Movies: Oscarito

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."...

The sophisticated thief Mão Leve and his simple-minded accomplice Jonjoca take from the rich to give to the poor. Their new mission is raising funds in order Mão Leve's brother can study abroad. But great care must be taken lest the honest boy discov...

A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and racism, he built a stellar career, facing controversy yet using it to challenge prejudice....

UFO falls on a hillbilly's hencoop and he tries to sell it. Soon international missions are sent to the place, for there's a suspicion it might be the famous Russian satellite, the Sputnik....

After a flood that destroyed the orphanage he managed, Padre João develops a project to rebuild the place. To help, singers Rosemary and Jair Rodrigues will get involved in great adventures....

Barber's jeep crash against crazy scientist's house, where the latter was building a time-machine. The crash triggers the machine, taking them to Gaza kingdom, circa 1153 B.C., where they get involved in many funny situations. Spoof of Cecil B. DeMil...

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. Meanwhile, Alberto, the captain, receives a radio message saying that there was a d...

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"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. They're intent on facing the dreaded Jesse Gordon, a gunman who kills for pleasur...

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A cleaner accidentely stills a secret formula and get mistaken for the heir prince of an old kingdom....

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An unlucky woman checks in a hotel pretending to be a French baroness so she can have 24 hours of dream before comitting suicide....

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Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time....

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 musical comedy....

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