Thelma Reston

Thelma Reston

Born: July 6, 1937
Died: December 20, 2012
in Piracanjuba, Goiás, Brazil
Thelma Salim Reston (Piracanjuba, July 6, 1937 – Rio de Janeiro, December 20, 2012) was a Brazilian actress. She has had an extensive career in theatre, television and film. She was awarded at the Gramado Festival for her performance in the film Os Sete Gatinhos (1980).

Movies for Thelma Reston...

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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Title: Aquele Beijo
Character: Violante
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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Title: Negócio da China
Character: Olímpia
Released: October 6, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Paraíso Tropical
Character: Edite
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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Title: Pages of Life
Character: cartomante
Released: July 10, 2006
Type: TV
Nanda must rethink her plansof studying in Amsterdam when she discovers she is pregnant. After losing the support of her boyfriend Léo, the young girl decides to return home, where she suffers a serious accident and dies.However, Helena, her doctor, is able to save her new-born twins: Francisco and Clara. Unfortunately, Clara suffers from Downs Syndrome. Helena feels a strong emotional tie to Clara and adopts her.Years later, the twins’father Léo, a young and wealthy businessman, returns to the scene, wanting to gain custody of the children.However, Helena and Alex fight to the end to retain guardianship of the twins, whom they have raised with such love.
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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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Title: A Lua Me Disse
Character: Gôndola Goldoni
Released: April 18, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Os Maias
Character: Vicência
Released: January 9, 2001
Type: TV
Pedro da Maia, meets a beautiful woman called Maria Monforte with whom he gets married despite his father's objection. The marriage produces a son, Carlos Eduardo, and a daughter. Some time later, Maria Monforte falls in love with Tancredo and runs away to Italy with him, taking her daughter along. When Pedro finds out, he goes with his son to his father's house where he commits suicide. Carlos stays at his grandfather's house and is educated by him. Carlos, becomes a doctor and opens his own office. Later he meets a gorgeous woman, Maria Eduarda. The two fall in love and have dozens of nights together. Eventually Carlos finds out later that Maria lied to him about her past and he starts fearing the worst. In the end, Carlos finds out that Maria is his sister. He informs her that they are siblings and that they cannot live like this anymore. Carlos, to forget his tragedies, goes for a trip around the world.
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O Noviço Rebelde
Title: O Noviço Rebelde
Character: Zelda
Released: December 25, 1997
Type: Movie
The troubled adventures of a country novice who goes to the big city to work as a nanny, taking care of the young and rebel sons of a widow businessman.
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Title: Anjo Mau
Character: Sebastiana da Silva (Tiana)
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: TV
Anjo Mau is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo between September 8, 1997 and March 27, 1998, in 173 chapters. Featured Glória Pires, Kadu Moliterno, Maria Padilha, Daniel Dantas, Leonardo Brício, Alessandra Negrini, Mauro Mendonça and Gabriel Braga Nunes in leading roles.
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O Homem Nu
Title: O Homem Nu
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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Title: Pedra Sobre Pedra
Character: Romena
Released: January 6, 1992
Type: TV
Pedra Sobre Pedra is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Rede Globo from January 6 to July 31, 1992, with 178 episodes.
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Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story
Title: Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
In the darkness of a rural night, a gypsy clan gathers to mourn their beloved patriarch's in a ritual celebrated through music and dance.
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Manobra Radical
Title: Manobra Radical
Character: Carmélia
Released: February 11, 1991
Type: Movie
On the eve of an important surfing championship, a group of young friends travels along the Brazilian coast with the intention of training hard and having a chance to become professional in the sport. However, along the way, Guel, a surfer bum, falls in love with a rich girl.
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Lua de Cristal
Title: Lua de Cristal
Character: Dona Rolinha
Released: June 22, 1990
Type: Movie
The fairy tale story of Maria da Graça, a small town girl with big time dreams of becoming a singer, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to pursue her ambitions.
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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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Dedé Mamata
Title: Dedé Mamata
Released: September 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism.
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Title: O Primo Basílio
Character: Gertrudes
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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Os Heróis Trapalhões: Uma Aventura na Selva
Title: Os Heróis Trapalhões: Uma Aventura na Selva
Character: pensionista cobradora do Dedé
Released: June 23, 1988
Type: Movie
Didi, Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias are sent in a rescue mission to the daughter of the Army's minister.
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The Story of Fausta
Title: The Story of Fausta
Released: May 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. Through it all she's a scourge, arguing, jeering and being jeered, but also displaying the spirit and energy of her idol, Tina Turner.
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Title: Helena
Character: Floriscena
Released: May 4, 1987
Type: TV
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Sexo Frágil
Title: Sexo Frágil
Character: Steak's grandma
Released: August 15, 1986
Type: Movie
To get money and produce the play in which his girlfriend acts, an unemployed actor dresses up as a woman and falls in love with a millionaire widower.
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Rei do Rio
Title: Rei do Rio
Character: Mãe de Tereza
Released: June 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
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Quilombo
Title: Quilombo
Character: Mrs. Olímpia
Released: June 3, 1984
Type: Movie
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
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Title: Transas e Caretas
Character: Célia
Released: January 9, 1984
Type: TV
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Bar Esperanza
Title: Bar Esperanza
Character: Dona Esperança
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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The Saint and the Star
Title: The Saint and the Star
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Successful businessman, Paulo Chupadinha send his wife to a convent every year to really enjoy Brazil’s carnival. He meets a cabaret woman that wants to make a show in his little nd peaceful village. For that, however, she will have to seduce every important man of the city: the police chief, the priest and the mayor.
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: Matilde
Released: June 1, 1981
Type: Movie
When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality.
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Cabaret Mineiro
Title: Cabaret Mineiro
Character: Sinhá
Released: March 30, 1981
Type: Movie
An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.
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Um Ladrão
Title: Um Ladrão
Released: September 18, 1980
Type: Movie
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Prova de Fogo
Title: Prova de Fogo
Released: May 25, 1980
Type: Movie
As soon as Mauro, an Administration student, discovers a strong vocation for mediumship, he drops everything to go deeper and dedicate himself to Umbanda, a religion he embraces so strongly that it makes him give up his studies. Determined to open his own spiritist center, Mauro moves to the countryside.
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The Seven Kittens
Title: The Seven Kittens
Character: Gorda
Released: April 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.
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Na Boca do Mundo
Title: Na Boca do Mundo
Released: January 22, 1979
Type: Movie
A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafona. His biggest ambition is to stash enough money to leave to a big city with his fiancee, a mix-raced girl who sells fresh crabs to locals and wishes for a better life. When a rich white woman from the high society arrives to spend a few days away after ending a failed marriage, Antônio soon bonds with her and begins to change his plans.
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Se Segura, Malandro!
Title: Se Segura, Malandro!
Character: Alcebíades's Wife
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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As Loucuras de Um Sedutor
Title: As Loucuras de Um Sedutor
Character: Anunciata
Released: December 20, 1977
Type: Movie
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Gente Fina é Outra Coisa
Title: Gente Fina é Outra Coisa
Character: Anunciata
Released: September 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Tadeu, a poor lad from the Northeast of Brazil, comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. His good looks and education win him the favor of rich people. In his spare time, he becomes the favorite among lonely and rich ladies. Soon he gets involved in trouble.
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The Earth Is Flat
Title: The Earth Is Flat
Character: Madalena de Oliveira
Released: March 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Jorden Er Flad or The Earth is Flat is based on the play Erasmus Montanus, from the classical era in Danish literature, by Ludvig Holberg. Director Henrik Stangerup had the play translated into Portuguese, and adapted it for filming in contemporary Brazil. In this comic movie, a group of villagers have scrimped and saved to send their fellow villager Erasmus Montanus (Fausto Wolff) away for an education. When the boy returns to his village, he is stuffed full of book-learning of a kind which is of absolutely no use to those of the village. The boy, rather than seeing his situation clearly, continues to spout learned platitudes, including the incredible observation, "the earth is round," supported by nothing other than his authority as an "educated man." Understandably, his posturing provokes derision.
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The Vampire of Copacabana
Title: The Vampire of Copacabana
Released: December 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Carlos and Suely are a normal couple. He has some extramarital adventures and she's a standard housewife. During a Carnival, when he goes out wearing a vampire costume, Suely decides to follow a friend's advice and go for it. On Ash Wednesday, he finds her with an odalisk costume on and happier than usual.
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Bahia
Title: Bahia
Released: September 26, 1976
Type: Movie
The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen from her shortly after arrival, Otalia swiftly meets up with a group of charming and helpful friends.
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A Lost Woman
Title: A Lost Woman
Character: Dona Emília
Released: March 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of a poor woman living in the backwoods of Brazil and working as a maid. One day she is unfairly fired from the house where she was working and goes to the big city, facing a cruel and hostile world, working in factories, bars and bordellos.
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Title: Gabriela
Character: Arminda
Released: April 14, 1975
Type: TV
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Eu Dou o Que Ela Gosta
Title: Eu Dou o Que Ela Gosta
Character: Maria Apaga a Luz
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A young couple uses creativity to escape the rules of the girl's father, a conservative Italian, and her grandmother. Even under the patriarch's watch, the roguish boyfriend manages to fulfill his desires.
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Lisetta - Conto de Antonio de Alcântara Machado
Title: Lisetta - Conto de Antonio de Alcântara Machado
Released: June 4, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Woman of Everyone
Title: The Woman of Everyone
Character: Tourist
Released: October 24, 1969
Type: Movie
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
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As Duas Faces da Moeda
Title: As Duas Faces da Moeda
Released: May 22, 1969
Type: Movie
A long time public servant is told by an angel that he will die at midnight of the following day.
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O Homem Nu
Title: O Homem Nu
Released: March 4, 1968
Type: Movie
A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
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Massacre no Supermercado
Title: Massacre no Supermercado
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective on their heels.
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Proezas de Satanás na Vila de Leva-e-Traz
Title: Proezas de Satanás na Vila de Leva-e-Traz
Released: December 14, 1967
Type: Movie
In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled with the chance of overtaking the place.
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Entranced Earth
Title: Entranced Earth
Character: Mulher de Felício
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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El Justicero
Title: El Justicero
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the self-conscious antics of the French New Wave. The pampered son of a general, El Justicero is a hipster playboy who fancies himself a James Bond/Jean Paul Sartre urban hero. “Archetypical” yet “full of contradictions,” he sees that justice is achieved for the disadvantaged while taking advantage of certain bourgeois perks. His exploits are closely followed and eventually directed by his biographer who decides a film is not only more lucrative than a book, but it gives him the luxury of reviewing previous scenes. Unlike Bond, El Jus eventually experiences an awakening which threatens to compromise the entertainment value and glamour of his life story. - Harvard Film Archive
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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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Engraçadinha Depois dos Trinta
Title: Engraçadinha Depois dos Trinta
Released: May 24, 1966
Type: Movie
After marrying everyday man Zózimo, Engraçadinha, who had been through intense sexual experiences as a teenager, settles to live a quiet and normal life. As the years go by, her teenage daughter's behaviour seems to call back Engraçadinha's own teenage days.
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Lollipop
Title: Lollipop
Character: Gina
Released: July 6, 1964
Type: Movie
While still a child, Lollipop falls in love with her orphaned cousin Silvio, who has been raised as a member of the family by her father, Dr. Arnaldo, a highly respected government official. Years pass, and to Lollipop's dismay, Silvio becomes engaged to her cousin Leticia. During the engagement party, the enraged Lollipop seduces Silvio, and sometime later, she reveals to Leticia that she is pregnant as a result of the encounter.