Marília Pêra
Marília Soares Pêra (Rio de Janeiro, January 22, 1943 — Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 2015) was a Brazilian actress, singer and theater director. Throughout her career, she won around 80 awards, acting in 49 plays, 29 soap operas and more than 20 films. Pêra won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1982 for her role in Hector Babenco's acclaimed Pixote, and received Best Actress awards at the Gramado Film Festival (Triple Award Winner) and at the Cartegena Film Festival for Carlos Diegues' Better Days Ahead. Other films include Bar Esperança, Angels of the Night and Diegues' Tieta do Agreste.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9205 |
| Birthday | 1943-01-22 |
| Place of Birth | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Also Known As | Marília Soares Pêra, Марилия Пера, マリリア・ペーラ, 마릴리아 배, मरिलिया पेरा, |
1998
Central Station
8.119/1071
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search...
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Central Station
1980
Pixote
7.898/254
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen w...
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Pixote
2008
Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
5/3
The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the...
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Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
1996
Tieta of Agreste
6.679/28
After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.
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Tieta of Agreste
2009
Dzi Croquettes
7.7/16
A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay mov...
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Dzi Croquettes
2007
Playing
8.4/60
Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurrin...
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Playing
2008
Urban Snap-Shots
4.857/7
Comedic portrait of middle-aged women in Rio de Janeiro, including overworked housewife Magali and her over-the-top twin sister Magda, psychoanalyst P...
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Urban Snap-Shots
1998
Traveller
6.5/10
Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, th...
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Traveller
1989
Better Days Ahead
6.75/16
Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star.
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Better Days Ahead
2009
Now Boarding
6/2
Wagner is a 22-year old Brazilian guy, who dreams about leaving the country for a better life, until he meets Justina, an experienced woman who turns...
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Now Boarding
2011
Consideração do Poema
9/1
Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Tor...
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Consideração do Poema
2000
Amélia
8.6/9
Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induce...
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Amélia
1975
King of the Night
6.143/14
In the 1940s, São Paulo nightlife is the setting for Tezinho's love affairs. In love with Aninha, he needs to get away from the girl and ends up getti...
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King of the Night
2002
Seja O Que Deus Quiser!
8/2
After getting involved with an MTV VJ, a musician ends up being accused of setting up a robbery against her. To clear his name, he goes to São Paulo,...
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Seja O Que Deus Quiser!
1971
O Donzelo
10/1
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O Donzelo
2006
Vestido de Noiva
4/4
While in the hospital, after being run over, Alaíde thinks about her life, specially after the moment she'd found the diary of Madame Clessy, in the h...
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Vestido de Noiva
2006
Marília Pêra canta Carmen Miranda
10/1
Directed by Maurício Sherman, the actress Marília Pêra sings hits by Carmen Miranda with 43 songs from the repertoire of The Brazilian Bombshell in 24...
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Marília Pêra canta Carmen Miranda
1983
Bar Esperanza
6.167/15
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.
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Bar Esperanza
1985
Mixed Blood
5.7/17
On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neigh...
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Mixed Blood
2003
Garrincha: Lonely Star
4.136/11
The life of Brazilian soccer player, Garrincha, considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, with his uniquely original style. He had arc...
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Garrincha: Lonely Star
1992
Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela
8/1
Elas por Ela reconstituted the history of MPB between 1920 and 1970, from the female perspective, also showing the transformation of the role of women...
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Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela
2015
Chico: Brazilian Artist
7.8/18
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels...
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
1987
Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman
0/0
The life and work of Zezé Motta.
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Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman
2016
I'm Rich!
6.3/143
Selminha is a lower-class woman who receives a family inheritance, but only if she meets the challenge of spending 30 million reais in 30 days, withou...
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I'm Rich!
1987
Angels of the Night
5.846/13
Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, a drag queen; Teddy, a hustler; Guto, a gay repo...
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Angels of the Night
1968
The Man Who Bought the World
5.8/5
In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent...
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The Man Who Bought the World
1995
The Interview
4.25/4
Henry Czerny plays American journalist Michael Coleman, a strung-out expatriate writing for a Brazilian newspaper. His professional obsession is Fathe...
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The Interview
2007
Pixote In Memoriam
7.333/3
A tribute documentary on Fernando Ramos da Silva, the famous child star of the acclaimed film by Hector Babenco, "Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco" (1981)....
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Pixote In Memoriam
1970
É Simonal
8/1
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É Simonal
1978
O Grande Desbum
9/1
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O Grande Desbum
1984
Areias Sagradas (Parábola em Ipanema)
0/0
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Areias Sagradas (Parábola em Ipanema)
1975
Ana, a Libertina
10/1
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Ana, a Libertina
2018
Incidente em Antares - O Filme
6.6/5
Film adaptation of the TV Show in 1994, based on the novel of the same name by Érico Veríssimo. During a general strike in the city of Antares, graved...
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Incidente em Antares - O Filme
2017
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
7.4/5
"All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-o...
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All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
2013
Alô, Dolly!
10/1
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Alô, Dolly!
2026
Viva Marília
0/0
The historical, political, and social context of Brazil in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and the impact of each decade on the life and work of the accl...
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Viva Marília
2006
Living the Dream
2.571/7
"Living the Dream" is a docudrama about two friends who after being bullied as children become corrupt when growing up because they have been conditio...
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Living the Dream
2009
Elas Cantam Roberto Carlos
0/0
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Elas Cantam Roberto Carlos
2002
Aurora Miranda - A Irmã Notável de Carmen
0/0
Aurora Miranda had a brilliant career, but one unknown to most Brazilians, perhaps overshadowed by the myth of Carmen Miranda.
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