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Luz dos Meus Olhos (1947)
Character: N/A
Roberto is blind and tunes pianos, isolated from the world and hurt by having abandoned his promising career as a pianist due to the accident that took his sight. One day, Roberto meets Suzana, the great love of his life, and his old passion returns with full force. But there's a problem: Suzana's engagement could put everything to ruin, separating the passionate couple once again.
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Rifa-se Uma Mulher (1969)
Character: Carmen
A young woman from high society decides to raffle herself to raise money to complete the construction of a hospital, a social project she has dedicated herself to. She takes a nude photograph, orders several copies made, which are numbered and sold. The plan was initially intended to be limited to those close to her, and various measures were taken to ensure the photograph would not be seen by a limited circle. However, these measures prove unsatisfactory, and soon the raffle goes beyond the limits controlled by its promoter. The event becomes the talk of the town, and the raffle photos are sold and voraciously purchased everywhere on the streets, in universities, offices, and stores.
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Tererê Não Resolve (1938)
Character: Mulher no Baile
Three couples, two already living in Rio; and the third, with 'the one who hates carnival', coming to visit an aunt. One of the women bets that all husbands are unfaithful. They send invitations to their husbands to the carnival ball. They find a pretext to be able to attend. They, in turn, go in disguise, just like the maid. Hence the confusion at the ball, each one dating the other's wife.
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Leonora dos Sete Mares (1955)
Character: N/A
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.
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Chico Viola Não Morreu (1955)
Character: Cigana Vó
The biography of the singer Francisco Alves. It narrates his father's opposition to his singing, his adventure in the circus, his love affairs and breakups, his discovery in a bar at dawn and, finally, his success cut short when he died in 1952 in a car accident.
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O Petróleo é Nosso (1954)
Character: N/A
A lady, owner of a large area of land where it is believed there are several oil wells, is almost fooled by the president of a pseudo petroleum company into giving up her property for nothing, but is saved by his son's noble intervention.
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É com Este Que Eu Vou (1948)
Character: Frou Frou
A hard working man goes to São Paulo to look for his twin brother unaware that he's famous for his lazyness.
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Futebol em Familia (1939)
Character: Herself
Professor Leônidas Jau is an enemy of football, and in conferences and articles he throws all his hatred against the sport. Friendenreich, his son, however, loves the sport. Leonidas then has a falling out with his son, which may be saved.
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O Samba da Vida (1937)
Character: Helena
An ordinary thief and two accomplices invade a mansion whose owners traveled to Buenos Aires. They settle there with the whole family, until the real owners return. The owner's natural son saves the thief's situation when he threatens to reveal some compromising documents.
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Jovens Pra Frente (1968)
Character: N/A
After a flood that destroyed the orphanage he managed, Padre João develops a project to rebuild the place. To help, singers Rosemary and Jair Rodrigues will get involved in great adventures.
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Céu Azul (1941)
Character: Nini
The Companhia de Esquetches Musicados do Teatro 'Brasil' is in crisis. After the debut of a new play failed, impresario Artur Fernandes, despite protests from Nini del Mar—the company's star—decides to hire Vitorino, the only writer who understands the audience's tastes and the company's artistic capabilities, to write the next play.
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É Fogo na Roupa (1952)
Character: Condessa de Buganville
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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Depois Eu Conto (1956)
Character: Marinete
Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him.
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O Descarte (1973)
Character: Mulher do bar
After Cláudia, haunted by her husband’s death on a car crash, starts a romance with another man, she starts receiving threatening letters.
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A Pantera Nua (1979)
Character: N/A
Norma is a low middle class young woman trying to find a rich husband to have comfortable life. She poses naked for a men magazine expecting to be known in the upper class. She engages the gay Marcelinho, who is imposed by his father to get married to have the right to his inheritance, but when Marcelinho's father dies, he calls their deal off. Meanwhile, Norma meets the opportunist and gigolo Lincoln, who pretends to be a tycoon farmer, and they have a torrid affair. But Lincoln believes she is a rich woman from a wealthy family and he intends to marry her to have money.
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Com as Calças na Mão (1975)
Character: D. Flora
Reg owns the store "Tem Tudo... E Muito Mais" (Has Everything... And Much More). To satisfy his customers, he is forced to perform the most strange functions.
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Mãos Sangrentas (1955)
Character: N/A
Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang of dangerous convicts escape from a penal colony. With the police in hot pursuit, the escapees cut a gory swath through the countryside. As his comrades are killed off one by one, the leader of the group descends into gibbering madness. In contrast to this, a subplot develops involving the least dangerous of the escapees, who murdered his wife in a peak of self-righteous rage and is now seriously in doubt about the wisdom of his deed. Principal scenes reworked in 1962 to make the film The Violent and the Damned (q.v.).
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Independência ou Morte (1972)
Character: Dona Carlota Joaquina
The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.
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Ódio (1977)
Character: Rosa
The lawyer Roberto leaves his career and his fiancée behind to chase the criminals who killed his entire family in a brutal massacre.
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O Homem do Sputnik (1959)
Character: Dondoca
An UFO that could be the Russian satellite Sputnik falls on a hillbilly's hencoop.
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