Antônio Pitanga
Antônio Luiz Sampaio (born June 13, 1939), better known by his stage name Antônio Pitanga, is a Brazilian actor and filmmaker, who became internationally known for playing several roles on films of the Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Antônio Pitanga licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A Vilã das Nove
as uncreditedRoberta is currently in the best phase of her life. Recently divorced, she lives with her...
Movie pageThe Given Word
as Mestre CocaZé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls...
Movie pageLula, the Son of Brazil
as Seu CristóvãoThe true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age...
Movie pageThe Man Who Challenged the Devil
as Preto VelhoAfter being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his...
Movie pageAunt Virginia
as TavaresAunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up...
Movie pageWedding Games
as MarceloWhen Alex and Eva choose to exchange vows at the very spot they first crossed paths, a series of...
Movie pageThe Age of the Earth
as Black ChristDrawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the...
Movie pageRio Babilonia
as BiraA public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de...
Movie pageOur Dream
as Seu AméricoThe life story of Claudinho e Buchecha, greatest icons and most successful duo of the Brazilian...
Movie pageMalês
as Pacífico LicutanBased on historical facts, the film portrays the largest slave rebellion in Brazilian history,...
Movie pageZuzu Angel
as Policial gentilCovering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for...
Movie pageTinnitus
as InácioMarina Lenk is an experienced Ornamental Jumping athlete. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an...
Movie pageDi Cavalcanti Di Glauber
as uncreditedThis controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major...
Movie pageFor Sale or Rent
as Seu CapôA once-rich family of women in Rio de Janeiro must sell their mansion in order to keep their...
Movie pageSamba
as Paulo's friendSinger Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira...
Movie pageThe Good Cinema
as uncreditedAn authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most...
Movie pageThe Big City
as CalungaIn search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro,...
Movie pageBarrela: Escola de Crimes
as uncreditedIn an overcrowded prision cell, each man has to make his own way and secure himself from the...
Movie pageSame Old West
as ErmitãoIn the backlands of Goiás, Brazil, brutish men who cannot deal with their weaknesses are...
Movie pageCandango: Memoirs from a Festival
as SelfIn 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's...
Movie pagePitanga
as SelfThis documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic...
Movie pageThe Guns
as VoiceA group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a...
Movie pageThe Woman of Everyone
as VampiroÂngela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by...
Movie pageThe Turning Wind
as FirminoIn Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from...
Movie pageI'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips
as Pastor IsaíasIn a remote part of the Amazon, a traveling photographer has an intense affair with a preacher's...
Movie pageCelebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
as Self"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that...
Movie pageVilla-Lobos: A Life of Passion
as JoaquimThe film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being...
Movie pageMauá - O Imperador e o Rei
as ValentimA movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time,...
Movie pageGlauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
as SelfDocumentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the...
Movie pageMemory House
as CristovamAn older man begins to work in a modern dairy factory. He feels distant and does not identify...
Movie pageLampião, King of the Badlands
as uncreditedThe story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the...
Movie pageThe Brazilwood Man
as CésarFantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of...
Movie pageQuilombo
as AcaiubaQuilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century....
Movie pageNa Boca do Mundo
as AntônioA black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of...
Movie pageMemórias do Grupo Opinião
as SelfFollows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian...
Movie pageJoanna Francesa
as uncreditedJoana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She...
Movie pageOur Children
as RodrigoVera, who fought in the armed left-wing movements against the Brazilian military dictatorship,...
Movie pageThe Great Kilapy
as Pai de JoãzinhoZézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the...
Movie pagePossessões
as Pai JoaquimThree stories are intermingled by the same theme: possessions.
Movie pageMy Home Is Copacabana
as uncreditedHomeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless...
Movie pageEsse Mundo é Meu
as ToninhoThe film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill...
Movie pageBlack Goddess
as uncreditedA Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince...
Movie pageComo Ser Solteiro
as uncreditedA comedy addressing the issues of being single in Rio de Janeiro.
Movie pageGolias Contra o Homem das Bolinhas
as uncreditedThe adventures of a peaceful and infatuated man, who tries to identify the man who killed his...
Movie pageGanga Zumba
as Ganga Zumba / AntãoThe life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of...
Movie pageBandeira de Retalhos
as João da LuaVidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of...
Movie pageGarotas do ABC
as Seu AurélioAurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood...
Movie pageSol Sobre a Lama
as Bom RojãoA poor community in Salvador organizes a resistance against the destruction of the Água de...
Movie pageThe Passenger: Adult Secrets
as DelegadoA coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds...
Movie pagePlantation Boy
as Zé GuedesAfter being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a...
Movie pageThe Coup d'État Factory
as Antônio PitangaBrazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the...
Movie pageBahia of All Saints
as PitangaSalvador, Bahia, Brazil, during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Outlaw Tonio is involved in...
Movie pageThe Fifth Monkey
as Drunk at the PartyWhen Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a...
Movie pageThe Manor of Araucaima
as CristobalIn an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent...
Movie pageTocaia no Asfalto
as Matador de CaxiasA gunman is hired to kill a corrupt politician. However, the agreement is canceled. Despite...
Movie pageGarden of War
as uncreditedEdson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military...
Movie pageRei do Rio
as GeraldãoTwo friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and...
Movie pageA Força do Gigante
as SelfThis documentary is a true treasure for Vasco fans, who will remember or learn about important...
Movie pageCâncer
as uncreditedThis film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among...
Movie pageSweet Thieves
as FuleiroAfter assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro...
Movie pageA Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar
as uncreditedThe ideological conflict between Joaquim Bolívar, a young barber member of the Communist Party...
Movie pageA Day with Jerusa
as Yoyo"A Day with Jerusa" follows Silvia, a young, mediumic market researcher facing the hardships of...
Movie pageThe Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
as uncreditedFor this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to...
Movie pageBahia
as uncreditedThe adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived...
Movie pageCarvana
as Self (archive footage)Chronicles the life and career of Hugo Carvana, brazilian actor and filmmaker.
Movie pageThe Force of Xango
as Young Tônho Tiê (Uncredited)Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets...
Movie pageApolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
as CoiceApolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his...
Movie pageCompasso de Espera
as AssisJorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn...
Movie pageWhen Carnaval Comes
as CuícaMusic manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it...
Movie pageDeadly Cruelty
as DecaMan leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts...
Movie pagePressed, Ripped Apart
as (archive footage)What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and...
Movie pageJouez Encore, Payez Encore
as uncreditedA film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and...
Movie pageDedé Mamata
as uncreditedDede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are...
Movie pageChico Rei
as uncreditedGalanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of...
Movie pageA Grande Feira
as Chico DiaboThe naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There,...
Movie pageRunning After
as Garçom OtheloPaulo Ventania is a black Brazilian man, always doing his best to bring some happiness in his...
Movie pageCangaceiros de Lampião
as Cravo RoxoOn the day of Pedro Boiadeiro's wedding, a band of cangaceiros who survived the Angicos massacre...
Movie pageRepública da Traição
as uncreditedEuropean couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement...
Movie pageReferências
as SelfDuring a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern...
Movie pageÁgua de Meninos – A Feira do Cinema Novo
as HimselfRecalling the films "Sol Sobre a Lama" and "A Grande Feira", which portrayed the living...
Movie pageEternamente Pagu
as HerculanoEternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian...
Movie pageJá que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
as Self (archive footage)Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the...
Movie pageRiscados pela Memória
as uncreditedThe owner of a record store, amid a purchase of second-hand LPs, is faced with something that...
Movie pageO Terno do Zé
as Pai Pedro de Oxum AiêFlávio is a filmmaker who was famous during the 1970s, but who's now forgotten by the public....
Movie pageBarravento Novo
as uncreditedBarravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here...
Movie pageJuliana do Amor Perdido
as uncreditedA beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with...
Movie pageCelebridade
as Comandante RobertoA successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and...
TV Show pageThe Clone
as Sebastião "Tião"Human cloning. The Islamic world. Two young people, two different cultures, two different...
TV Show pageA Próxima Vítima
as Kléber NoronhaA young law student starts to work as a detective, decided to uncover the identity behind a...
TV Show pagePerfect Love
as Popó BatistaA story about love and its different manifestations, told through the little boy Marcelino in...
TV Show pageSide by Side
as TúlioWinner of the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela, "Side by Side" focuses on two women...
TV Show pageLilyhammer
as Blind ManAfter Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the...
TV Show pageIn Your Place
as GesielChristian and Renato are identical twins who have opposite lives: Christian grew up in an...
TV Show pageThin Air
as José NazárioCristian Nazario abandoned his family to climb Mount Everest and now returns home with terminal...
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