Rodrigo Santoro
Biography: Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santoro is a Brazilian actor. He has appeared in many successful movies, including Brainstorm (2001), Carandiru (2003), 300 (2007), Che (2008), I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) and Rio (2011). He was also a series regular on the Television series Lost portraying the character Paulo.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 22, 1975
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Love Actually
2003-09-07
Love Actually
Overview: Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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300
2007-03-07
300
Overview: Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-07
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Carandiru
2003-03-21
Carandiru
Overview: When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-21
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Che: Part Two
2008-12-12
Che: Part Two
Overview: After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-12
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Che: Part One
2008-09-05
Che: Part One
Overview: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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I Love You Phillip Morris
2010-02-04
I Love You Phillip Morris
Overview: Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest – even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the State Penitentiary where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-04
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Lion's Den
2008-05-29
Lion's Den
Overview: Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; but above all it deals with Julia and her son, Tomas, born inside an Argentinean prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-05-29
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Com a Palavra, Arnaldo Antunes
2018-10-19
Com a Palavra, Arnaldo Antunes
Overview: From his origins as a poet to his success as a singer and composer, Arnaldo Antunes revisits the most remarkable moments of his career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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Post Grad
2009-08-21
Post Grad
Overview: Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins hilariously out of control when she’s forced to move back home with her eccentric family.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-21
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Behind the Sun
2001-12-12
Behind the Sun
Overview: Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-12-12
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There Be Dragons
2011-03-25
There Be Dragons
Overview: Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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Rio
2011-04-03
Rio
Overview: Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-03
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Owner of the Story
2004-10-01
Owner of the Story
Overview: A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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300: Rise of an Empire
2014-03-05
300: Rise of an Empire
Overview: Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-05
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Slightly Out of Tune
2008-08-29
Slightly Out of Tune
Overview: A group of friends come of age during the political turmoil that plagued Brazil in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band called "Os Desafinados" and become a part of the groundbreaking Brazilian musical movement called Bossa Nova
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-29
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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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What to Expect When You're Expecting
2012-05-17
What to Expect When You're Expecting
Overview: Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-17
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The Last Stand
2013-01-12
The Last Stand
Overview: Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a hostage are heading toward Sommerton Junction where the police are preparing to make a last stand to intercept them before they cross the border. Owens is reluctant to become involved but ultimately joins in with the law enforcement efforts
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-12
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This Girl's Life
2004-12-03
This Girl's Life
Overview: "Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-03
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Heleno
2011-09-12
Heleno
Overview: José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classics, the biopic tells the glorious and tragic story of the legendary football striker Heleno de Freitas. The sumptuous black and white cinematography reflects the chic life of Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s as it fell under the spell of sports royalty. Heleno was no doubt one of the most popular players of his time for his bravura in the field and magnificent goal-scoring that lead the Botafogo team to the top and himself into a vicious downward spiral.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-09-12
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My Country
2011-11-07
My Country
Overview: A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the brothers, finally forming a real family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-11-07
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012-08-27
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Overview: Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-27
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Homens de Bem
2011-12-29
Homens de Bem
Overview: Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-12-29
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Kings & Rats
2012-02-17
Kings & Rats
Overview: In Rio de Janeiro in 1963, the story of several characters is intertwined in the midst of the political scenario of the time. One of them is Troy, a CIA agent residing in Brazil who plans a trap for the President.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-02-17
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Not by Chance
2007-06-07
Not by Chance
Overview: Enio is a middle-aged man who lives in solitude after a failed relationship. Pedro, 30, dates Teresa, who is moving to her home. He inherited a carpentry from his father and a taste for the pool. When a traffic accident crosses the parallel trajectories of the two, the imponderable imposes itself and the uncontrol begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-06-07
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003-05-04
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Overview: An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young man, with whom she begins an affair.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-04
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Rio 2
2014-03-19
Rio 2
Overview: It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-19
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Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
2013-03-07
Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
Overview: “Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
Genres: Animation Drama History Romance Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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Jane Got a Gun
2015-12-31
Jane Got a Gun
Overview: After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-31
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The Blue Trail
The Blue Trail
Overview: In the name of economic recovery, the Brazilian Government created a perennial system of compulsory vertical isolation for seniors over 80 to be confined in a colony. Teca is 77 and lives in the village of Muriti, in the Amazon, when she is surprised by the announcement of the age reduction, including her age group. Cornered, Teca makes an intriguing journey hidden from the officers amidst rivers, boats and the underworld to clandestinely try to fulfill her last dream, to take a plane ride.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
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Pelé: Birth of a Legend
2016-05-06
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Overview: The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-06
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Focus
2015-02-25
Focus
Overview: Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-25
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Bizarre Fish from the Abyssal Zone
2024-01-25
Bizarre Fish from the Abyssal Zone
Overview: A woman with weird superpowers, a turtle with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a cloud with rain incontinence on an unusual journey to the depths of the ocean.
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-01-25
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Noah's Ark
2024-01-05
Noah's Ark
Overview: A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark: Vini, a charismatic poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist. When the rains come, only one male and one female of each species is allowed on Noah's Ark. With the help of an ingenious cockroach and fate's good luck, Vini and Tito sneak their way onto the Ark and together avert a showdown among the ships carnivores and plant eaters. All the while, the animals perform a series of classic songs inspired by world renowned poet, Vinicius de Moraes. Can these talented stowaways use music to break the tension and help these cooped up creatures survive the 40 days and 40 nights together?
Genres: Animation Music Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-01-05
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The 33
2015-08-06
The 33
Overview: Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-06
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Ben-Hur
2016-08-17
Ben-Hur
Overview: A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
Genres: Action History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-17
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Redbelt
2008-04-07
Redbelt
Overview: Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-07
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Who Cares ?
2014-09-04
Who Cares ?
Overview: WHO CARES is a 93-minute High Definition feature documentary about social entrepreneurs around the world. People who are making changes, bringing solutions, generating huge social impact and most of all, inspiring people to do the same. A film that searches the world for brilliant people with simple solutions to the hard global issues. The goal of WHO CARES is to inspire people around the world, especially young people from ages 14 years-old up, to learn more about, become excited by and want to be engaged in the social entrepreneurship revolution. We want this film to encourage, inspire and spark a global movement of changemakers. The movie mixes interviews, images of their social work and computer graphics creating a very dynamic feature
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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Animal Race
Animal Race
Overview: Inspired by the illegal universe of the Brazilian animal lottery, a fearless young man must win a deadly race to save his sister in a dystopian future where each animal in the game is now represented by a runner vying for a prize.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: pt
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2003-06-25
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Overview: The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Program. As informants are killed, the ladies target a rogue agent who might be responsible.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-25
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O Trapalhão e a Luz Azul
1999-12-17
O Trapalhão e a Luz Azul
Overview: David, a rock singer, and Didi, his assistant, are transported to a distant world. They must help princess Allim to face the evil Vizir, who wants to become king by marrying her.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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Last Call
2020-11-25
Last Call
Overview: Last Call is a fictional account of the final days of exuberant and notorious Welsh poet Dylan Thomas as he sets out on a final poetry tour of New York. Desperate for money and with a wife and three children dependent on him, Thomas accepts a job believing it is beneath him. He spends his time in the city drinking at the White Horse Tavern and becoming increasingly ill between poetry readings. Everything comes to a head when he goes on a bender so extreme he cannot perform the last lecture, makes a scene at the bar, and has his final drink while ruminating on life, death, and the concept of love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-25
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Rio, I Love You
2014-09-12
Rio, I Love You
Overview: The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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A Translator
2019-04-04
A Translator
Overview: A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-04-04
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Monica and Friends: Bonds
2019-06-27
Monica and Friends: Bonds
Overview: Fluffy, Jimmy Five's pet dog, vanished. He develops an infallible plan to rescue the little dog, but, he will need help from his faithful friends: Monica, Maggy and Smudge. Together, they will face challengers and live incredible adventures to get Fluffy back home.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-27
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Crítico
2008-01-22
Crítico
Overview: Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-22
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Como Ser Solteiro
1998-01-30
Como Ser Solteiro
Overview: A comedy addressing the issues of being single in Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-01-30
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Project Power
2020-08-14
Project Power
Overview: An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-14
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Hoje é Dia de Maria - O Filme
2015-06-05
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Hoje é Dia de Maria - O Filme
Overview: Maria is a gifted girl, who faces a hard life in the fields. She is happy when her father decides to remarry, thinking that he will rejoice again. However, to the girl's despair, her stepmother is bad and starts to mistreat her. Maria still has to face the devil's tricks. Adaptation of the miniseries shown in 2004.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Music Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-06-05
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
2017-03-31
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Overview: Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020-10-22
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Overview: In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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7 Prisoners
2021-10-22
7 Prisoners
Overview: An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-10-22
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O Filho de Mil Homens
O Filho de Mil Homens
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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