Eliane Giardini
Biography: Eliane Teresinha Giardini (Sorocaba, October 20, 1952) is a Brazilian actress and director. A versatile artist with great critical recognition, she began her career on the stage at USP and, later, became popular on television for her intense characters. Giardini is the winner of several awards, including an APCA, three Quality Brazil Awards and a State Governor, in addition to having received nominations for a Grande Otelo and two Guarani Awards.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 20, 1953
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997-01-01
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Overview: "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Olga
2004-08-20
Olga
Overview: Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-08-20
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Acorda, Raimundo... Acorda!
1990-01-01
Acorda, Raimundo... Acorda!
Overview: Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife Marta is the family breadwinner. Things escalate in the relationship when the man starts to feel undervalued by his wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Jogo Duro
1986-02-24
Jogo Duro
Overview: A former boxer is hired to take care of an empty house in the Pacaembu neighborhood in São Paulo. The property is for sale and its function is received when purchased. On the first night on the job, he discovers that a woman and a daughter are living clandestinely in one of the mansion's rooms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-02-24
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A Hidden Life
2001-05-26
A Hidden Life
Overview: Biela, a humble young woman, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her bourgeois cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-05-26
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O Amor Está No Ar
1997-08-08
O Amor Está No Ar
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-08-08
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A Fera na Selva
2017-09-01
A Fera na Selva
Overview: A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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Gostosas, Lindas e Sexies
2017-04-20
Gostosas, Lindas e Sexies
Overview: In Rio de Janeiro there live four great and inseparable friends: Beatriz, Tânia, Ivone and Marilu. They wear a plus size mannequin and face all the adventures and love and professional mismatches that four young women can face in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, (almost) always in a good mood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-04-20
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Unremember
2019-06-20
Unremember
Overview: Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was forcedly disappeared, she recovers pieces of memory from a fragmented childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Not everything is real, not everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana must write her own story in the present tense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-20
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Alone Man
2016-09-15
Alone Man
Overview: The film tells the story of Arnaldo, that to get rid of his miserable life, seeks of a clinic that promises to copy people. With a copy occupying his place, he would take a new life. But, when having his request denied, Arnaldo has no choice but to try and change the course of his history. When he falls in love with Josie, the clerk of a pet cemetery, Arnaldo believes that he found a chance to finally be happy. But maybe he's wrong. A Lone Man is an urban fable that addresses the complexity of relationships, with a good dose of irony, and humor.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-15
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The Wages of Death
1971-01-01
The Wages of Death
Overview: In a city in the Brazilian northeastern backwoods, the political chief is assassinated by a professional gunman. From there, the city begins to live the climate of the event. The killer, concealed by important people, is hidden in the house of a humble family. Time passes and the gunslinger leaves his hiding place, being killed soon after. Also the family that hid the criminal is assassinated, as well as the judge who was conducting the investigation of the murder of the political chief.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Chatô, The King of Brazil
2015-11-19
Chatô, The King of Brazil
Overview: The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-11-19
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Golpe de Ouro
2021-04-08
Golpe de Ouro
Overview: After the coup of 1964, the media conglomerate Diários Associados organized a campaign called "Gold for Brazil," exhorting the people to donate wealth to the military government. The symbol of the campaign was the wedding ring, sealing the union between the people and the State. The film picks up the trail of the millions collected, but never channeled back into society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-08
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