe that they need to achieve materialistic success to be 'accepted' and liked by others, in a society where the end justifies the means.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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