The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema (1988)
| runtime = 115 minutes | country = Brazil | language = Portuguese | budget = $450,000 | gross = }} The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema is a 1988 Brazilian thriller film directed by Guilherme de Almeida Prado. It follows Lucas (Antônio Fagundes), an estate agent who becomes fascinate by Suzana (Maitê Proença), a woman who looks almost exactly like an actress in the film he is watching. They start an affair, but she is married to Desdino, a gangster (Paulo Villaça), exposing Lucas to a criminal world of violence and corruption. The film borrows some references from Hollywood films noirs of the 1940s, mainly Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai. Its name a play with The Lady from Shanghai.
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