Vera Valdez

Vera Valdez

Born: May 26, 1936
in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Movies for Vera Valdez...

Aunt Virginia
Title: Aunt Virginia
Character: Dona Cândida
Released: November 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and Valquíria, to move to another city in order to take care of her parents. Taking place in just one day, the film follows Virginia's preparation to receive the sisters who are coming to her house to celebrate Christmas.
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The Lurcher's Stall
Title: The Lurcher's Stall
Character: Sara
Released: August 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Retired and facing financial problems, Sara opens a stall to make some cash and get rid of all the belongings she has accumulated throughout her life, making up stories so she doesn't have to take anything back to her lonely home.
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Joy Is the Acid Test
Title: Joy Is the Acid Test
Character: Jade
Released: January 23, 2023
Type: Movie
A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.
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La Abuela (The Grandmother)
Title: La Abuela (The Grandmother)
Character: Pilar
Released: January 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Susana leaves her life in Paris, where she works as a model, and returns to Madrid to take care of her grandmother Pilar.
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Avá - Até Que os Ventos Aterrem
Title: Avá - Até Que os Ventos Aterrem
Released: December 6, 2021
Type: Movie
53,000 years before or after anyone. for three days the axis of the earth has stopped. The sun and moon inhabit the earth's horizon at the same time, aligned. The vibrations on the surface have reduced considerably, we are now very close to vital ground zero. Plant cells and human hemoglobin need to meet. There is only one moment for photosynthesis. The horror of the tropics gnawed at every eye. Free the condensed particle of everything.
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Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Title: Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Character: Self
Released: April 10, 2021
Type: Movie
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
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Title: Invisible City
Character: Inês Idosa
Released: February 5, 2021
Type: TV
An environmental police officer uncovers a hidden world of mythological entities from Brazilian folklore when he finds a connection between the mysterious appearance of a dead river dolphin on a Rio de Janeiro beach and the death of his beloved wife.
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Cora
Title: Cora
Character: Isabel
Released: January 31, 2021
Type: Movie
2064. Cora, a Danish woman, finds an unfinished documentary in which Benjamim, her Brazilian father, attempted - fifty years earlier - to investigate the story of his own parents: Teo, who, afflicted by insanity, died when he was still a child, and Elenir, a mysterious woman he’d barely heard of. In the course of his investigation, Benjamim discovers that both characters are part of a complex family puzzle, filled with traumas and taboos, and starts seeing himself as an important piece in the puzzle. The footage found in Benjamim’s documentary is reorganized by his daughter, Cora, in an attempt to understand her family’s lost past.
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Ex-Humanos
Title: Ex-Humanos
Character: Humana
Released: December 10, 2019
Type: Movie
In Brazil of yore, ex-humans feed on a fleeting drug.
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Sol Alegria
Title: Sol Alegria
Character: Mother Excelsa
Released: January 27, 2018
Type: Movie
While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of weapons to a group of militant nuns who have withdrawn to the jungle, living off the income from their cannabis plantation. As gay , bi, trans, the converts so organized to make revolution.
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On Wheels
Title: On Wheels
Character: Dona Pereira
Released: April 9, 2017
Type: Movie
13-year-old Lucas makes a new friend in his classmate Lais, and joins her on an epic journey to find the father she has never known.
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The Last Land
Title: The Last Land
Released: June 2, 2016
Type: Movie
In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the hills of Paraguay. All the stages of mourning are passed through in a single day in this wordless account of an emotional earthquake.
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My Hindu Friend
Title: My Hindu Friend
Character: Death's Wife
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live with the pain and also conversing with death, he meets a Hindu boy who is a fellow patient and who becomes his friend. But one day the boy disappears. Diego is discharged, but his life has changed forever. His marriage fails and, living alone, he begins to wonder whether he may in fact be dying and no one has told him. He tries to find out what happened to his Hindu friend, and eventually meets another woman.
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Coffee Stains
Title: Coffee Stains
Released: October 4, 2014
Type: Movie
A photographer travels to São Paulo for his first solo exhibition and decides to stay in his now married, ex-girlfriend’s house.
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Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Title: Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Character: Vítima
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
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Title: Sound & Fury
Character: Moira
Released: July 7, 2009
Type: TV
The lives of a Shakespearian theater troupe and their struggles to stage a production of 'Hamlet'.
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Canção de Baal
Title: Canção de Baal
Character: Mulher
Released: October 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.
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Conceição - Autor Bom é Autor Morto
Title: Conceição - Autor Bom é Autor Morto
Character: Mulher no bar
Released: July 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A group of young people is in a bar to drink, and they are trying to choose a story for the movie they are decided to make, but their characters are not very satisfied with the results of it.
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Love from Mother Only
Title: Love from Mother Only
Character: Mother
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Filho is a miserable bastard. He's divided between the duty of nursing his fanatic mother and his obsessive lust for Formosa - a whore of Satan . His dilemma casts him into an abyss of violence, witchcraft, death and demonic trance.
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Os Sertões - A Terra
Title: Os Sertões - A Terra
Released: December 2, 2002
Type: Movie
From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão"(backlands). The result was the pentalogy of plays: A Terra (2002), O Homem I (2003), O Homem II (2003), A Luta I (2005), and A Luta II (2006). This first play is a carnival opera, the actors are the earth, the vegetation, the wind, the animals, the rivers, the drought. It reveals the most intimate secrets of nature, that also vibrate in the human and trans-human arteries. This work enriched by the experience that the subsequent works brought gains an updated insight into the human interference in the environment. Destructive power is proportional to financial power, and the discussion about the way space gets occupied was brought to the forefront, including the real-estate boom that surrounds today not only Teatro Oficina, but the whole world, now hotter and more arid.
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Anchieta, José do Brasil
Title: Anchieta, José do Brasil
Character: Maria Zé
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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República da Traição
Title: República da Traição
Character: Nadine Verne
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local man, whom they hire as an employee, will change their plans.
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O Homem Nu
Title: O Homem Nu
Character: Amiga de Marialva
Released: March 4, 1968
Type: Movie
A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
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Até Que o Casamento Nos Separe
Title: Até Que o Casamento Nos Separe
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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As Cariocas
Title: As Cariocas
Released: October 24, 1966
Type: Movie
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Title: T.N.T.
Character: Tânia
Released: April 28, 1965
Type: TV
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The Fire Within
Title: The Fire Within
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for all. His wife, living in New York, continues to pay for his treatment, but no longer contacts him directly. He intends to commit suicide, but first takes a ride to Paris to catch up with old friends.