Luiza Maranhão

Known for Acting

9/20/1940(Age 85)

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Biography

Luíza Maranhão (Porto Alegre, September 20, 1940) is a Brazilian actress.

Known For (11 credits)

Movie

Memórias do Grupo Opinião

2019

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.

Movie

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

1997

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

5.0

Movie

Boi de Prata

1981

Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase his patrimony even further by exploiting ores. To do this, he tries to appropriate the small site of Antônio Vaqueiro (José Marinho). Desperate, Antônio rushes to the aid of the gypsy healer Maria dos Remédios (Luiza Maranhão) and the poet and dreamer Tião Poeta (Lenicio Queirogo) to face the greed of Elói.

Movie

Colagem

1967

The new Brazilian cinematic movement (Cinema Novo) through films starring actors Antonio Pitanga and Luiza Maranhão.

6.2

Movie

The Girl from Ipanema

1967

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.

7.5

Movie

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

1967

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.

5.7

Movie

The Big City

1966

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, later, the company of Inácio.

6.2

Movie

Ganga Zumba

1963

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

8.0

Movie

Assault on the Pay Train

1962

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.

6.9

Movie

The Turning Wind

1962

In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a factor of political and social oppression, with tragic outcome.

8.4

Movie

A Grande Feira

1961

The naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There, however, he is passed behind by the prostitute Maria, lover of the bandit Chico Diabo, who stabs him. He, however, can't forget her.