Armando Costa (Rio de Janeiro, May 5, 1933 - Rio de Janeiro, April 9, 1984). Author, director and animator. He marked Grupo Opinião not only as co-author of some of its most important shows, but also for his role in resistance theater, which he exercised through ideological coherence and criticism in defense of popular interests.
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
Release Date:2019-05-15
Character:Self (archive footage)
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.
Release Date:1983-05-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:10
Release Date:1981-04-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:11
Release Date:1981-03-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writers' Assistant
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
Upon learning that the school where he learned music is going to be expropriated, a famous singer decides to do a show for the benefit of the institution.
Release Date:1979-06-06
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:3
In the early 17th century, the Dutch have occupied Bom Jesus village, the last native stronghold in the Pernambuco captaincy. An adventurer, João Fernandes Vieira, sees himself in the middle of a conflict, torn between joining his friend Mauricio de Nassau alongside the ruling Dutch and siding with his lover Ana Paes in the fight to free his homeland.
Release Date:1978-09-25
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
An industrial couple spends more than they can afford. In financial trouble, the husband Afraninho devises a strange kind of business, for foreign executives, in which the product is his own wife Malu. They succeed, and soon other couples start doing the same thing, establishing the competition.
Release Date:1978-09-04
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:5
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 Date:1978-08-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
Toquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together with his widow mother and a younger sister. Although he is poor, he is also ambitious, and wants to change his life. He spends all his time on the beach, at Arpoador, Ipanema, where he dreams to become a famous surfer. Besides, he usually finds Patricia there, a rich and liberated young woman, whom he likes a lot. To impress Patricia and satisfy some of her wishes, he lets himself be seduced by André, a gay guy who, in return for his sexual favors, promises him a trip to Hawaii for a surf championship.
Release Date:1978-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:10
Release Date:1977-05-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Tatá is a typical Rio de Janeiro guy, easy living, hedonistic, living in an apartment in one of those buildings where everything goes, in Copacabana, near the beach. One day a beautiful new neighbor, Teresa, moves into the apartment in front of his, and he falls in love.
Release Date:1974-06-04
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4
Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.
Release Date:1973-01-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:7
The Viscount of Sabugosa is locked in the library writing an encyclopedia about the characters in children's fables. Dona Benta receives a letter from little Thumb, written on a rose petal, in which he, realizing that the inhabitants of the world of fables are forgotten in the books on the shelves, requests that everyone live in Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. Emília and the children love the idea, and Dona Benta says yes. They move
Release Date:1973-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1972-10-26
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
In Minas Gerais, the powerful "colonel" Alexandrão gets married with the young and virgin Cristina and promotes a huge wedding party in his farm. He eats and drinks a lot along the day, but in his "first night" with the bride, he dies before consummating his marriage. The marital status of Cristina becomes very unusual, being a virgin widow. Her doctor advises her to travel to Rio de Janeiro to rest, and she moves with her aunt to an inherited apartment in Leme. Once in Rio de Janeiro, the rascal Constantino, who is aware of her wealth, courts her and borrows money, clothes and a Mercedes Benz from his friends, pretending he is businessman man. His friends release "stocks" in a parallel stock market, based and supported in the expectation of the possible marriage of Constantino with Cristina. However, the ghost of Coronel Alexandrão appears for her whenever she intends to have sex with Constantino.
Release Date:1972-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
Erotic comedy in five segments, starring the same actor, Chico Anysio: O Torneio (The Tournament), A Boca (The Mouth), O Filminho (The Short Film), A Suspeita (The Suspicion) and O Apartamento (The Apartment).
Release Date:1971-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
A gang of bandits led by Faustão intervene in a fight between two members of rival families, the Pereiras and the Araújos. Henrique Pereira, son of Colonel Pereira, is wounded in an ambush. Faustão rescues him and demands the father to pay a ransom in exchange for the life of his son. The bandit makes it clear to Henrique that he is not a prisoner and that he is only obeying the law of the backlands. Lucena, a henchman working for the Araújos, finds Faustão and offers twice the amount being asked to the colonel in order to take Henrique as a prisoner, but the bandit refuses the offer. Colonel Henrique pays the ransom, but the son refuses to return home, even being aware of the feud between his family and the Araújos. The young man chooses to join the gang.
Release Date:1971-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:1
Willing to do anything to succeed in an artistic career, and roused by her own mother, the TV go-go girl Zelinda tries to seduce the director of the studio where she works.
Release Date:1970-12-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Release Date:1970-11-16
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Middle-class teenage girl has a serious boyfriend that her parents approve of. Suddenly, she meets another boy with whom she is shown to have a greater identification.
Release Date:1970-01-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:4
Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.
Release Date:1969-03-10
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:3
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 Date:1969-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:
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 Date:1969-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
History and decadence of the city of Alcântara narrated through what remains of its buildings and ancient documents.
Release Date:1968-11-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape.
Release Date:1968-09-16
Department:Writing
Job:Co-Writer
Vote Count:4
Release Date:1963-12-21
Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
Release Date:1962-01-01
Character:(segment "Um Favelado")
Vote Count:9