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Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata was born in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais state, but became a famous actor in Rio de Janeiro. At the National Opera, where he studied, got the nickname "The Little Otelo". Then, he decided to be called "Great Otelo" or in Portuguese, "Grande Otelo". He acted in theaters, movies and TV. His first movie was "Noites Cariocas" (1935). But he really became known when he started working besides the great star Oscarito. Otelo was best known by comedy movies, but he could also be a dramatic actor. He died in Paris, France at the age of 78.
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Total trailers found: 136
01 January 1987
A brief history of origins of brazilian carioca samba and its types.
30 January 2023
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.
07 February 1950
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 working in the kitchen.
01 February 1965
Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis (Carlos Alberto).
01 January 1987
Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.
16 August 1957
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.
12 February 1954
"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 appointed Sheriff.
03 September 1969
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo.
19 November 2020
Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction.
01 January 1987
Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and maestro, Paulo Moura, talks about his influences and show his passion for the samba.
06 June 2019
What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes use of archival sources to retrieve the trajectory of black actresses and actors who, between absences and delimited presences, between the fallacy of a racial democracy – based on the harmony among Brazil’s diverse identities – and erasure of identity, strain the history of Brazilian audiovisual and above all, our own history.
01 January 1961
Young man participates in TV contests to help the girl he loves using the money he expects to win.
19 February 1988
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.
27 July 1956
Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him.
18 September 1997
A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.
01 January 1997
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema.
02 March 1982
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 epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
01 January 1990
Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural mission.
18 January 1967
A vivacious woman tries to please all of her lovers but finds she can't handle the jealousy that erupts among them.
14 December 1944
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.
17 September 1987
Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador.
15 May 2019
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances.
07 January 1980
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.
02 June 1967
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 purity.
01 January 1962
After the success of the first Brazilian space mission, a scientist intends to accomplish an even more audacious feat.
02 February 1987
A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.
12 July 1957
A street vendor and a servant theater, newly unemployed, accidentally swap their briefcases trinkets for one of three bandits who just rob a bank.
27 February 1978
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 father asking him for help against the gold smugglers from Transopia to Brazil.
05 September 2024
A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor.
05 December 1981
João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.
22 August 1986
Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
26 May 1977
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.
17 May 2023
For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world.
19 November 2009
The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts from films and videos in which he acted.
03 June 1984
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves.
25 November 2024
A man gets his chance to interview art.
26 September 1976
The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia.
15 December 1974
A veteran popular singer remembers her early days before fame as a humble woman who faced many obstacles in order to achieve fame, notoriety and make her dreams come true.
01 January 1961
During the inauguration of Brasília, Brazil's brand new capital city, singer and ballerina Gilda hides in a working-class night club to escape from an inconvenient millionaire who's trying to date her.
01 February 1977
The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad.
26 May 1978
When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her influence in order to get ambiguous deeds done.
01 January 1957
Petrônio drives a bus and his friend Cabeleira is a ticket collector. When Petrônio's sister needs money to do a surgery they get involved with a film production company, where a psychopath is trying to be the protagonist of the movie.
02 January 1989
An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of squares on the middle of neighborhoods Ipanema and Leblon.
26 January 1986
The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently living: one is running away from the deforestation in the Amazon while the other got tired of living in heaven and wants to return to his land.
30 December 1976
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.
08 April 1952
Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun.
09 November 2005
Carlos Sebastião Prata Filho watches, for the first time, an interview given in 1963 by his father: Grande Othello.
26 May 1971
João-Sem-Direção knows Carvalhaes that proposes a blow to him. John does not accept the proposal, but ends up earning a hefty cash in the game.
