José Lewgoy
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1920-11-16
Locus Natus: Veranópolis, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Et ut:
Cobra Verde
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not...
release : 1987.12.03popularis : 17.98
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his...
release : 1985.07.26popularis : 12.562
O Grande Gozador
"Lula, 'bon vivant' who subsists at the expense of small blows, goes on with his life without a present or future purpose. Basically, he just tries...
release : 1972.09.18popularis : 0.511
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 3.714
Chaos and Confusion
Super Chacrinha and Glauber Rocha, two millionaires from the earthly plane of Varathrum, manipulate the people around them, including Deus and the...
release : 1997.11.19popularis : 2.864
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an...
release : 1982.03.02popularis : 11.253
Bloody Gold
The son of a millionaire who owns gold mines in Transopia, Africa, Antoine Leblanc, who lives in a mansion in Rio, one day receives a letter from his...
release : 1978.02.27popularis : 0.44
Black Palm Trees
Four sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only requirement is that they ALL must be sober.
release : 1968.09.26popularis : 0.615
Moon Over Parador
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man,...
release : 1988.09.09popularis : 7.946
Entranced Earth
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the...
release : 1967.05.02popularis : 8.496
When Will it Strike Noon
The small South American republic of Guadalarma is under the rule of despot Don Salvador, surrounded by a civil guard, his mistress (La Morenita),...
release : 1958.05.06popularis : 1.104
I Loved a Bookie
Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun...
release : 1952.04.08popularis : 1.583
Os Trapalhões e o Rei do Futebol
The team of Galinheiro Futebol Clube, formed by emeritus fighters, has as technical Cardea, advised by three direct assistants: Elvis, former player...
release : 1986.03.27popularis : 3.732
Roberto Carlos em Ritmo de Aventura
While making a movie in Rio de Janeiro, the singer Roberto Carlos is kidnapped by an international gang that wants to make money with his songs in a...
release : 1968.12.04popularis : 1.848
The Scarlet Scorpion
Anjo is a millionaire playboy who fights the forces of crime, especially his deadly enemy, the arch-villain Scarlet Scorpion, who recently has...
release : 1990.02.01popularis : 1.905
Boca
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
release : 1994.09.16popularis : 1.669
Horror and Ecstasy
Girl and her boyfriend are kidnapped. She develops a strange attraction to her kidnapper and the two get involved.
release : 1979.01.02popularis : 1.833
Katucha... A Mulher Desejada
A beautiful young woman, raised by prostitutes and disgusted with life, accepts the offer to move with an older, opportunist man. Depressed and weak,...
release : 1950.12.31popularis : 0.209
Aviso aos Navegantes
In Buenos Aires, Frederico hides in a ship going to Rio de Janeiro to travel for free. But Azulão, the cook, finds him and blackmails him into...
release : 1950.02.07popularis : 2.542
Matar ou Correr
"High Noon" spoof. Kid Bolha and Ciscocada, two clumsy swindlers, arrive at a violent Old West town called Citydown where, by mistake, one of them is...
release : 1954.02.12popularis : 2.626
Carnaval Atlântida
Movie producer Cecílio B. de Milho is intent on filming an epic about Helen of Troy, while some of the crew would rather turn it into a...
release : 1952.02.05popularis : 1.549
Maior Que o Ódio
Two friends grow together in the same neighborhood but, as adults, take different paths in life. One becomes an honest worker, and the other gets...
release : 1951.03.16popularis : 0.25
Roberto Carlos e o Diamante Cor-de-Rosa
A statuette bought in an antique shop in Tokyo may lead to the discovery of a great treasure.
release : 1968.03.26popularis : 1.515
Carnaval no Fogo
A gang, leaded by the unknown and mysterious Anjo, robs a jewelry and schedules a meeting in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Copacabana. The...
release : 1949.01.01popularis : 0.857
O Gigante da América
A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship whose destination is unknown.
release : 1980.11.23popularis : 2.084
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
In the 18th century in a forgotten town, young Benedicta is the executioner's daughter. Monk Ambrosius, newly arrived at the village, pities the girl...
release : 1996.05.01popularis : 2.326
Tabu
The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald...
release : 1983.03.10popularis : 36.156
Os Mansos
Erotic comedy in 3 segments: "A B. de Ouro" (The Golden A..), "O Homem dos Quatro Chifres" (The Man with Four Horns) e "O Homem, a Mulher e o Etc....
release : 1973.03.05popularis : 0.518
Party
A harmonica player, a player pool and his old assistant are invited to animate a rich people's party but time passes and they are never invited to...
release : 1989.06.29popularis : 0.749
Engraçadinha
After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of...
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 0.867
The Patriot
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His...
release : 1998.04.29popularis : 2.255
República dos Assassinos
In 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The...
release : 1979.11.11popularis : 0.571
Os Paqueras
Two ladykillers living in Rio de Janeiro know no limits when courting a beautiful woman. A problem arises when one of them starts coming on to a...
release : 1969.01.01popularis : 1.436
Hung Up
A woman from a bourgeois family marries a loveless man. She remembers (or dreams?) a life of adventure and smuggling, hijacking ships at night. She...
release : 1973.05.10popularis : 2.008
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 2.032
Depois do Transe
The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the...
release : 2006.01.01popularis : 1.052
Escapade
Some gangsters use a young girl to get to a recently released convict who hid $10 million from a robbery just before he was caught.
release : 1957.06.07popularis : 0.89
Les fanatiques
RY A revolution breaks out in a South American country while its cruel dictator is on a trip to France. The rebels have made careful plans to blow up...
release : 1957.11.08popularis : 0.849
A Married Man's Report
Carlos, a married lawyer, gets involved with one of his clients. But the relationship turns into an obsession. The woman understands she'll never...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 0.628
Mortal Sin
The eccentric members of a wealthy Brazilian family each go through personal torment, debauchery and intense guilt in this symbolic and gory film....
release : 1970.10.30popularis : 1.171
Scent of Gardenias
Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim....
release : 1992.08.07popularis : 1.092
Doomed Lovers
The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished its...
release : 1967.06.02popularis : 0.969
The Quartet
The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. While fighting for survival in the new world, the unexpected love of...
release : 1995.10.20popularis : 4.151
Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character,...
release : 2003.08.21popularis : 1.151
Ring Around the World
Investigator Fred Lester uncovers a killer using an air pistol firing chemical bullets in the swinging '60s spy thriller RING AROUND THE WORLD, a...
release : 1966.11.12popularis : 2.24
A Rose for Everyone
A vivacious woman tries to please all of her lovers but finds she can't handle the jealousy that erupts among them.
release : 1967.01.18popularis : 1.487
Chatô, The King of Brazil
The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early...
release : 2015.11.19popularis : 3.427
O Homem de Papel
A jaded reporter used to making up sensationalist headlines gets in trouble when real criminals come after him.
release : 1976.12.20popularis : 1.135
Barnabé, You Are Mine
A cleaner accidentely stills a secret formula and get mistaken for the heir prince of an old kingdom.
release : 1952.12.16popularis : 0.575
Os Bons Tempos Voltaram: Vamos Gozar Outra Vez
Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.
release : 1985.04.29popularis : 2.488
Como é Boa Nossa Empregada
Three segments with stories about the sexual relationships between adolescent boys and the maids who work at their homes.
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 0.994
Movie Theaters of Rio
The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.
release : 2001.09.27popularis : 1.802
The Jew
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to...
release : 1996.01.16popularis : 1.621
Três Vagabundos
A scientist swaps the mind of banker and an idiot by accident.
release : 1952.01.01popularis : 0.99
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
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...
release : 2023.01.30popularis : 3.521
When Carnaval Comes
Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.
release : 1972.07.13popularis : 2.75
Blame It on Rio
Matthew Hollis is man on holiday in Rio with his best friend. Both men have teenage daughters with them. When Matthew falls for his best friend's...
release : 1984.02.17popularis : 24.901
As Secretárias... Que Fazem de Tudo
Erotic comedy divided in three episodes.
release : 1975.04.28popularis : 0.893
Gente Que Transa
Competing for the concession of a TV channel, one of the contenders throws an orgy to defeat the other candidate.
release : 1974.02.08popularis : 0.626
Two-Edged Knife
Paulo is a rich lawyer who has a happy and comfortable family life, with his kid and very loyal to his wife. But when he finds out that the woman is...
release : 1989.06.21popularis : 1.162
Eu Dou o Que Ela Gosta
A young couple uses creativity to escape the rules of the girl's father, a conservative Italian, and her grandmother. Even under the patriarch's...
release : 1975.01.01popularis : 0.996
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Documentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.
release : 2011.11.25popularis : 1.503
On Borrowed Time
During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of...
release : 1968.11.26popularis : 1.508
Independência ou Morte
The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.
release : 1972.09.02popularis : 2.341
Pra Quem Fica, Tchau
Pra Quem Fica, Tchau tells the story of a teenager from the interior who comes to Rio, financed by an uncle, and goes to live with a womanizer cousin.
release : 1971.01.21popularis : 1.044
Stelinha
A young rock singer meets his childhood heroine, a famous singer who is now wallowing in alcohol and sex.
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 1.394
Os Mucker
In 1873 in Rio Grande do Sul, a group of peasants come together to form a community of brothers, arousing the enmity of the rest of the population....
release : 1979.04.19popularis : 1.175
Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell
Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.
release : 2017.03.06popularis : 1.534
S.O.S. Noronha
In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulibaud, head of the aeropostale radio...
release : 1957.06.21popularis : 0.883
Sonhos Tropicais
A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the...
release : 2001.10.01popularis : 1.089
The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema
After meeting a beguiling woman in a movie theater, a realtor becomes embroiled in a mysterious plot involving murder, double identities and movies.
release : 1987.07.19popularis : 2.394
A Viúva Virgem
In Minas Gerais, the powerful "colonel" Alexandrão gets married with the young and virgin Cristina and promotes a huge wedding party in his...
release : 1972.01.01popularis : 2.003
Intimacy
Guia de Filmes indicates: "melodrama addressing the massification of large urban centers and the contradictions of consumer society and advertising....
release : 1976.01.26popularis : 1.012
A Hora Mágica
In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes...
release : 1998.07.03popularis : 0.89
O Flagrante
Five friends decide to enjoy Mardi Gras without their wives, leaving them home. But one of the wives doesn't accept this arrangement and tries to get...
release : 1976.05.13popularis : 1.413
Burden of Dreams
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...
release : 1982.10.01popularis : 5.953
Where Are You Taking That Woman
A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psychiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him three stories, to convince him that crime does...
release : 1966.07.28popularis : 2.418
The Manor of Araucaima
In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and...
release : 1986.02.24popularis : 1.875