Maria Gladys
Birthday: Born in 1939-11-23 in Cachambi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deathday: Alive
Maria Gladys Mello da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, November 23, 1939) is a Brazilian actress. She is considered one of the muses of marginal cinema, having acted in several works by filmmaker Júlio Bressane. She is the grandmother of actress Mia Goth.
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Aquele Beijo
Character: Eveva
Aquele Beijo is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Rede Globo and exhibited in the schedule of 19 hours. Written by Miguel Falabella, Flávio Marinho and Antonia Pellegrino, and directed by Roberto Talma and Cininha de Paula, its release was the day October 17, 2011, replacing Morde & Assopra....
Um Anjo Caiu do Céu
Character: Zezé
João Medeiros is an internationally renowned photographer who suffers an attack in Prague, when he happens to photograph a Nazi leader who was in the middle of secret plans. In his last moments on Earth, his life is saved by the angel Rafael, sent by the highest heavenly bodies to offer him a new chance. The angel warns the photographer that he will only have six months to live to solve his problems with his family, neglected since he abandoned everything for the profession - including solving h...
Tereza Batista
Character: Felipa
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Brilhante
Character: Dinalva
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Sexo e as Negas
Character: Fumaça
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Grande Sertão: Veredas
Character: Maria do Padre
A cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces....
Corpo Dourado
Character: Mazinha
Corpo Dourado is a Brazilian soap opera produced by and shown on Rede Globo from 12 January 1998 through 21 August 1998. The 191 chapters were written by Antônio Calmon and directed by Flávio Colatrello Jr, and later Marcos Schetchman....
Padre Cícero
Character: Ifigênia
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Negócio da China
Character: Lucivone
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As Noivas de Copacabana
Character: Rita de Cássia
Donato Menezes, a renowned art restorer from Copacabana is also a serial killer obsessed with women in their bridal gowns. His crimes follows the same pattern: he seduces and then kills the victim during the sexual act, always when they're wearing the gown....
Vale Tudo
Character: Lucimar
Fátima Accioly is a young, callous woman who wants to be rich and successful at any price. After selling her family's house in the country, she heads to Rio and gets to know dress man César who is unscrupulous himself. Meanwhile, her mother Raquel stays behind without home and money, but finally tries to find her daughter in the big city. Both women come in contact with the rich Roitman family which changes their lives forever....
Top Model
Character: Veridiana "Big Loira"
Maria Eduarda "Duda" Pinheiro is a successful top model. After being hired to model Covery brand clothes, she meets the Kundera brothers, Alex and Gaspar, owners of the company. Gaspar, a former beatnik, is over 40 but still practices surfing, lives in a beach-side house and raises five children: Elvis (named after Elvis Presley), Ringo (Starr), Jane (Fonda), Olívia (Newton-John) and (John) Lennon, all from different mothers who left them with him. Anastácia "Naná" Passos, Duda's friend and ment...
O Beijo do Vampiro
Character: Maria da Graça (Gracinha)
The struggling Lívia despairs when she learns that her husband, before dying, lost a fortune in shady deals. Widowed and with three children, she is forced to fight for her family and leaves for the paradisiacal beach town of Maramores, where her mother Zoroastra lives. Parallel to the difficulties, Lívia discovers that she is involved in the eternal struggle of Good against Evil. In fact, Lívia is the reincarnation of Princess Cecília, the eternal passion of the vampire Bóris Vladescu, who has...
Senhora do Destino
Character: Dona Mimi
A story about people who succeed in life thanks to nothing but their own efforts. Maria do Carmo is the main character of the telenovela; a mother of five who struggle to be successful in life, but whose most important will be recovering the love of her daughter who was kidnapped when she was just months old....
A Lua Me Disse
Character: Naíde Alves
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Fera Ferida
Character: Lucineide Barbosa
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Salsa e Merengue
Character: Neném
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As Canalhas
Character: Luciene
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Sangue do Meu Sangue
Character: Bentinha
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Movie Credits
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Character: Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."...
The Agony
Character: Eva, a vidente
Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by the roadside. Strongly painted lips, printed dress with round skirt and red shoes matching the color of the lipstick, she catches his attention. He gives her a ride, the two of them stare in silence for a few moments. They introduce themselves to one another and between the two establishes an absurd dialogue and full of metaphors. And they are driving...
Não Se Preocupe, Nada Vai Dar Certo!
Character: Senhora 1
Lalau (Gregorio Duvivier) is presented by the country's interior with his show jokes, whose main theme is her father, Ramon Velasco (Tarcisio Meira), an actor who always gets into shenanigans. One day, when present in Ceará, Stan receives a tempting proposal by Flora (Flávia Alessandra), which offers $ 100,000 so he pretends to be a famous guru in a motivational speech in Rio de Janeiro. He accepts and goes to Rio without telling his father. After seeing his son on the cover of a newspaper, Ramo...
Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
Character: Self
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material....
The Angel Was Born
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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....
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
Character: Mother
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....
My Sweet Orange Tree
Character: Professora
Poor boy treats a sweet lemon tree as his only friend, talking to it, and learning important values in the process. But one day the tree must be cut....
A Familia do Barulho
Character: Odalisca
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....
The Guns
Character: Luísa
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 lin...
Anchieta, José do Brasil
Character: Timbaúba
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil....
Edu, Coração de Ouro
Character: Neusinha
A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had managed to make him fall in love, until he met with mysterious Tatiana....
Brás Cubas
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Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's Posthumous Memories"). A dead man tells about his love life and adventures, specially his affair with Virgília, a dubious married woman....
Watch Out, Madame
Character: Cremilda
Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses....
Um Filme 100% Brasileiro
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French poet Blaise Cendrars arrives by sea on the city of Rio de Janeiro and lives s life of bohemian parties during the celebration of carnaval....
Life
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A documentary about actress brazilian Maria Gladys, a strong presence in films by Júlio Bressane, Rogério Sganzerla among others....
If I Were You
Character: Cida
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....
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme
Character: Dona Rita
Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a bride and is brutally strangled in the middle of the act of love. To prove the authorship of the crimes is the great challenge of detective França....
The End of an Age
Character: (voz)
They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life....
All of God's Creations
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An orphan, a blind virgin who seeks sexual pleasure, a young man who prostitutes himself as a transvestite and is sexually abused by his brother-in-law. What was God thinking of when he created each one of them?...
Mangúe-Bangúe
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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"....
Bar Esperanza
Character: Martha
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro....
Spray Jet
Character: Housekeeper
Three artists from São Paulo - Leda Catunda, Leonilson and Ciro Cozzolino - talk about their work and the rebirth of painting through pop, conceptual art and graffiti....
Bandalheira Infernal
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Experimental film, guided by the feeling of oppressive, paranoid, obsessive life of its characters. An essay on the oppression and dehumanization of the Brazilian people....
Rio de Topless
Character: Self
Topless muse in Rio de Janeiro, Ana Paula Nogueira uses the ban on bare breasts and her story to debate freedom and feminism in the city that exported thongs and which has the false reputation of being libertarian....
O Bebê
Character:
Marta, a young mother, hardly believes when she hears her young baby speak. She tries to convince the other people in the family of the fact, but soon discovers the baby only speaks with her, even in English....
Guará, Ladrão de Estrelas
Character:
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Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Character: The 'Babalu' Lady
Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women and idolized by his audience and friends. His contagious joy attracts the attention of American scientist Dr. Boris Lewitsky, who comes to Brazil in order to interview Apolônio's close friends and make them a most unusual offer concerning the remains of the late musician....
Sangue Quente em Tarde Fria
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Character: Self
Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship....
The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out
Character: Alzira
Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro....
If I Were You 2
Character: Cida
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....
The Joy
Character:
Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world… On a Christmas night, his cousin John is mysteriously shot in a street in the Lowlands and disappears into the night. Weeks later, while Luiza spends days alone in the apartment where he lives with his mother in Rio de Janeiro, a mysterious visitor comes knocking on your door: John, as a ghost, asking to hide there....
O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Character: Gladys
Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil....
High Art
Character: Woman Under Billboards
Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a local call girl....
Rat Fever
Character: Stella Maris
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....
Golden Oldies
Character: Dona Diamante
Four friends who only think about enjoying life, with big parties, women and drinks, are surprised by an eviction. In need of money, the group is forced to think about what they hate most: working! Confusion arises when everyone looks for an easy way to get money, with minimum effort. The days pass and the hilarious confusion only increases!...
Duas de Mim
Character: Sonja
Suellen (Thalita Carauta) is a cook who works hard to keep her little son, her younger sister and her mother alone. One day, your dreams come true: she splits in two. Her copy, identical physically, has different personality, being much more extroverted and courageous. The idea would be to divide the tasks with the other one, but soon Suellen realizes that the look-alike has plans of its own, and decides to betray the original....
No Way, Spider
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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....
O Gigante da América
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A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown....
Lucia McCartney, Call Girl
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In the 60's Lúcia McCartney is a call girl who is a fan of the Beatles. A diplomat tries to get her out of prostitution by falling in love with her....
Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino
Character: Self
A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albino Pinheiro....
Flying Geraldo
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A fantastic tale in the brutal reality of a slum. The life of a boy with the rare gift of flying. Based on a Will Eisner's story...
Natal da Portela
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Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro....
All the Women in the World
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When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to go on with his old life, or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man....
How Are You, Well?
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Two fanatical Flamengo fans get drunk after a defeat of time; a voyeurist peers at his neighbor's nakedness with binoculars; a suburbanite kills his wife over a chicken; an ambitious father makes money from his daughter who pretends to see the virgin Mary; a loving couple desperately seeks to satisfy their sexual desires; a priest tries to extort more alms from his parishioners; a married man, to survive, poses as a transvestite on a boat; a suburbanite prepares to sing on the Chacrinha show! An...
Maria Gladys, Uma Atriz Brasileira
Character: Self
The artistic career and daily life of actress Maria Gladys....
Copacabana Fools Me
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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....
Bandidos da Falange
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Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária
Character: Uma das irmãs de Rita
A young man must choose between two women. The one brings him the money, but the other he loves....
É Simonal
Character:
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Rio Babilonia
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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....
Quebranto
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A film of the literary hallucinations and existential dreams of the character João, who is also José and Joyce, anthropophagically enchanted by cinema in his two hours of life....
Pequenas Histórias
Character: Dona Hanna
On the porch of a farm, a woman tells stories while cutting and sewing scraps of cloth, creating images that form a towel. There are four stories of humor and magic. The fisherman's wedding with Iara, a mermaid from the rivers. The altar boy of a church that sees the procession of souls. The encounter between a Santa Claus in a store and a street boy and the adventures of Zé Burraldo, a naive guy who always lets himself be carried away by others....
Um Diamante e Cinco Balas
Character:
A man arrives in Tocantins river, looking for fortune....
Manual de Barros - Retrato do poeta quando coisa
Character: voz
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Belair
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Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom....
Anjos de Ipanema
Character: Self
A countercultural movement that took place at Ipanema Pier marked the history of all participants. Painters, musicians, actors, surfers and others came together to change the system through peaceful demonstrations, including drugs, sex and new experiences. After decades of events, the main participants recall the events....
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
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For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he m...
Os Doces Bárbaros
Character: Self (uncredited)
The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, who formed the group with the name of Doces Bárbaros (Sweet Barbarians), at the suggestion of Bethânia. Conceived to present the shows of the live album that would be released (Doces Bárbaros - Live), the documentary changed of tone when registering the arrest and judgment of Gilberto Gil and of a companion by possession of drugs. Gil was forced...
Privadas de Suas Vidas
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Out of Sight
Character: Lisiê
Roberta is an employee of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro who infiltrates an energy realignment clinic to investigate the mysterious death of actress Antuérpia Fox. During the course of the investigation, Roberta will have to deal with the dramas of actress Natasha Ferrero, who is being "cancelled" on the internet, and with the reunion of her great love from the past, the federal police officer Rodrigo, who is investigating a suspicion of international trafficking involving the same clinic. F...
Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família
Character: Self
A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death....