Paulo Porto

Acting

Paulo Porto

Born September 1, 1917 · Muriaé, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Died July 3, 1999 · aged 81

Paulo Porto (Muriaé, September 1, 1917 – Rio de Janeiro, July 3, 1999) was a Brazilian radio, theater, film and television actor. He also worked as a director, screenwriter and producer.

Known For

Minas ConspiracyMinas Conspiracy · 1948
Minas Conspiracy
★ 8.01948
MovieHistoryDrama
Reconstruction of the historical episode of the Inconfidência Mineira (Minas Conspiracy).
A Noiva da CidadeA Noiva da Cidade · 1978
A Noiva da Cidade
★ 8.01978
MovieMusicRomance
When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her influence in order to get ambiguous deeds done.
Asas do BrasilAsas do Brasil · 1948
Asas do Brasil
1948
MovieDramaAdventure
The drama feature film depicts the dangers present in the daily lives of civil aviators.
The Devil QueenThe Devil Queen · 1974
The Devil Queen
★ 6.31974
MovieCrimeDrama
Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can trust her subjects, however fabulous? When she sets up a stoolie to take the fall for her boy, a plot against Her Majesty arises!
Go Ahead, Brazil!Go Ahead, Brazil! · 1982
Go Ahead, Brazil!
★ 7.31982
MovieCrimeDrama
Mid-1970s. When the military regime's "economic miracle" and the victory of the Brazilian football team on the World Cup serve as a distraction for the persecution of opposition leaders by the political police of the dictatorship. Under this context, Jofre Godoi da Fonseca, an alienated middle-class man, is mistaken for Sarmento, a political activist he met at an airport prior to his assassination. He is then arrested for being "subversive".
As Moças Daquela HoraAs Moças Daquela Hora · 1973
As Moças Daquela Hora
★ 3.31973
MovieComedy
Film in three segments. In the first, engaged girl falls in love with an acrobat. In the second, married woman is loved by two men. In the last, the daughter of a traditional family is rejected on her wedding night.
The HeirsThe Heirs · 1970
The Heirs
★ 6.21970
MovieDrama
Jorge, an ambitious journalist, marries into money and betrays colleagues to become a powerful politician during political turmoil in 1946 Brazil.
Um Ramo Para LuísaUm Ramo Para Luísa · 1965
Um Ramo Para Luísa
★ 7.01965
MovieDrama
Paulo works as a journalist for a print publication and is a man of many women. He has a long-standing affair with a wealthy married woman and also begins a new relationship with Luísa, a young call girl who is his client.

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Hunger for LoveHunger for Love · 1968
Hunger for Love
★ 5.11968
MovieDrama
An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive

Producer