Othon Bastos
Also Known As: Othon José de Almeida Bastos, オトン・バストス, Отон Бастос, 오톤 바스토스
Biography: Othon José de Almeida Bastos (Tucano, May 23, 1933) is a Brazilian actor. He is known for Black God, White Devil (1964), São Bernardo (1972) and O Paciente: O Caso Tancredo Neves (2018).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tucano, Bahia, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: May 23, 1933
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Male
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Central Station
Overview: An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-03
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Litany for an old woman
Overview: Last ride of an old beggar woman around the old São Luís city revealing the helplessness of both under the sign of an unjust time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-06-18
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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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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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O Coronel e o Lobisomem
Overview: Colonel Furtado struggles to keep his lands, the Sobradinho Farm, and win the heart of his cousin Esmeraldina. In the process, he fights big beasts, experiences the taste of a bohemian life in town, fends usurers and thieves off, and uses all his cunning to get rid of haunting entities. His rival is the man he was brought up with, Pernambuco Nogueira, a werewolf.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-10-01
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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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The Awakening of the Beast
Overview: A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Black God, White Devil
Overview: Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.
Genres: Adventure Western Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-03-13
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The Nutty Boy
Overview: The principal character in Helvécio Ratton's delightful film has been adapted from a book and comic created by the Brazilian cartoonist Ziraldo, and tells the tale of a happy-go-lucky 10-year-old child growing up in a city in the 60s.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-07-07
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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey
Overview: The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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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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Antonio das Mortes
Overview: A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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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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I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
Overview: Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of cultural collaboration between two nations. Yet the film never found a mass audience, languishing for decades until its reintroduction as a "classic" in the 1990s. Vicente Ferraz explores the strange history of this cinematic tour de force, and the deeper meaning for those who participated in its creation.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-14
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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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The Children's Orchestra
Overview: A young musician of 13 years, a member of the Symphonic Orchestra of Agreste of the small town of Sao Caetano, 150 km from Recife, is kidnapped. The police believe the culprit is the creator of the orchestra, conductor Mozart Vieira. With the charge the work done so far with the poor community of the city is in danger of disappearing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-11-07
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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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Poeta de Sete Faces
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Viva o 2 de Julho
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Leonardo Villar - Um Homem Só
Overview: A tribute to the actor Leonardo Villar who, in his debut on the big screen, immortalized one of the most memorable characters in Brazilian cinema, Zé do Burro from the classic O Pagador de Promessas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-08
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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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Of Gods and the Undead
Overview: In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in the battle for land and cacao plantations. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" Santana, taking his wife and money. He starts a bloody conflict, in which many simple people and landowners die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-06-25
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Capitu
Overview: Adaptation of Machado de Assis’s classic novel “Dom Casmurro”. Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not really his.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-11-22
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Ao Sul do Meu Corpo
Overview: São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto (Paulo César Pereio) is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro (Nuno Leal Maia) he won a scholarship to study in Paris. In Paris Polidoro receives a letter in which Alberto announces that he married Helena (Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva). Polidoro returns to Brazil in 1945, when there was a strong political agitation against the New State. Alberto invites Polidoro to spend a few days at his home in Campos do Jordão. After reaching the site he is told by Helena that Alberto was forced to travel urgently. She insists he should stay there until the return of her husband and, while waiting, she seduces him. Then, after several days of intense passion, she orders Polidoro to go away and never see her again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Sermões
Overview: Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-05-24
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Fogo Morto
Overview: In 1910, in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, a man is expelled from his own land by the ruthless colonel who owns the sugar mill. He asks some outlaws to help him retrieve his land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-06-01
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Cascalho
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-11-27
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Saint Bernard
Overview: The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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Vazio Coração
Overview: Hugo Kari is a famous singer who decides to take a break from his schedule to find his father, ambassador Mário Menezes. Together, they try to adjust a relationship shattered by time and conflict.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-01
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The Patriot
Overview: Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Triste Trópico
Overview: In this "fake documentary", a doctor returns to Brazil after his studies in Paris. Setting out to practice Medicine, he becomes an indigenous messiah and, in time, a cannibal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Brasília 18%
Overview: A star medical examiner is called to Brasília, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young congressional aide's dead body. But his scientific rigor soon leads him to details of a multi-layered political scandal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-04-21
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Ponto Final
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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A Hora Marcada
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Condenado à Liberdade
Overview: The murder of a wealthy couple shocks public opinion, with the eldest son accused of killing his parents. Condemned beforehand by the press, he needs to prove his innocence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-04-20
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A Grande Noitada
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Amizade
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Spirit of Zé Lins
Overview: Documentary on the life and work of José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), one of Brazil's greatest 20th century literary authors, writer of celebrated novels "Menino de Engenho", "Fogo Morto", "Moleque Ricardo", "Riacho Doce" and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The JK Years: A Political Trajectory
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian history, from 1945 until the 70s, focusing on president Juscelino Kubitschek, his political rise, his philosophy of economical development, his gigantic project ...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Beyond the Universe
Overview: While waiting for a kidney transplant, a young pianist finds an unexpected connection with her doctor — and the courage to fulfill her musical dreams.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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The Next Victim
Overview: A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-10
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1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
Overview: The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-05-25
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11 and a Half Questions to Julio Calasso
Overview: A final conversation with departed actor, director and musical producer Julio Calasso Jr., a key character in the Brazilian artistic scene. At his old house in Butantã, São Paulo, Julio talks about his experiences, frustrations, joys and tragedies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-16
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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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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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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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Ulysses Cidadão
Overview: The life and work of deputy Ulysses Guimarães based on news reports, interviews and testimonies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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Sombras de Julho
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-17
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Astral City 2: The Messengers
Overview: A group of messenger spirits led by Aniceto, including doctor André Luiz, are tasked with going to Earth to help rescue three proteges whose interconnected stories are about to fail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-01-25
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Conterrâneos Velhos de Guerra
Overview: Documentary about the people who came from all over Brazil to work in the construction of the city of Brasilia, their stories, and the abuse and humiliation they suffered in the process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-02
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O Vestido
Overview: Ulisses has failed in his professional life, but leads a happy life with his wife Ângela and their two daughters. Until the day he is introduced to Bárbara, a very beautiful woman living in Rio de Janeiro. Ângela becomes her friend and gives her the dress Ulisses had given her. From then on, marital problems arise, and he becomes increasingly attracted to Bárbara.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-05-16
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The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
Overview: Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-21
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O Cangaceiro
Overview: This is a remake of Brazil's first international success in the cinema world. Just as its same name predecessor was, this film is a fictional version of the story of the "cangaceiros." These were bandits who sacked towns and spread terror throughout Northeastern Brazil in the 1930s. This group of outlaws is led by Captain Galdino and his wife Maria Bonita.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-06-06
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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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Uma Professora Muito Maluquinha
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-12-01
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The Last Drive-In Theater
Overview: When returning to his hometown with his ill mother, Marlombrando meets again his father and the Drive-in cinema where he spent his childhood. Almeida keeps the cinema functioning with the assistance of only two employees: Paula, who takes care of the projection and the snack bar; Jose, an old friend of Almeida, who helps selling tickets at the cashier and cleaning up the place. The arrival of Marlombrando and the demolition threatening of the Drive-in will bring new directions to their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-15
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Por um Fio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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A Última Vanguarda
Overview: 70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an artistic vanguard that still impacts Brazilian culture today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-03-19
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3 Histórias da Bahia
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-05-24
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O Voo do Anjo
Overview: The film tells the story of a retired physics professor who meets a man who is thinking about ending his own life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-24
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Vitalino/Lampião
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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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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Garrafas ao Mar: A Víbora Manda Lembranças
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-02-02
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Irmãos de Fé
Overview: Priest Marcelo Rossi visits a juvenile correction center, and gives Paulo, one of the interns, a Bible. He starts reading the story of St. Paul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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No Tempo de Glauber
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Sant'Anna dos Pescadores
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-05-11
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Cícero Dias, o Compadre de Picasso
Overview: The Pernambuco painter Cicero Dias created an unparalleled art for the world. Close to a modernist and influenced by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger and Joan Miró, he marked the history of Brazilian art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Giovanni Improtta
Overview: Giovanni Improtta is a criminal who wants to climb the social ladder and become a law-abiding citizen. To achieve it, he commits some more crimes He is betrayed, and ends up under the spotlight of the media and the radar of the police, falsely charged for murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-05-18
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Linha de Montagem
Overview: Documentary about the strikes that took place in São Bernardo do Campo, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, circa 1979/1980. That moment was of utmost importance, since it revealed a Union leader, Luís Inácio "Lula" da Silva, who would later become President of Brazil. It was also the moment when PT, the Workers' Party, became a relevant political force in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-05-03
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Milagrez
Overview: Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-02
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Os Imaginários
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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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
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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Risco
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-11-22
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Long Way of Death
Overview: The life and death of Colonel Orestes, a decadent coffee farmer, spanning three generations between despair, hallucinations, and the help of three different wives. The city, the synthesis of modernization, definitively buries the oligarch making buildings on the ground that had previously made the character's prestige.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-09-22
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Esta Noite Seremos Felizes
Overview: Two 80-year-olds, Miss. Daisy and Mr. Carlos, meet every week at the "Tonight We Will Be Happy" ball to live a delicate and nostalgic love story.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-07-06
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O Gerente
Overview: A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-22
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O Mistério no Colégio Brasil
Overview: Two students make a date in a secluded cave behind their school, where they could be undisturbed. But on arrival they see a corpse. They run to inform the authorities, but when they arrive the corpse has mysteriously disappeared.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Glauber em Tempo - Redescobrindo o Brasil
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-03-20
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Four Days in September
Overview: Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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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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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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O Predileto
Overview: Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais, Totônio is a symbol of the golden age of state farms: old and accustomed to having all his wills obeyed. However, after moving to his son's home because of his wife's death and the resulting loneliness, he realizes that he has lost his job as a boss and is struggling to regain his prestige by moving to a brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-12-19
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Libertários
Overview: A documentary about the history of the anarchist-led workers' movement in Brazil. It shows the transformation of immigrants into the first urban workers and chronicles the most important strikes, the successes and defeats of the movement, from the end of the 19th century until 1922.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-01-31
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The Patient
Overview: The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Você Também Pode Dar um Presunto Legal
Overview: Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of making a documentary about the action of the Death Squad. At the time, the press still had some freedom to disseminate the work of these death squads formed by police officers of various ranks, and that he acted on the outskirts of cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The victims of police repression (as today) were men, poor and black, and this condition is supposed criminals.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-07-05
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O Número
Overview: A man whose name is constantly changed by the other people.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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Rastejador, Substantivo Masculino
Overview: Report of a crawler, who helped the steering wheels to find traces of the cangaceiros in the caatinga and their knowledge to survive in this environment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Beste
Overview: Deformed form by which the word "beast" (medieval weapon) is pronounced in the north of the Brazilian state of Bahia and was still present in the cultural memory of the region.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-06-11
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Braços Cruzados, Máquinas Paradas
Overview: São Paulo, May 1978. Three slates compete for the leadership of the Metalworkers' Union of São Paulo, the largest in Latin America, with 300,000 associate workers, and presided over by a platoon since the military coup of 1964. In the midst of the Union electoral campaign, the first workers' strikes that would change the country began. Braços Cruzados, Máquinas Paradas reveals, in an engaging narrative, the Brazilian trade union structure of fascist inspiration.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-28
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A Song for Silence
Overview: A father receives a devastating call: his son was found dead. This tragic news makes him travel in order to identify and release his son’s body for burial, a journey that will force him to recognize his absence as father and find a way to reconnect with the memories of his own child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-20
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Before and After S. Bernardo
Overview: Extras from the remastered DVD of the film São Bernardo by Leon Hirszman. The process of restoring the film, with testimonials from actors and the film's technical team.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-10-30
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The Man in the Box
Overview: Locked up for decades in a maximum security prison, an old man tries to revive his glory days as a magician, putting into practice a perfect - but also very dangerous - escape plan.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-27
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Suicídio Nunca!
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-08-25
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Heart and Guts
Overview: Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to the school administrators, the intervenor falls asleep and a crazy dream begins, involving teachers, students and strange characters.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-11-09
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Cine Mambembe: Cinema Discovers Brazil
Overview: Laís Bodanzky and Luiz Bolognesi travel around the small cities of Brazil, exhibiting short films in public squares. From the south of Bahia to the farthest parts of Amazon, this documentary discovers a country that watches a movie and sees itself on the screen for the very first time, in the turning of the 21st century. What’s seen and heard is truly surprising.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-12-01
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Sertão dos Tocós
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Tostão - A Fera de Ouro
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian soccer player Tostão.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-02-12
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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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Didi, o Peregrino
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Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-12-22
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Acaba de Chegar ao Brasil o Bello Poeta Francez Blaise Cendrars
Overview: Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the intensity of the core of modernist artists: Tarcila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade and Di Cavalcanti. Scenes from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Martinho Farm and the 1924 Revolution. Scenes from the movie LES HEURES CHAUDES DE MONTPARNASSE. Reference to Aleijadinho and Febrônio Indio do Brasil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Impressions for Clara
Overview: Remembrance of things past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-07-09
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Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Overview: In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-10
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Madeira
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Mídia, mentiras e democracia: zona de fronteira
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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