
Alberto Pieralisi
Directing
Biography
Alberto Pieralisi was born on 31 January 1911 in Italy. He was a director and writer, known for João Gangorra (1952), Uma Luz na Estrada (1949) and Um Marido Sem... É Como um Jardim Sem Flores (1972). He died on 8 October 2001 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Known For

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Essa Mulher é Minha... e dos Amigos
Erotic comedy divided in three episodes.
As Secretárias... Que Fazem de Tudo

Alberto Verani is a married farmer and a relentless womanizer. When his wife Marina is away he tries to seduce Condessa Arduini sending her a bouquet signed anonymously. However Marina is the one to find the gift and hides it from Alberto, believing she have a secret admirer. So the husband keeps sending her flowers to test the fidelity while an outsider man discovers the plot and start to takes advantage of it.
O Amante de Minha Mulher

Seeing his farm in ruins, swindler tries to sell it to the first interested person, who happens to be a man who fakes being a millionaire but in fact cannot pay for the estate.
O Comprador de Fazendas

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.
A Família Lero-Lero
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Senhora

A professional hitman returns to Brazil and is hired to eliminate an Argentine Delegate in a Rio de Janeiro convention. Inspector José da Silva realizes the plot and starts to pursuit him.
Missão: Matar!

A private detective is hired to spy a married woman and ends up falling in love with her.
Um Marido Sem... É Como um Jardim Sem Flores

Comedy in two segments. In the first, an important businessman becomes temporarily paralyzed after taking too much of a potent aphrodisiac. To take his place, his employee finds a mechanic who is a look-alike. In the second story, a businessman's woman pretends she is jealous in order to conceal her own unfaithfulness, as she is having an affair with her husband's closest employee.
Oh! Que Delícia de Patrão!

As the owner of a very famous bordello in Rio de Janeiro gets buried, an old scoundrel remembers his own past among the bohemian circles of the city.
O Enterro da Cafetina

Young woman needs money to pay her mother's medical treatment. She gets a work in a bar that is, in fact, a cover for a prostitution net. She is drugged and raped while some photographs are taken, to be presently used as blackmail, to force her to work as a hooker. She accepts her fate but starts a serious relationship with a reporter, to whom she doesn't dare tell the truth. She wants to leave that life behind and get married, but the gangsters won't allow it. Until one of the girls decides to tell the reporter about the underground activities going on, and he calls the police.
A Difícil Vida Fácil

Foreign agents from an unidentified nation clandestinely install radio and TV antennas in Rio de Janeiro devices that emit subliminal waves that alter the perception of the population. They aim to transform the people into an aggressive and imbecile mass, leading the country to chaos, allowing the government to be taken to usurp Brazil's natural wealth. A journalist, Carlos, accompanied by chemist Laura Leal, begins to investigate a series of facts and discovers those responsible for the disturbances.
The Fifth Power
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.
João Gangorra

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Το δρομάκι του παραδείσου
Alberto and Daniel are friends with opposite tempers. Alberto is a family man, two childrens, and keep his love affairs in the shadows. Daniel is not discreet at all and after unsuccessfully tries to conquers Lurdinha, Alberto's secretary and his former mistress, ask her to marry him. But Lurdinha still have feelings for her boss.
O Homem da Cabeça de Ouro

In order to become an actress, young woman tries many jobs, but in all those places she finds a man trying to have sex with her.
Café na Cama

Two conmen (one trying to pretend his lousy farm is a great one to sell, other pretending to buy one without actual money) try to con each other.
O Comprador de Fazendas

An adventure film...
Uma Luz na Estrada

Based on Kaestner's "Emil and the Detectives" tale.
Pega Ladrão

Man raised in a brothel tries to earn his living as a pimp, but gets in trouble when his girlfriend cheats on him with an older man.