Conceição Senna

Conceição Senna


Died: May 27, 2020
in Valente, Bahia, Brazil

Movies for Conceição Senna...

O Amor Dentro da Câmera
Title: O Amor Dentro da Câmera
Character: herself
Released: March 18, 2021
Type: Movie
O AMOR DENTRO DA CÂMERA is an essay documentary that tells the story of Conceição and Orlando Senna, pioneers of Audiovisual, who live a romance of almost 60 years, crossed by the History of cinema and Latin America. Intimate and metalinguistic, portrayed in the warmth of the home and through archival materials, when telling a love story, it takes us through the cinematographic and political networks that have woven across the continent.
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Bahia SCI-FI
Title: Bahia SCI-FI
Character: Ela mesma
Released: June 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Since the 1970s, Roberto Pires has militated against the use of nuclear energy. For that, he went looking for the biggest Brazilian name in this subject, César Lattes, professor of Nuclear Physics at UNICAMP. Believing that nuclear energy could, in the long run, extinguish human life. With the collaboration of Orlando Senna, he writes the screenplay for the film “Abrigo Nuclear”, an ambitious production, science fiction film entirely produced and shot in Bahia. With little money, armed with his creative ability, Roberto builds a 'spaceship' and a studio in the backyard of his house. He calls children, relatives and friends and begins production on “Nuclear Shelter”, which is released in 1981. With statements by Orlando Senna, Laura Pires, Nonato Freire, among others, the documentary "Bahia SCI-FI" intends to explore the universe that surrounded Roberto Pires, Bahia and the possible nuclear war of the late 1970s and early 1970s. 1980.
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The Invisible Collection
Title: The Invisible Collection
Character: Iolanda
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
The young Beto ventures to the Brazilian countryside in search of a collection of rare drawings. There he meets Samir, the collector, and his family ruined by the demise of the cocoa plantations. The journey and the encounter will irrevocably change the young man’s soul.
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Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
Title: Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
Released: January 22, 2013
Type: Movie
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Ser Tão Cinzento
Title: Ser Tão Cinzento
Character: Ela mesma
Released: August 24, 2011
Type: Movie
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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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The Ballroom
Title: The Ballroom
Character: Aurelina
Released: November 25, 2007
Type: Movie
An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and desire is an antidote to grumpy old men and women everywhere.
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Iremos a Beirute
Title: Iremos a Beirute
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: Movie
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Hovering Over the Water
Title: Hovering Over the Water
Character: Senhora Amélia
Released: February 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrive looking for Robert.
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Malandro
Title: Malandro
Released: July 2, 1986
Type: Movie
In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel exploits a cabaret singer, and earns his living by means of petty swindles. But then he meets Ludmila, the cabaret owner's daughter, who wants to get rich smuggling goods in times of war.
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Nuclear Shelter
Title: Nuclear Shelter
Character: Avo
Released: September 7, 1981
Type: Movie
Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface. (IMDb)
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Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
Title: Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
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Diamante Bruto
Title: Diamante Bruto
Released: February 22, 1978
Type: Movie
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Iracema
Title: Iracema
Released: July 14, 1975
Type: Movie
A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by the Brazilian censorship. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.
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Gitirana
Title: Gitirana
Character: Ciça
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Yesterday, the inhabitants of the Nordeste had to abandon their land for lack of water. Today, floods are driving them out... Deprived of their roots, the people continue to remain faithful to their traditions and beliefs, while progress is imposed by the power of money.
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Caveira My Friend
Title: Caveira My Friend
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
The adventures of a gang of thieves and murderers led by violent Caveirinha. A radical disruption proposal from the postulates of the Cinema Novo, a film with a loose narrative structure. Through the actions of a group of outlaws, the director sews in scenes that propose iconoclasm and elation as forms of opposition to the military dictatorship oppression.
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Antonio das Mortes
Title: Antonio das Mortes
Character: Waitress at the Alvorada Bar (uncredited)
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.