Lucélia Santos

Lucélia Santos

Born: May 20, 1957
in Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil

Movies for Lucélia Santos...

The Erection of Toribio Bardelli
Title: The Erection of Toribio Bardelli
Character: Celestine
Released: October 26, 2023
Type: Movie
After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own existence, this journey turns into a tender and subtle meditation on grief.
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Paula
Title: Paula
Character: Vera
Released: October 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Psuchological drama about a sucessful businesswoman who has not overcame ghosts of her past.
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Title: Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
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Mulher Oceano
Title: Mulher Oceano
Character: Teresa Visser
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those two women apparently share no connection, until their lives start to interfere in one another, strangely linked through the sea. Hannah, the writer, plunges into a journey of self-discovery in Japan, while Ana, the swimmer in Rio de Janeiro, oddly has her body transformed into some kind of inner Ocean.
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Amazônia - O Despertar da Florestania
Title: Amazônia - O Despertar da Florestania
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: Movie
How has Brazil dealt with nature and its natural resources in the early 20th century? What state is the Amazon Forest in? Based on specialties with specialties from the most diverse areas and with the rescue of historical figures, we discuss the notion of forestry, that is, the citizenship of the forest, a term necessary to reflect on Brazilian identity.
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Alguém Acaba de Morrer Lá Fora
Title: Alguém Acaba de Morrer Lá Fora
Released: February 5, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Serpent
Title: The Serpent
Character: Lígia e Guida
Released: October 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin. Dissatisfied, she wants to dissolve the marriage and thinks about suicide. To prevent her sister’s suicide, Guida offers her own husband, Paulo, for one night.
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Casa Grande
Title: Casa Grande
Released: January 28, 2014
Type: Movie
As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his 'casa grande' - not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil.
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Uma Visita a Holliweger
Title: Uma Visita a Holliweger
Character: Irmã Ana Holliweger
Released: August 10, 2010
Type: Movie
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Lula, the Son of Brazil
Title: Lula, the Son of Brazil
Character: Professora
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.
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Title: Donas de Casa Desesperadas
Character: Suzana Mayer
Released: August 15, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Cidadão Brasileiro
Character: Fausta Gama / Faustina de Assis Aguiar
Released: March 13, 2006
Type: TV
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As Cartas de Chico Xavier
Title: As Cartas de Chico Xavier
Character: Dejanira
Released: June 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Three people accused of murder who were pardoned by the parents of the victims and acquitted by Justice thanks to the letters psychographed by the medium Chico Xavier.
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The Egg
Title: The Egg
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken.
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3 Histórias da Bahia
Title: 3 Histórias da Bahia
Character: Ana Carolina
Released: May 24, 2001
Type: Movie
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O Sonho de Rose: 10 Anos Depois
Title: O Sonho de Rose: 10 Anos Depois
Character: Narração
Released: November 17, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary depicting what happened to the characters in the film Terra para Rose, made by the same director. Shows the life of some 1500 families of landless rural laborers who, for the first time in 1985, occupied an unproductive large landholding, the Annoni plantation in Rio Grande do Sul. After camping out for years in tents, facing down the police and negotiating with the government, the former landless laborers have managed to turn their dream into reality, and are now successful small farmers.
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Dib
Title: Dib
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.
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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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Title: Young Hearts
Character: Jackeline Lemos (Jackie)
Released: April 24, 1995
Type: TV
Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.
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Vagas Para Moças de Fino Trato
Title: Vagas Para Moças de Fino Trato
Character: Lúcia
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
In Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse Madalena. Gertrudes misses and daydreams her former love and has a motherhood relationship with Lúcia; Madalena has a promiscuous life, having one night stand with the most different men every day and her behavior is criticized by Gertreudes; and Lúcia is dreamer that manipulates Gertrudes and expects that the handyman Alfredo becomes her prince charming. Their conflictive relationship ends when Madalena discloses their inner feelings and secrets to each other.
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Kuarup
Title: Kuarup
Character: Lídia
Released: June 2, 1989
Type: Movie
This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.
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Terra Para Rose
Title: Terra Para Rose
Released: August 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Documentary about the oppression of a group of a families of the MST, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement, who invaded Anoni Farm, a farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1985, and Rose, a woman fighting for the right of owning a land and for elementary human rights, and mother of the first baby born in the camping site.
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The Seven Vampires
Title: The Seven Vampires
Character: Elisa Machado
Released: September 9, 1986
Type: Movie
A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious deaths happening in a nightclub show.
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Title: Sinhá Moça
Character: Maria das Graças Ferreira, a Sinhá Moça
Released: April 28, 1986
Type: TV
Monarchists and Republicans confront themselves in Araruna, a small town in the interior of São Paulo, in 1886, two years before the promulgation of the Golden Law. Sinhá Moça's love story, daughter of Colonel Ferreira, Baron de Araruna, and a slave-boy, with the young Dr. Rodolfo, an active Republican abolitionist, faced with the difficulties of the campaign for the abolition of slaves. The two meet on the train, when Sinhá Moça, after completing her studies in the provincial capital, returns to Araruna. Like Rodolfo, she has abolitionist ideas and criticizes her father's attitudes, fighting for the defense of blacks. Sinhá Moça, together with Rodolfo and other abolitionists, invade the slave quarters at night and liberate the blacks, giving them to the abolitionist associations, which guide them towards freedom.
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Baixo Gávea
Title: Baixo Gávea
Character: Clara
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Clara directs the rehearsals of a theatrical play about Fernando Pessoa while constantly seeking the right man and the love of his life. One of the actresses is the lesbian Ana, who interprets the poet Mário de Sá Carneiro. She is Clara's friend and confidant with whom she shares an apartment. Clara does not perceive Ana's love for her, that always helps her to recover from the disappointments. Unlike the character Sá Carneiro, poet of decadentism, nostalgia, metaphysics and vague, Ana is the pragmatic side of Clara, who often brings a disillusioned vision as if it were Fernando Pessoa himself, who may be associated with concepts of the poet's heteronyms.
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Fonte da Saudade
Title: Fonte da Saudade
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Title: Vereda Tropical
Character: Silvana Rocha
Released: July 23, 1984
Type: TV
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Patriamada
Title: Patriamada
Released: June 17, 1984
Type: Movie
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Title: Meu Destino É Pecar
Character: Helena Castro Avelar, a Leninha
Released: May 21, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: Guerra dos Sexos
Character: Carolina Carneiro
Released: June 6, 1983
Type: TV
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The Dream's Not Over
Title: The Dream's Not Over
Character: Lucinha
Released: August 6, 1982
Type: Movie
The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a context of a country that was on the final years of a dictatorship back in the 1980s.
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Luz Del Fuego
Title: Luz Del Fuego
Character: Luz Del Fuego
Released: April 5, 1982
Type: Movie
Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.
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Bonitinha mas Ordinária
Title: Bonitinha mas Ordinária
Character: Maria Cecilia Weneck
Released: March 12, 1981
Type: Movie
The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.
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Family Album
Title: Family Album
Character: Gloria
Released: March 5, 1981
Type: Movie
Follows the decadence of an incestuous oligarch family in a rural Brazilian household through the years during the early 20th century.
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Engraçadinha
Title: Engraçadinha
Character: Engraçadinha
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.
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Title: Água Viva
Character: Janete
Released: February 4, 1980
Type: TV
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Title: Ciranda, Cirandinha
Character: Tatiana (Tati)
Released: April 26, 1978
Type: TV
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O Ibraim do Subúrbio
Title: O Ibraim do Subúrbio
Released: May 19, 1977
Type: Movie
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Title: Locomotivas
Character: Fernanda Cabral
Released: March 1, 1977
Type: TV
Kiki Blanche is a former star dedicated to her family and her beauty salon, in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. In addition to Milena, her legitimate daughter, Kiki raises Fernanda, Paulo, Renata and Regina. The great conflict of the plot is Fernanda's passion for Fábio, a man also loved by Milena.
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Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente
Title: Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente
Released: December 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for his own wedding, cannot remember who the bride might be. In the third, a rich husband tries to find the tattooed man he saw escaping through his wife's bedroom window.
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Title: Escrava Isaura
Character: Isaura dos Anjos / Elvira
Released: October 11, 1976
Type: TV
The difficulties faced by a young, sweet-hearted white slave targeted by the obsession of her lord in the Brazilian colonial time period.
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Paranóia
Title: Paranóia
Released: September 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.
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Um Brasileiro Chamado Rosaflor
Title: Um Brasileiro Chamado Rosaflor
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie