Mario Lima
Also Known As: Mário LIma
Biography: Mario Lima (São Paulo) is a Brazilian film actor, director and producer. He was responsible for the production of several films by José Mojica Marins.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Birthday: Not available
Deathday: March 27, 2013
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
48 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex
Overview: After seeing the film "24 Horas de Sexo Explícito", Dr Margaret, sexologist hires the same crew to make a new movie, doubling the time - an orgy which would last for 48 hours, to further her research on sex. But as the film progresses it is revealed that she may have an ulterior goal in coaxing her actors into their drugged and sexually frenzied states.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-04-27
Popularity:
The Prophet of Hunger
Overview: The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-13
Popularity:
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
Overview: Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-11-09
Popularity:
Embodiment of Evil
Overview: Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-08
Popularity:
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse
Overview: Zé do Caixão, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-03-13
Popularity:
The Strange World of Coffin Joe
Overview: Zé do Caixão hosts this anthology of three short horror stories which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic professor involved in sadistic rituals.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-11-25
Popularity:
Trilogy of Terror
Overview: An anthology divided in three segments, helmed by three of the most important Brazilian directors of the 20th century. A mother becomes involved with black magic and offers a virgin woman to the Devil in exchange for curing the illness of her only son. A poor laborer is the only man in the village with courage to face a group of guerrilheiros ("guerrilla ghosts") that haunt the minds of the locals. A young man is afflicted by fear of reptiles and spiders and the fear of being buried alive. When he undergoes a shocking event, he becomes unresponsive and is mistakenly buried, only to revive in the coffin after burial.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-04-22
Popularity:
The End of Man
Overview: A naked stranger emerges from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-12-18
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins
Overview: The first documentary on José Mojica Marins's (the legendary Zé do Caixão or Coffin Joe) life and work. The film tells Mojica's history, from his poor childhood in Vila Anastácio, São Paulo (Brazil), until his success abroad in the '90s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-26
Popularity:
My Name is Tonho
Overview: As a child he was kidnapped by gypsies that raised him, without he ever knowing his parents. As a young man Tonho leaves the gypsies and go live by himself, meeting in his way a beautiful woman, who lost her brother, and a dangerous gang of violent criminals.
Genres: Western Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-07-24
Popularity:
São Paulo's War
Overview: In 1932, more than two hundred thousand men armed with machine guns, grenades and canons took part in on of the most violent wars in America in the 20th century. Brazilian against Brazilian, in a conflict that involved air raid of big cities – such as Campinas, Santos and São Paulo - and resulted in more than two thousand deaths. Why did this war happen? Who took part in it? What were the details of the conflict? How did the war end? The documentary tells this episode of the country's history, not only grand but also unknown, with an accessible language and an involving rhythm.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-07-09
Popularity: