Ênio Gonçalves
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Biography: Ênio Gonçalves (Porto Alegre, August 28, 1938 — São Paulo, October 5, 2013) was a Brazilian actor, director and playwright. He majored in journalism and worked in over 30 films, starred in 20 telenovelas, and performed in numerous plays, starting with "Auto de Natal" in 1959. He studied film directing at the "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" in Rome, Italy, and became popular after his performance in Nelson Rodrigues's "Toda Nudez Será Castigada" in 1965, directed by Zbigniew Ziembinski. He would write some 20 plays, including "2 ou 3 Buracos" (1976), "Dia Torto" (1976), "Vem Contudo" (1977) and "Até as Orelhas" (2004), and adapt literary works such as J. Guimarães Rosa's Sorôco, Sua Mãe, Sua Filha (1975) for the screen and Erico Verissimo's "Sonata".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Birthday: August 28, 1943
Deathday: October 05, 2013
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Gender: Male
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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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Satanic Attraction
Overview: Fernanda, a radio DJ, has a show in which she tells gruesome and gory horror stories about satanic rituals and sex murders. However, when bodies start turning up around town killed in exactly the way Fernanda describes on her show, it looks like someone or some group is using her show to get ideas.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-08-04
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O Filme dos Espíritos
Overview: Após perder a esposa e a caminho do suicídio, um homem se depara com O Livro dos Espíritos e começa uma jornada de transformação interior rumo aos mistérios da vida espiritual e suas influências no mundo material.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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Desafio à Aventura
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-04-06
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New Wave
Overview: A group of women organize a soccer team as a manifesto against sexism.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-03-03
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Sorôco, Sua Mãe, Sua Filha
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Movie Dementia
Overview: Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-10-15
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The Peephole of Love
Overview: An innocent working girl finds a hole in her wall through which she can see the action in the next apartment, where a prostitute meets her bizarre clients.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-11-13
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Brazil Year 2000
Overview: Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be indigenous during the visit of a general. In the dilemma of integrating into the system or preserving individual freedom, the family moves toward disintegration as the city prepares to launch a space rocket.
Genres: Science Fiction Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-11-21
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Promiscuity, the Street Kids of Katia
Overview: A story of a young woman who is cheating her impotent husband with the surrounding teenagers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-04-30
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A Noite das Taras nº 2
Overview: In "Solo de Violino", bank clerk and aspirant violinist Rodrigo is a serial killer. When his next door neighbor reveals that she is in love with his music and Rodrigo, he has difficulties in controlling his killing impulses. In "A Guerra da Malvina", four female thieves break in the house of the porn star David Cardoso to rob money and jewelry, but they end having sex with the actor.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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Sete Dias de Agonia
Overview: After a heavy rain storm, several vehicles get stuck on a muddy road. Soon hunger and fatigue change people's manners, making them behave in a very noncivilized way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Boy and the Wind
Overview: A young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy who has a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-08-21
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Sexo às Avessas
Overview: Heleno and Claudia reverses the daily roles traditionally reserved for men and women: He dedicated himself to domestic tasks. She's a jerky business lady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-12-07
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Beautiful and Corrupted
Overview: Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-09-10
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Strange Force
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Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-09-11
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Viúvas Precisam de Consolo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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M Is for Mailbox
Overview: Submitted for "The ABCs of Death 2" competition.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-18
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Tudo na Cama
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-02-08
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A Noite dos Bacanais
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-02-08
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What Is It Worth?
Overview: Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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Suburban Angels
Overview: The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-02-19
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O Amor Está No Ar
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-08-08
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The Great Victory
Overview: Independent feature film based on the biography of a Brazilian judo with a great victory that went beyond the mats and medals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-05-08
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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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Doce Delírio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-26
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Official Exterminator 3: Joy for Living Dead
Overview: Yet another Godfrey Ho-scripted / Joseph Lai-produced / IFD-distributed "cut-and-paste" job. This one takes much of its footage from the 1983 Brazilian movie Doce Delirio and adds new and unrelated martial arts footage shot by Phillip Ko.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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ABCs of Death 2 1/2
Overview: An anthology of 26 fan entries submitted for inclusion in ABCs of Death 2, each offering various takes on the letter "M".
Genres: Horror Thriller Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-02
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Hard Season
Overview: Gabriel and Laura are two strangers drawn to each other by a spark of restlessness in their eyes. At Laura's sanctuary, an abandoned factory, a man with a camera will put their revolutionary fantasies to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Eu Dou o Que Ela Gosta
Overview: A young couple uses creativity to escape the rules of the girl's father, a conservative Italian, and her grandmother. Even under the patriarch's watch, the roguish boyfriend manages to fulfill his desires.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Em Nome da Segurança Nacional
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-03-15
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Terno
Overview: One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-08-23
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The Intimacies of Analu and Fernanda
Overview: After separating from her abusive husband, Analu knows Fernanda, a lovely lady who offers her shelter. The friendship between the two turns into an intense love affair, but Fernanda shows possessive and violent. The situation worsens when her husband discovers her whereabouts Analu and starts chasing her. And even worse when Fernanda also rejected, decides to put an end to the life of the lover, without considering the consequences.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-04-05
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Juventude e Ternura
Overview: The young singer Beth is torn between love for the honest pianist Guy; and the powerful smuggler Estênio, who sponsors his promising career.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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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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Face To Face
Overview: The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Elite Devassa
Overview: Theodoro, a country boy goes to São Paulo from Florianópolis to work as a driver. He starts to work for rich and domineering Mariana. When her husband, Renato travels in Europe on business, he takes her for a trip to Campos do Jordão, where she has a vacation manor. It will not be long until the two begin a torrid love affair. However, he also enchants with her daughter, Ana Paula and sister, Luisa. Involved with all three, he discovers that his life may be in danger, because he finds out that two previous family drivers, Alfredo and Renato were killed in the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-10-29
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Instinto Devasso
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-08-20
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Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
Overview: “Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
Genres: Animation Drama History Romance Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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O Homem Sensorial
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-08-01
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Reveillon
Overview: As the clock ticks away announcing the end of the year, the four members of a family reveal their inabilities and frustrations, their defeats and the monotony of a life that drags on in a solitary way, even as a group.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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