Liana Duval

Liana Duval

Birth : 1927-06-06, Paraguaçu Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil

Death : 2011-03-23

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Liana Duval

Movies

The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema
Former athlete enters an old cinema in São Paulo's decadent city centre and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much like the leading lady on the film. He gets involved with her and her problems and in no time is being accused of a crime.
Vera
Librarian
Young girl spends her adolescence in an institution for minors, developing some masculine traits in her personality. In this hostile environment, she can only find some sympathy in a teacher. After leaving the place, she falls in love with a divorced woman in her work, mother of a young boy, which aggravates her inner conflicts.
Movie Dementia
Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.
Um Casal de 3
Nasce uma Mulher
On Jo's birthday, her mother, and later, her father, discover that she is not a virgin anymore - she is taking pills. The birthday party turns into a complete mess, since Jo's mother can not hold herself and accuses her daughter in front of all guests of not being a child that everyone thought she still was. Jo rebels and leaves the house, and discovers that her boyfriend listened to everything and did not help her. She decides to leave him, and to start her life again. As a woman, now.
Tchau, Amor
Senhora
An unemployed radio worker obsessed with suicide meets a rich brat.
Tudo na Cama
A Noite das Taras nº 2
In "Solo de Violino", bank clerk and aspirant violinist Rodrigo is a serial killer. When his next door neighbor reveals that she is in love with his music and Rodrigo, he has difficulties in controlling his killing impulses. In "A Guerra da Malvina", four female thieves break in the house of the porn star David Cardoso to rob money and jewelry, but they end having sex with the actor.
O Vale dos Amantes
Love, Prostitute Word
Vanda
Follows the relationship between two couples: An unemployed professor, Fernando, sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita, and sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperient Lilita.
Act of Violence
Nadir
Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.
Porno
Ruda
Three tales of the erotic: Two young ladies experiment with lesbianism, a handsome and wealthy socialite makes a beautiful woman patiently wait to make love to him, and a gorgeous, but controlling and dominating blind woman makes a hunky stud her sexual hostage in her swanky mansion home.
Império das Taras
Laura
Ariella
Maid
Joelma 23rd Floor
Lucinda
'Joelma 23rd Floor' faithfully reconstructs the story of young Lucimar, one of the 170 fatal victims of the Joelma Building fire, which occurred in São Paulo, on the morning of February 1, 1974.
Dani - Um Cachorro Muito Vivo
Rain Lovers
A curious story: it rains whenever a couple of lovers meet. Against the weather forecast, it rains all over the city. And as the love grows, the stronger becomes the rain. Found by a television crew, they receive the title of "Rain Lovers", and their dates become public spectacles.
Woman, Woman
Recently turned into a widow, Alice goes to the country to think about her life. There, she's courted by Luis Carlos but falls in love with Marta. However, Jumbo, a horse, also arouses strange feelings in her mind.
For a Woman's Body
Faxineira
O Milagre - O Poder da Fé
O Outro Lado do Crime
Mágoa de Boiadeiro
Maria
A Casa das Tentações
Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.
Excitation
Empregada
A computer engineer takes his problematic wife to an isolated house on the beach, but it's haunted - or is it just a psychiatric issue of hers?
O Seminarista
Umbelina
Macho e Fêmea
Enfermeira
Juliano is a millionaire who leads a boring life amidst the facilities that money provides him. One day, he decides to change his routine and associates with a mad scientist, Professor Kunz, who invents a magic potion, a drug that releases the other side of the personality of those who consume it. Juliano becomes a guinea pig and tries the potion, transforming into the beautiful Juliana (Vera Fischer). However, the effects of the new drug will cause many confusions between the millionaire and the crazy professor, creating complicated situations for both of them.
Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável
The Delights of Life
Dona Luísa
Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role.
Pensionato de Mulheres
Anjo Loiro
Sônia
Armando, a single high-school teacher living a steady life, sees his world crumbles when he falls in love with Laura, the ex-girlfriend of one of his favorite students.
Fora das Grades
O Pornógrafo
Madame Rosália
Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upset the magazine's owner, a rich and powerful woman.
Em Cada Coração um Punhal
Transplante de Mãe
Crônica da Cidade Amada
Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time.
The Kiss
Isabel
When a dying man receives a kiss from a bereaved man who tries to save him, the man is jailed as a homosexual. He is released from jail, but his life has been ruined by the incident -- and the man eventually is killed by his own father-in-law. The kiss that resulted in the eventual persecution and death of the man is never shown in this plodding, downbeat drama.
Só Naquela Base
Hoje o Galo Sou Eu!
O Pão Que o Diabo Amassou
Aida
A Pensão de D. Estela
Floradas na Serra
Firmina
Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão.
O Craque
1953 Brazilian soccer drama.
João Gangorra
To avoid gossips about his life, a rich man hires a butcher to play his wife's lover. But the two fall in love causing more troubles than expected.
Nadando em Dinheiro
Isidoro, a poor guy, suddenly becomes a millionaire, and gets into the most bizarre situations.