Marília Pêra — Actor (8)
Chico: Brazilian Artist (2015) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Chico: Artista Brasileiro
other title: Chico - Artista Brasileiro / Chico, Artiste brésilien
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.
Traveller (1999) [Movie] IMDb Douban
O Viajante
director: Paulo Cesar Saraceni actor: Marília Pêra / Leandra Leal
other title: O Viajante
Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards, leaving a poetic feeling in the air, which is always deadly to the ones who stay. Mrs. Ana de Lara, the proud rich widow, and Missy, still a child, whose beauty and innocence are like the Tiê-Sangue, a red bird, are the travelers victims. There is also Master Juca do Vale, a criminal, whose passion turns him incredibly human, in this story of love, death, forgiveness and resurrection.
Playing (2007) [Movie] Eggplant.place
Jogo de Cena
other title: Jogo de Cena / 表演课
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
Mixed Blood (1985) [Movie] Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Mixed Blood
other title: 混血儿 / Mixed Blood - Die Ratten von Harlem
On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine. When Rita and her young gang members get involved in a minor turf war, the violence escalates out of control, touching everyone and sparing no one.
Playing (2007) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Jogo de Cena
director: 爱德华多·库蒂尼奥 actor: 马里利娅·佩拉 / Andrea Beltrão
other title: Jogo de Cena / 表演课
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
The Man Who Bought the World (1968) [Movie] Douban
Homem Que Comprou o Mundo, O
other title: 购买世界的人 / Homem Que Comprou o Mundo, O
Eduardo Coutinho是巴西新浪潮电影运动中的又一位天才导演,虽然他在新浪潮时期只拍摄过两部影片,但却都堪称杰作,这部在剧情上非常复杂新颖的影片是他最好的作品。
In a fictitious country, civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities because he could break world economics. But he manages to escape.
ingenious comedy about the cold war and the powers that be! This movie is a treasure waiting to be found. With a very original screenplay, it presents the life of an average man in Brazil that suddenly turns upside down when a dying mysterious trillionaire from the East puts his name is his testament. The economy of the world is at stake as he puts the money into his bank account, and the then two superpowers (USA and USSR) send agents to go after him, in an atmosphere of funny conspiracies and political sarcasm.
衣锦还乡 (1996) [Movie] Douban
Tieta do Agreste
director: 卡洛斯·迭戈 actor: Sonia Braga / Marília Pêra
other title: Tieta do Agreste
Brazilian town of Santa An-du-Agreshte welcomes his "prodigal daughter" Tieta, after a very long absence. When Tieta was 17, her father and older sister threw her out of the house "for bad behavior." And she returns home - very beautiful and, most importantly, fabulously rich. Her appearance causes a stir in the small town lost in time and space. After all, Tieta has more money than all of its residents, and she becomes the main benefactor of the town. But her older sister, burning with envy and dreaming to bring Titus "to light", suits against her a conspiracy ...