Paula Pretta
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: September 05, 1968
Age: 56 years old
Gender: Female
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Overview: In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from their deceased aunt. When Max, a restaurant musician, moves to the next door apartment, Baby has a crush on him and sees a chance to have a life again. Soon they start having a love affair, and Baby decides to quit smoking. However, her abstinence will be tough to deal with, when she notices Max still misses his ex-wife.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-12-04
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Drained
Overview: A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-09-27
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Chamada a Cobrar
Overview: A high class lady from Brazil falls into a fake kidnapping scam when she answers a stranger’s phone call. Believing that one of her daughters has been kidnapped, she is guided by a terrifying voice for 12 hours through the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-08
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Salve, Guys!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-02-17
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Overview: Produced for TV Cultura within the project Telefilmes IV: Music and City, this made-for-TV film follows the story of Erica, a 14-year-old teenager growing up in Brazil, who has to learn how to deal with her British mother who is going off the rails. Living amidst an anxiety that switches between fear and love for her mother, Erica tries to find her way in a ship that seems to be sinking rapidly. It is in this moment that she picks up a guitar, and in her relationship with it, finds a way to re-shape her reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-05-19
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Paulista
Overview: Three metropolitan stories entwine in São Paulo. Would-be actress Marina arrives in the city looking for independence, falls madly in love with Justine, a bisexual rock singer, and is swept up into her wild, edgy lifestyle. Marina shares a flat on Avenida Paulista with Suzana, a mysterious lawyer who begins a relationship with a male colleague who is unaware that she's transsexual. Jay lives a few floors above them. He is a frustrated writer trying to give a meaning to his life by idealizing a stunningly beautiful prostitute, whom he transforms into a sort of muse. Following the frenetic pace of the city, the three "Paulista" characters will experience the euphoria of passion and its downside.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Love in Sampa
Overview: Cosmo is a taxi driver who loves traveling around São Paulo. One day, when he meets Mauro in a bar, he receives an unusual proposal: to record testimonials from passengers in his taxi, in which people would talk about what they like in São Paulo.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-02-25
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Onde Está a Felicidade?
Overview: Teodora discovers that her husband was having a virtual relationship and enters a crisis, which results in the loss of her job as a presenter of a culinary program. Disillusioned, she decides to hit the road and sets out on a journey of self-discovery, walking the Way of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-08-19
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Just Like Our Parents
Overview: Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the expectations of three generations, she tries to discover who she really is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-07-27
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Bring It Inside
Overview: Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He decides to stage a play and, with threads of memory, he improvises the lines with his young cast. Telmo dives into his own history and ends up revealing for himself what, being so painful, he'd rather forget.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-06-16
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Express Kidnapping
Overview: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Isabel, a 25-year-old girl, is kidnapped. The first ATM the criminals try to withdraw money from is broken. It's almost 10:00pm. The kidnappers realize they will not be able to get to the next one on time. What was meant to be an express kidnapping becomes an all-night imprisonment.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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Up Against Them All
Overview: A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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Antônia
Overview: Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they succumb to their grim realities...until they discover that out of struggle comes strength, and out of strength, the courage to continue on.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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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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Baby
Overview: After being released from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, without any contact from his parents and lacking the resources to rebuild his life. During a visit to a porn theater, he encounters Ronaldo, a mature man, who teaches him new ways of surviving. Gradually, their relationship turns into a conflicting passion, oscillating between exploitation and protection, jealousy and complicity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-01-09
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