Antônio Pitanga
Biography: Antônio Luiz Sampaio OMC (Salvador, June 13, 1939), better known as Antônio Pitanga, is a Brazilian actor and filmmaker, who became internationally known for playing several roles on films of the Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Antônio Pitanga licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 13, 1939
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
The Good Cinema
2021-03-18
The Good Cinema
Overview: An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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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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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
2003-09-17
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-17
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Favela do Papa
2023-04-02
Favela do Papa
Overview: The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-02
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The Turning Wind
1962-05-28
The Turning Wind
Overview: In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a factor of political and social oppression, with tragic outcome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-05-28
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Golias Contra o Homem das Bolinhas
1969-07-27
Golias Contra o Homem das Bolinhas
Overview: The adventures of a peaceful and infatuated man, who tries to identify the man who killed his sweetheart, an unconventional young woman who used to receive "guests" at home, calling them her cousins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-07-27
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A Vilã das Nove
2024-10-31
A Vilã das Nove
Overview: Recently divorced, Roberta is living her best life, until she discovers that someone has turned her biggest secret into the plot of a soap opera — where she is the villain.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-31
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Our Children
2022-02-02
Our Children
Overview: Vera, who fought in the armed left-wing movements against the Brazilian military dictatorship, has lived in multiple South American countries. Her daughter Tânica has been married to another woman for fifteen years, and they're about to have their first child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-02-02
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Aunt Virginia
2023-11-09
Aunt Virginia
Overview: Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and Valquíria, to move to another city in order to take care of her parents. Taking place in just one day, the film follows Virginia's preparation to receive the sisters who are coming to her house to celebrate Christmas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-11-09
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Tocaia no Asfalto
1962-03-13
Tocaia no Asfalto
Overview: A gunman is hired to kill a corrupt politician. However, the agreement is canceled. Despite being a hired killer, the man takes his job seriously and prefers to go to the end.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-03-13
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The Given Word
1962-04-17
The Given Word
Overview: Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross - like Jesus - all the way from his city to Saint Bárbara's church, in the state capital. Upon the recovery of his donkey, Zé leaves on his journey. He makes it to the church, but the priest refuses to accept the cross once he discovers the context of Zé's promise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-04-17
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Rio Babilonia
1982-09-14
Rio Babilonia
Overview: A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-09-14
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The Passenger: Adult Secrets
2006-11-26
The Passenger: Adult Secrets
Overview: A coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds out about his family and where he came from.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-26
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A Grande Feira
1961-03-10
A Grande Feira
Overview: The naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There, however, he is passed behind by the prostitute Maria, lover of the bandit Chico Diabo, who stabs him. He, however, can't forget her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1961-03-10
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Rei do Rio
1985-06-11
Rei do Rio
Overview: Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-06-11
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Plantation Boy
1966-05-19
Plantation Boy
Overview: After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sugarcane plantation where he grows up, studies, learns about politics, love and disillusionment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-05-19
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The Guns
1964-06-01
The Guns
Overview: A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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The Coup d'État Factory
2022-09-08
The Coup d'État Factory
Overview: Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the support of the big media, particularly TV Globo. Two Brazilian journalists in the UK reveal the manipulative tactics of these organisations.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Ganga Zumba
1963-04-16
Ganga Zumba
Overview: The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-04-16
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For Sale or Rent
2013-08-09
For Sale or Rent
Overview: A once-rich family of women in Rio de Janeiro must sell their mansion in order to keep their high standard of living, but the proximity to the slums disrupts business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-08-09
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The Force of Xango
1977-05-25
The Force of Xango
Overview: Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets beautiful Zulmira; they pledge love and projects for many children. But time passes and Tonho returns to being the womanizer he had always been. Zulmira, daughter of Iansã, cannot stand Tonho's brazenness, and asks her saint-mother to wash her honor with blood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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Câncer
1972-01-01
Câncer
Overview: This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Esse Mundo é Meu
1964-04-01
Esse Mundo é Meu
Overview: The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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Our Dream
2023-09-21
Our Dream
Overview: The life story of Claudinho e Buchecha, greatest icons and most successful duo of the Brazilian funk melody in all time, showing how the rhythm and poetry of the periphery conquered Brazil.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-09-21
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Juliana do Amor Perdido
1970-01-01
Juliana do Amor Perdido
Overview: A beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with an outsider, a train machinist. But her father, a violent religious fanatic interferes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Tinnitus
2023-07-05
Tinnitus
Overview: Marina Lenk is an experienced Ornamental Jumping athlete. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-07-05
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Na Boca do Mundo
1979-01-22
Na Boca do Mundo
Overview: A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafona. His biggest ambition is to stash enough money to leave to a big city with his fiancee, a mix-raced girl who sells fresh crabs to locals and wishes for a better life. When a rich white woman from the high society arrives to spend a few days away after ending a failed marriage, Antônio soon bonds with her and begins to change his plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-22
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Tropico
1969-03-16
Tropico
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-16
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Barrela: Escola de Crimes
1990-02-06
Barrela: Escola de Crimes
Overview: In an overcrowded prision cell, each man has to make his own way and secure himself from the constant threat of sexual violence coming from the rest of the inmates.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-02-06
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Lenita
2023-10-27
Lenita
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-10-27
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The Great Kilapy
2012-09-07
The Great Kilapy
Overview: Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Wedding Games
2023-11-24
Wedding Games
Overview: When Alex and Eva choose to exchange vows at the very spot they first crossed paths, a series of hilarious missteps derails their journey to the altar.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-11-24
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A Força do Gigante
2022-11-22
A Força do Gigante
Overview: This documentary is a true treasure for Vasco fans, who will remember or learn about important facts related to our favorite club, Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-11-22
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Running After
2018-06-07
Running After
Overview: Paulo Ventania is a black Brazilian man, always doing his best to bring some happiness in his life, and by happiness he means money. When he's at a dead end, he discovers the opportunity to become a football manager by leading some boy from the neighborhood to becoming the new Neymar of international soccer. Going through the suburbs of Rio, he finds Glanderson, a young boy with an enormous talent for soccer despite missing two toes. With good humor, high hopes, and a lot of mistakes, the quixotic duo tries their best to make their dream come true.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-07
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Compasso de Espera
1969-01-01
Compasso de Espera
Overview: Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Samba
1965-02-01
Samba
Overview: Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis (Carlos Alberto). Favela-girl Belén (also Montiel) is the look-alike who takes her place, unaware she is being used by a gang that smuggles precious stones sewn in Carnival costumes. Written by fabreu
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-02-01
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Quilombo
1984-06-03
Quilombo
Overview: Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-03
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Zuzu Angel
2006-08-04
Zuzu Angel
Overview: Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-08-04
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When Carnaval Comes
1972-07-13
When Carnaval Comes
Overview: Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-07-13
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Cordão de Ouro
1977-07-28
Cordão de Ouro
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-07-28
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The Brazilwood Man
1982-02-22
The Brazilwood Man
Overview: Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.
Genres: Comedy History Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-02-22
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Lampião, King of the Badlands
1963-09-16
Lampião, King of the Badlands
Overview: The story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the path to become Lampião, the greatest leader of the cangaceiros - bandits who roamed the Northeast of Brazil until the late 1930s.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-09-16
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The Man Who Challenged the Devil
2007-09-28
The Man Who Challenged the Devil
Overview: After being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his father-in-law, Zé Araújo becomes the mythical Ojuara, an unconventional hero devoted to debauchery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Bahia
1976-09-26
Bahia
Overview: The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen from her shortly after arrival, Otalia swiftly meets up with a group of charming and helpful friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-09-26
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The Age of the Earth
1980-11-17
The Age of the Earth
Overview: Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's image: a black man, a soldier, an Indian, and a guerrilla fighter. These courageous individuals, hailed as the harbingers of doom in the tupiniquim lands, valiantly combat the insatiable avarice and oppressive "civilizing" brutality propagated by the formidable John Brahms—a foreign exploiter devoid of morals.
Genres: Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-11-17
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Deadly Cruelty
1976-12-18
Deadly Cruelty
Overview: Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his life, but falls in love with a woman who despises him, which drives him mad.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-18
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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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Jorge Amado no Cinema
1979-01-01
Jorge Amado no Cinema
Overview: Jorjamado no Cinema foi feito para um programa de televisão consagrado ao escritor Jorge Amado. Nesse documentário, Jorge Amado é filmado em sua casa, rodeado por sua numerosa família; numa livraria, durante uma sessão de autógrafos de um de seus livros, em um cinema em Salvador, na avant-première do filme Tenda dos Milagres, de Nelson Pereira dos Santos, adaptação do livro homônimo de Jorge Amado. Glauber filma seu amigo com muito humor e carinho. A câmera vai evoluindo lentamente, sem cessar e com rapidez sobre o escritor, seus familiares, atores e atrizes do filme de Nelson, além de passar por objetos de rituais de candomblé que constituem o museu de Jorge Amado.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Chico Rei
1985-01-20
Chico Rei
Overview: Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the properties of his former owner, and his companions' freedom, becoming Chico Rei, the first black man to own lands in Brazil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-01-20
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Cangaceiros de Lampião
1967-09-01
Cangaceiros de Lampião
Overview: On the day of Pedro Boiadeiro's wedding, a band of cangaceiros who survived the Angicos massacre invade his home, then proceed to beat him up, and abuse and murder his wife. Pedro sets out to get revenge on each one.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha
2007-11-26
Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-26
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Vozes do Medo
1972-12-22
Vozes do Medo
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Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-12-22
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The Big City
1966-05-13
The Big City
Overview: In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, later, the company of Inácio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-05-13
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Carvana
2018-04-11
Carvana
Overview: Chronicles the life and career of Hugo Carvana, brazilian actor and filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-04-11
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Bahia of All Saints
1961-03-19
Bahia of All Saints
Overview: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Outlaw Tonio is involved in a conflict between strikers and the police. His mistress tries to keep him from his companions, but he steals her belongings to help the persecuted. Dissatisfied, she denounces him, compromising him politically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1961-03-19
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The Woman of Everyone
1969-10-24
The Woman of Everyone
Overview: Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-10-24
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Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
1999-10-15
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Overview: A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de reis. The movie shows his life from poverty to riches and back to poverty again, as is common in Brazil, rich people die poor.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-10-15
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A Promessa de Gerônimo
2012-04-01
A Promessa de Gerônimo
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Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-04-01
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Água de Meninos – A Feira do Cinema Novo
2012-06-11
Água de Meninos – A Feira do Cinema Novo
Overview: Recalling the films "Sol Sobre a Lama" and "A Grande Feira", which portrayed the living conditions of Bahian society in the 1960s, the scenario was the Feira de Água de Meninos that was set on fire. Today the Feira de São Joaquim and its marketers live situations similar to those of the Cinema Novo films, in parallel they wait with hope for the beginning of the revitalization and expansion of the largest open market in Bahia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-06-11
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Sérgio Ricardo: Uma Outra História do Cinema Novo
2024-04-06
Sérgio Ricardo: Uma Outra História do Cinema Novo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-04-06
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Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
2003-08-21
Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Overview: Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women and idolized by his audience and friends. His contagious joy attracts the attention of American scientist Dr. Boris Lewitsky, who comes to Brazil in order to interview Apolônio's close friends and make them a most unusual offer concerning the remains of the late musician.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-08-21
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Black Goddess
1978-01-01
Black Goddess
Overview: A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine warfare fanned by overseas slave traders. He is sold into slavery in Brazil. In present day Nigeria, at his father's deathbed, the young Babatunde promises to go to Brazil and search for traces of their once-enslaved ancestors. Beginning with a Candomblé ritual, his journey takes him ever deeper into this culture and, in a dream-like sequence, affords him a deeper understanding of his ancestors' suffering and powers of resistance. Balogun effortlessly links present with past, real with magical worlds and discourse with trance. The hypnotic atmosphere is also heightened by the music of the Nigerian drummer Remi Kabaka, which plays with repetitive patterns and distortions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021-10-28
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Overview: Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-10-28
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Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável
1974-02-25
Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-02-25
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Eternamente Pagu
1987-05-12
Eternamente Pagu
Overview: Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic activist. An important figure of the Brazilian Modernism, Pagu was also a militant for the Brazilian Communist Party after she married writer Oswald de Andrade. She broke up with Andrade and, as a journalist was arrested by the Dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. After she left prison, she abandoned Communism in favor of Trotskyist Socialism, married Geraldo Ferraz, and started a career as theatre director.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-05-12
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No Tempo de Glauber
1987-02-27
No Tempo de Glauber
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
1969-09-29
Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
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Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-09-29
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Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber
1977-03-11
Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber
Overview: This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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Dedé Mamata
1988-09-01
Dedé Mamata
Overview: Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
2023-01-30
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Overview: For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-30
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Joanna Francesa
1973-12-30
Joanna Francesa
Overview: Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at São Paulo, and with him the frivolity of tea-parties and comfort. Her wild inner-soul will develop into the wild forest surroundings of a landlord's farmhouse. To the extent she will defend her land like a 19th century owner - of lands and men alike.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-12-30
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Sweet Thieves
1977-05-26
Sweet Thieves
Overview: After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the reality of Brazil - with the theme of Inconfidência Mineira.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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Possessões
2024-08-22
Possessões
Overview: Three stories are intermingled by the same theme: possessions.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-22
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Same Old West
2024-08-12
Same Old West
Overview: In the backlands of Goiás, Brazil, brutish men who cannot deal with their weaknesses are constantly abandoned by the women they love. Sad and bitter, these men turn violently against each other.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-12
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Pitanga
2016-09-23
Pitanga
Overview: This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
2000-04-21
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
Overview: The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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Mar Corrente
1967-06-30
Mar Corrente
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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República da Traição
1970-01-01
República da Traição
Overview: European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local man, whom they hire as an employee, will change their plans.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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O Cinema Foi à Feira
2016-11-12
O Cinema Foi à Feira
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-11-12
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Sol Sobre a Lama
1963-10-24
Sol Sobre a Lama
Overview: A poor community in Salvador organizes a resistance against the destruction of the Água de Meninos street market.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-10-24
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Bom Dia, Eternidade
2006-01-01
Bom Dia, Eternidade
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
1975-01-01
Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
Overview: A film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and then the conflicts that break out as they tour Iran and France with a performance of Calderon's autos sacramentales. A problem with a scenery prop sparks a crisis in the group and the film chronicles this disaster.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar
2000-01-01
A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar
Overview: The ideological conflict between Joaquim Bolívar, a young barber member of the Communist Party and the powerful Coronel Gaudêncio, a typical province political leader.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Uma Nega Chamada Tereza
1970-01-01
Uma Nega Chamada Tereza
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Garotas do ABC
2003-12-18
Garotas do ABC
Overview: Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-12-18
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Barravento Novo
2017-11-09
Barravento Novo
Overview: Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha’s first feature, Barravento, from 1962—and his daughter, Camila Pitanga, a well-known actor and filmmaker working today.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-09
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Bandeira de Retalhos
2018-01-21
Bandeira de Retalhos
Overview: Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the news that the corrupt Rio de Janeiro mayor decided to make everyone move out of Vidigal, aided by police forces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-21
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My Home Is Copacabana
1965-06-08
My Home Is Copacabana
Overview: Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by shining shoes, stealing, and cutting the strings of the kites to sell them later to others. Tired of life on the streets, one boy turns himself over to the police in hopes he will be sent to reform school in a last desperate attempt to survive. This feature from acclaimed Swedish director Arne Sucksdorff appeared at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-06-08
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Riscados pela Memória
2018-09-09
Riscados pela Memória
Overview: The owner of a record store, amid a purchase of second-hand LPs, is faced with something that goes far beyond a trivial acquisition.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-09-09
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O Terno do Zé
2012-08-18
O Terno do Zé
Overview: Flávio is a filmmaker who was famous during the 1970s, but who's now forgotten by the public. Urging to become relevant again, he's willing to try everything, even by methods in which he doesn't believe. A supernatural debt, however, may be compromising his career.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-08-18
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Lula, the Son of Brazil
2010-01-01
Lula, the Son of Brazil
Overview: The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Bandidos da Falange
1983-07-14
Bandidos da Falange
Overview:
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-07-14
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Garden of War
1969-05-13
Garden of War
Overview: Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for her film, but ends up being arrested and tortured as his torturers suspect he's involved in a plot to overthrow the military government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-05-13
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
2019-05-15
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Overview: Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-05-15
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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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Memory House
2022-08-31
Memory House
Overview: An older man begins to work in a modern dairy factory. He feels distant and does not identify with the place, the people and even the society. Little by little, he is approaching cows and oxen, transforming into an animal and returning to his ancestry.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-08-31
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Os Escravos de Jó
2020-01-24
Os Escravos de Jó
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-24
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The Fifth Monkey
1990-10-05
The Fifth Monkey
Overview: When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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A Day with Jerusa
2020-01-26
A Day with Jerusa
Overview: "A Day with Jerusa" follows Silvia, a young, mediumic market researcher facing the hardships of underemployment while awaiting the result of a public exam, and Jerusa, a gracious 77-year-old lady, eyewitness to the daily life on Bixiga, a neighborhood filled with ancestral memories. On Jerusa's birthday, while she waits for her family's arrival, the encounter between her deepest memories and Silvia's mediumship allows them to travel through time and realities common to their ancestry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-26
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Pressed, Ripped Apart
2019-06-06
Pressed, Ripped Apart
Overview: What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes use of archival sources to retrieve the trajectory of black actresses and actors who, between absences and delimited presences, between the fallacy of a racial democracy – based on the harmony among Brazil’s diverse identities – and erasure of identity, strain the history of Brazilian audiovisual and above all, our own history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-06
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Porfírio do Amaral: A Verdade Sobre o Samba
2020-09-10
Porfírio do Amaral: A Verdade Sobre o Samba
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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Senhor dos Navegantes
1964-04-27
Senhor dos Navegantes
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-04-27
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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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Referências
2006-01-01
Referências
Overview: During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo Bulbul gathered some of the most notorious Brazilian black directors to talk about their works, their lives and their perspectives on the future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Manor of Araucaima
1986-02-24
The Manor of Araucaima
Overview: In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and the Machiche, a mature and dominant female. A young model arrives there to unleash all kinds of passions.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-02-24
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Malês
2024-11-14
Malês
Overview: Based on historical facts, the film portrays the largest slave rebellion in Brazilian history, the Malê Revolt. The uprising mobilized the black population in the streets of Salvador against slavery in 1835. After the failure of the revolt, the protesters were harshly punished and repression against black people in Brazil increased.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-14
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Premonição
2011-01-01
Premonição
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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SRTV 307 – Cinemateca: Almoço na Cinédia – nosso cinema 80 anos
1978-01-01
SRTV 307 – Cinemateca: Almoço na Cinédia – nosso cinema 80 anos
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Colagem
1967-11-06
Colagem
Overview: The new Brazilian cinematic movement (Cinema Novo) through films starring actors Antonio Pitanga and Luiza Maranhão.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-11-06
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Cartografia das Ondas
2025-01-25
Cartografia das Ondas
Overview: Gledson is a lonely worker who left his hometown with the dream of becoming an actor in Rio de Janeiro. Tormented by vague memories of his past, he sees his life change when he begins to write a book about Teresa, a prostitute who goes through death expecting a child and ends up on a fantastic island. When a friend of Gledson decides to turn his book into a film, reality and fiction mix: while Teresa has to decide what to do with the child born on the island and the writer deals with the challenge of becoming a creator, the film changes when the director confronts the experience of her own motherhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-01-25
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Margeado
2025-01-26
Margeado
Overview: The river is not the same. It has turned into contaminated mud. Residents of a fishing village face an uncertain future after the dam burst. Yara and Dingue resume their lives, remain and drift in the memory of the place while the waters run down the mountains in the face of the indomitable forces of nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-01-26
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O Poder Negro
2018-06-06
O Poder Negro
Overview: An excerpt from Neville D'Almeida's debut feature "Jardim de Guerra" (1968), focusing on the Black Power speech made by a character played by Antonio Pitanga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-06
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