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Marília Pera
Central Station
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4 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in Portuguese and held by 855 libraries worldwide When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing.
Central Station
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8 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in 3 languages and held by 418 libraries worldwide When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing.
Pixote a lei do mais fraco
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1 edition published in 2001 in Portuguese and held by 225 libraries worldwide "Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang for 'Peewee') is one of three million homeless children in Brazil. Hauled off to a crowded detention center, wide-eyed Pixote witnesses rapes, beatings and other acts of random violence by both the guards and the inmates. With the transvestite Lilica and his lover Dito, Pixote escapes from the reform school where he and his friends hit the streets alone, embarking on a life of violence and crime."-- Container.
Pixote a lei do mais fraco
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1 edition published in 1997 in Portuguese and held by 184 libraries worldwide "Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang for 'Peewee') is one of three million homeless children in Brazil. Hauled off to a crowded detention center, wide-eyed Pixote witnesses rapes, beatings and other acts of random violence by both the guards and the inmates. With the transvestite Lilica and his lover Dito, Pixote escapes from the reform school where he and his friends hit the streets alone, embarking on a life of violence and crime."--Container.
Tieta do Agreste
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2 editions published in 1998 in Portuguese and held by 160 libraries worldwide The story of a prodigal daughter who returns home to her small town 26 years after leaving.
Central Station Central do Brasil
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17 editions published between 1998 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 130 libraries worldwide When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing.
Central Station
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5 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 18 libraries worldwide Inside Rio de Janeiro's busy Central Station, two unlikely souls become linked when a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, and a lonely retired school teacher reluctantly takes him under her wing. Although initially distrustful of each other, the two form an uncommon bond as they venture from Rio to Brazil's barren and remote northeast region searching for the boy's father. Together they embark on a journey that restores the woman's spirit and teaches the boy precious life lessons.
Mixed blood
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in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide With their flamboyant godmother, Rita La Punta, calling the shots, an underage gang of Brazilian punks set out to conquer New York's Alphabet City's lucrative drug trade. Rita's grisly scheme to regain her son's affection pits one gang against another.
Central do Brasil
by Walter Salles
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5 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in French and No Linguistic content and held by 12 libraries worldwide "Josué, un jeune brésilien de 10 ans, se retrouve abandonné après la disparition de sa mère. Son seul espoir et contact, Dora, une institutrice à la retraite qui décide de l'aider à retrouver son père, quitte à traverser tout le pays...
Vissi d'arte
by Marília Pera
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4 editions published in 1999 in Portuguese and held by 10 libraries worldwide
Marília Pêra : cartas a uma jovem atriz : disciplina, criatividade e bom humor
by Marília Pera
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2 editions published in 2008 in Portuguese and held by 8 libraries worldwide
O primo Basílio
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1 edition published in 2007 in Portuguese and held by 8 libraries worldwide Arriving from London, Basílio falls in love with his cousin Luísa, in Lisbon. But he must go to Brazil, promising he will eventually marry her. As time goes by, he sends her a letter ending the relationship, and she marries Jorge, an engineer. One of Jorge's rich aunts dies, leaving him a small fortune and her former maid Juliana. Juliana obtains love letters between Luísa and Basílio, and starts blackmailing her employer.
Estacion central de Brasil
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3 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in Spanish and Multiple languages and held by 7 libraries worldwide
JK
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2 editions published in 2006 in Portuguese and held by 6 libraries worldwide Mini-series about the life of Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek, in office from 1956 to 1961.
Dias melhores virão
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1 edition published in 2006 in Portuguese and held by 4 libraries worldwide A middle-aged Brazilian woman, who works as a dubber of American television sit-coms, dreams of moving to America and becoming a TV actress herself.
Seja o que deus quiser
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1 edition published in 2004 in Portuguese and held by 4 libraries worldwide Cac,̀ a VJ who works for Sô Paulo MTV, comes to Rio de Janeiro to make a report about a new band, whose members are poor and live in a slum called Morro do Alemô. She spends the night with PQD, one of the musicians. The next day, Cac ̀is attacked by two street kids who wanted some money, and thinks PQD is somehow involved. With the police chasing him, PQD decides to go to Sô Paulo to see Cac ̀and prove his innocence. But he meets Cac'̀s brother, Nando, who tries to convince him to take part in a scam.
Polaróides urbanas
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1 edition published in 2008 in Portuguese and held by 3 libraries worldwide "A comedy of manners full of situations and characters that are part of everyday life: a bored housewife, her twin sister in a daze, a psychoanalyst who does not know to be mother, an ambitious girl, a male escort in love, and many others."--Translated from container.
Anjos da noite
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1 edition published in 2006 in Portuguese and held by 3 libraries worldwide Experimental movie of the "Novo Cinema Paulista", a movement in the 80's that took place in São Paulo and that was considered nostalgic and nihilistic in the vision of many critics. The metaphoric inconclusive essay about loneliness of the urban citizen in the big city focuses one night in the lives of common people without any judgment or conclusion: Ciça (Be Valerio), the student of sociology researching some tapes; Teddy (Guilheme Leme), a escort man that interacts with all the characters; Marta Brum (Marília Pera), a former successful actress forgotten by the audiences and limited to commercials on TV; Guto (Marcos Nanini), a successful gay that lives in New York and occasionally returns to Brazil for short periods; the director Jorge (Antônio Fagundes), who is interested in having sex with a young actress."--www.imdb.com.
Vestido de noiva
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1 edition published in 2006 in Portuguese and held by 3 libraries worldwide "In 1942, in Rio de Janeiro, the twenty-five years old Alaíde is run over while crossing Carioca Street. She arrives in coma in the hospital, and while being submitted to an emergency surgery, she recalls her life since her family moved to a former brothel, mixing hallucination, reality and memory. In her surrealistic daydream, she meets Madame Clessy, the owner of the bordello that died in 1905, killed by her seventeen years old lover, and she tells a passionate and tragic love story between her husband Pedro, her jealous sister Lúcia and herself, and how Madame Clessy died"--IMDB.com.
Tieta
by Carlos Diegues
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1 edition published in 1999 in Portuguese and held by 3 libraries worldwide more
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Actors Actresses Airlines--Employees Biographical films Biography Brazil Brazil--Bahia (State) Brazil--Rio de Janeiro Brazil--São Paulo Comedy films Comedy films Drama Drug dealers Dubbing of television programs Extortion Falabella, Miguel,--1956- Families Feature films Feature films Fiction films Fiction television programs Film adaptations Film and video adaptations Films for the hearing impaired Films--for the hearing impaired Foreign films Homeless children Homemakers Juvenile delinquents Kubitschek, Juscelino,--1902-1976 Louzeiro, José Man-woman relationships Middle-aged women Motion pictures Motion pictures Motion pictures, Brazilian Pera, Marília Political science Portugal--Lisbon Presidents Psychoanalysts Railroad stations Retired teachers Romantic comedy films Social history Street children Television mini-series Twin sisters Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Voice actors and actresses
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Alternative Names
Marzullo Pêra, Marília 1943-
Pêra, Marília Marzullo 1943-
Soares Pêra, Marília
Languages
Portuguese
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French (14) German (5) Spanish (5) English (4) Multiple languages (4) Russian (1) No Linguistic content (1) Undetermined (1) Covers
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