Walter D'Ávila

Professor Kranz german in Germany (1978)

The story of a German scientist/stage magician eking out a miserly life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas until getting involved in an improbable kidnapping and ransom plot. ...

The Delights of Life (1974)

Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role. ...

Motorista Sem Limites (1970)

Três Colegas de Batina (1961)

The project of urbanization of a shantytown is endangered by lack of money. To get the necessary sum, three friars start to sing in plain clothes, incognito, also recording records and doing shows in nightclubs. ...

Pequeno por Fora (1960)

É a Maior (1958)

No Mundo da Lua (1958)

For a long time a couple exchanged love letters, he living in the Northeast and she in Rio de Janeiro. One day he goes to the wonderful city together with a colleague, but he soon faces a problem: since he has sent the girl a photo of someone else, he is a ...

Carnival in A Major (1955)

A Família Lero-Lero (1953)

Aquiles Taveira is a civil servant harassed by his own family's financial demands. Tired of it, he decides to fake an embezzlement at his work and runs away to the seaside resort of Guarujá, where he manages to live peacefully, for too short a time. ...

João Gangorra (1952)

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. ...

A Stolen Kiss (1950)

A young woman from the countryside comes to Rio to try to be a theater star with the support of a friend, but to achieve what she wants, she ends up getting her own mother into trouble. ...

Fogo na Canjica (1948)

The Drunkard (1946)

A good-hearted man, betrayed by his wife and friends, fakes his death and takes up a new identity, as a nameless, wandering drunkard. ...

Caídos do Céu (1946)

Loucos por Música (1945)

Pif-Paf (1945)

Noites Cariocas (1935)