Laerte Coutinho

Laerte Coutinho

Born: June 10, 1951
in São Paulo, Brazil
Laerte Coutinho, known mainly as simply Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist, comic strip artist and screenwriter. Assigned male at birth, she came out in 2009 as a crossdresser and later as a transgender woman. Laerte has collaborated with several publications such as Balão, O Pasquim, and Chiclete com Banana magazines and draws regularly for Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. She has created several comic strip characters, such as Piratas do Tietê (The Pirates of Tietê River). Since the mid 2000s, Laerte's strips became more philosophical and less humour-focused, abandoning fixed characters.

Movies for Laerte Coutinho...

Bob Spit - We Do Not Like People
Title: Bob Spit - We Do Not Like People
Character: Laerte/Madame L
Released: November 11, 2021
Type: Movie
Bob Spit, a comic book character, lives in a post-apocalyptic desert inside the mind of his creator, the legendary Brazilian cartoonist Angeli. When Angeli decides to kill off Bob, the old punk leaves this wasteland and faces his creator.
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Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
Title: Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
Character: herself
Released: December 3, 2020
Type: Movie
As the Sars-Covid 19 pandemic increased, Rubiane Maia was in Folkestone, England, and Tom Nobrega in Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon. Both were surprised by the sudden need to cancel planned trips to Brazil, their homeland. The closed borders brought unusual situations and an unknown feeling of exile. As news from Brazil reaches the distance like rocks breaking their computer screens, blurring the line between what is personal and what is collective, the pair of friends share their bewilderment and try to find some resonance amid the overwhelming amount of information that floats the virtual space.
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A Turma do Pererê.DOC
Title: A Turma do Pererê.DOC
Released: October 3, 2019
Type: Movie
Marked in history as the first Brazilian comic book, totally in nuclei, Turma do Pererê is considered a giant influence for several later authors, such as Maurício de Sousa. In addition to being the first to address topics such as ecology and social inclusion, a work is also referenced for perfectly aligning with the main political interests of the time.
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Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
Title: Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
Character: Self
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: Movie
A portrays of the period in which Brazilian humor had fewer limits (1986-2003), free from military dictatorship.
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The City of Pirates
Title: The City of Pirates
Character: Laerte
Released: August 17, 2018
Type: Movie
A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
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Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo
Title: Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo
Released: May 14, 2018
Type: Movie
An emotional geographic reading of the city of São Paulo, created through hundreds of love stories from its residents. Neighborhoods, streets, parks and houses that sometimes no longer exist, or are invisible to most people, come to life in the stories told by the inhabitants.
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Casa da Xiclet
Title: Casa da Xiclet
Character: Herself
Released: October 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Xiclet is a plastic artist who settled in São Paulo in the early years 2000 and has since transformed the house where he lives in a public space, focused on the dissemination of artists who stay out of the great circuit of the arts. In addition to artist and galley, Xiclet is a tireless teaser of the "status quo".
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Laerte-se
Title: Laerte-se
Character: Herself
Released: May 18, 2017
Type: Movie
In this film, Laerte conjugates the body in the feminine, and scrutinizes concepts and prejudices. Not in search of an identity, but in search of un-identities. Laerte creates and sends creatures to face reality in the fictional world of comic strips as a vanguard of the self. And, on the streets, the one who becomes the fiction of a real character. Laerte, of all the bodies, and of none, complicates all binaries. In following Laerte, this documentary chooses to clothe the nudity beyond the skin we inhabit.
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Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
Title: Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
Character: Herself
Released: August 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Inspired by the US paper “Gay Sunshine”, in April of 1978 appeared in Brazil – during the dictatorship – the newspaper “O Lampião”, depicting the point of view of gays on various issues, including sexuality. A group of journalists and writers from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo joined the project, fueling a publication that paved the way for the press at the time, addressing controversial issues at the period, such as racism, abortion, drugs and prostitution.
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Super Oldboy
Title: Super Oldboy
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at the bank. One day he gets involved in an unusual bank robbery.
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Title: Transando com Laerte
Character: Apresentadora
Released: June 2, 2015
Type: TV
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Tie and Red Nail
Title: Tie and Red Nail
Character: Herself
Released: March 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Several characters realize their personal way to build their own identity from the choice of genre. Transsexual, transgender, crossdressing – the defining of terminologies different ways of looking at yourself are constantly rising, portraying a universe of possibilities, expanding the boundaries of the possible and permitted.
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Legs Out
Title: Legs Out
Character: Herself
Released: August 23, 2012
Type: Movie
The cartoonist Laerte goes a long way through São Paulo searching for a certificate.
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Laughter of Others
Title: Laughter of Others
Character: Herself
Released: January 12, 2012
Type: Movie
There are limits to jokes? What is the politically incorrect humor? A joke has the power to offend? It is these issues that 'Laughter of Others' discusses interviewing personalities such as comedians Danilo Gentili and Rafinha Bastos, cartoonist Laerte and Congressman Jean Wyllys, among others. The documentary delves into the world of Stand Up Comedy to discuss the fine line between comedy and offense, between legal and what creates endless lawsuits.
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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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Malditos Cartunistas
Title: Malditos Cartunistas
Released: November 6, 2010
Type: Movie
Documentary that presents an overview of the production of cartoons and comics in Brazil.
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Dossiê Rê Bordosa
Title: Dossiê Rê Bordosa
Character: Herself
Released: March 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Envy? Ego issues? Malice? In 1987, Angeli, one of the most important cartoonists in Brazil, coldly murdered one of his most famous creations, the underground diva Rê Bordosa.
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Três Irmãos de Sangue
Title: Três Irmãos de Sangue
Released: November 19, 2006
Type: Movie
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Cartas da Mãe
Title: Cartas da Mãe
Released: January 2, 2003
Type: Movie