Pascoal Villaboim
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 23, 1943
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
The Kiss
1981-06-01
The Kiss
Overview: When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-06-01
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Rehearsal Time
1986-01-01
Rehearsal Time
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Blue Horse
1984-06-01
The Blue Horse
Overview: Boy from a poor family loses his only asset: a colorless little horse that his imagination turns into a magical and colorful pretty stallion. To get his pet back, he leaves home and faces all dangers ahead with courage, getting involved in many adventures.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Insônia
1982-01-01
Insônia
Overview: A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Story of Fausta
1988-05-15
The Story of Fausta
Overview: Fausta, a domestic worker who lives in a slum with her husband João, a drunk and abuser. At work, she has to endure the demands of her boss, and at home, her husband breaks his leg and cheats on her with the neighbor Coizinha. One day, Fausta meets Zé da Placa, and despite the age difference between them, they begin to develop a deep affection for each other, building a beautiful friendship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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Outlaw Love
1979-03-12
Outlaw Love
Overview: Police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he looks for a serial killer, he also searches for his estranged daughter, Sandra, whom he kicked out of the house. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho, befriends Sandra, now an exotic dancer and prostitute living and working in the seamy underside of late 1970s Rio.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-03-12
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A Volta de Lima Barreto ao País dos Bruzundangas
1989-01-01
A Volta de Lima Barreto ao País dos Bruzundangas
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Aventuras de um Paraíba
1982-01-01
Aventuras de um Paraíba
Overview: Young guy from the poor Northeast region of Brazil comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. Naturally, he is faced with many adversities along the way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Parceiros da Aventura
1979-06-10
Parceiros da Aventura
Overview: Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-06-10
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A Lost Woman
1976-03-19
A Lost Woman
Overview: The story of a poor woman living in the backwoods of Brazil and working as a maid. One day she is unfairly fired from the house where she was working and goes to the big city, facing a cruel and hostile world, working in factories, bars and bordellos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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Aguenta, Coração
1984-05-25
Aguenta, Coração
Overview: The relationship among three friendly couples turns upside down when two of the men get a job on TV. Their girlfriends leave them, looking for more action in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-05-25
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A Dança das Bruxas
1971-10-10
A Dança das Bruxas
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Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-10-10
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Se Segura, Malandro!
1978-08-26
Se Segura, Malandro!
Overview: Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-08-26
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Memories of Prison
1984-06-18
Memories of Prison
Overview: In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-18
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Bar Esperanza
1983-05-19
Bar Esperanza
Overview: A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-19
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República dos Assassinos
1979-11-11
República dos Assassinos
Overview: In 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The photos of the victims, adorned by the skull, symbol of the group, caused an uncomfortable indignation. This is the story of Mateus Romeiro, the most famous of the policemen, who was part of the Homens de Aço (Steelmen) group, one of the factions in which the squadron was divided.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-11-11
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Garrincha: Lonely Star
2003-07-08
Garrincha: Lonely Star
Overview: The life of Brazilian soccer player, Garrincha, considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, with his uniquely original style. He had arched legs, a passion for women and booze. Also had a much talked extramarital affair with singer Elza Soares and died in relative decadence. The movie focuses on his zenith, from 1953 until the World Championship and the Rio Regional Championship, in 1962.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-07-08
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The Naked Man
1997-01-01
The Naked Man
Overview: Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Miramar
1997-11-19
Miramar
Overview: Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-11-19
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Cabaret Mineiro
1981-03-30
Cabaret Mineiro
Overview: An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-03-30
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The Mandarin
1995-11-06
The Mandarin
Overview: The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.
Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-11-06
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Para Viver Um Grande Amor
1984-04-30
Para Viver Um Grande Amor
Overview: Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich girl falls in love with a poor composer. Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica", by Vinícius de Moraes and Carlos Lyra.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-04-30
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Muito Prazer
1979-09-25
Muito Prazer
Overview: Two contrasting social groups get in touch: three architects and three street urchins, all struggling for survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-09-25
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Jenipapo
1995-09-10
Jenipapo
Overview: Michael is a U.S. journalist who works for a Brazilian newspaper. One day he is put in charge of interviewing Father Louis Stephen, a famed catholic missionary who helps the needy in the jungles of Brazil. Yet he has one problem: the Father has rarely ever given an interview. However, Michael decides that he will be the first to have interviewed the Father personally, and goes on a journey to the center of Brazil, in search of the priest. Michael will soon know how hard it can be to get an interview, and that the Father's apparent media-shyness has deeper implications than he thought.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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Germano
2007-05-24
Germano
Overview: A short contemporary story about the crew of a small Brazilian fishing boat. Part of the anthology The State of the World.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-24
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Sermões
1989-05-24
Sermões
Overview: Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-05-24
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Cleopatra
2007-09-02
Cleopatra
Overview: The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The strategy of Cleopatra is to seduce the Roman General Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to protect their civilization.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-02
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Atabaque Nzinga
2007-03-16
Atabaque Nzinga
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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Crônica À Beira do Rio
1980-01-01
Crônica À Beira do Rio
Overview: Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums, where life changes very quickly in the short space of time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Uma Aventura do Zico
1998-06-09
Uma Aventura do Zico
Overview: Rich and spoiled kid, frustrated for not being chosen to join the soccer lessons his idol Zico was going to give, asks his father to clone the player. But a small girl smells something fishy going on and asks her friends to help save the Brazilian soccer star.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-06-09
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Brás Cubas
1985-10-15
Brás Cubas
Overview: Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's Posthumous Memories"). A dead man tells about his love life and adventures, specially his affair with Virgília, a dubious married woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-10-15
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Father’s Chair
2012-01-20
Father’s Chair
Overview: Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His beloved mentor and surrogate father is dying, and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares him for the day when he comes home to discover that his 15-year-old son, Pedro, has disappeared. Theo takes to the road in search of his son. In a journey that leads him throughout Brazil, Theo discovers what really matters to him. Searching for his missing son, Theo finds himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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