Gustavo Machado
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 17, 1973
Deathday: N/A
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The Best Things in the World
2010-05-22
The Best Things in the World
Overview: Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries to make his way through life, with its first sexual experiences, his depressed brother and his self-centered parents. It’s a humorous homage to the pitfalls of daily life and the diversity of life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-22
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Paulista
2009-10-02
Paulista
Overview: Three metropolitan stories entwine in São Paulo. Would-be actress Marina arrives in the city looking for independence, falls madly in love with Justine, a bisexual rock singer, and is swept up into her wild, edgy lifestyle. Marina shares a flat on Avenida Paulista with Suzana, a mysterious transsexual lawyer who begins a relationship with a male colleague who is unaware of her condition. Jay lives a few floors above them. He is a frustrated writer trying to give a meaning to his life by idealizing a stunningly beautiful prostitute, whom he transforms into a sort of muse. Following the frenetic pace of the city, the three "Paulista" characters will experience the euphoria of passion and its downside.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Angela
2023-09-07
Angela
Overview: In this biopic about the life and death of Ângela Diniz, Angela meets Raul and believes she has found someone who loves her free spirit as much as she does. The overwhelming attraction makes the couple drop everything and live the dream of rebuilding their lives on the beach. But the relationship declines into abuse and violence, giving rise to one of the most remembered murders in Brazil.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-09-07
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I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips
2011-10-11
I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips
Overview: In a remote part of the Amazon, a traveling photographer has an intense affair with a preacher's wife, but secrets from her past threaten to ruin them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-11
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Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos
2017-10-10
Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos
Overview: A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-10
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AE-Autoexposure
2012-11-09
AE-Autoexposure
Overview: After a shooting assignment, Henrique is mugged by two armed motor-bikers who steal his camera and speed off. Seconds later, he watches both get hit by a pickup truck driven by a self-appointed avenger, someone weary of feeling defenseless against the urban violence, and who decided to take action. Henrique recovers his stolen equipment and leaves, feeling avenged. But he goes back to find the memory card, with the photos, lost during the crash. From that moment, he is trapped in a situation where he is now the criminal for failing to rescue a victim, who had been his aggressor. Going from the murder scene to the police station, and then to the emergency ward of the public hospital, he attempts to clear himself.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-09
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Olho de Boi
2008-08-15
Olho de Boi
Overview: A farm laborer is stunned for pain and for the jealousy when its godson assures to it that his wife is betraying with the proper brother. Both they go in revenge search, following for a tragic destination.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-15
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O Amor Segundo B. Schianberg
2010-02-12
O Amor Segundo B. Schianberg
Overview: Trapped inside an apartment in Sao Paulo, an actor and a director of videos explore mutual love. Adapted from Benjamin Schianberg character, in this book Marcal Aquino, "I receive the worst news of your beautiful lips."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-02-12
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Moebius
1996-10-17
Moebius
Overview: Deep within Buenos Aires's labyrinthine subway system, a train mysteriously disappears along with its 30 passengers. The subway officials are greatly troubled and call in topographer Daniel Pratt to help them find it. Unfortunately, the tunnels are so vast and complex, that Pratt needs his mentor Hugo Mistein to help him. Unfortunately, he has vanished too.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-17
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Love Film Festival
2014-10-05
Love Film Festival
Overview: Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-05
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Stories of Samba
2024-03-21
Stories of Samba
Overview: At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly remembers the maloca where he lived with Joca and Mato Grosso, their passion for Iracema and other characters eternalized in his sambas, chronicles of a metropolis swallowed up by the voracious appetite of progress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-03-21
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Pérola
2023-09-28
Pérola
Overview: Soon after learning of the death of his mother Pérola, Mauro returns to his old family home in Bauru (São Paulo, Brazil). A look back into his mother’s peculiar habits, her illusions, sense of humor, spirituality, and desire to control all things... with the love and tenderness that only distance and time allow. A reunion between mother and son: their conflicts, conversations, and dreams of a better life all converge in constructing a swimming pool in their backyard. It is a portrait of an ordinary family that fights, makes up, celebrates, cries, and carries on, full of stories just like any other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl
2011-02-25
Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl
Overview: Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-02-25
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Camila Jam
2008-07-18
Camila Jam
Overview: Camila is in her mid-twenties and her life has been thrown into chaos ever since her boyfriend threw her out of their apartment during a bitter argument. Camila's ambition is to become a writer, and she posts regularly on her blog, entitled "Camila Jam." However, Camila wants to take her work into a different direction, and she throws herself head first into life in search of inspiration. As Camila struggles with alcohol, unsettled emotions and relationships with abusive men, it becomes increasingly obvious that her skills as a writer aren't all she needs to sort out if she wants to truly understand her life and her career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-07-18
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Up Against Them All
2004-02-01
Up Against Them All
Overview: A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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Brainstorm
2001-06-22
Brainstorm
Overview: Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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Moto Anjos
2015-01-01
Moto Anjos
Overview: Alex is a resourceful motoboy who cheats death daily on the most dangerous streets in the world. One day his close friend is killed by a reckless motorist. Alex seeks justice, but a corrupt cop stands in his way. The cop has orders to destroy all evidence of the motorist’s complicity in the accident, because of the driver’s wealth and status.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Dá Licença de Contar
2015-10-26
Dá Licença de Contar
Overview: The film is based on lyrics from the very famous Brazilian samba composer Adoniran Barbosa, following the aesthetics of his time. Notable facts and characters of his songs takes us through the story, a portrait of São Paulo city in the 50's, a place full of music, love stories and gentrification (poor people getting evicted from their places in order to build great buildings), subjects often explored in Adoniran's work, always with a good touch of humor. This way he became the 'poor people poet'.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-26
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Irina
2012-05-19
Irina
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-19
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Elis
2016-11-24
Elis
Overview: The film tells the story of the energetic and pulsating singer Elis Regina since her arrival in Rio de Janeiro at age 19 until her tragic and early death. Despite all the difficulties, success comes fulminant and the life of Elis Regina gained national and international recognition, becoming undoubtedly considered today the greatest Brazilian singer of all time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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Chacrinha: O Velho Guerreiro
2018-10-25
Chacrinha: O Velho Guerreiro
Overview: The story of José Abelardo Barbosa, narrated from the time of his youth, when he was at medical school, and dropped everything to become a radio announcer. After that, we follow the transformation of his life and the creation of his alter ego, Chacrinha.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-25
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O Banquete
2018-09-13
O Banquete
Overview: An elegant dinner, which takes place in real time, brings together a group of intellectuals in the early 90s in São Paulo, Brazil: the hosts are the editor of the country's top news magazine and her husband, the company's lawyer, and the occasion is the wedding anniversary of the magazine publisher and his wife, a famous theater actress. The publisher has written an open letter to the president of the country, with serious denunciations, which will run in the upcoming issue. He risks being arrested this very evening. As tensions increase with the imminence of prison, secrets come to light revealing the conflict between the ethics sought in public life and the ethics practiced in private life.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
2022-09-01
Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Overview: The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The trip makes Pedro conquer his fears and face his life from a personal point of view. He goes back in time and relives outstanding moments of his earlier life – since his childhood, when in 1808 he arrived coming from Portugal with his family, until he left in the dead of the night, in 1831, running away from Brazil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-01
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The Patient
2018-09-13
The Patient
Overview: The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Albatroz
2019-03-07
Albatroz
Overview: Dreams and reality get mixed up in this sci-fi plot, focused on a photographer. When he photographs a terrorist attack during a trip to Jerusalem, his personal and professional lives plunge into turmoil.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-03-07
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Three Summers
2020-03-11
Three Summers
Overview: Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-03-11
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Bróder
2010-02-17
Bróder
Overview: Three childhood friends plan meeting for a day in order to reassert their friendships and fight for their differences. One of them is involved with crime, one is a famous football player and the other struggles to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-02-17
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Aluga-se
2012-09-01
Aluga-se
Overview: How much does urban space influence our interior space?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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Mudança
2020-11-23
Mudança
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-11-23
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The Battle of Shangri-la
2022-08-11
The Battle of Shangri-la
Overview: After the death of his foster parents, a young businessman goes into a journey in search of his biological mother. During the search he faces the social and religious prejudice that surrounds the LGBTTQ Brazilian community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-08-11
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A Suspeita
2022-06-16
A Suspeita
Overview: Lúcia is a renowned police investigator. At age 50, has dedicated her entire life to her profession and is a respected name among her peers. Everything changes during an investigation, a writer that was writing the memoir of one of the drug trafficking lord, and had his phone tapped illegally by Lúcia, is assassinated and she is under investigation by her superiors. At the same time, she finds out she has Alzheimer.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-06-16
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