Billy Davis
Also Known As: J.P. de Carvalho, José P. Carvalho, José Pereira de Carvalho, JP Carvalho, J.P. Carvalho, José Pereira de Carvalho Júnior
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Birthday: May 18, 1930
Deathday: May 29, 2016
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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O Impossível Acontece
Overview: Anthology comedy made by the director of "The Given Word" among other directors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Cosmonauts
Overview: After the success of the first Brazilian space mission, a scientist intends to accomplish an even more audacious feat. His goal is to launch into space the Nationalist rocket II, this time taking two humans to the moon.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Pistoleiro Bossa Nova
Overview: Two friends are looking for a quiet place where they can rest awhile. Soon they find the town they'd chosen to go is far from quiet. In fact, it's ruled by outlaws. And one of them is mistaken for the "Avenging Gunman", defender of the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Brazilwood Man
Overview: Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.
Genres: Comedy History Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-02-22
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The Deceased
Overview: After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-09-22
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The Girl from Ipanema
Overview: Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-26
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The Wrath of Cain
Overview: A former kingpin of the streets, Miles “Cain” Skinner is doing life in prison. He is feared and respected among the inmates. When Cain learns that his sentence will be shortened only by brain cancer, his urgency to change his ways goes into overdrive.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-16
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Mar Corrente
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Overview: Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-06-07
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The Guns
Overview: A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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Guru das Sete Cidades
Overview: An unhappily married woman becomes the mistress to a sleaze-ball who introduces her to a group of satanists who are willing to kill her rich husband.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-09-07
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O Rei do Movimento
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1955-05-30
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How Are You, Well?
Overview: Two fanatical Flamengo fans get drunk after a defeat of time; a voyeurist peers at his neighbor's nakedness with binoculars; a suburbanite kills his wife over a chicken; an ambitious father makes money from his daughter who pretends to see the virgin Mary; a loving couple desperately seeks to satisfy their sexual desires; a priest tries to extort more alms from his parishioners; a married man, to survive, poses as a transvestite on a boat; a suburbanite prepares to sing on the Chacrinha show! Anything can happen in this film!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Carnival of Crime
Overview: Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-05
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Bom Mesmo É Carnaval
Overview: Colonel Polidoro is the political chief of the small town of Passaroca. Near the city hall elections, he decides to help his candidate by setting up an adult literacy course. For this, he needs to find a competent teacher and decides to go to Rio de Janeiro with this function. False moralist that is, ends up falling in the revelry, meets a beautiful dancer and invites the girl to spend the carnival on his farm. Drunk, he confuses the addresses and causes his driver to take the dancer in place of the teacher to Passaroca, which will cause a lot of confusion.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-02-25
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Marido de Mulher Boa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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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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