Thelma Reston
Also Known As: Telma Reston
Biography: Thelma Salim Reston (Piracanjuba, July 6, 1937 – Rio de Janeiro, December 20, 2012) was a Brazilian actress. She has had an extensive career in theatre, television and film. She was awarded at the Gramado Festival for her performance in the film Os Sete Gatinhos (1980).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Piracanjuba, Goiás, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: July 06, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 20, 2012
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Lisetta - Conto de Antonio de Alcântara Machado
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Genres: Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-06-04
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The Vampire of Copacabana
Overview: Carlos and Suely are a normal couple. He has some extramarital adventures and she's a standard housewife. During a Carnival, when he goes out wearing a vampire costume, Suely decides to follow a friend's advice and go for it. On Ash Wednesday, he finds her with an odalisk costume on and happier than usual.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-20
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Os Heróis Trapalhões: Uma Aventura na Selva
Overview: Didi, Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias are sent in a rescue mission to the daughter of the Army's minister.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-06-23
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The Story of Fausta
Overview: An unhappily married cleaning woman in the slums of Rio entices all the money and gifts she can out of an elderly widower.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-10-06
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The Seven Kittens
Overview: Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-04-17
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A Lost Woman
Overview: The story of a poor woman living in the backwoods of Brazil and working as a maid. One day she is unfairly fired from the house where she was working and goes to the big city, facing a cruel and hostile world, working in factories, bars and bordellos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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The Saint and the Star
Overview: Successful businessman, Paulo Chupadinha send his wife to a convent every year to really enjoy Brazil’s carnival. He meets a cabaret woman that wants to make a show in his little nd peaceful village. For that, however, she will have to seduce every important man of the city: the police chief, the priest and the mayor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Na Boca do Mundo
Overview: A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafona. His biggest ambition is to stash enough money to leave to a big city with his fiancee, a mix-raced girl who sells fresh crabs to locals and wishes for a better life. When a rich white woman from the high society arrives to spend a few days away after ending a failed marriage, Antônio soon bonds with her and begins to change his plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-22
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Eu Dou o Que Ela Gosta
Overview: A young couple uses creativity to escape the rules of the girl's father, a conservative Italian, and her grandmother. Even under the patriarch's watch, the roguish boyfriend manages to fulfill his desires.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Rei do Rio
Overview: Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-06-11
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The Earth Is Flat
Overview: Jorden Er Flad or The Earth is Flat is based on the play Erasmus Montanus, from the classical era in Danish literature, by Ludvig Holberg. Director Henrik Stangerup had the play translated into Portuguese, and adapted it for filming in contemporary Brazil. In this comic movie, a group of villagers have scrimped and saved to send their fellow villager Erasmus Montanus (Fausto Wolff) away for an education. When the boy returns to his village, he is stuffed full of book-learning of a kind which is of absolutely no use to those of the village. The boy, rather than seeing his situation clearly, continues to spout learned platitudes, including the incredible observation, "the earth is round," supported by nothing other than his authority as an "educated man." Understandably, his posturing provokes derision.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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El Justicero
Overview: A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the self-conscious antics of the French New Wave. The pampered son of a general, El Justicero is a hipster playboy who fancies himself a James Bond/Jean Paul Sartre urban hero. “Archetypical” yet “full of contradictions,” he sees that justice is achieved for the disadvantaged while taking advantage of certain bourgeois perks. His exploits are closely followed and eventually directed by his biographer who decides a film is not only more lucrative than a book, but it gives him the luxury of reviewing previous scenes. Unlike Bond, El Jus eventually experiences an awakening which threatens to compromise the entertainment value and glamour of his life story. - Harvard Film Archive
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Quilombo
Overview: Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-03
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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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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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The Naked Man
Overview: Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Depois do Transe
Overview: The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Entranced Earth
Overview: Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-02
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The Woman of Everyone
Overview: Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-10-24
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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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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Overview: Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-05-15
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Lollipop
Overview: While still a child, Lollipop falls in love with her orphaned cousin Silvio, who has been raised as a member of the family by her father, Dr. Arnaldo, a highly respected government official. Years pass, and to Lollipop's dismay, Silvio becomes engaged to her cousin Leticia. During the engagement party, the enraged Lollipop seduces Silvio, and sometime later, she reveals to Leticia that she is pregnant as a result of the encounter.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-07-06
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Se Segura, Malandro!
Overview: Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-08-26
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Cabaret Mineiro
Overview: An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-03-30
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Dedé Mamata
Overview: Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring
Overview: In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled with the chance of overtaking the place.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-12-14
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Assim na Tela Como no Céu
Overview: A religious comedy in 5 segments, illustrating maniqueism on Earth, as shown by movies. God and his son Jesus disagree on how to manage human life on Earth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Cesium-137
Overview: In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137, being the biggest radiological accident in the history of Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-10
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Massacre no Supermercado
Overview: Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective on their heels.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Rich Are Something Else
Overview: Tadeu, a poor lad from the Northeast of Brazil, comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. His good looks and education win him the favor of rich people. In his spare time, he becomes the favorite among lonely and rich ladies. Soon he gets involved in trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-09-26
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Um Ladrão
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-09-18
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Crystal Moon
Overview: The fairy tale story of Maria da Graça, a small town girl with big time dreams of becoming a singer, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to pursue her ambitions.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-06-22
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As Duas Faces da Moeda
Overview: A long time public servant is told by an angel that he will die at midnight of the following day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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The Kiss
Overview: When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-06-01
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O Noviço Rebelde
Overview: The troubled adventures of a country novice who goes to the big city to work as a nanny, taking care of the young and rebel sons of a widow businessman.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-12-25
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Prova de Fogo
Overview: As soon as Mauro, an Administration student, discovers a strong vocation for mediumship, he drops everything to go deeper and dedicate himself to Umbanda, a religion he embraces so strongly that it makes him give up his studies. Determined to open his own spiritist center, Mauro moves to the countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-05-25
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Bahia
Overview: The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen from her shortly after arrival, Otalia swiftly meets up with a group of charming and helpful friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-09-26
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As Loucuras de Um Sedutor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-12-20
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Manobra Radical
Overview: On the eve of an important surfing championship, a group of young friends travels along the Brazilian coast with the intention of training hard and having a chance to become professional in the sport. However, along the way, Guel, a surfer bum, falls in love with a rich girl.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-02-11
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Sexo Frágil
Overview: To get money and produce the play in which his girlfriend acts, an unemployed actor dresses up as a woman and falls in love with a millionaire widower.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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Engraçadinha Depois dos Trinta
Overview: After marrying everyday man Zózimo, Engraçadinha, who had been through intense sexual experiences as a teenager, settles to live a quiet and normal life. As the years go by, her teenage daughter's behaviour seems to call back Engraçadinha's own teenage days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-05-24
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Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story
Overview: In the darkness of a rural night, a gypsy clan gathers to mourn their beloved patriarch's in a ritual celebrated through music and dance.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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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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Vênus de Fogo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Running Out of Luck
Overview: A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.
Genres: Music Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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