Marília Pêra

Marília Pêra

Born: January 22, 1943
Died: December 5, 2015
in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marília Pêra was a Brazilian actress hailed as "one of the decade's [1980s] ten best actresses" by Pauline Kael. Pêra won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1982 for her role in Hector Babenco's acclaimed Pixote, and received Best Actress awards at the Gramado Film Festival (Triple Award Winner) and at the Cartegena Film Festival for Carlos Diegues' Better Days Ahead. Other films include Bar Esperança, Angels of the Night and Diegues' Tieta do Agreste.

Movies for Marília Pêra...

Title: Xuxa, O Documentário
Character: Self (Archive footage)
Released: July 13, 2023
Type: TV
Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel, about to celebrate her 60th birthday and more than 40 years in the business, looks back at all the important moments in her life and career. Successes and disappointments, fights and love, she retraces her entire trajectory.
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Incidente em Antares - O Filme
Title: Incidente em Antares - O Filme
Character: Erotildes da Conceição
Released: January 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Film adaptation of the TV Show in 1994, based on the novel of the same name by Érico Veríssimo. During a general strike in the city of Antares, gravediggers refuse to carry out burials, to increase pressure on employers. During the night, however, the dead claim the right to be buried.
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Tô Ryca!
Title: Tô Ryca!
Character: Madame Claude
Released: September 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Selminha is a lower-class woman who receives a family inheritance, but only if she meets the challenge of spending 30 million reais in 30 days, without accumulating anything. However, in this marathon, she will find out that there are things that money does not buy.
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
Title: Chico: Brazilian Artist
Character: Reader (voice)
Released: November 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.
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Title: Pé na Cova
Character: Darlene Dos Santos
Released: January 24, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Aquele Beijo
Character: Maruschka Lemos de Sá
Released: October 17, 2011
Type: TV
Aquele Beijo is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Rede Globo and exhibited in the schedule of 19 hours. Written by Miguel Falabella, Flávio Marinho and Antonia Pellegrino, and directed by Roberto Talma and Cininha de Paula, its release was the day October 17, 2011, replacing Morde & Assopra.
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Consideração do Poema
Title: Consideração do Poema
Released: March 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Torres, Marilia Pera, Antonio Cicero and others.
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Title: A Vida Alheia
Character: Catarina Faissol
Released: April 8, 2010
Type: TV
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Now Boarding
Title: Now Boarding
Character: Justina
Released: December 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Wagner is a 22-year old Brazilian guy, who dreams about leaving the country for a better life, until he meets Justina, an experienced woman who turns his life upside down. Together they will discover that life has a lot more to offer.
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Dzi Croquettes
Title: Dzi Croquettes
Character: Self
Released: October 4, 2009
Type: Movie
A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
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Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
Title: Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
Character: Madame Castilho
Released: August 15, 2008
Type: Movie
The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto.
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Urban Snap-Shots
Title: Urban Snap-Shots
Character: Magda / Magali
Released: February 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Comedic portrait of middle-aged women in Rio de Janeiro, including overworked housewife Magali and her over-the-top twin sister Magda, psychoanalyst Paula and her troublesome daughter Melanie, and stage star in crisis Lise.
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Playing
Title: Playing
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
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Pixote In Memoriam
Title: Pixote In Memoriam
Character: Self
Released: October 30, 2007
Type: Movie
A tribute documentary on Fernando Ramos da Silva, the famous child star of the acclaimed film by Hector Babenco, "Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco" (1981). 20 years after his assassination by the police, his co-stars and Babenco talk about Fernando's contributions to the film, his troubled life when his acting works didn't took off as expected (since he was typecast) and which made him turn back to his past life of poverty and crimes. The project also presents that film's influence to many directors and artists around the world.
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Title: Duas Caras
Character: Gioconda de Queiroz Barreto
Released: October 1, 2007
Type: TV
In the past, as Adalberto Rangel, he met and seduced Maria Paula. With a calculated coldheart, he married her, stole her fortune, then abandoned her, unaware she was pregnant at the time. Ten years later, accompanied by her son Renato, Maria Paula plots to recover her dignity and to find justice by getting revenge against the indignities done to her.
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Vestido de Noiva
Title: Vestido de Noiva
Character: Madame Clessy
Released: November 10, 2006
Type: Movie
While in the hospital, after being run over, Alaíde thinks about her life, specially after the moment she'd found the diary of Madame Clessy, in the house where her family had moved in, which was a former bordello.
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Marília Pêra canta Carmen Miranda
Title: Marília Pêra canta Carmen Miranda
Character: Herself - Carmen Miranda
Released: October 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Directed by Maurício Sherman, the actress Marília Pêra sings hits by Carmen Miranda with 43 songs from the repertoire of The Brazilian Bombshell in 24 numbers, among them: “Na Batucada da Vida”, “As Cinco Estações do Ano”, “Uva de Caminhão” and “Me Respeite, Ouviu?”.
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Title: Cobras & Lagartos
Character: Milu Montini
Released: April 24, 2006
Type: TV
Is it possible that in a world ruled by appearance, there is room for loyalty, ethics, true love, honesty and solidarity? Is it possible, today, when unrelenting consumption is a way of life, to find someone who equates more value to being rather than having? Cobras & Lagartos is an urban tragic comedy, modern and humanist, that deals with two increasingly different worlds: one which values loyalty and solidarity and the other, where the seduction of superfluity and the power of money reign.
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Title: JK
Character: Sara Kubitschek
Released: January 3, 2006
Type: TV
For decades, doctor Juscelino Kubitschek enters politics and becomes president of Brazil.
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Living the Dream
Title: Living the Dream
Character: Vanessa
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Living the Dream" is a docudrama about two friends who after being bullied as children become corrupt when growing up because they have been conditioned to believe that they need to achieve materialistic success to be 'accepted' and liked by others, in a society where the end justifies the means.
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Title: Começar de Novo
Character: Marlene Emilinha Teles Oliveira (Janis Doidona)
Released: August 30, 2004
Type: TV
Começar de Novo is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Rede Globo and displayed in its traditional schedule of 19 hours between 30 August 2004 and April 16, 2005. Presented Natália do Vale, Marcos Paulo, Eva Wilma, Werner Schünemann, Carlos Vereza, Giselle Itié, Vladimir Brichta, Carolina Ferraz and Marília Pêra in the lead roles.
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Title: Shades of Sin
Character: Violante
Released: January 26, 2004
Type: TV
A Maranhense young woman and a carioca tourist photographer fall for each other and get separated by destiny and a woman obsessed with his family's fortune.
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Title: Celebridade
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 2003
Type: TV
A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.
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Garrincha: Lonely Star
Title: Garrincha: Lonely Star
Character: Vanderléia
Released: July 8, 2003
Type: Movie
The life of Brazilian soccer player, Garrincha, considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, with his uniquely original style. He had arched legs, a passion for women and booze. Also had a much talked extramarital affair with singer Elza Soares and died in relative decadence. The movie focuses on his zenith, from 1953 until the World Championship and the Rio Regional Championship, in 1962.
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Seja O Que Deus Quiser!
Title: Seja O Que Deus Quiser!
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Amélia
Title: Amélia
Character: Amélia
Released: August 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induced by her personal Brazilian maid, Amélia, to make a performance in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, she is forced to stand the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.
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Title: Zorra Total
Character: Elizabeth
Released: March 25, 1999
Type: TV
Zorra Total is a Brazilian television comedy broadcast by Globo Network. It was launched on March 25, 1999 and has aired on Saturdays, at 10p.m., ever since May 1999. The show is a sketch comedy show. It is the audience leader on its slot.
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Central Station
Title: Central Station
Character: Irene
Released: November 20, 1998
Type: Movie
An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
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O Viajante
Title: O Viajante
Character: Ana Lara
Released: November 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards, leaving a poetic feeling in the air, which is always deadly to the ones who stay. Mrs. Ana de Lara, the proud rich widow, and Missy, still a child, whose beauty and innocence are like the Tiê-Sangue, a red bird, are the travelers victims. There is also Master Juca do Vale, a criminal, whose passion turns him incredibly human, in this story of love, death, forgiveness and resurrection.
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Title: Meu Bem Querer
Character: Custódia Alves Serrão
Released: August 24, 1998
Type: TV
Meu Bem Querer is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired by Rede Globo. Written by Ricardo Linhares, with the collaboration of Leonor Bassères, Nelson Nadotti, Maria Elisa Berredo and Glória Barretoentre, monitoring text by Aguinaldo Silva, direction of Luís Henrique Rios, João Camargo and Alexandre Avancini, direction general of Roberto Naar and nucleus of Marcos Paulo and transmitted by August 24, 1998 and January 20, 1999, totaling 179 episodes.
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Tieta of Agreste
Title: Tieta of Agreste
Character: Perpétua
Released: August 30, 1996
Type: Movie
After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.
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Jenipapo
Title: Jenipapo
Character: Renata
Released: September 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Michael is a U.S. journalist who works for a Brazilian newspaper. One day he is put in charge of interviewing Father Louis Stephen, a famed catholic missionary who helps the needy in the jungles of Brazil. Yet he has one problem: the Father has rarely ever given an interview. However, Michael decides that he will be the first to have interviewed the Father personally, and goes on a journey to the center of Brazil, in search of the priest. Michael will soon know how hard it can be to get an interview, and that the Father's apparent media-shyness has deeper implications than he thought.
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Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela
Title: Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela
Character: Herself
Released: January 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Elas por Ela reconstituted the history of MPB between 1920 and 1970, from the female perspective, also showing the transformation of the role of women in society over these years. Marília Pêra chose 35 singers to honor and, from 50 songs, put together the script for the show.
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Title: Lua Cheia de Amor
Character: Genuína "Genu" Miranda
Released: December 3, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Mandacaru
Character: Isadora Camargo
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: TV
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Better Days Ahead
Title: Better Days Ahead
Character: Maryalva 'Mary" Matos
Released: March 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star.
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Title: O Primo Basílio
Character: Juliana
Released: August 9, 1988
Type: TV
Arriving in Lisbon from London, Basílio falls in love with his cousin Luísa, but he must go to Brazil, promising he will eventually marry her. As time goes by, he sends her a letter ending the relationship and she marries Jorge, an engineer. One of Jorge's rich aunts dies, leaving him a small fortune and her former maid Juliana. Juliana gets hold of love letters between Luísa and Basílio and starts to blackmail her employer.
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Angels of the Night
Title: Angels of the Night
Character: Marta Brum
Released: April 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, a drag queen; Teddy, a hustler; Guto, a gay reporter; and Marta, an actress.
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Title: Brega & Chique
Character: Rafaela Alvaray (Alfa 1)
Released: April 20, 1987
Type: TV
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Mixed Blood
Title: Mixed Blood
Character: Rita la Punta
Released: October 1, 1984
Type: Movie
On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine. When Rita and her young gang members get involved in a minor turf war, the violence escalates out of control, touching everyone and sparing no one.
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Areias Sagradas (Parábola em Ipanema)
Title: Areias Sagradas (Parábola em Ipanema)
Released: June 6, 1984
Type: Movie
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Bar Esperanza
Title: Bar Esperanza
Character: Ana
Released: May 19, 1983
Type: Movie
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, and her husband Zeca, a writer in crisis about his work.
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Title: Quem Ama Não Mata
Character: Alice
Released: July 12, 1982
Type: TV
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Pixote
Title: Pixote
Character: Sueli
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
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Title: Grandes Nomes
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1980
Type: TV
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O Grande Desbum
Title: O Grande Desbum
Released: October 31, 1978
Type: Movie
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King of the Night
Title: King of the Night
Character: Pupi
Released: November 20, 1975
Type: Movie
In the 1940s, São Paulo nightlife is the setting for Tezinho's love affairs. In love with Aninha, he needs to get away from the girl and ends up getting involved with other women, including an obsessive relationship with a prostitute.
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Ana, a Libertina
Title: Ana, a Libertina
Released: September 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: Supermanoela
Character: Manoela
Released: January 21, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Bandeira 2
Released: October 1, 1971
Type: TV
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O Donzelo
Title: O Donzelo
Released: February 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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É Simonal
Title: É Simonal
Released: June 26, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Man Who Bought the World
Title: The Man Who Bought the World
Character: Rosinha
Released: September 16, 1968
Type: Movie
In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape.
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Title: Rosinha do Sobrado
Character: Rosinha
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: TV