Joana Fomm
Also Known As: Vogue
Biography: Joana Maria Fomm de Almeida (Belo Horizonte, September 14, 1939), better known as Joana Fomm, is a Brazilian actress. She gained great prominence with her characters Yolanda, in Dancin' Days, and Perpétua, in Tieta, sister of the title character. Known for her work in different areas of the entertainment industry, she has appeared in numerous film, television and theater projects throughout her extensive career spanning over six decades.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Birthday: September 14, 1939
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Gender: Female
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Searching for Makunaima
Overview: Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between Brazil-Venezuela-Guiana, first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg at the beginning of the 1910s. With interviews in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang, Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways (from literature to cinema to theatre) and remains relevant to date.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-11-19
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Who Killed Pixote?
Overview: The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, he got involved with crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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As Gatinhas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-10-25
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Rehearsal Time
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Palace of Angels
Overview: Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", securing money and success, but some problems as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-05-25
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O Gerente
Overview: A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-22
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Bebel, Garota Propaganda
Overview: Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-11-17
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As Noites de Iemanjá
Overview: Neglected wife tells husband about mysterious deaths occurred by the influence of Iemanjá, Afro-Brazilian deity, goddess of the waters
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-08-20
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O Desconhecido
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-04-13
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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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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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The Dead at the Phone
Overview: This story begins with Marcelo's funeral. His family, his fiancée Lúcia and three suspicious men are the only people accompanying the coffin. By night, at home, Rosa, Ricardo and Lúcia notice something strange: Marcelo's room has been completely ransacked. Suddenly, the phone rings. Rosa answers and hears the voice of her son who had just died. The shock is too strong for the poor lady, who dies of a syncope. To understand these sinister events, we have to go back three days...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-04-19
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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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Mirror of Flesh
Overview: A mirror bought in an auction changes the life of an executive and his wife. They become sexually aroused under the influence of the strange object, which belonged to a bordello in the past. Soon the friends who come to pay a visit also become affected by it.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-11-21
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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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Macunaima
Overview: Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-09-03
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Boil
Overview: Three ghosts are trapped in a house and haunt each new resident in order to finish their mission on Earth so they can move on to the next life. That is until a couple of architects move to the place and decide to renovate it, revitalizing it. However, they end up discovering that the mansion was the site of an old concert hall called "Fervo" and go through a series of misunderstandings with the ghosts played by Rita Von Hunty, Gabriel Godoy and Renata Gaspar.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-19
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Domingos
Overview: A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Gamal, O Delírio do Sexo
Overview: Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own words: “a fable where realism and logic have no place, and in which sex is a translation of all the tortures, circumstances and violent actions.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-12-14
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Vozes do Medo
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Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-12-22
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On Borrowed Time
Overview: During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-11-26
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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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Marília e Marina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-07
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A Noite do Meu Bem
Overview: The life and times of Brazilian singer/songwriter Dolores Duran.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
Overview: Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Beijo na Boca
Overview: Middle-class girl gets involved with a jealous drug dealer, who wants to kill all of her previous boyfriends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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Um Sonho de Vampiros
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Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-08-10
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Crime de Amor
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-08-10
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Como Se Tornar o Pior Aluno da Escola
Overview: Bernadinho and Pedro are students and face the classic tasks of fulfilling school obligations, taking good grades, being well behaved and complying with school rules, increasingly elaborated thanks to director Ademar. Frustrated, Pedro ends up finding a diary of how to cause chaos in school without being caught, which leads the two friends to follow the tips of the notebook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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What Is It Worth?
Overview: Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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New Amsterdam
Overview: The arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of this violent story that pushes Bernarda and her family to run away from the city and from the invasion. In the Potengi Mill she meets the foreman's son Rafael and they immediately discover a passionate love. It will give them the force to try to survive during those violent years triggered by Jacob Rabbí, a German assigned by Prince John Maurice of Nassau to command the conquest.
Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-12-16
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Erotic Stories
Overview: Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três Virgens" (The Three Virgins) three spinsters are influenced by the behaviour of their teenager niece, whom they are lodging. In "O Arremate" (The Purchase) a colonist turns his virgin daughter in to a landowner, to have his debts forgiven. And, finally, in "Vereda Tropical" (Tropical Trail), a man becomes sexually obsessed by a watermelon, to the point of having sexual intercourse with it. The stories are based on prize-winner short stories, from a Playboy contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
Overview: "All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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The Blue Horse
Overview: Boy from a poor family loses his only asset: a colorless little horse that his imagination turns into a magical and colorful pretty stallion. To get his pet back, he leaves home and faces all dangers ahead with courage, getting involved in many adventures.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Em Cada Coração um Punhal
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-03-12
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Fora das Grades
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-09-27
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Os Desclassificados
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-12-03
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Copacabana
Overview: Moments before turning 90 years of age, Alberto remembers his life, lived in Copacabana, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a comedy about old age nowadays, with Copacabana as a background.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-07-06
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Um Brasileiro Chamado Rosaflor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: O Pagador de Promessas - O Filme
Overview: Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from death. The payment is to carry a heavy cross from the interior of Bahia to a church in Salvador. When you reach the steps of the church, with injured shoulders, you have to deal with the incomprehension of a conservative priest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-09
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