Zezita Matos
Also Known As: Zezita de Matos
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pilar, Paraíba, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: August 28, 1941
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Female
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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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O Sonho de Inacim
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-14
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A Canga
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Sound of God
Overview: An existential western about the pain of a family and the silence of a country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-12-14
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Love for Sale
Overview: In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Atmosfera
Overview: Edmundo is the caretaker of a ranch in São Paulo. He lives isolated in nature. His mother's presence haunts him with poetry and memories of the hinterland where he was born. The fine line between memory and delirium leads Edmundo to plunge into fantasies. The poet-caretaker, face to face with death, seeks to give significance to life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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Mother and Daughter
Overview: After a long time apart, a mother and her daughter meet again in the desert, between ruins and memories. The daughter destiny denies her mother dream. The past is circle that imprisons both the dead and the alive. The daughter wants to break it but shadows are spying out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-02-10
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Regresso
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Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-12-13
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The Backlands Shall Sea
Overview: When an ocean-fascinated cowboy from the Brazilian backlands discovers that the farm where he has worked all his life will be sold, he abandons everything to, finally, get to know the sea. Guided by an old postcard sent by a long-lost love, he embarks on a quest that will redefine his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-02-26
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The History of Eternity
Overview: In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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Blue Eyes
Overview: Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by causing the death of a young Brazilian. After a period in prison, Marshall goes to Brazil, deadly ill and in a desperate search in order to purge his guilt. In his quest, he is guided by Bia, a young prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-28
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Memory Road
Overview: A truck driver travels the roads as if going through his memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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Não Me Esqueças, Me Ame Para Sempre
Overview: Gegê wants to die but it will not be an easy task.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-03-05
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The Cage and the Dream
Overview: Vicente is a retired widower teacher who lives between lucid dreams and everyday life in the Alecrim neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-11-27
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Holy Biker
Overview: In an arid and poor region of Brazil, bikers search for a miracle to make it rain and save the land, risking their lives.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-01-21
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The Joy of Love
Overview: In a quilombo in the backlands of Ceará, Dulce witnesses the murder of her partner, Davi, carried out by gunmen on the orders of a foreign mining company. Threatened, Dulce goes to São Paulo, where she gives voice to the crime that occurred and denounces the involvement of the multinational, with the support of NGOs and lawyers. Orphaned and raised on a mission by sisters, Dulce is sought out in São Paulo by Beatriz, who reveals herself to be her mother. Abandoned as a baby, she also discovers that she has a twin brother, now her sister Marisa, who owns a karaoke bar with a "refuge" spirit, which brings together an LGBTIQ+ audience, a completely new universe for Dulce. Dulce and Marisa demand that Beatriz reveal something about their unknown father and now set off together, back to the backlands, with two missions: to celebrate the victory of the quilombo and to find the father who never knew of his daughters' existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-02-06
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Olhos de Botão
Overview: The lives of an elderly couple are changed when a girl is abandoned near their home. Isolated from the world on a farm in the countryside of Pernambuco, the two gradually realize that the changes brought by the child are starting to separate them, and may be irreversible.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Overview: 1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-05-17
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Good Luck, Sweetheart
Overview: Dirceu, 30 years old, has origins that go back to the aristocracy of Northeast Brazilian backlands. Settled in a kind of subjective amnesia, Dirceu tries to bury his family's past. He is a demolition man in Recife, an urban landscape undergoing an uncontrolled process of transformation. Maria shares the same country origins, but she uses the city for a different purpose. She is a carefree and joyful music student. If Dirceu aspires to a world that is stable and present, Maria lives in discord with the present. To her, nothing is as it should be. Maria's apparition unleashes in Dirceu an urge for being somebody else. On a route of escape through the desert of the backlands, a unique encounter is set to happen. Boa sorte, meu amor (Good luck, sweetheart) is an anti-romance of the impact between music and silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-07
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Bog of Beasts
Overview: A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-12-12
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Pacarrete
Overview: Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teacher who dreams of getting a big shot and starring at a dance spectacle for the whole town to see. She's close to fulfilling that dream, but not without overcoming a few impediments along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-15
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Familiar Environment
Overview: There are many ways to overcome the losses and drop-outs of childhood. Three boys reinvent the concept of family to face the traumas of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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Ferrolho
Overview: While a soccer team plays its games, events are experienced inside the houses. In other spaces, clay and the measure of a family's conflict.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-06-12
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O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)
Overview: The comic docu-drama that follows four characters who share their stories (real and imagined) about frustrated love, addressing the most diverse superstitions and rituals performed in search of success in love. To delve into the nature of the accounts, fortune tellers, pais de santo, mums-de-santo, and seers are consulted to predict futures, give advice, and explain why people are obsessed with loving and being loved.
Genres: Fantasy Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-25
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O Quarto Negro
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-11-23
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Currais
Overview: In the 1932 drought of Ceará, several concentration camps were created to imprison and prevent refugees from reaching the city of Fortaleza. Remnants narrate fragments of his memories and unfulfilled regrets, witnessed in the ruins of concentration camps and in the cult of the “souls of the dam”, resistant to the strong historical erasure.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-01-24
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Acqua Movie
Overview: A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Blessed is the Fruit
Overview: After committing a crime, the woman leaves her home and family in search of an unknown destination. It is not known who she is, nor the reason for the crime. The mystery about this woman is one of the key points of the narrative. Throughout history she will be called Maria, Rosa and Ana, perhaps one of them will be her real name, perhaps none. She will walk for a whole day, hugging a watermelon and will have brief encounters that will mark her day and her life, facing a world that is sometimes hostile and sometimes delicate, in an attempt to live with the love and disaffection that she brings in her. .
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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Os Pobres Diabos
Overview: The Gran Circo Teatro Americano takes its attractions to the northeastern hinterland. In the city of Aracati, the troupe puts on a fun play about the crisis in hell. With a rochamboesque plot and inspired by string literature, the attraction shows the arrival of the bandit Lamparino to hell and how Lucifer participates in international capitalism. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, loves and tragedies move the lives of artists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-18
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Private Desert
Overview: 40-year-old Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north in search of her, starting on what is apparently a fool's errand. He shows Sara's picture around, but nobody seems to recognize the woman. Until eventually one guy pops up, saying he can put the two in touch under very specific conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-11-25
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Antes de Partir
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-06-09
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