Marília Pêra
Birthday: 1943-01-22
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biography: Marília Soares Pêra (Rio de Janeiro, January 22, 1943 — Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 2015) was a Brazilian actress, singer and theater director. Throughout her career, she won around 80 awards, acting in 49 plays, 29 soap operas and more than 20 films. Pêra won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1982 for her role in Hector Babenco's acclaimed Pixote, and received Best Actress awards at the Gramado Film Festival (Triple Award Winner) and at the Cartegena Film Festival for Carlos Diegues' Better Days Ahead. Other films include Bar Esperança, Angels of the Night and Diegues' Tieta do Agreste.
Movies
Central Station
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...
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Pixote
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center wh...
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Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and star...
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Tieta of Agreste
After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and up...
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Dzi Croquettes
A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dic...
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Playing
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinh...
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Urban Snap-Shots
Comedic portrait of middle-aged women in Rio de Janeiro, including overworked housewife Magali and h...
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Traveller
Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost in...
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Better Days Ahead
Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollyw...
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Now Boarding
Wagner is a 22-year old Brazilian guy, who dreams about leaving the country for a better life, until...
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Consideração do Poema
Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque...
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Amélia
Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a perso...
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King of the Night
In the 1940s, São Paulo nightlife is the setting for Tezinho's love affairs. In love with Aninha, he...
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Seja O Que Deus Quiser!
After getting involved with an MTV VJ, a musician ends up being accused of setting up a robbery agai...
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Vestido de Noiva
While in the hospital, after being run over, Alaíde thinks about her life, specially after the momen...
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Marília Pêra canta Carmen Miranda
Directed by Maurício Sherman, the actress Marília Pêra sings hits by Carmen Miranda with 43 songs fr...
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Bar Esperanza
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro....
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Mixed Blood
On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. I...
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Garrincha: Lonely Star
The life of Brazilian soccer player, Garrincha, considered to be one of the greatest players of all ...
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Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela
Elas por Ela reconstituted the history of MPB between 1920 and 1970, from the female perspective, al...
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular cultur...
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Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman
The life and work of Zezé Motta....
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Tô Ryca!
Selminha is a lower-class woman who receives a family inheritance, but only if she meets the challen...
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Angels of the Night
Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro...
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The Man Who Bought the World
In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion ...
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The Interview
Henry Czerny plays American journalist Michael Coleman, a strung-out expatriate writing for a Brazil...
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Pixote In Memoriam
A tribute documentary on Fernando Ramos da Silva, the famous child star of the acclaimed film by Hec...
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Incidente em Antares - O Filme
Film adaptation of the TV Show in 1994, based on the novel of the same name by Érico Veríssimo. Duri...
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All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
"All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists i...
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Viva Marília
The historical, political, and social context of Brazil in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and the impa...
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Living the Dream
"Living the Dream" is a docudrama about two friends who after being bullied as children become corru...
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