Movies: Dercy Gonçalves

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."...

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Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago....

Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from some of her friends....

Jair Rodrigues, the portrait of an artist from a Brazil so close and yet so distant....

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Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals....

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A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness....

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write....

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Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One day she meets young author Paulo and falls for him; but he is in love and engaged to ballerina Vilma, ...

Januário is a con man who, with the help of his equally con-artist friends, stays at the luxurious Hotel Palácio, posing as a rich cocoa farmer in order to rob and deceive tourists. Ananásia is a widow who also becomes a guest at the same hotel, with...

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Renato has fallen in love with his neighbor Marta, but their families don't get along. To try to solve the problem, each one takes their own family to a picnic in Paquetá, where everyone will have to interact....