Armando Costa

Armando Costa

Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Director), 14 (Writer)

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    Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo
    Having come out recently from jail, a tramp decides to cheat a false millionaire, who only appears to be rich. (imdb)
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    Copacabana Me Engana
    Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.
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    Bar Esperança
    Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, night-people in general join forces to try to avoid its demolition. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, her husband Zeca, an intellectual type in crisis about his work for TV, artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarreling, only to be reconciled moments later. (imdb)
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    Se Segura, Malandro!
    Man has a clandestine radio station in a shantytown, and broadcasts the swindles happening in the city, at the same time running absurd contests with preposterous prizes. (imdb)
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    Minha Namorada
    Middle-class boy living in Rio de Janeiro falls in love with unattractive girl and starts selling grass. (imdb)
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    Faustão
    A band of outlaws led by Faustao intervene in a fight between members of families and Araújo Pereira. Henry, son of Colonel Payne, is wounded in an ambush. Faustão rescues him and demands that his father paid a ransom in exchange for the life of the child.
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    Ainda Agarro Esta Vizinha...
    Tatá is a typical Rio de Janeiro guy, easy living, hedonistic, living in an apartment in one of those buildings where everything goes, in Copacabana, near the beach. One day a beautiful new neighbor, Teresa, moves into the apartment in front of his, and he falls in love.
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    O Doce Esporte do Sexo
    Erotic comedy in five segments, starring the same actor (Chico Anysio)
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    Nos Embalos de Ipanema
    Toquinho is a young man living in a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Although he is poor he is also ambitious and wants to change his life. He spends all his time on the beach, where he dreams to become a famous surfer. Besides, he usually finds Patricia there, a rich and liberated young woman, whom he likes a lot. To impress Patricia, he lets himself be seduced by a gay guy who in return for his sexual favors promises him a trip to Hawaii for a surf championship.
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    Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo II - A Volta
    Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations. (imdb)
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    O Bom Marido
    Couple spend more than they can afford. In financial trouble, the husband Alfredinho devises a strange kind of business, for foreign executives, in which the product is his own wife Malu. They succeed, and soon other couples start doing the same thing, establishing the competition. (imdb)
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    Pedro Diabo Ama Rosa Meia Noite
    Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls. (imdb)
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    Em Busca do Su$exo
    Willing to do anything to succeed in an artistic career, and roused by her own mother, the TV go-go girl Zelinda tries to seduce the director of the studio where she works. (imdb)
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    A Vingança Dos Doze
    The story of Charlemagne and the 12 Peers of France, transposed to Northeast Brazil, with Western elements.
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