Hugo Carvana

Hugo Carvana

Born: June 4, 1937
Died: October 4, 2014
in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hugo Carvana (4 June 1937 – 4 October 2014) was a Brazilian actor and filmmaker. Initially associated with scoundrel-type characters during his early career, he played parts in many Brazilian New Wave (Cinema Novo) films.

He later moved on to starring and directing comedies, such as his directorial debut, the self-starred "Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo!" (1973) and his last film "A Casa da Mãe Joana 2" (2013). During his later career, he was also a recurring actor in Brazilian soap operas.

Carvana died in October 4, 2014, from complications caused by a lung cancer.

Movies for Hugo Carvana...

Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Title: Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Released: September 29, 2023
Type: Movie
23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on Brazilian living legend Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial actor and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family and society members who hate him.
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Title: Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Character: Self
Released: October 28, 2021
Type: Movie
Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Title: Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
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Carvana
Title: Carvana
Character: Self
Released: April 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Chronicles the life and career of Hugo Carvana, brazilian actor and filmmaker.
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Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
Title: Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 2017
Type: Movie
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Pitanga
Title: Pitanga
Character: Self
Released: September 23, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
Title: Chico: Brazilian Artist
Character: Self
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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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme
Title: Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme
Character: Delegado Adroaldo de Lima
Released: January 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a bride and is brutally strangled in the middle of the act of love. To prove the authorship of the crimes is the great challenge of detective França.
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Rio, I Love You
Title: Rio, I Love You
Character: Manoel (segment "Dona Fulana")
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
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Éramos Todos Loucos
Title: Éramos Todos Loucos
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A documentary about the production of Hugo Carvana's successful film "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo", from 1973.
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Giovanni Improtta
Title: Giovanni Improtta
Character: Cantagalo
Released: May 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Giovanni Improtta is a criminal who wants to climb the social ladder and become a law-abiding citizen. To achieve it, he commits some more crimes He is betrayed, and ends up under the spotlight of the media and the radar of the police, falsely charged for murder.
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Não Se Preocupe, Nada Vai Dar Certo!
Title: Não Se Preocupe, Nada Vai Dar Certo!
Character: Zimba
Released: July 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Lalau (Gregorio Duvivier) is presented by the country's interior with his show jokes, whose main theme is her father, Ramon Velasco (Tarcisio Meira), an actor who always gets into shenanigans. One day, when present in Ceará, Stan receives a tempting proposal by Flora (Flávia Alessandra), which offers $ 100,000 so he pretends to be a famous guru in a motivational speech in Rio de Janeiro. He accepts and goes to Rio without telling his father. After seeing his son on the cover of a newspaper, Ramon decides to go after him and creates many characters to ensure their part.
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5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
Title: 5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
Released: August 25, 2010
Type: Movie
The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities - with the promise of escape stereotypical representations.
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A Hora do leão - Os sete leões de Glauber
Title: A Hora do leão - Os sete leões de Glauber
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Documentary about Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças
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Love Stories Only Last 90 Minutes
Title: Love Stories Only Last 90 Minutes
Character: Taxi driver
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
In Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the idle aspirant writer Zeca has been living with Arts Professor Júlia for five years. He is stuck on page 50 of his novel for a long time and Zeca claims lack of inspiration to conclude the plot. He leads a comfortable life from inheritance left by his mother and administrated by his father Humberto. When Zeca sees Júlia alone with her best friend Carol in his flat, he believes that they are having a love affair and becomes obsessed with Carol, following her. Júlia travels to São Paulo with work giving Zeca the perfect opportunity to have an affair with Carol. So begins his complicated life: while Júlia works and studies for her doctorate, Zeca has sex with Carol during the days and with Júlia during the nights. Zeca plots a scheme to stay with either Carol or Júlia but his plan does not go as he hoped.
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Golden Oldies
Title: Golden Oldies
Character: Salomão
Released: September 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Four friends who only think about enjoying life, with big parties, women and drinks, are surprised by an eviction. In need of money, the group is forced to think about what they hate most: working! Confusion arises when everyone looks for an easy way to get money, with minimum effort. The days pass and the hilarious confusion only increases!
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Milagrez
Title: Milagrez
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.
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Achados e Perdidos
Title: Achados e Perdidos
Character: Juiz
Released: April 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Ex-cop Vieira is involved in the death of his lover , a prostitute who works in the streets of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. After her death, some strange things started to happen and Vieira is harassed at the same time by the police and some old bad guys from his past. Meanwhile, he is seriously involved with a young and pretty prostitute named Flor.
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Title: Paraíso Tropical
Character: Belisário Cavalcanti
Released: March 5, 2007
Type: TV
The search for a successor provokes the beginning of a clash between two young and talented executives of his group: Daniel Bastos, a lad of simple origins and excellent character, who is not only handsome and charming, but also intelligent and skilled, and Olavo Novaes, an ambitious and unscrupulous man who is ready to fight for the position, at any cost. To fight against Olavo‘s treacherous plans, Daniel will have the help of the sweet and sensitive Paula, a young lady raised as an only child who founds, on the eve of her mother‘s death, that she is adopted and has a family. What Paula does not know is that she has an identical twin sister, the wicked Taís, who is as ambitious and unscrupulous as the man who becomes her main ally, Olavo Novaes. Antenor, for his part, decides on having an heir when he meets the headstrong and honest Lúcia, a woman who will make this cold businessman find true love is and a real reason to live.
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The Greatest Love of All
Title: The Greatest Love of All
Character: Salvador
Released: September 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Antônio is an astrophysicist who has just found out he has an inoperable brain tumor. After decades living in the United States, he returns to Brazil and tries to learn more about his biological mother. His quest sends him off into the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
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O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
Title: O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
Character: Self
Released: August 19, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian press, produced daily for six months, in the 1960s. The newspaper spoke of culture, politics and education through satires and prominent figures in the cultural scene of the time passed through him. Archive scenes and music from the period seek to reconstitute the spirit of the 68-generation. The film has the participation of personalities such as Ziraldo, Zuenir Ventura, Arnaldo Jabor, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Carlos Heitor Cony, Fernando Gabeira, Betty Faria, Hugo Carvana, among others.
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Depois do Transe
Title: Depois do Transe
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martim Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."
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Mais uma Vez Amor
Title: Mais uma Vez Amor
Character: Dr. Alvarez
Released: April 21, 2005
Type: Movie
In Rio de Janeiro, the teenagers Lia and Rodrigo have opposite behaviors and personalities. The clumsy Rodrigo is responsible and good student, while the emancipated Lia is totally irresponsible. They have their first sexual intercourse together on April 23rd, and they schedule to meet each other every year in the same date. Along the years, Rodrigo graduates in engineering and gets married with Clara (Christine Fernandes), having a son. The single mother Lia has a life without any commitment, moves to Paris and comes back to Brazil later. After a comedown, Rodrigo leaves his family and quits his job to live with Lia. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Title: Como uma Onda
Character: Sinésio Paiva
Released: November 22, 2004
Type: TV
Como uma Onda is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from November 22, 2004 and June 18, 2005. Featured Alinne Moraes, Ricardo Pereira, Henri Castelli, Herson Capri, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Kadu Moliterno, Joana Solnado, Hugo Carvana, Laura Cardoso and Mel Lisboa in the lead roles.
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Title: Celebridade
Character: Lineu Vasconcelos
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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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Title: Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Character: Self / Interviewee
Released: September 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
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Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Title: Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Character: Beggar
Released: August 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women and idolized by his audience and friends. His contagious joy attracts the attention of American scientist Dr. Boris Lewitsky, who comes to Brazil in order to interview Apolônio's close friends and make them a most unusual offer concerning the remains of the late musician.
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God Is Brazilian
Title: God Is Brazilian
Character: Quincas Batalha
Released: January 31, 2003
Type: Movie
God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. So He goes to the Northeast of Brazil, where He believes there's a very good man for the job. As soon as He comes down to Earth, a young man comes along to help on His quest.
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Lara
Title: Lara
Character: Ator Premiado
Released: August 20, 2002
Type: Movie
The life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exchanged stardom for a quiet and religious life.
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Fluminense Football Club - Centenário de uma Paixão
Title: Fluminense Football Club - Centenário de uma Paixão
Released: July 21, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Desejos de Mulher
Character: Atílio Rodrigues
Released: January 21, 2002
Type: TV
Fashion designer Andréa Vargas finds out the hard way she is adopted. The relationship with her sister Júlia had always been difficult, since childhood, and the antagonism grew when Júlia came between Andréa and her first true love, Diogo. But the worst is still to come: her first assistant in her atelier, Selma, is having an affair with her husband Bruno.
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Sonhos Tropicais
Title: Sonhos Tropicais
Character: Macedo
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt.
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Title: Um Anjo Caiu do Céu
Character: Garcia
Released: January 22, 2001
Type: TV
João Medeiros is an internationally renowned photographer who suffers an attack in Prague, when he happens to photograph a Nazi leader who was in the middle of secret plans. In his last moments on Earth, his life is saved by the angel Rafael, sent by the highest heavenly bodies to offer him a new chance. The angel warns the photographer that he will only have six months to live to solve his problems with his family, neglected since he abandoned everything for the profession - including solving his situation with ex-wife Naná, who now lives with the profiteer Tarsus, and get along with his two daughters. Virginia has become a renowned stylist, but blames her father for the leg problem caused by an accident she suffered as a teenager and ended her ballet career. Duda, on the other hand, developed obsessive-compulsive disorder after her son Kiko disappeared years before, putting her marriage to Maurício in a long crisis.
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O Cabeça de Copacabana
Title: O Cabeça de Copacabana
Character: Haroldo Soares
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Title: Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Character: Queiroz
Released: October 15, 1999
Type: Movie
A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de reis. The movie shows his life from poverty to riches and back to poverty again, as is common in Brazil, rich people die poor.
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Title: Andando nas Nuvens
Character: Wagner Macieira
Released: March 22, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: O Belo e as Feras
Released: January 6, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Corpo Dourado
Character: Jacinto Azevedo
Released: January 12, 1998
Type: TV
Corpo Dourado is a Brazilian soap opera produced by and shown on Rede Globo from 12 January 1998 through 21 August 1998. The 191 chapters were written by Antônio Calmon and directed by Flávio Colatrello Jr, and later Marcos Schetchman.
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Chaos and Confusion
Title: Chaos and Confusion
Released: November 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Super Chacrinha and Glauber Rocha, two millionaires from the earthly plane of Varathrum, manipulate the people around them, including Deus and the Devil, so that their artistic industrial conglomerates grow.
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O Homem Nu
Title: O Homem Nu
Character: Taxista
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Title: Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
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G.R.E.S. Concentração
Title: G.R.E.S. Concentração
Character: Narrator
Released: June 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The film reveals the moments that preceded the Samba Schools' competitive parade in Rio de Janeiro's 1996 carnival. Narrated by actor Hugo Carvana and filmed by three separate 16mm camera units, the documentary focuses exclusively on the gathering of each school before its parade at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí - the real and imaginary space where everything happens.
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Title: Sai de Baixo
Released: March 31, 1996
Type: TV
It follows the lives of the members of a dysfunctional family, their maid and the doorman of the apartment building in which they lived.
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Title: Cara & Coroa
Character: Aníbal Santoro
Released: July 24, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Engraçadinha... Seus Amores e Seus Pecados
Character: Irmão Fidélis
Released: April 25, 1995
Type: TV
18 years old Engraçadinha starts a secret love affair with her cousin Sílvio, who's engaged to her best friend Letícia, who is secretly in love with Cutie Pie. Twenty years later, Cutie Pie is a deeply religious married woman who's afraid her teenage daughters might end up making the same mistakes she did in the past.
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Title: Agosto
Character: Luiz Magalhães
Released: August 24, 1993
Type: TV
The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar at the beginning of August. In the midst of the Vargas government crisis, the murder case is taken by police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man who is not well regarded by his co-workers, as the place is totally turned over to corruption.
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Title: De Corpo e Alma
Character: Agenor
Released: August 3, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: As Noivas de Copacabana
Character: Delegado Adroaldo de Lima
Released: June 2, 1992
Type: TV
Donato Menezes, a renowned art restorer from Copacabana is also a serial killer obsessed with women in their bridal gowns. His crimes follows the same pattern: he seduces and then kills the victim during the sexual act, always when they're wearing the gown.
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Title: O Dono do Mundo
Character: Lucas Veronese
Released: May 20, 1991
Type: TV
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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
Title: Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
Character: Dino
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Boca de Ouro
Title: Boca de Ouro
Released: April 4, 1990
Type: Movie
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Assim na Tela Como no Céu
Title: Assim na Tela Como no Céu
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A religious comedy in 5 segments, illustrating maniqueism on Earth, as shown by movies. God and his son Jesus disagree on how to manage human life on Earth.
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Por Dúvida das Vias
Title: Por Dúvida das Vias
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A Journalism intern makes her first report in a public office, getting lost in the bureaucratic intricacies.
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Leila Diniz
Title: Leila Diniz
Character: Clyde
Released: November 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The life of Brazilian actress Leila Diniz.
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Title: Roda de Fogo
Character: Paulo Costa
Released: August 25, 1986
Type: TV
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Avaete, Seed of Revenge
Title: Avaete, Seed of Revenge
Character: Ramiro
Released: August 26, 1985
Type: Movie
Little Indian boy survives his tribe massacre, growing up together with his wish for revenge and his quest for his own identity. Based on a true story.
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Title: Corpo a Corpo
Character: Alfredo Fraga Dantas
Released: November 26, 1984
Type: TV
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Bete Balanço
Title: Bete Balanço
Character: Tony
Released: July 30, 1984
Type: Movie
A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Águia na Cabeça
Title: Águia na Cabeça
Character: Turco
Released: April 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power structure resents this disturbance and can fall apart, specially since there's a witness.
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Bar Esperanza
Title: Bar Esperanza
Character: Zeca
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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Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo
Title: Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo
Released: August 23, 1981
Type: Movie
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To the Last Drop
Title: To the Last Drop
Character: Narrator(voice)
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Documentary about the traffic of human blood in the Third World.
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O Homem do Morcego
Title: O Homem do Morcego
Character: Narrador
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: Plantão de Polícia
Character: Waldomiro
Released: May 25, 1979
Type: TV
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Alô Tetéia
Title: Alô Tetéia
Released: October 17, 1978
Type: Movie
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Se Segura, Malandro!
Title: Se Segura, Malandro!
Character: Paulo Otávio
Released: August 26, 1978
Type: Movie
Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.
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Mulheres de Cinema
Title: Mulheres de Cinema
Character: Narrator
Released: June 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.
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Tent of Miracles
Title: Tent of Miracles
Character: Fausto Pena
Released: July 30, 1977
Type: Movie
When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved only through miscegenation.
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Sea of Roses
Title: Sea of Roses
Character: Sérgio
Released: July 29, 1977
Type: Movie
A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.
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Anchieta, José do Brasil
Title: Anchieta, José do Brasil
Character: Diogo Álvares
Released: July 22, 1977
Type: Movie
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
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The Fall
Title: The Fall
Character: José
Released: August 20, 1976
Type: Movie
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
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Un animal doué de déraison
Title: Un animal doué de déraison
Character: Hugo
Released: March 24, 1976
Type: Movie
A wealthy French promoter based in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but trapped in her strict education.
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Gordos e Magros
Title: Gordos e Magros
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He is drunk and end up having a fight and leaving home.
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Ipanema, Adeus
Title: Ipanema, Adeus
Released: September 29, 1975
Type: Movie
Young and rich executive living in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, leaves his wife and kids behind and goes to Porto Seguro, Bahia, to try and live as a fisherman with his mistress.
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Veredas de Minas
Title: Veredas de Minas
Released: September 24, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: Gabriela
Character: Dr. Argileu Palmeira
Released: April 14, 1975
Type: TV
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Arquitetura de Morar
Title: Arquitetura de Morar
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
An enchanted journey through three extraordinary houses built by Master José Zanine on the seaside hillside of Joatinga, in Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by a stunning musical score, specially created for the film by maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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A Man and His Cage
Title: A Man and His Cage
Character: Tino
Released: September 23, 1974
Type: Movie
The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe. After his wife's death, Tino continues living with Selma, with whom he had ambiguous relations, which he now wants to sever. Weak at this impossible love, he asks the maid Enedina to lock him in his room. There, he revives memories through letters, notes and photographs. Selma's son João is waiting for her at the airport and dreams of loving fulfillment in his own mother's arms.
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Pilar
Title: Pilar
Character: Narrador
Released: June 16, 1974
Type: Movie
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Chorinhos e Chorões
Title: Chorinhos e Chorões
Character: Narrador
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
An educational documentary short film on choro, an authentic brazilian musical genre, and its biggest and most influential musicians.
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Na Casa de Rio Vermelho
Title: Na Casa de Rio Vermelho
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Brazilan writer Jorge Amado and his everyday life.
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Carro de Bois
Title: Carro de Bois
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais, it was Mauro's only film in color and also his last.
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All Nudity Shall Be Punished
Title: All Nudity Shall Be Punished
Character: Representative
Released: May 13, 1973
Type: Movie
A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her. He can't decide between attraction and repulsion.
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Tati, a Garota
Title: Tati, a Garota
Character: Capitão Peixoto
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
The seamstress Manuela, Tati's single mother, moves from the suburbs to Copacabana but faces severe financial difficulties. A friend of Manuela's sometimes fills in for Tati's father, giving the girl temporary happiness.
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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo!
Title: Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo!
Character: Dino
Released: January 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.
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Humor Amargo
Title: Humor Amargo
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Set of carioca sketches.
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When Carnaval Comes
Title: When Carnaval Comes
Character: Lourival
Released: July 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.
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Procura-se uma Virgem
Title: Procura-se uma Virgem
Released: May 2, 1972
Type: Movie
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Love, Carnival and Dreams
Title: Love, Carnival and Dreams
Character: Malandro
Released: February 11, 1972
Type: Movie
On Carnival's eve, girl dreams of a man to stay with her during these four days. She meets a photographer, with whom she has an affair.
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Câncer
Title: Câncer
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.
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Brazil in Cannes
Title: Brazil in Cannes
Released: December 24, 1971
Type: Movie
The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the transition from film to industrialized production. It is the meeting of producers, technicians, critics , celebrities in general, offering opportunities for greater knowledge and renewal of values
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The Lion Has Seven Heads
Title: The Lion Has Seven Heads
Character: Português
Released: August 3, 1971
Type: Movie
A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.
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A Indústria do Solúvel
Title: A Indústria do Solúvel
Character: Narrador
Released: June 9, 1971
Type: Movie
It accompanies the manufacture of soluble coffee.
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O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Title: O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Character: Dr. Gestaile
Released: June 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.
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Klaxon
Title: Klaxon
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
It is the magazine that continues the Modern Art Week of 22.
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Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
Title: Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
Character: Archive Footage
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.
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Tatu Bola
Title: Tatu Bola
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent fisherman. As soon as he finds out that Zefa is very ill, Expedito runs back home and finds his adoptive mother in agony. At the edge of the bed, a mysterious woman, who claims to be Death, sits.
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The Heirs
Title: The Heirs
Character: Professor Maia
Released: September 15, 1970
Type: Movie
An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.
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Pindorama
Title: Pindorama
Released: June 6, 1970
Type: Movie
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.
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Macunaima
Title: Macunaima
Character: Man with duck
Released: September 3, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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Um Sonho de Vampiros
Title: Um Sonho de Vampiros
Released: August 10, 1969
Type: Movie
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Antonio das Mortes
Title: Antonio das Mortes
Character: Delegado Mattos
Released: June 14, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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The Angel Was Born
Title: The Angel Was Born
Character: Santamaria
Released: February 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.
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Time of Violence
Title: Time of Violence
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find out about him, Antônio and his wife are both targeted and pursued by the criminals.
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Pedro Diabo Loves Rosa Meia Noite
Title: Pedro Diabo Loves Rosa Meia Noite
Character: Detetive Athiê
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls.
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A Criação Literária de João Guimarães Rosa
Title: A Criação Literária de João Guimarães Rosa
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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Dramática Popular
Title: Dramática Popular
Character: Narrador
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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A Vida Provisória
Title: A Vida Provisória
Character: Passos
Released: November 26, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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The Brave Warrior
Title: The Brave Warrior
Character: Union Hanger-On
Released: November 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.
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Garden of War
Title: Garden of War
Released: September 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for her film, but ends up being arrested and tortured as his torturers suspect he's involved in a plot to overthrow the military government.
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The Man Who Bought the World
Title: The Man Who Bought the World
Character: Cabo Jorge
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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Before, the Summer
Title: Before, the Summer
Character: Homem atropelado
Released: May 26, 1968
Type: Movie
A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the breaches of the house, their marriage begins to crumble. And like a bad omen, a mysterious murder takes place in the vicinity.
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José Lins do Rego
Title: José Lins do Rego
Character: Narrador
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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Como Vai, Vai Bem?
Title: Como Vai, Vai Bem?
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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Entranced Earth
Title: Entranced Earth
Character: Álvaro
Released: May 2, 1967
Type: Movie
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
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Oito Universitários
Title: Oito Universitários
Character: Narrador
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The political activity of students in the 60s.
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Title: Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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O Engano
Title: O Engano
Character: Marido
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Big City
Title: The Big City
Character: Pereba
Released: May 13, 1966
Type: Movie
In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, later, the company of Inácio.
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The Deceased
Title: The Deceased
Released: September 22, 1965
Type: Movie
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.
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The Dare
Title: The Dare
Character: Journalist
Released: July 9, 1965
Type: Movie
Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son
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The Guns
Title: The Guns
Character: José
Released: June 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
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Esse Rio que Eu Amo
Title: Esse Rio que Eu Amo
Released: July 9, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Unscrupulous Ones
Title: The Unscrupulous Ones
Character: Photographer
Released: March 24, 1962
Type: Movie
Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.