Vanja Orico
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: November 15, 1929
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 28, 2015
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Em Ritmo Jovem
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-09-27
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The Bandit
Overview: In the time of the "cangaceiros" in the badlands of the Northeast of Brazil, the cruel Captain Galdino Ferreira and his band abduct the schoolteacher Olívia, expecting to receive a ransom for her. However, one of his men, Teodoro, falls in love and flees with her through the arid backcountry chased by the brigands.
Genres: Drama Adventure Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1953-01-20
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O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-07-27
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Club of Women
Overview: A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together because of a housing shortage, the film's heroines set up camp in a deserted structure, despite the tongue-cluckings of local busybodies and do-gooders. Complications ensue when a huge corporation announces plans to raze the building and erect a factory. Amazingly, the ladies are saved by the very company that wants to evict them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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Lampião, King of the Badlands
Overview: The story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the path to become Lampião, the greatest leader of the cangaceiros - bandits who roamed the Northeast of Brazil until the late 1930s.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-09-16
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Cangaceiros de Lampião
Overview: On the day of Pedro Boiadeiro's wedding, a band of cangaceiros who survived the Angicos massacre invade his home, then proceed to beat him up, and abuse and murder his wife. Pedro sets out to get revenge on each one.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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O Santo Milagroso
Overview: A pastor and a priest compete for the religious leadership of the population of a small town. When the pastor tries to prevent his sister's involvement with the sacristan, he accidentally starts the rumor that the church houses a miraculous statue of St. Francis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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S.O.S. Noronha
Overview: In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulibaud, head of the aeropostale radio station, and his team-mates Mastic and Froment, try to prevent them from entering the concession where the island's governor and his daughter have taken refuge. They manage to repair the radio so as to follow and guide Mermoz as he attempts to cross the South Atlantic for the 53rd time. The aviator is forced to ditch and is picked up by a boat. Their mission accomplished, Coulibaud and his team boarded a British ship that had come to their rescue.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-21
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Doomed Lovers
Overview: The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished its purity. The modern transposition of the legend is set in Brazil, in a village of poor fishermen on Guanabara Bay, framed by mountains not far from Rio de Janeiro. Two young cousins, Marcos and Jeronimo, get together to fish successfully - the arrastao is a large fishing net - and to resist the ugly local landowner, who sets the rules and the prices. This owner has a niece: Emaïsa, who loves Marcos and is loved by him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-06-02
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The Third Bank of the River
Overview: After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos' celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, including his son who continues to communicate with his father, speaking daily to him from the river bank. While offering an evocative vision of rural Brazil as a timeless land of mystery and solemnity, The Third Bank of the River is also bitingly satiric in the remarkable depiction of religious belief when the family moves to the city and its youngest member, a mesmerizing little girl, is revealed to be a kind of saint, capable of miraculous acts. -Harvard Film Archive
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-02-20
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Paris Music Hall
Overview: The publicist Henri Michelin is looking for a new star for the review of Eden, a music hall led by Bendix.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-31
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Jesuíno Brilhante, o Cangaceiro
Overview: In the late 19th century, Jesuíno Brilhante swears to avenge his cousin, the republican and abolitionist Botelho, who was killed by powerful landlords. Government troops and a rival family unite to hunt down Jesuíno, who has assembled his own band of armed men.
Genres: History Adventure Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-06-14
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Paixão nas Selvas
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1954-12-07
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The Beggars
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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O Segredo da Rosa
Overview: Friends Severina and Maria José struggle to survive in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The first is a widow who sells flowers and the second has a lover who does little to help with expenses. Their children sell peanuts during the day. One day, the children get lost and are found again at Jaks' house, who offers to sell Severina certain suspicious merchandise, disguised among the roses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-12-04
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Variety Lights
Overview: In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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The Wind Rose
Overview: An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Ana
Overview: A group of migrants from the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil gets a truck "pau-de-arara" trying to move to São Paulo and have a better life. Along their travel, one of the women delivers a baby on the road. The driver, indeed, intends to carry them to the slave-work in the fields of a powerful "colonel", but the brave Ana faces the foreman of the farm and the driver, and the truck follows to the hired final destination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1955-12-01
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Conchita and the engineer
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-09-23
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O Leão do Norte
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Genres: Action Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Independência ou Morte
Overview: The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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Yalis, la vergine del Roncador
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-01
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S.O.S. Noronha
Overview: In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulibaud, head of the aeropostale radio station, and his team-mates Mastic and Froment, try to prevent them from entering the concession where the island's governor and his daughter have taken refuge. They manage to repair the radio so as to follow and guide Mermoz as he attempts to cross the South Atlantic for the 53rd time. The aviator is forced to ditch and is picked up by a boat. Their mission accomplished, Coulibaud and his team boarded a British ship that had come to their rescue.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-21
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The Dolphin
Overview: According to an Amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a Brazilian fishing village receives a mysterious guest: the Boto, who transforms into a human to seduce and be loved by women and hated by men. One of her conquests is the daughter of a fisherman, who has a son with the Boto. He constantly reappears to seduce her, and even when she marries, he continues to look for her. This provokes the ire of the husband, who wants to kill him anyway.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-06-19
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Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema
Overview: About English photographer Chick Fowle. Statements by Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Vilar, Marlene França, Vanja Orico. A film about directors, actors and teams that Chick Fowle worked and works with, also showing the possibility of renewal that Brazilian cinema can and must have.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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O Caçador de Esmeraldas
Overview: The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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