1950s Brazilian Movies

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A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness.

A scientist swaps the mind of banker and an idiot by accident.

A precious necklace is stolen during a convention at Quitandinha Palace, a hotel in which a wives conference is deciding whether or not unfaithful husbands should receive the death penalty.

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A group of migrants from the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil gets a truck "pau-de-arara" trying to move to São Paulo and have a better life. Along their travel, one of the women delivers a baby on the road. The driver, indeed, intends to carry them to the slave-work in the fields of a powerful "colonel", but the brave Ana faces the foreman of the farm and the driver, and the truck follows to the hired final destination.

Jeca Tatu is a lazy, simple-minded guy who has his property threatened by the greed of a landowner.

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To avoid gossips about his life, a rich man hires a butcher to play his wife's lover. But the two fall in love causing more troubles than expected.

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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The story of Leninha, a young Brazilian woman whose life become a turbulent tragedy in the midst of trades involving lust and power.

A mine boss hires a policeman to chase some runaways who stole a precious diamond.

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A woman, who believes she has a curse, sees an engineer die in an accident while building a bridge. Considering two men who were courting her responsible for the tragedy, she decides to take revenge on both. Brazilian version of Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

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

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation.

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Two young farmers are visited by a stranger who wants to spend the night.

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Taxi driver gets in a jam when he receives a lot of money as inheritance from a distant family member when in fact, the money came from a bank robbery.

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Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.

Unsuccessful music composer attempts suicide and moves to a new world where everything goes right for him.

A one-eyed businessman wants to become rich and retrieve his lost eye at any cost. He tries many schemes, and eventually regains his eye with a vengeance: the power of invisibility. He becomes multi millionaire in the meat market and after entering politics he is elected president of Brazil.

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Institutional film made for Petrobras in 1958, through a public announcement, about the company's actions for the training of technicians specialized in petroleum engineering.

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Tristão dos Prazeres is a television consultor who is very popular amongst married women. In his show, he defends his theory that jealousy is a small feeling, a "termite" that destroys relationships. However, once he suspects his wife to be cheating on him, he gets enraged and sends his butler to investigate.

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The film depicts part of Priest Donizetti Tavares de Lima's trajectory in a little town in the State of São Paulo called Tambaú, where he performed a series of miracles.

Maria is a young woman who becomes a well-known crook in the bohemian district of Lapa, in Rio de Janeiro. She earns her living with little scams and tricks. Nevertheless, she is good-hearted, and that's why her latest cheat doesn't work at all.

A beautiful young woman, raised by prostitutes and disgusted with life, accepts the offer to move with an older, opportunist man. Depressed and weak, she dedicates herself to her doll collection until by chance she meets a young doctor she falls in love with.

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A 10-minute portrait of modernist poet and de Andrade’s godfather, Manuel Bandeira, is clear in its affection for it subject, though like many New-Waveish films of the time, depicts the modern urban landscape as an ominous and alienating force.

A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.