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1950s Portuguese-language Movies

Public list by WPS with 23 movies or TV shows/series

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Black Orpheus(1959)

PG
| 1h 40min | Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 86 votes)

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.

Directed by Marcel Camus - With Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Léa Garcia, Adhemar da Silva, Cartola, Marcel Camus, ...
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Sai da Frente(1952)

1h 20min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Isidoro Colepicula is a humble truck driver hired to transport some furniture from São Paulo to Santos, in his worn out truck he calls "Anastácio". Hiding among the pieces travels a bride who's trying to escape her own marriage. With his dog Coroné, he gets himself into many amusing situations, especially when the packed vehicle is left without brakes on a steep road, and he has to chase after it.

Directed by Abílio Pereira de Almeida, Tom Payne

Rio, 40 Degrees C.(1955)

1h 40min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Banned by Brazil’s Federal Department of Public Safety, Rio, 40 Graus is a landmark film that ushered in the wave of Cinema Novo in Brazil. The film chronicles a day in the life of five peanut vendors from Rio de Janeiro's favelas. This was one of the first Brazilian films to address the issues of race, poverty, and class.

Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos

The Landowner's Daughter(1953)

2h | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, History
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this backdrop, Sinhá Moça falls in love with a young lawyer, and they get involved in a great love story.

Directed by Tom Payne - With Anselmo Duarte, Henricão, Ruth de Souza, Renato Consorte, Eliane Lage

Sob o Céu da Bahia(1956)

3h 20min | Adventure

Sob o Céu da Bahia is a 1956 Brazilian adventure film directed by Ernesto Remani. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Directed by Ernesto Remani - With Sérgio Hingst

The Bandit(1953)

1h 45min | Drama, Adventure, Western
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

In the time of the "cangaceiros" in the badlands of the Northeast of Brazil, the cruel Captain Galdino Ferreira and his band abduct the schoolteacher Olívia, expecting to receive a ransom for her. However, one of his men, Teodoro, falls in love and flees with her through the arid backcountry chased by the brigands.

Directed by Lima Barreto - With Alberto Ruschel, Adoniran Barbosa, Lima Barreto, Carybé, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro, ...

Needle in a Haystack(1953)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Alex Viany - With Fada Santoro, Dóris Monteiro, Roberto Batalin

Caiçara(1950)

1h 32min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Caiçara is a 1950 Brazilian drama film directed by and starring Adolfo Celi. It was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

Directed by Adolfo Celi, Tom Payne

Leonora dos Sete Mares(1955)

1h 45min | Drama, Mystery
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.

Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen - With Susana Freyre, Henriette Morineau, Jardel Filho, Oswaldo Louzada, Rodolfo Mayer, Aracy Cardoso, ...

Tico-Tico no Fubá(1952)

1h 49min | Drama, Music, History
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Tico-Tico no Fubá is a 1952 Brazilian comedy film directed by Adolfo Celi and starring Anselmo Duarte. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s.

Directed by Adolfo Celi - With Anselmo Duarte, Tônia Carrero, Ziembinski

A Dupla do Barulho(1953)

1h 35min | Comedy

Tonico and Tião are two vaudevillian artists who travel across Brazil in search of fame and success. A crisis hits the duo when Tião gets tired of being a setup for Tonico's jokes in their numbers and leaves the troupe.

Directed by Carlos Manga

Adventurer's Fate(1958)

1h 28min | Drama, Western
1.9/5 (with 1 vote)

After being shot fleeing from a gunfight, the bandit Jaime falls to a riverbank, where is rescued by two beautiful young women. He becomes involved romantically with Dorothy, daughter of a farmer, and for her sake, surrenders to the police. Upon leaving the prison, Jaime has to face Xavier, a bloodthirsty villain who plans on taking revenge on Dorothy's father.

Directed by José Mojica Marins - With Mário Lima
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Uma Pulga na Balança(1953)

1h 27min | Comedy

Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives.

Directed by Luciano Salce

Three Loves in Rio(1959)

1h 56min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Meus Amores no Rio is a thin romantic comedy about a young woman (Suzana Freyre) who wins a trip to Rio de Janeiro on a television quiz show. Being both young and attractive and excited about the city, she manages to enchant three different men. The first man to fall for her is a pilot, and then there is the journalist, and then a womanizer.... Each encounter reveals more of the city and its impressive vistas, a fourth important protagonist in this film.

Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen - With Susana Freyre, Jardel Filho, Domingo Alzugaray, Fábio Cardoso, Agildo Ribeiro, Diana Morel, ...

A Família Lero-Lero(1953)

1h 20min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Aquiles Taveira is a civil servant harassed by his own family's financial demands. Tired of it, he decides to fake an embezzlement at his work and runs away to the seaside resort of Guarujá, where he manages to live peacefully, for too short a time.

Luz Apagada(1953)

1h 30min | Drama, Crime

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Carlos Thiré

O Saci(1951)

1h 5min | Adventure, Kids & Family
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Two kids and a living, talkative doll attempt to catch a mulatto boy-like, supernatural one legged figure known as the Saci-Pererê, that enjoys playing pranks to the farms.

Directed by Rodolfo Nanni

Quem matou Anabela?(1956)

1h 35min | Comedy, Mystery

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Dezső Ákos Hamza

Naked Amazon(1954)

1h 12min | Adventure
1.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Naked Amazon (Portuguese: Feitiço do Amazonas) is a 1954 Brazilian adventure film directed by Zygmunt Sulistrowski. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

Directed by Zygmunt Sulistrowski

Song of the Sea(1953)

1h 24min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to Recife, to get a vessel to Santos expecting to have a better life in the Southern. In the poor area of Recife, an old washerwoman launders clothes to survive and support her family. Her husband Zé Luis, a former sailor, is crazy due to a hit of the boom of a mast on his head. Her older son Raimundo works in a grocery and selling mangoes on the street, trying to save money to move to the Southeastern with his girl-friend Aurora. Her daughter wants to be a prostitute to have a better quality of life. Her younger son is seriously sick.

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti

Amazon Symphony(1954)

1h 2min | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Sinfonia Amazônica, or Amazon Symphony, was Brazil's first animated feature-length film, produced entirely by Anélio Lattini Filho over five years and finished in 1951. Like Disney's Fantasia, it tells several folk stories over orchestral music.

Directed by Anélio Latini Filho

Cara de Fogo(1958)

1h 28min | Crime, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A family moves to a farm and witnesses some cattle thefts, then being chased by the criminal responsible for the crimes.

Directed by Galileu Garcia - With Alberto Ruschel

Portuguese Rhapsody(1959)

1h 26min | Documentary

Portuguese Rhapsody (Portuguese: Rapsódia Portuguesa) is a 1959 Portuguese documentary film directed by João Mendes. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.

Directed by João Mendes
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