Maria Gladys
Birthday: 1939-11-23
Place of Birth: Cachambi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biography: Maria Gladys Mello da Silva (born 23 November 1939) is a Brazilian actress. Gladys made her acting debut in 1959 with Arthur Azevedo's play "O Mambembe" at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. She earned recognition in the theater world by appearing topless in the publicity poster for the play "O Chão dos Penitentes". In 1964, she starred in Ruy Guerra's film "Os Fuzis," which won the Silver Bear in Berlin for directing and was nominated for a Golden Bear. She's considered the mother of marginal cinema. Being part of the resistance during the Brazilian dictatorship led Gladys to exile in London between 1965 and 1979. She is the maternal grandmother of actress Mia Goth.
Movies
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affir...
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The Agony
Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel o...
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The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
In the 18th century in a forgotten town, young Benedicta is the executioner's daughter. Monk Ambrosi...
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Não Se Preocupe, Nada Vai Dar Certo!
Lalau (Gregorio Duvivier) is presented by the country's interior with his show jokes, whose main the...
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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerou...
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The Angel Was Born
Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mys...
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Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills h...
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Meu Nome é Dindi
Meu Nome é Dindi shows the movement of time over a young woman who owns a small marketplace near ban...
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My Sweet Orange Tree
Poor boy treats a sweet lemon tree as his only friend, talking to it, and learning important values ...
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The Hullabaloo Family
A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile a...
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The Guns
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck p...
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Anchieta, José do Brasil
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indi...
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Edu, Coração de Ouro
A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple wo...
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Brás Cubas
Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cuba...
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Watch Out, Madame
Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mist...
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Um Filme 100% Brasileiro
French poet Blaise Cendrars arrives by sea on the city of Rio de Janeiro and lives s life of bohemia...
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Life
A documentary about actress brazilian Maria Gladys, a strong presence in films by Júlio Bressane, Ro...
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If I Were You
The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, ...
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme
Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks...
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The End of an Age
They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life....
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All of God's Creations
An orphan, a blind virgin who seeks sexual pleasure, a young man who prostitutes himself as a transv...
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Mangúe-Bangúe
The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light dis...
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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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Spray Jet
Three artists from São Paulo - Leda Catunda, Leonilson and Ciro Cozzolino - talk about their work an...
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Bandalheira Infernal
Experimental film, guided by the feeling of oppressive, paranoid, obsessive life of its characters. ...
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Rio de Topless
Topless muse in Rio de Janeiro, Ana Paula Nogueira uses the ban on bare breasts and her story to deb...
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O Bebê
Marta, a young mother, hardly believes when she hears her young baby speak. She tries to convince th...
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Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his unti...
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary...
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The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out
Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro....
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If I Were You 2
Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phe...
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The Joy
Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not s...
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O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil....
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High Art
Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous unde...
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Rat Fever
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state...
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Golden Oldies
Four friends who only think about enjoying life, with big parties, women and drinks, are surprised b...
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Duas de Mim
Suellen (Thalita Carauta) is a cook who works hard to keep her little son, her younger sister and he...
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No Way, Spider
Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his t...
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O Gigante da América
A caboclo's soul wanders through purgatory (or hell), visiting many places until he boards a ship wh...
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Lucia McCartney, Call Girl
In the 60's Lúcia McCartney is a call girl who is a fan of the Beatles. A diplomat tries to get her ...
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Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino
A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its fo...
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Flying Geraldo
A fantastic tale in the brutal reality of a slum. The life of a boy with the rare gift of flying. B...
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Natal da Portela
Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could har...
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All the Women in the World
When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He ...
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How Are You, Well?
Two fanatical Flamengo fans get drunk after a defeat of time; a voyeurist peers at his neighbor's na...
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Maria Gladys, Uma Atriz Brasileira
The artistic career and daily life of actress Maria Gladys....
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Copacabana Fools Me
Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older b...
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Bandidos da Falange
When the criminal Paulo Alberto is executed in the Baixada Fluminense, his lover Marluce keeps an ol...
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Pretty But Wicked
A young man must choose between two women. The one brings him the money, but the other he loves....
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Rio Babilonia
A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro...
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Quebranto
A film of the literary hallucinations and existential dreams of the character João, who is also José...
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Pequenas Histórias
On the porch of a farm, a woman tells stories while cutting and sewing scraps of cloth, creating ima...
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Belair
Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company ...
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Anjos de Ipanema
A countercultural movement that took place at Ipanema Pier marked the history of all participants. P...
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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 his...
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Os Doces Bárbaros
The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano ...
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Bowels of Hell
Malu is organising a gender-reveal party for a pregnant influencer – while dealing with her own grie...
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Out of Sight
Roberta is an employee of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro who infiltrates an energy realignment c...
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Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família
A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months b...
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