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Actors: Jose Wilker, Sergio Britto, Lea Garcia, Tais Araujo, Sergio Malheiros
Synopsis: A Brazilian astrophysicist who has spent most of his adult life in America returns to his home country to accept a prestigious government award and come to terms with his troubled past after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Upon returning to Brazil, Antonio (Jose Wilker) accepts his Read More
Actors: Murilo Benicio, Cláudia Abreu, Natalia Lage, Jorge Doria, Jose Wilker
Synopsis: A cinematic study of the bleak realities of modern day Brazil, O Homen do Ano (aka Man of the Year) follows the brooding Máiquel (Murilo Benicio) as he discovers that the smallest changes in life can make the biggest differences. Jobless and insecure to the point where he can't even face himself Read More
Actors: Antonio Fagundes, Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Jose Wilker
Synopsis: The life and career of the renowned Brazilian composer Hector Villa-Lobos is portrayed in this biographical drama, which begins with the legendary musician looking back at his own life in his declining years, then leaps back and forth in time to show the highlights of his story. Villa-Lobos Read More
Actors: Andrea Beltrao, Daniel Dantas, Monica Torres, Tony Ramos, Gloria Pires
Synopsis: In this Brazilian romantic comedy-drama, set in Rio, Luiza (Andrea Beltrao) meets researcher Gabriel (Daniel Dantas), who is involved in an unpleasant divorce. Although the two immediately hit it off, they soon encounter predictable problems. The title refers to the fact that the movie has been Read More
Actors: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, Jose Wilker, Rodolfo de Alexandra, Angelo Barra Moreira
Synopsis: The Amazon rain forest is a living laboratory for Dr. Robert Campbell (Sean Connery), a reclusive research scientist living with a Brazilian native tribe. Campbell has accidentally discovered a flower extract that cures cancer, but has been unable to duplicate the formula. With the assistance of Read More
Actors: Marilia Pera, Paulo José, Zeze Motta, Jose Wilker
Synopsis: In this drama, the lives of the people who dub the voices in movies and television shows from foreign countries are explored. In this case, the foreign shows are from the U.S., and the language they are being dubbed into is Brazilian Portuguese. Marialva (Marilia Pera)is a Brazilian woman who dubs Read More
Actors: Vera Fischer, Paulo Betti, Jose Wilker, Carlos Gregorio
Synopsis: Leticia (Vera Fischer) is a beautiful woman who is the obsession of two men. One is her extremely jealous ex-lover, the other is a pilot who routinely makes trips to the gold mines in the jungles of the Amazon. Leticia is embroiled in a scheme to sell a forged painting which is supposedly by a Read More
Actors: Jose Wilker, Tarcisio Meira, Nuno Leal Maia, Rogério Samora
Synopsis: The life of the "banker" (Rogerior Samora)of an illegal gambling syndicate is the focus of this high-profile Brazilian production. Though these syndicates for the game jogo do bicho operate in ways very much resembling the U.S.'s mafioso, from the banker's perspective, the only thing of Read More
Actors: Guilherme Fontes, Milton Goncalves, Taumaturgo Ferreira, Ana Beatriz Wiltgen, Ze Trindada
Synopsis: In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He embarks upon a quest through the wild streets of Rio to find her. Along the way he meets an assortment of odd urban underworld characters. ~ Sandra Read More
Actors: Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman, Peter Firth, Florinda Bolkan, Desmond Llewelyn
Synopsis: In 1981, Ronald Biggs was kidnapped by agents from Scotland Yard from his Brazilian hideout for his participation in the 1964 British train robbery. This feature was written by Biggs and director Lech Majewski as a fictionalized account of the authorities trying to bring the colorful crook to Read More
Actors: Lucelia Santos, Norma Bengell, Claudio Marzo, Jose Wilker, Paulo Betti
Synopsis: All three of the main female characters in this film were performed by Lucella Santos. The three women in question all live around a plaza in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, and none of them is aware of the others. Though their adult responses to deeply flawed childhoods are very different, each of them Read More
Actors: Louise Cardoso, Diogo Vilela, Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Tony Ramos, Marieta Severo
Synopsis: Every country no doubt has its golden youths who die before they have had a chance to come to full flower and who leave a romantic legend behind them. In the U.S., one of these was James Dean. In Brazil, the fans of the actress Leila Diniz were similarly bereft when she died in the late 1960s. Read More
Actors: Antonio Fagundes, Jose Wilker, Gloria Pires, Isabel Ribeiro
Synopsis: The story in this inventive and critically well-regarded film is told backwards, beginning in the 1980s and detailing the lives of two couples who were deeply affected by the popular song of the 1960s "Besame Mucho". From then until the 1980s, pop music defines the key moments in their lives. The Read More
Actors: Jose Wilker, Marieta Severo, Jonas Bloch, Carlos Gregorio, Paulo Villaca
Synopsis: A better-than-average Brazilian docudrama, this look at 20 years in the life of the notorious Tenorio Cavalcanti (Jose Wilker) leans heavily on the contributions of his family. Cavalcanti was a gunslinger in the tradition of an American Western. He was elected to Congress, where he showed up Read More
Actors: Jose Wilker, Betty Faria, Jardel Filho, Anselmo Vasconcelos
Synopsis: This political thriller is set against the background of actual turmoil in Brazil in the 1970s, so viewers familiar with that time and place in history will get the most out of O Bom Burgues. Lucas (José Wilker) is a banker with clandestine leftist sympathies who is embezzling money from the bank Read More
Actors: Jose Wilker, Ester Goes, Renato Borghi
Synopsis: This film is a mix of 1971 footage of Jose Martínez-Correía's stage production of O Rei da Vela, and three additional years of shooting between 1979-1982, the whole put together in a series of somewhat arbitrary images. Although the story behind this bewildering film is based on a man who sells Read More
Actors: Jose Wilker, Betty Faria, Fabio Junior, Zaira Zambelli, Prinicipe Nabor
Synopsis: Bye Bye Brazil, the gifted director Carlos Diegues' follow-up to his 1978 Xica da Silva, became one of the most popular and fiscally successful imports of late '70s and early '80s South American cinema. Bye Bye is a muted and low-key ensemble drama about a shabby circus crawling from small town to Read More
Actors: Jose Wilker
Synopsis: Even though society in Brazil is multi-ethnic and multi-colored, racism is a potent force there. There are simply, quite literally, more shades of prejudice than elsewhere. In this story, a man returns to his birthplace to seek out a girl he grew up with. She is now a beautiful black woman. When Read More
Actors: Sonia Braga, Jose Wilker, Mauro Mendonca, Dinorah Brillanti, Nelson Xavier
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jorge Amado, this Brazilian comedy follows the strange events that befall Doña Flor (Sonia Braga) after she is left a widow by the death of her wild, irresponsible husband. (He died after another wanton night of carousing) Attempting to marry more wisely the second time Read More
Actors: Zeze Motta, Walmor Chagas, Altair Lima
Synopsis: The uncommonly sexy, clever and ambitious slave Xica Da Silva won her independence and much more in mid-19th-century Brazil by using her feminine wiles and her lovemaking prowess to induce the Portuguese town governor to grant her freedom. In so doing, she became a legend and an inspiration to Read More
Synopsis: Revolutionaries in 16th-century Brazil come in for close study in this 1972 Brazilian/Italian film. A group of intellectuals, with the exception of a Corporal Tiradentes, these revolutionaries plotted the overthrow of the Portuguese colonial government. In a compelling scene, an informer slips Read More
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