Antônio Pitanga
Birthday: 1939-06-13
Place of Birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Biography: Antônio Luiz Sampaio OMC (Salvador, June 13, 1939), better known as 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.
Movies
The Good Cinema
An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguin...
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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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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema N...
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Favela do Papa
The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal ord...
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The Turning Wind
In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from myst...
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Golias Contra o Homem das Bolinhas
The adventures of a peaceful and infatuated man, who tries to identify the man who killed his sweeth...
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A Vilã das Nove
Recently divorced, Roberta is living her best life, until she discovers that someone has turned her ...
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Our Children
Vera, who fought in the armed left-wing movements against the Brazilian military dictatorship, has l...
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Aunt Virginia
Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up bei...
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Tocaia no Asfalto
A gunman is hired to kill a corrupt politician. However, the agreement is canceled. Despite being a ...
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The Given Word
Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally i...
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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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The Passenger: Adult Secrets
A coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds out...
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A Grande Feira
The naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There, how...
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The King of Rio
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and becom...
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Plantation Boy
After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sug...
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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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The Coup d'État Factory
Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the supp...
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Ganga Zumba
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian ...
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For Sale or Rent
A once-rich family of women in Rio de Janeiro must sell their mansion in order to keep their high st...
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The Force of Xango
Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets beautifu...
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Câncer
This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws,...
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Esse Mundo é Meu
The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worke...
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Our Dream
The life story of Claudinho e Buchecha, greatest icons and most successful duo of the Brazilian funk...
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Lost Love Juliana
A beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with an o...
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Tinnitus
Marina Lenk is an experienced synchronized diver. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable rin...
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Na Boca do Mundo
A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafo...
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Tropico
A family of Brazilian farmers is desperately looking for work and moves from city to city....
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Barrela: Escola de Crimes
In an overcrowded prision cell, each man has to make his own way and secure himself from the constan...
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Lenita - Traces of a Lady
A deck of cards discovered at an antiques fair reveals the eccentric past of a famous Arabian horse ...
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The Great Kilapy
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve o...
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Wedding Games
When Alex and Eva choose to exchange vows at the very spot they first crossed paths, a series of hil...
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A Força do Gigante
The 1948 South American Championship, won by Vasco, the first continental world champion. In the abs...
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Running After
Paulo Ventania is a black Brazilian man, always doing his best to bring some happiness in his life, ...
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Compasso de Espera
Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn betwe...
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Samba
Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachet...
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Quilombo
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. Thi...
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The Age of the Earth
Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cu...
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Bahia
The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Sa...
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I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips
In a remote part of the Amazon, a traveling photographer has an intense affair with a preacher's wif...
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Zuzu Angel
Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zu...
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The Brazilwood Man
Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernis...
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Chico Rei
Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas ...
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Deadly Cruelty
Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of R...
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When Carnaval Comes
Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn...
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Jorge Amado no Cinema
Jorjamado no Cinema foi feito para um programa de televisão consagrado ao escritor Jorge Amado. Ness...
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The Man Who Challenged the Devil
After being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his fathe...
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Lampião, King of the Badlands
The story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the path ...
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Cangaceiros de Lampião
On the day of Pedro Boiadeiro's wedding, a band of cangaceiros who survived the Angicos massacre inv...
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Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Ag...
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The Big City
In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking...
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Carvana
Chronicles the life and career of Hugo Carvana, brazilian actor and filmmaker....
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The Woman of Everyone
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, a...
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Bahia of All Saints
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Outlaw Tonio is involved in a co...
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Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known R...
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Água de Meninos – A Feira do Cinema Novo
Recalling the films "Sol Sobre a Lama" and "A Grande Feira", which portrayed the living conditions o...
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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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Black Goddess
A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole ...
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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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Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável
On a farm in rural Brazil in the 18th century, a new overseer arrives. He falls in love with one of ...
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Eternamente Pagu
Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian polit...
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Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
After killing a troublemaker, Cristino flees to a town in the Northeast and is forced to join Lampiã...
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Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber
This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazili...
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Dedé Mamata
Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are mem...
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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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Joanna Francesa
Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will le...
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Sweet Thieves
After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decide...
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Same Old West
In the backlands of Goiás, Brazil, brutish men who cannot deal with their weaknesses are constantly ...
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Pitanga
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Blac...
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Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian....
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Mar Corrente
Helena, married to decorator Bruno, is a woman dissatisfied with the futility of social life. She re...
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República da Traição
European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with...
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Sol Sobre a Lama
A poor community in Salvador organizes a resistance against the destruction of the Água de Meninos s...
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Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
A film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and then...
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A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar
The ideological conflict between Joaquim Bolívar, a young barber member of the Communist Party and t...
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Girls from ABC
Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in S...
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Barravento Novo
Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delive...
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Bandeira de Retalhos
Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the...
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My Home Is Copacabana
Arne Sucksdorff’s drama follows four homeless children—Jorginho, Rico, Lici, and Paulinho—struggling...
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Riscados pela Memória
The owner of a record store, amid a purchase of second-hand LPs, is faced with something that goes f...
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O Terno do Zé
Flávio is a filmmaker who was famous during the 1970s, but who's now forgotten by the public. Urging...
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Lula, the Son of Brazil
The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and...
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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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Garden of War
Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he...
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorshi...
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Memory House
An older man begins to work in a modern dairy factory. He feels distant and does not identify with t...
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The Fifth Monkey
When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucinat...
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A Day with Jerusa
"A Day with Jerusa" follows Silvia, a young, mediumic market researcher facing the hardships of unde...
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Pressed, Ripped Apart
What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and act...
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capit...
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Referências
During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art...
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The Manor of Araucaima
In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot,...
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Malês
Based on historical facts, the film portrays the largest slave rebellion in Brazilian history, the M...
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Colagem
The new Brazilian cinematic movement (Cinema Novo) through films starring actors Antonio Pitanga and...
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Cartografia das Ondas
Gledson is a lonely worker who left his hometown with the dream of becoming an actor in Rio de Janei...
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Margeado
The river is not the same. It has turned into contaminated mud. Residents of a fishing village face ...
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O Poder Negro
An excerpt from Neville D'Almeida's debut feature "Jardim de Guerra" (1968), focusing on the Black P...
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Tony Odyssey
Tony and his best friend, Ivy, decide to rob the bar where he works to steal a new drug that will ta...
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Coisa de Novela
An estranged grandmother reconnects with her granddaughter after a difficult diagnosis and asks her ...
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Milton Gonçalves, Além do Espetáculo
This biopic documents the life and work of one of Brazil’s most prolific artists: Milton Gonçalves. ...
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