Mário Lago OMC (Rio de Janeiro, November 26, 1911 — Rio de Janeiro, May 30, 2002) was a Brazilian lawyer, poet, radio host, composer, writer and actor. Author of popular sambas such as "Ai! que saudade da Amélia" and "Atire a Primeira Pedra", both in partnership with Ataulfo Alves, he became popular between the 1940s and 1950s.
After breaking off her engagement on her wedding day and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "Hilda Hurricane", in the 50's Brazil. She could do fine if it wasn't for Malthus, a young novice said to be a saint, for whom she falls in love. However, the boy is kept under the strict, severe doctrine of Father Nelson, a conservative priest intolerant even to every minor sin. Things start getting harder when Roberto, Malthus' old friend and a communist reporter (the actual author of the story), tries to interview Hilda and disclosure the real reasons behind her radical change of mind. In the meantime, the middle-classes are terrified by the "leftist threat" in Brazilian politics.
Release Date1998-05-27
Charactersd Olavo
Episode Count32
Vote Count23
Os Trapalhões was a Brazilian comedy group and also a Brazilian television series created by Wilton Franco. Its members were Dedé Santana, Zacarias, Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó, that was played by Renato Aragão. The name Trapalhões is derived from the Portuguese verb atrapalhar, which means the opposite of helping, to do something the wrong way or to Those that confuse. The name is translated "Tramps" in English DVD subtitles. It was aired by Rede Globo from 1977 to 1999. On March 18, 1990, Zacarias died due to respiratory failure, but the group and the series didn't come to an end until July 29, 1994, when Mussum died due to an unsuccessful heart transplant.
Release Date1977-03-13
Charactersd Ele mesmo (em Campo Grande)
Episode Count1
Vote Count15
Força de um Desejo is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Globo TV and was shown in the schedule of 18 hours between May 10, 1999 and January 29, 2000, in 226 chapters. It was written by Gilberto Braga and as collaborators with Alcides Nogueira Marques, Lilian Garcia, Eliane Garcia, Philip Miguez and Mark Silver and directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho, Carlos Araújo, Fabricio Mamberti and João Camargo, with production of the core Marcos Paulo. Featured Malu Mader, Fábio Assunção, Cláudia Abreu, Marcelo Serrado, Selton Mello, Nathália Timberg, Lavínia Vlasak, Isabel Fillardis and Denise Del Vecchio in leading roles.
Release Date1999-05-10
Charactersd Dr. Teodoro Bastos
Episode Count11
Vote Count8
Release Date1980-09-08
Charactersd Cristiano
Episode Count191
Vote Count4
Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.
Release Date2000-12-26
Charactersd Eleutério
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Release Date1983-06-06
Charactersd Juiz
Episode Count2
Vote Count10
Release Date1972-04-10
Charactersd Sebastião Vilhena (Sessé)
Episode Count243
Vote Count7
Helena is a sweet, honest, sensitive and a warrior woman who faces the premature pregnancy of her daughter Joyce, who in turn is abandoned by her boyfriend, the irresponsible Caio. The biggest problem is the girl's father, Assunção, Helena's ex-husband, who does not accept the situation. Lonely and alone, Helena awakens a passion for the endocrinologist Carlos Alberto, and has her feelings matched. But Carlos is committed to the possessive Paula. The girl's parents, Zuleika and Rômulo, anxiously await their daughter's wedding with Carlos, who will save the family from financial decay. But Carlos is the type of man that women don't really forget. Even married to Paula and in love with Helena, he is still harassed by ex-wife Sheyla, who is not satisfied with having lost him and dreams of a rapprochement.
Release Date1995-07-03
Charactersd Professor Medina
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
Release Date1972-06-01
Charactersd Nogueira
Vote Count20
Release Date1983-04-11
Charactersd Agenor Rocha
Episode Count167
It tells the story of the Camabará family for many generations, which were fundamental to the social and political formation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The stories are remembered by Dona Bibiana, who remembers the life of her grandmother Ana, her husband, the Captain Rodrigo, his son Bolivar and his daughter-in-law Luzia.
Release Date1985-04-22
Charactersd Padre Lara
Episode Count26
Vote Count7
A traffic accident causes four women's destinies to intertwine. In the series, the four enter a pact of revenge against the men who hit them and caused them to suffer. Auxiliadora struggled to help her husband Alcebíades prosper, but when he leaves her for a younger woman, is thrown out of the house. The shy Tatiana was engaged to Fortunato, who failed to show up at their wedding. The Babalu hurricane caught mechanic Raí in bed with another woman. Abigail, a preppy psychologist who is struggling in a failing marriage, decides superficially to continue it but revolts against her husband, Gustavo, who humiliates her in public at a congress. Gustavo has custody of Ângela, a girl who longs to know her true father, Bruno. Her mother died in the childbirth, traumatizing him.
Release Date1994-10-24
Charactersd Henrique Pessoa
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Release Date1990-04-02
Charactersd Dr. Almeida
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
After making a Faustian bargain with a vampire for fame, a regretful young singer must find a sacred, lost artifact that might revert the curse.
Release Date1991-07-15
Charactersd Avô de Soninha
Episode Count179
Vote Count10
Release Date1973-01-22
Charactersd Inácio
Episode Count180
Release Date1982-05-10
Charactersd Miguel Aranha
Episode Count173
Vote Count4
Release Date1981-03-16
Charactersd Amigo de Plínio
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Release Date1986-08-25
Charactersd Antônio Villar
Episode Count179
Vote Count4
Release Date1971-04-19
Charactersd César Leão
Episode Count242
Release Date1990-08-20
Charactersd Dr. Molina
Episode Count243
Vote Count4
Carlão is a taxi driver who experiences a drama of conscience after fleeing bank robbers leave a suitcase with stolen money in his car: he doesn't know whether to hand it over to the police, running the risk of being accused of being an accomplice in the robbery, or whether to use the money to solve his problems.
Release Date1975-11-24
Charactersd Dr. Peres
Episode Count167
Vote Count3
Release Date1992-08-03
Charactersd Desembargador Veiga Neto
Episode Count185
Release Date1984-05-07
Charactersd comanda a reunião da cúpula dos bicheiros, da qual participam Célio Cruz e Turquinho do Méier
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Release Date1975-01-06
Charactersd Belmiro Silva
Episode Count199
Vote Count1
O Bem-Amado is a Brazilian telenovela that first aired on Rede Globo in 1973. It is based on a play by Dias Gomes called Odorico, o Bem-Amado ou Os Mistérios do Amor e da Morte, written in 1962. It was the first Brazilian color telenovela. It was shot in Rio de Janeiro. Broadcast by Rede Globo between January 22 and October 3, 1973.
Release Date1973-01-22
Charactersd narrador
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.
Release Date1970-09-15
Charactersd Almeida
Vote Count6
Lauro Fontana wants to build the biggest hotel in Brazil, but he needs to convince the Camará brothers to sell the mansion they live in, facing ethical dilemmas and personal obstacles.
Release Date1974-04-01
Charactersd Gabriel Passos
Episode Count150
Vote Count3
Release Date1971-09-10
Charactersd santeiro
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Release Date1989-01-09
Charactersd Quinzote
Episode Count187
Vote Count8
Release Date1986-03-10
Charactersd Antero Souza e Silva
Episode Count13
Vote Count4
Release Date1989-12-28
Charactersd Dr. Homero Santos
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Release Date1985-02-04
Charactersd médico
Episode Count155
Vote Count1
A down-on-her-luck former inmate tries to reconnect with her daughter--to the objections of her sister who raised the girl, meets a millionaire, and transforms into a strong woman, returning to society at Dancin' Days nightclub's opening.
Release Date1978-07-10
Charactersd Alberico Santos
Episode Count174
Vote Count5
Release Date1970-07-20
Charactersd Carlos Eduardo
Episode Count177
Vote Count2
Release Date1976-07-07
Charactersd Atílio de Souza (3º período)
Episode Count159
Vote Count1
Release Date1985-07-29
Charactersd Juiz João Reis
Episode Count30
Vote Count1
Release Date1996-05-06
Charactersd Frei Luiz
Episode Count35
Vote Count3
Release Date1977-06-27
Charactersd Barão Antônio Torres Galba
Episode Count145
The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar at the beginning of August. In the midst of the Vargas government crisis, the murder case is taken by police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man who is not well regarded by his co-workers, as the place is totally turned over to corruption.
Release Date1993-08-24
Charactersd Aniceto
Episode Count16
Vote Count4
Release Date1982-03-04
Charactersd Papai Noel
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Release Date1975-01-27
Charactersd Aureliano Villaça
Episode Count119
Release Date1967-02-21
Charactersd Tamura
Episode Count106
Release Date1968-06-26
Charactersd Jean Dubois
Episode Count1
Based on a radio show that was broadcast for 11 years (1947-1958) and ended only when the host and creator, the genius Henrique Foreis "Almirante" Domingues, had a stroke. There were hundreds of horror stories, supposedly true, sent by listeners from all corners of the country, radiophoned and broadcast by Rádio Tupi in Rio de Janeiro. It became a book in 1951 (reissued in 1984), a film in 1969 and a TV show in 1994-1995, broadcast by the extinct Rede Manchete.
Release Date1969-01-01
Charactersd Narrador
Release Date1984-04-09
Charactersd Núncio Apostólico
Episode Count20
Vote Count3
Release Date1988-04-28
Charactersd Olavo
Episode Count13
Vote Count2
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
Release Date1967-05-02
Charactersd Capitão
Vote Count121
Release Date1981-09-28
Charactersd Vítor Newmann
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Release Date1988-04-05
Charactersd Dom Germano
Episode Count8
Release Date1993-04-20
Charactersd Bela
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Release Date1979-08-20
Charactersd Antônio Lucas
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Release Date1969-11-17
Charactersd Bruno
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Release Date1988-11-22
Charactersd Paulino de Souza
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
Release Date1982-10-15
Charactersd Narrador
During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.
Release Date1968-11-26
Charactersd General Passos
Vote Count3
In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair soon turns into an unbridled passion.
Release Date1966-03-28
Charactersd Fortunato
Vote Count30
Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.
Release Date1968-11-22
Charactersd Augusto
Vote Count5
Release Date1969-01-15
Charactersd Barão de San Juan de la Cruz
Episode Count1
Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from death. The payment is to carry a heavy cross from the interior of Bahia to a church in Salvador. When you reach the steps of the church, with injured shoulders, you have to deal with the incomprehension of a conservative priest.
Release Date2015-01-09
Charactersd Dom Germano
Vote Count1
Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls.
Release Date1969-01-01
Charactersd Gonçalo
Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.
Release Date2017-03-06
Charactersd arquivo
Vote Count14
The troubled life of two idols of the Jovem Guarda amidst the pleasant rhythm of the contagious iê-iê-iê.
Release Date1966-12-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenstory
Charactersd
"Impressões" rescues the history of the Brazilian press since 1808, when the "Correio Brasiliense" clandestinely reached Rio de Janeiro after being edited in London by Hipólito José da Costa, and spans until 1986. It's the first documentary to depict the history of the Brazilian journalistic press.
Release Date1987-04-19
Charactersd Self
Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.
Release Date2013-10-05
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
Vote Count1
A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her lifetime.
Release Date2022-10-06
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
Vote Count5
The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registered through the keen and sensitive perspective of photographer Orlando Brito, in a career spanning 50 years as a professional. From the political sidelines to the lives of Brazilians from the interior, Brito recalls experiences and discusses the role of the photographer and the pain of registering someone’s grief.
Release Date2019-07-10
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
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.
Release Date1959-12-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenstory
Release Date1975-06-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count20
Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.
Release Date1978-08-26
DepartmentSound
JobSongs
Vote Count3
Release Date1956-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
A man in charge of a publicity campaign for bananas decides to kidnap the Queen of 'Bananaland', a tropical island paradise, and take her to Rio, where she falls in love with a member of Carmen Miranda's backing ensemble, 'Bando da Lua'.
Release Date1939-02-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Release Date1976-12-01
Release Date1959-02-03
Release Date1979-05-25
Episode Count1
Luís celebrates his golden wedding anniversary with his wife Alice. After the party, when the couple recalls some of the moments they built, he reveals a secret: he had a great passion in the past.
Release Date1983-12-05
The vacationers staying at the Barreiro Hotel in Araxá accompany the coffin of magnate Medeiros de Alcântara to the plane. Then they return to the hotel... At the beginning of the hydrotherapy season, Eduardo and Lúcia Feitosa, a wealthy couple from São Paulo, banker Belmiro and his wife, three spinster friends, Fátima, Teresa, and Belinha, Gen. Solon de Fuentes, the deposed former president of a South American country, writer Fernando Cavalcanti, banker Medeiros de Alcântara, and his wife arrive. In the hotel's halls and park, conventional life prevails, but it is in their rooms that the characters reveal their sexual and political dispositions.
Release Date1970-11-30
Vote Count1
A drama about double personality
Release Date1950-10-27
Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leaves his home to carry out literary research in the country's most obscure settings. Unhappy with the current national situation, the historian joins a guerrilla force with serious consequences.
Release Date1968-03-17
Vote Count1
Release Date1962-05-26
César wants to be a singer and, with the help of his friends Maloca and Didi, seeks an opportunity on television talent shows. When he performs on Chacrinha's show, he wins all the night's prizes and wins the affection of a young woman from a wealthy family who is dating a con man who steals cars. Realizing the girl has a crush on the singer, the con man sets a trap to get César out of the game.
Release Date1966-03-01
Vote Count3
Release Date1966-12-21
Vote Count1
Release Date1965-05-26
Release Date1954-01-14
Release Date1949-08-15
Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find out about him, Antônio and his wife are both targeted and pursued by the criminals.
Release Date1969-01-01
Vote Count1
After being evicted, a family in serious financial difficulties moves into a tenement next to a cemetery. As soon as they settle in, they meet the neighboring couple who, upon learning of the financial problems of the newcomers, offer them a pact to be made through a magical amulet: the monkey paw.
Release Date1983-05-08
A common robber is turned into a killer when he discovers that his sister was sexually assaulted by a policeman. After his act of vengeance, the police force begins a man hunt which corners the man into the building of a district attorney of whom he takes hostage.
Release Date1967-01-01
In order to become an actress, young woman tries many jobs, but in all those places she finds a man trying to have sex with her.
Release Date1973-06-06
Mario Lago performing at TV Cultura in 1973.
Release Date1973-08-25
An adventure film...
Release Date1948-06-06
Documentary about the life of one of the greatest composers in the history of Brazilian music. Pianist, composer and conductor, Chiquinha Gonzaga was ahead of her time and revolutionized the customs of a sexist society.
Release Date1999-05-07
Vote Count1
