Maria Gladys
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Maria Gladys Mello da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, November 23, 1939) is a Brazilian actress. She is considered one of the muses of marginal cinema, having acted in several works by filmmaker Júlio Bressane. She is the grandmother of actress Mia Goth.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cachambi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Birthday: November 23, 1939
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Gender: Female
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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 Agony
Overview: Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by the roadside. Strongly painted lips, printed dress with round skirt and red shoes matching the color of the lipstick, she catches his attention. He gives her a ride, the two of them stare in silence for a few moments. They introduce themselves to one another and between the two establishes an absurd dialogue and full of metaphors. And they are driving around in corners of Rio de Janeiro, to the sound of Noel Rosa and Lamartine Babo. Eva and Antena, she a seer, he, an assassin on the run, initiate an unusual case of love, a marginal love, where boredom often gives way to tragedy, creating the agony of a holiday spent in an abyss.
Genres: Romance Crime Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-30
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The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
Overview: In the 18th century in a forgotten town, young Benedicta is the executioner's daughter. Monk Ambrosius, newly arrived at the village, pities the girl but his interest in her unleashes the jealousy of Rochus and the conflict between passion and celibacy begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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Não Se Preocupe, Nada Vai Dar Certo!
Overview: Lalau (Gregorio Duvivier) is presented by the country's interior with his show jokes, whose main theme is her father, Ramon Velasco (Tarcisio Meira), an actor who always gets into shenanigans. One day, when present in Ceará, Stan receives a tempting proposal by Flora (Flávia Alessandra), which offers $ 100,000 so he pretends to be a famous guru in a motivational speech in Rio de Janeiro. He accepts and goes to Rio without telling his father. After seeing his son on the cover of a newspaper, Ramon decides to go after him and creates many characters to ensure their part.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-07-22
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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
Overview: This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-04
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The Angel Was Born
Overview: Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-02-12
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Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
Overview: In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.
Genres: Drama Comedy Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-10
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Meu Nome é Dindi
Overview: Meu Nome é Dindi shows the movement of time over a young woman who owns a small marketplace near bankruptcy and fights for survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-11-07
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My Sweet Orange Tree
Overview: Poor boy treats a sweet lemon tree as his only friend, talking to it, and learning important values in the process. But one day the tree must be cut.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-05-04
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A Familia do Barulho
Overview: A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro. When the slut threatens the other two to stop supporting them, they decide to find an odalisque as an alternative to keep their easy life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-05-05
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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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Anchieta, José do Brasil
Overview: Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-07-22
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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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Brás Cubas
Overview: Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's Posthumous Memories"). A dead man tells about his love life and adventures, specially his affair with Virgília, a dubious married woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-10-15
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Watch Out, Madame
Overview: Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Um Filme 100% Brasileiro
Overview: French poet Blaise Cendrars arrives by sea on the city of Rio de Janeiro and lives s life of bohemian parties during the celebration of carnaval.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Life
Overview: A documentary about actress brazilian Maria Gladys, a strong presence in films by Júlio Bressane, Rogério Sganzerla among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-20
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If I Were You
Overview: The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-06
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme
Overview: Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a bride and is brutally strangled in the middle of the act of love. To prove the authorship of the crimes is the great challenge of detective França.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-20
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The End of an Age
Overview: They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-30
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All of God's Creations
Overview: An orphan, a blind virgin who seeks sexual pleasure, a young man who prostitutes himself as a transvestite and is sexually abused by his brother-in-law. What was God thinking of when he created each one of them?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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Mangúe-Bangúe
Overview: The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a runaway stockbroker, "Mangue-Bangue" is the paradigmatic expression of the post-1968 spirit of desbunde, the Brazilian slang catchword for "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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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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Spray Jet
Overview: Three artists from São Paulo - Leda Catunda, Leonilson and Ciro Cozzolino - talk about their work and the rebirth of painting through pop, conceptual art and graffiti.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-08-16
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Bandalheira Infernal
Overview: Experimental film, guided by the feeling of oppressive, paranoid, obsessive life of its characters. An essay on the oppression and dehumanization of the Brazilian people.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-05-26
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Rio de Topless
Overview: Topless muse in Rio de Janeiro, Ana Paula Nogueira uses the ban on bare breasts and her story to debate freedom and feminism in the city that exported thongs and which has the false reputation of being libertarian.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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O Bebê
Overview: Marta, a young mother, hardly believes when she hears her young baby speak. She tries to convince the other people in the family of the fact, but soon discovers the baby only speaks with her, even in English.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-10-26
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Guará, Ladrão de Estrelas
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-07-12
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Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Overview: Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women and idolized by his audience and friends. His contagious joy attracts the attention of American scientist Dr. Boris Lewitsky, who comes to Brazil in order to interview Apolônio's close friends and make them a most unusual offer concerning the remains of the late musician.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-08-21
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Sangue Quente em Tarde Fria
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-11-30
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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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The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out
Overview: Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-04-29
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If I Were You 2
Overview: Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-02-01
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The Joy
Overview: Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world… On a Christmas night, his cousin John is mysteriously shot in a street in the Lowlands and disappears into the night. Weeks later, while Luiza spends days alone in the apartment where he lives with his mother in Rio de Janeiro, a mysterious visitor comes knocking on your door: John, as a ghost, asking to hide there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-24
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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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High Art
Overview: Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a local call girl.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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Rat Fever
Overview: Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-06-22
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Golden Oldies
Overview: Four friends who only think about enjoying life, with big parties, women and drinks, are surprised by an eviction. In need of money, the group is forced to think about what they hate most: working! Confusion arises when everyone looks for an easy way to get money, with minimum effort. The days pass and the hilarious confusion only increases!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Duas de Mim
Overview: Suellen (Thalita Carauta) is a cook who works hard to keep her little son, her younger sister and her mother alone. One day, your dreams come true: she splits in two. Her copy, identical physically, has different personality, being much more extroverted and courageous. The idea would be to divide the tasks with the other one, but soon Suellen realizes that the look-alike has plans of its own, and decides to betray the original.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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No Way, Spider
Overview: Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on the mental underdevelopment of Brazilian elites, in which black humor sets the tone for sharp criticism.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-04-09
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O Gigante da América
Overview: A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-11-23
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Lucia McCartney, Call Girl
Overview: In the 60's Lúcia McCartney is a call girl who is a fan of the Beatles. A diplomat tries to get her out of prostitution by falling in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-11-29
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Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino
Overview: A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albino Pinheiro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Flying Geraldo
Overview: A fantastic tale in the brutal reality of a slum. The life of a boy with the rare gift of flying. Based on a Will Eisner's story
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Natal da Portela
Overview: Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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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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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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Maria Gladys, Uma Atriz Brasileira
Overview: The artistic career and daily life of actress Maria Gladys.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-11-19
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Copacabana Fools Me
Overview: Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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Bandidos da Falange
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-07-14
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Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária
Overview: A young man must choose between two women. The one brings him the money, but the other he loves.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-01-06
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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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Rio Babilonia
Overview: A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-09-14
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Quebranto
Overview: A film of the literary hallucinations and existential dreams of the character João, who is also José and Joyce, anthropophagically enchanted by cinema in his two hours of life.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-02-11
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Pequenas Histórias
Overview: On the porch of a farm, a woman tells stories while cutting and sewing scraps of cloth, creating images that form a towel. There are four stories of humor and magic. The fisherman's wedding with Iara, a mermaid from the rivers. The altar boy of a church that sees the procession of souls. The encounter between a Santa Claus in a store and a street boy and the adventures of Zé Burraldo, a naive guy who always lets himself be carried away by others.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-22
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Um Diamante e Cinco Balas
Overview: A man arrives in Tocantins river, looking for fortune.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Manual de Barros - Retrato do poeta quando coisa
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Belair
Overview: Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-10-04
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Anjos de Ipanema
Overview: A countercultural movement that took place at Ipanema Pier marked the history of all participants. Painters, musicians, actors, surfers and others came together to change the system through peaceful demonstrations, including drugs, sex and new experiences. After decades of events, the main participants recall the events.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-08-09
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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Overview: For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-30
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Os Doces Bárbaros
Overview: The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, who formed the group with the name of Doces Bárbaros (Sweet Barbarians), at the suggestion of Bethânia. Conceived to present the shows of the live album that would be released (Doces Bárbaros - Live), the documentary changed of tone when registering the arrest and judgment of Gilberto Gil and of a companion by possession of drugs. Gil was forced to go to a detox clinic, and only went out to participate in the programmed shows.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-09-01
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Privadas de Suas Vidas
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
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