Ítala Nandi
Also Known As: Ittala Nandi
Biography: Ítala Maria Helena Pellizzari Nandi (Caxias do Sul, June 4, 1942) is a Brazilian actress, theater producer and theater director. She is considered one of the great ladies of Brazilian theater, with an extensive career on stage that began in 1959.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: June 04, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Female
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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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Roleta Russa
Overview: Raul, a playboy, marries Sheila and hire Nina, a photographer, to take erotic snapshots of his wife. Nina acquires an interest on Sheila, and through a maid, investigates the couple's intimate life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-11-20
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Of Gods and the Undead
Overview: In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in the battle for land and cacao plantations. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" Santana, taking his wife and money. He starts a bloody conflict, in which many simple people and landowners die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-06-25
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Juliana do Amor Perdido
Overview: A beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with an outsider, a train machinist. But her father, a violent religious fanatic interferes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Business Women’s Club
Overview: Jongo, a renowned photographer, and Candinho, a young and inexperienced journalist, arrive at a decaying country club of São Paulo's high society, run by women involved with the law.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-28
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Muito Prazer
Overview: Two contrasting social groups get in touch: three architects and three street urchins, all struggling for survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-09-25
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Sagarana: O Duelo
Overview: Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-08-26
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The Red Light Bandit
Overview: Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-12-02
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Pindorama
Overview: This Brazilian film is set during the period of its initial colonial discovery and settlement. The title refers to a word the native peoples used for the coastal lands: "pindorama," or "place of the small trees." A ponderous and grandiose film, it was roundly booed when it was aired at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-06-06
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Conjugal Warfare
Overview: Many stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other, still live together under the same roof.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-05-01
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Sérgio Ricardo: Uma Outra História do Cinema Novo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-04-06
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A Cartomante
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-05-19
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América do Sexo
Overview: Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia", having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of its subjects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Animal's Skin
Overview: In the 20's, in the State of Piauí, Brazil, a young cowboy is used politically after killing his wife, who had been seduced by her boss and his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-08-05
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Possessões
Overview: Three stories are intermingled by the same theme: possessions.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-22
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Prata Palomares
Overview: While waiting for directions, two revolutionaries hide in a church, where they meet a woman who wants to have a son with one of them.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Fala Mangueira!
Overview: A documentary on the influence that carnival has on the daily life of the Mangueira hill in Rio de Janeiro. It follows the manufacture of the carnivals of 1981 and 1982, interviewing several residents who tell the story of more than half a century of the favela's existence and emphasizing its community importance and cultural, to the sound of the most beautiful sambas composed on Mangueira.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Pitanga
Overview: This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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The King of the Candle
Overview: Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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O Cortiço
Overview: This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-04-21
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The Men I Had
Overview: Married woman only feels well when she's in love. In search of a ravishing love, she has many love affairs, with her husband's consent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-05-25
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Fire Light
Overview: Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-04-05
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A Paz é Dourada
Overview: The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a failed attempt at directing his biopic in the 1980s and 1990s. Footage from the unfinished film is included alongside archive and documentary material.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-14
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Domingo
Overview: January 1st, 2003. When Brazil celebrates President Lula′s historic investiture, two middle-class, provincial families gather in an old, poorly maintained house. As they prepare a big party, secrets, hidden desires and frustrations are revealed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-09-05
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Fish in a Barrel
Overview: Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-10-31
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The Awakening of the Beast
Overview: A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Noite Sem Homem
Overview: Two brothels in a small country town fight fiercely for the town's clientele, putting the owners of the two brothels, Salô and Maria Navalha, on a war footing. The conflict between the two establishments will bring problems for Salô's employees, who will rebel while the boss is harassed by the town's police forces because of his homosexuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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Manual Prático da Melhor Idade
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Overview: In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-10
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Malês
Overview: Based on historical facts, the film portrays the largest slave rebellion in Brazilian history, the Malê Revolt. The uprising mobilized the black population in the streets of Salvador against slavery in 1835. After the failure of the revolt, the protesters were harshly punished and repression against black people in Brazil increased.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-14
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