Conceição Senna
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Deathday: May 27, 2020
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Known For
Nuclear Shelter
1981-09-07
Nuclear Shelter
Overview: Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-09-07
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Antonio das Mortes
1969-06-14
Antonio das Mortes
Overview: A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Iracema
1975-07-14
Iracema
Overview: A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by the Brazilian censorship. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-07-14
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Caveira My Friend
1970-01-01
Caveira My Friend
Overview: The adventures of a gang of thieves and murderers led by violent Caveirinha. A radical disruption proposal from the postulates of the Cinema Novo, a film with a loose narrative structure. Through the actions of a group of outlaws, the director sews in scenes that propose iconoclasm and elation as forms of opposition to the military dictatorship oppression.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Invisible Collection
2013-09-06
The Invisible Collection
Overview: The young Beto ventures to the Brazilian countryside in search of a collection of rare drawings. There he meets Samir, the collector, and his family ruined by the demise of the cocoa plantations. The journey and the encounter will irrevocably change the young man’s soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Diamante Bruto
1978-02-22
Diamante Bruto
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-02-22
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Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
1979-01-01
Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
Overview: In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Gitirana
1975-01-01
Gitirana
Overview: Yesterday, the inhabitants of the Nordeste had to abandon their land for lack of water. Today, floods are driving them out... Deprived of their roots, the people continue to remain faithful to their traditions and beliefs, while progress is imposed by the power of money.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
2013-01-22
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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Bahia SCI-FI
2015-06-26
Bahia SCI-FI
Overview: Since the 1970s, Roberto Pires has militated against the use of nuclear energy. For that, he went looking for the biggest Brazilian name in this subject, César Lattes, professor of Nuclear Physics at UNICAMP. Believing that nuclear energy could, in the long run, extinguish human life. With the collaboration of Orlando Senna, he writes the screenplay for the film “Abrigo Nuclear”, an ambitious production, science fiction film entirely produced and shot in Bahia. With little money, armed with his creative ability, Roberto builds a 'spaceship' and a studio in the backyard of his house. He calls children, relatives and friends and begins production on “Nuclear Shelter”, which is released in 1981. With statements by Orlando Senna, Laura Pires, Nonato Freire, among others, the documentary "Bahia SCI-FI" intends to explore the universe that surrounded Roberto Pires, Bahia and the possible nuclear war of the late 1970s and early 1970s. 1980.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-06-26
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Milagrez
2008-01-02
Milagrez
Overview: Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-02
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Ser Tão Cinzento
2011-08-24
Ser Tão Cinzento
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-08-24
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Iremos a Beirute
2000-01-07
Iremos a Beirute
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-07
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The Ballroom
2007-11-25
The Ballroom
Overview: An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and desire is an antidote to grumpy old men and women everywhere.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-25
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Malandro
1986-07-02
Malandro
Overview: In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel exploits a cabaret singer, and earns his living by means of petty swindles. But then he meets Ludmila, the cabaret owner's daughter, who wants to get rich smuggling goods in times of war.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-07-02
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O Amor Dentro da Câmera
2021-03-18
O Amor Dentro da Câmera
Overview: O AMOR DENTRO DA CÂMERA is an essay documentary that tells the story of Conceição and Orlando Senna, pioneers of Audiovisual, who live a romance of almost 60 years, crossed by the History of cinema and Latin America. Intimate and metalinguistic, portrayed in the warmth of the home and through archival materials, when telling a love story, it takes us through the cinematographic and political networks that have woven across the continent.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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