Maria Gladys — Actor (13)

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No Way, Spider (1970)
Sem Essa, Aranha WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Sem Essa, Aranha / Dame un respiro, Araña
Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on the mental underdevelopment of Brazilian elites, in which black humor sets the tone for sharp criticism.

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Copacabana Fools Me (1969)
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other title: Copacabana Me Engana
Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.

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Rio Babilonia (1982)
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Neville D'Almeida actor: Joel Barcellos / Christiane Torloni …
other title: Rio Babilônia / 巴比伦力
A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.

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Mangúe-Bangúe (1971)
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Neville D'Almeida actor: Maria Gladys / Paulo Villaça …
other title: Mangue-Bangue
The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a runaway stockbroker, "Mangue-Bangue" is the paradigmatic expression of the post-1968 spirit of desbunde, the Brazilian slang catchword for "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll".

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Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (1991)
Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema
Neville D'Almeida actor: Cláudia Raia / Louise Cardoso …
other title: Uccise la famiglia e andò al cinema / Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema …
In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.

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The Hullabaloo Family (1970)
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Júlio Bressane actor: Helena Ignez / Poty …
other title: La famiglia del chiasso / A Família do Barulho
A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro. When the slut threatens the other two to stop supporting them, they decide to find an odalisque as an alternative to keep their easy life.

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The Angel Was Born (1969)
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Júlio Bressane actor: Hugo Carvana / Milton Gonçalves …
other title: L'angelo è nato / O Anjo Nasceu …
Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.

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The Guns (1964)
Os Fuzis
Ruy Guerra actor: Átila Iório / Nelson Xavier …
other title: I fucili / Os Fuzis …
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.

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Rat Fever (2012)
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Cláudio Assis actor: Irandhir Santos / Matheus Nachtergaele …
other title: Febre do Rato
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.

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If I Were You 2 (2009)
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other title: Se Eu Fosse Você 2 / Wenn ich Du wäre 2
Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.

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If I Were You (2006)
Se Eu Fosse Você
other title: Se Eu Fosse Você / Wenn ich Du wäre …
The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.