Rubens Francisco Lucchetti
Birth : 1930-01-29, Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, São Paulo, Brazil
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Rubens Francisco Lucchetti (born 29 January 1930, in Santa Rita do Passa Quatro), better known as R. F. Lucchetti, is a Brazilian fiction writer, illustrator, writer and screenwriter for films, comic books and photocomics. Luchetti wrote more than 30 books under his name and over 1500 crime and terror fiction works under several pseudonyms. He also wrote screenplays for films directed by José Mojica Marins and Ivan Cardoso.
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A remake of one of the episodes written by R. F. Lucchetti for the TV Bandeirantes series "Além, Muito Além do Além" (1968). At the time, this series was presented by Zé do Caixão and in this remake he is presented by his daughter, Liz Marins, with her character Liz Vamp.
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Juvenal and Marina go on a trip. In spite of the warnings, Juvenal takes some pictures of a strange elderly lady who places a curse on him for photographing her. The curse will take over his life. Juvenal will try to get rid of the curse in a variety of ways with the help of Marina.
Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a rescue of his work by mixing archival material, animations and fictional reconstructions.
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Documentary about the Brazilian writer Rubens Francisco Luchetti, the pope of the pulp.
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A doctor is invited to dinner at the home of her favorite writer, Paula Clossidy, however, the author turns out to be stranger than the stories she publishes. Based on a short story by R. F. Lucchetti.
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Everything that is said about Rubens Francisco Lucchetti will still be little. Lucchetti is one of the most forgotten cultural personalities in our history. Newspaper, magazine, comic book, cinema, television, radio and now the internet. The man who wrote over fifteen hundred books. There is not a single medium of communication in which he has not shone. And what happens? Almost nobody knows who he is and what he did or represents for our Culture. This short film captures the mythical writer in flagrante delicto of his intimacy, in his daily life, bringing him closer to his readers. His house is an invitation to the universe of letters and images.
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In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations.
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The first documentary on José Mojica Marins's (the legendary Zé do Caixão or Coffin Joe) life and work. The film tells Mojica's history, from his poor childhood in Vila Anastácio, São Paulo (Brazil), until his success abroad in the '90s.
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Anjo is a millionaire playboy who fights the forces of crime, especially his deadly enemy, the arch-villain Scarlet Scorpion, who recently has kidnapped the fashion designer Glória Campos, who is in love with our hero.
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A Cat from outer-space comes to earth and befriends a Miller's Son and together they set out to defeat an evil wizard.
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Botanist is incapable of handling a carnivore plant that turns its victims into vampires. Clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious deaths happening in a nightclub show.
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Laughed at when he announced the discovery of the elixer of life, Brazilian scientist Expedito Vitus ends up making the most important archaeological discovery of the century: the tomb of Runamb, the Mummy, in the sands of Egypt. Back in Brazil, he brings the Mummy back to life.
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On Christmas Eve, Mauro, a reporter, has 24 hours to find a headline.
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A psychiatric doctor is driven insane plagued by nightmarish visions of Coffin Joe's subterranean world of bizarre horror. Under analysis, it's discovered that he has a pathological fear that Joe has sexual designs on his beautiful wife. Unable to cure him, his fellow doctors enlist the services of José Mojica Marins, the creator of Coffin Joe, in an attempt to convince the patient that Joe does not exist. But all is not how it might first appear.
Scientist Adelaide hates men, specially the cheating ones. Researching for revenge methods against them, she estabilishes contact with creatures from outer space, gaining special powers.
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Dr. Jorge Medeiros is a weird scientist who does not has time for his beautiful wife Rachel and is always busy with his so called experiences. She falls in love with Oliver, best friend of her husband, and soon after the two plan to kill Jorge and inherit his fortune. Benefiting from the distraction of her husband in the laboratory, Raquel throws acid on Jorge's face, disfiguring it. As he recovers in the hospital, Raquel and Oliver spend all his money. After months in hospital, the beguiled husband comes back home, with a special plan for revenge in mind.
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Coffin Joe opens a hostel which will be run by himself and five other carefully chosen people. The hostel soon fills up with dozens of guests including partying hippies and gambling gangsters, who soon begin to suspect that this hostel is far from normal....
Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the story for his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force.
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Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the story for his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force.
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Prophet Finis Hominis escapes from jail and resumes his mission of saving humanity from its moral ruin.
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An american explorer organizes an expedition to the Amazon Rainforest in search of a lost treasure.
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Stark naked man comes out from the sea and begins to walk the streets, interfering in daily episodes, always in search of justice. He names himself Finis Hominis (The End of Man, in latin), and soon becomes sort of a modern Messiah, capable of performing miracles. An adulterous woman and a cheated husband are among his most faithful followers, as well as a group of hippies.
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Psychiatrist experiments LSD on 4 volunteers, to investigate Coffin Joe's influence over them. Each patient presents a different reaction, involving sex, perversion and sadism.
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Coffin Joe presents an anthology film which tells three macabre tales, all delightfully demented, perverted and grotesque.
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