Acting
Miguel Torres
Born — Died
1926-11-12 — 1962-12-31
Place of birth
Curaçá, Bahia, Brazil
Known for
Acting
Credits
14 titles
Known for
No synopsis available yet.
O Direito de Nascer
1978
7.5A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
The Guns
1964
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Três Cabras de Lampião
1962
7.0No synopsis available yet.
O Primo do Cangaceiro
1955
6.0An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
The Wind Rose
1957
6.2Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.
The Unscrupulous Ones
1962
Film credits
1960s · 2 titles
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Três Cabras de Lampião
1962
6.7Despite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes after them, in order to kill them for revenge.
Red Mandacaru
1961
1950s · 6 titles
7.0No synopsis available yet.
O Primo do Cangaceiro
1955
6.0An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
The Wind Rose
1957
6.0A poor girl must find the money to pay for her blind sister's eyesight operation.
Rua sem Sol
1954
NRMariana is a young woman from the interior of Minas Gerais who leaves for Rio de Janeiro in search of a man who seduced her and got her pregnant. But the rascal man gave her the false address, with only a photo as a reference. Staying at an uncle's house, she is faced with the difficulties of living in the big city, seeing that finding her husband in Rio is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Needle in a Haystack
1953
10.0A group of migrants from the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil gets a truck "pau-de-arara" trying to move to São Paulo and have a better life. Along their travel, one of the women delivers a baby on the road. The driver, indeed, intends to carry them to the slave-work in the fields of a powerful "colonel", but the brave Ana faces the foreman of the farm and the driver, and the truck follows to the hired final destination.
Ana
1955
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Mulheres, Música e Carnaval
1959
Series credits
Behind the camera
7.5A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
The Guns
1964
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Três Cabras de Lampião
1962
6.2Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.
The Unscrupulous Ones
1962
7.0A poor community in Salvador organizes a resistance against the destruction of the Água de Meninos street market.
Sol Sobre a Lama
1963
6.0The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents, sensibility, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of the Minho.
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
1961