Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva
Birthday: Born in 1952-04-12 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deathday: 2017-11-30
Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva (Rio de Janeiro, April 12, 1952 - Rio de Janeiro, November 30, 2017) was a Brazilian actress. From a film, television and theater actress, Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva moved on to film production. Daughter of Greek Harry Anastassiadi, former president of Fox Film for Latin America, she graduated in art history and accumulated several extension courses in Europe. She made her film debut in Paraíso no Inferno (1977), a feature film directed by actor Joel Barcelos. From then on, she acted in a series of Brazilian cinema films, such as Film Thieves (1977), by Fernando Coni Campos, A Força de Xangô (1977), by Iberê Cavalcanti, Os Trombadinhas (1979), by Anselmo Duarte. , Sonho de Verão (1990), by Paulo Sérgio Almeida, and The third bank of the river (1993), by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, and even internationally, such as the Portuguese production Eternidade.
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Araponga
Character: Celene
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Zazá
Character: Hilda
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Quatro por Quatro
Character: Dora
A traffic accident causes four women's destinies to intertwine. In the series, the four enter a pact of revenge against the men who hit them and caused them to suffer. Auxiliadora struggled to help her husband Alcebíades prosper, but when he leaves her for a younger woman, is thrown out of the house. The shy Tatiana was engaged to Fortunato, who failed to show up at their wedding. The Babalu hurricane caught mechanic Raí in bed with another woman. Abigail, a preppy psychologist who is struggling...
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A Mulher Sensual
Character: Selma Andrade
Famous soap opera actress finds out her sexuality after breaking up with her former boyfriend, an important TV executive....
Bocage, the Triumph of Love
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The film follows Manuel Maria du Bocage, 18th-century poet, as he travels through the world from orgy to orgy and from excess to excess....
Ao Sul do Meu Corpo
Character: Helena
São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto (Paulo César Pereio) is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro (Nuno Leal Maia) he won a scholarship to study in Paris. In Paris Polidoro receives a letter in which Alberto announces that he married Helena (Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva). Polidoro returns to Brazil in 1945, when there was a strong political agitation against the New State. Alberto invites Polidoro to spend a few days at his home in Campos do Jordão. After reachin...
O Gerente
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A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands....
Summer Dream
Character: Ana
Grieved over the loss of their daughter, an elderly couple has decided do spend their vacation travelling around Europe. The cab driver who takes them to the airport, Leo, overhears their conversation and decides to profit from their situation: Leo convinces the couple's staff he's their nephew, and invites his friends and girlfriend over for a special summer. Things go awry when his friend Marcelo arrives with a bus full of teenagers, who believe the mansion is actually a summer camp....
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....
Traveller
Character: Anita
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 innocenc...
Asa Branca: A Brazilian Dream
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Story of a modest but talented soccer player for an obscure club in a small Brazilian town who comes to São Paulo and reaches stardom....
The Force of Xango
Character: Matilde de Obá
Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets beautiful Zulmira; they pledge love and projects for many children. But time passes and Tonho returns to being the womanizer he had always been. Zulmira, daughter of Iansã, cannot stand Tonho's brazenness, and asks her saint-mother to wash her honor with blood....
Brasa Adormecida
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Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding....
Cocky
Character: Volga
Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering the boy's hidden (and big) qualities......
The Third Bank of the River
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After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos' celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, inc...
Desejo Violento
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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....
Os Trombadinhas
Character: Arlete
In São Paulo, a businessman wants to rehabilitate street children, called "trombinhas", through a social project. After being discouraged by the police, he seeks help from the coach of the Santos Futebol Clube youth team....
Eternidade
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Returning to his homeland after many years away, Juvenal, an agricultural engineer with liberal ideas, finds himself caught up in the social unrest on the island of Madeira that preceded the 1974 revolution, which is condemned by his brother Álvaro, an embroidery manufacturer and staunch conservative. Exposed to the romantic schemes devised by Álvaro, Juvenal vigorously defends the exploited workers and is reunited with Elisabeth, the great love of his youth. Wounded while taking part in a popul...
Nem Tudo Que É Sonho Desmancha no Ar
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Sweet Thieves
Character: American crew member
After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the reality of Brazil - with the theme of Inconfidência Mineira....
Assim na Tela Como no Céu
Character: Senhorita Watson
A religious comedy in 5 segments, illustrating maniqueism on Earth, as shown by movies. God and his son Jesus disagree on how to manage human life on Earth....