Modesto de Souza

Acting

Modesto de Souza

Born 1894-11-13 · São Miguel dos Campos, Alagoas, Brazil

Acting credits

Falta Alguém no Manicômio poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Falta Alguém no Manicômio

1948

Entre Mulheres e Espiões poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Entre Mulheres e Espiões

1963

Romance Proibido poster
9.8

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.

Romance Proibido

1944

Assim Era a Atlântida poster
8.1

No synopsis available yet.

Assim Era a Atlântida

1975

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo poster
7.5

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.

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

1967

Obrigado, Doutor poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Obrigado, Doutor

1948

Anastácio poster
8.0

After his father's death, a prosperous banker, Fernando, takes over the bank with the support of his family and shareholders. But his actions lead to bankruptcy, and he faces the family's hardship. With his assets auctioned off, Fernando lives in a boarding house until he faces bankruptcy proceedings and is arrested.

Anastácio

1939

A Carrocinha poster
7.2

Man finds a job as a dog catcher, but feels sorry for the animals and sets them free.

A Carrocinha

1955

Entranced Earth poster
7.2

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.

Entranced Earth

1967

Leonora of the Seven Seas poster
5.5

A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.

Leonora of the Seven Seas

1955

Osso, Amor e Papagaios poster
9.0

A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.

Osso, Amor e Papagaios

1957

Gravel poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gravel

1951

Cem Garotas e Um Capote poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cem Garotas e Um Capote

1946

Rio, 100 Degrees F° poster
7.1

On a scorching summer day in Rio de Janeiro, five impoverished black boys venture out of their favela to peddle peanuts throughout the bustling city. As they navigate the various districts of Rio, they bear witness to a series of unfortunate events and encounters, unfolding a vivid tapestry of urban life in Rio de Janeiro during that period. These true misadventures shed light on the gritty reality of the city, unveiling its vibrant urban tapestry.

Rio, 100 Degrees F°

1955

Rua sem Sol poster
6.0

A poor girl must find the money to pay for her blind sister's eyesight operation.

Rua sem Sol

1954

Romance de um Mordedor poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Romance de um Mordedor

1944

Tico-Tico no Fubá poster
7.8

A fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s.

Tico-Tico no Fubá

1952

Terra Violenta poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Terra Violenta

1949

Carnival in Caxias poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Carnival in Caxias

1954

... E o Mundo Se Diverte poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

... E o Mundo Se Diverte

1949

Carnaval no Fogo poster
10.0

A gang, leaded by the unknown and mysterious Anjo, robs a jewelry and schedules a meeting in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Copacabana. The identification would be through a cigarette case with an angel, and the password "- Is everything all right?" Meanwhile, the director Ricardo is preparing a show for the carnival in the hotel with Marina, and they love each other. The janitor Serafim receives a letter from his unknown American brother, who will come to Rio to spend the carnival and meet him, and asks Eliana for a chance in the show, since his brother believes he is an artist. When Ricardo finds the cigarette case lost by Anjo in the entrance of the hotel, he is misidentified by the thieves, and this is the beginning of lots of confusion and fun.

Carnaval no Fogo

1949