Jean-Claude Bernardet
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Biography: Jean-Claude Bernardet OMC (Charleroi, August 2, 1936) is a Brazilian film theorist, film critic, filmmaker and writer. Born in Belgium, he spent his childhood in Paris and as a 13-year-old departed to Brazil with his family, there he was naturalised Brazilian citizen in 1964.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Charleroi, Belgium
Birthday: August 02, 1936
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Gender: Male
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Cama Vazia
Overview: The death machine needs to maintain its longevity to expand and profit.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-18
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The Screenwriter
Overview: 32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Copo Vazio
Overview: In the center of the city, Alain seeks to fill his void, while Miguel needs a place to stay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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O Cineasta das Platéias
Overview: This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular artists. As a bonus, it shows parts of Mazzaropi's last appearance on TV, on Hebe Camargo Show.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Person
Overview: Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-08-10
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The Man of the Crowd
Overview: Juvenal is a metro driver from Belo Horizonte. Margô, a station controller. Both live in a state of complete solitude – each in a particular way. Juvenal refuses to be alone and strolls through the streets of this metropolis taking comfort by mingling with the anonimous crowd. Margo seeks relief in the virtual world of social networks where she struggles to establish long lasting relations with real persons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-29
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Amizade
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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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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Pingo d'Água
Overview: One country, three completely different cities. People move seeking a change not only territorially, but also - and mainly - internally. Traveling brings them closer to themselves, immersed in a universe with a poetic look like life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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Que Viva Glauber!
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Hamlet
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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Enigma de um Dia
Overview: A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is introduced, through everyday life, into the metaphysical universe of the Italian painter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-03-06
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Território Crítico
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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FilmeFobia
Overview: The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias in order to film the fear on their faces.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-11
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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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Plano B
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-04-21
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Hamlet
Overview: From the murder of his father by his uncle, Hamlet is forced to confront its own contradictions and the world around him. In a deconstruction of itself, Hamlet delves into the eternal question of the meaning of existence. Set in a large metropolis, Hamlet is a free adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-06-11
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Periscópio
Overview: Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship between the two deteriorates until one day, mysteriously, a periscope appears in the room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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Cantando no Chuveiro
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Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-06-15
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A Navalha do Avô
Overview: Bruno is a young men from São Paulo who is proud of his growing beard. When his grandfather can no longer go to his usual barber, Bruno has to learn to shave with a straight razor in order to help his grandfather stay 'sharp'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-08-11
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Fome
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-17
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Travessia
Overview: The crossing of generations under the influence of military dictatorship and political openness. Documentary highlights the role of the organizers of the March for the Family with God for Freedom in 1964. Based on stories of life under the military dictatorship, stories and reflections of people who had a significant participation in that period, whether for or against the coup.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-10-24
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The Man in the Box
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Orgy or The Man Who Gave Birth
Overview: A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-08-02
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The Destruction of Bernardet
Overview: Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil’s most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long disintegration. Shifting between fiction and documentary, A Destruição de Bernardet uses unusual tools to trigger his memory and to make him tell his story.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-08-10
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Compêndio da Vida de um Homem Gasto e o Seu Último Desejo Perante Ela
Overview: An old man stuck in a wheelchair has a red ball for only distraction. He throws it harder and harder, higher and higher, until it finally slips from his hand, hitting the floor and unleashing the hell…
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-21
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Disaster Movie
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Antes do Fim
Overview: Jean feels trapped in the logic of longevity that the pharmaceutical industry imposes on him and decides to plan a conscious suicide. He invites Helena to commit suicide to two. She, on the other hand, hesitates, knows that she will live well even if she needs to live alone, but she helps him in his intentions. The silence between them does not reveal distance, but intimacy. These are years of shared affection. Together, they will prepare all the details for the funeral. He dances death while she continues rehearsing life. In the process, the two realize that before the end, there is still a lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-02-15
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P.S. - Post Scriptum
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-03-23
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Bird Boy
Overview: Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-01
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Amador
Overview: Henrique is a filmmaker who has made films that hardly anyone saw. A marginal for lack of choice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-01-26
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Em 97 Era Assim
Overview: A 15 year-old boy and his friends want to lose their virginity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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A Vermelha Luz do Bandido
Overview: Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-11
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The Prophet of Hunger
Overview: The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-13
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Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso
Overview: A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes from the films you watched intersect with the new images they capture, fiction and reality blending together, weaving a bridge between the past and the present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-31
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Super Oldboy
Overview: Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at the bank. One day he gets involved in an unusual bank robbery.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Letter Beyond the Walls
Overview: Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through interviews with doctors, activists, patients and other actors, in addition to extensive archival material. From the initial panic to awareness campaigns, passing through the stigma imposed on people living with HIV, the documentary shows how society faced this epidemic in its deadliest phase over more than two decades. With this historical approach as its base, the film looks at the way HIV is viewed in today's society, revealing a picture of persistent misinformation and prejudice, which especially affects Brazil’s most historically vulnerable populations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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Nuvem Negra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-14
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Utopia, Distopia
Overview: Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of Brasilia to show us a tableau of youth in the 1960s, with their dreams and expectations, their hardships, and interrupted projects.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-08
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Você tem Olhos Tristes
Overview: Luan works as an application bikeboy and faces dilemmas and prejudices in his daily delivery journey in a big city. Without hesitating, he dreams of a better future.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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Die Farben der Vögel
Overview: The scientist Udo Gierer is on the trail of Theodor Koch-Grünberg, the famous Amazon researcher at the beginning of our century. While traveling on a river steamboat, he meets and becomes friends with 14 year old José Junior. He takes José with him on a flight over the rain forest and tells the boy about the importance of the Amazon as the lung of the world.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-06-16
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#eagoraoque
Overview: An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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The City of Pirates
Overview: A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-08-17
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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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Nunc et Semper
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Performance com Uísque
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-12-10
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