Mário Gusmão
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil
Birthday: January 20, 1928
Deathday: November 20, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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O Menino e o Velho
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Bando, um Filme de
Overview: The 28-year history of the Olodum Theater Band, Latin America's longest-running black theater company. Created in Salvador in 1990, in partnership with the Olodum Cultural Group, the company was responsible for launching names such as Lázaro Ramos and Érico Brás. Gathering archive images and interviews with Bando members, collaborators and other guests, the group's trajectory is built.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-01
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Antonio das Mortes
Overview: A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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O Compadre de Ogum
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-12-29
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O Anjo Negro
Overview: In a large house in Salvador lives a family: Hercules, Julia, two of the couple's nephews, Hercules' father-in-law, and two maids. Hercules is a farmer who is in a professional and marital crisis. The mystical figure of Calunga mysteriously appears in the big house. He causes deep transformations in the family. Calunga relates to the women of the house and shakes the established patriarchal structure.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-02-04
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No Tempo de Glauber
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Estranho Desejo
Overview: An affluent but bored housewife and mother pays for her kinky sex fantasies to come true. |
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-09-03
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Overview: After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-11-22
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The Age of the Earth
Overview: Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's image: a black man, a soldier, an Indian, and a guerrilla fighter. These courageous individuals, hailed as the harbingers of doom in the tupiniquim lands, valiantly combat the insatiable avarice and oppressive "civilizing" brutality propagated by the formidable John Brahms—a foreign exploiter devoid of morals.
Genres: Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-11-17
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Jubiabá
Overview: Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-09-17
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Chico Rei
Overview: Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the properties of his former owner, and his companions' freedom, becoming Chico Rei, the first black man to own lands in Brazil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-01-20
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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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Troca de Cabeça
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Viva Cangaceiro
Overview: Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a hermit who thinks he has been sent by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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O Caipora
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-01-06
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Odu
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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