Hugo Carvana
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Hugo Carvana de Hollanda (Rio de Janeiro, June 4, 1937 – Rio de Janeiro, October 4, 2014) was a Brazilian film and television actor and director. Initially associated with scoundrel-type characters during his early career, he played parts in many Brazilian New Wave (Cinema Novo) films. He later moved on to starring and directing comedies, such as his directorial debut, the self-starred "Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo!" (1973) and his last film "A Casa da Mãe Joana 2" (2013). During his later career, he was also a recurring actor in Brazilian soap operas. Carvana died in October 4, 2014, from complications caused by a lung cancer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Birthday: June 04, 1937
Deathday: October 04, 2014
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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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Chaos and Confusion
Overview: Super Chacrinha and Glauber Rocha, two millionaires from the earthly plane of Varathrum, manipulate the people around them, including Deus and the Devil, so that their artistic industrial conglomerates grow.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-11-19
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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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God Is Brazilian
Overview: God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. So He goes to the Northeast of Brazil, where He believes there's a very good man for the job. As soon as He comes down to Earth, a young man comes along to help on His quest.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-31
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The Unscrupulous Ones
Overview: Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-03-24
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Fluminense Football Club - Centenário de uma Paixão
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-07-21
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Pilar
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-06-16
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Mais uma Vez Amor
Overview: In Rio de Janeiro, the teenagers Lia and Rodrigo have opposite behaviors and personalities. The clumsy Rodrigo is responsible and good student, while the emancipated Lia is totally irresponsible. They have their first sexual intercourse together on April 23rd, and they schedule to meet each other every year in the same date. Along the years, Rodrigo graduates in engineering and gets married with Clara (Christine Fernandes), having a son. The single mother Lia has a life without any commitment, moves to Paris and comes back to Brazil later. After a comedown, Rodrigo leaves his family and quits his job to live with Lia. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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A Criação Literária de João Guimarães Rosa
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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A Indústria do Solúvel
Overview: It accompanies the manufacture of soluble coffee.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-06-09
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The Angel Was Born
Overview: Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-02-12
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All Nudity Shall Be Punished
Overview: A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her. He can't decide between attraction and repulsion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-05-13
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Veredas de Minas
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-09-24
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Tent of Miracles
Overview: When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved only through miscegenation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-07-30
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The Fall
Overview: An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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Águia na Cabeça
Overview: A senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power structure resents this disturbance and can fall apart, specially since there's a witness.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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The Guns
Overview: A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
Overview: First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Dare
Overview: Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-07-09
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Anchieta, José do Brasil
Overview: Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-07-22
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Love, Carnival and Dreams
Overview: On Carnival's eve, girl dreams of a man to stay with her during these four days. She meets a photographer, with whom she has an affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-02-11
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Lara
Overview: The life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exchanged stardom for a quiet and religious life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-08-20
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José Lins do Rego
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Sea of Roses
Overview: A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-07-29
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Se Segura, Malandro!
Overview: Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-08-26
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When Carnaval Comes
Overview: Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-07-13
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Garden of War
Overview: Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for her film, but ends up being arrested and tortured as his torturers suspect he's involved in a plot to overthrow the military government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-05-13
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Procura-se uma Virgem
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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Brazil in Cannes
Overview: The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the transition from film to industrialized production. It is the meeting of producers, technicians, critics , celebrities in general, offering opportunities for greater knowledge and renewal of values
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-12-24
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Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Overview: 23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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Câncer
Overview: This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Assim na Tela Como no Céu
Overview: A religious comedy in 5 segments, illustrating maniqueism on Earth, as shown by movies. God and his son Jesus disagree on how to manage human life on Earth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Bete Balanço
Overview: A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-07-30
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Pedro Diabo Loves Rosa Meia Noite
Overview: Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Overview: Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-06-07
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Avaete, Seed of Revenge
Overview: Little Indian boy survives his tribe massacre, growing up together with his wish for revenge and his quest for his own identity. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-08-26
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Por Dúvida das Vias
Overview: A Journalism intern makes her first report in a public office, getting lost in the bureaucratic intricacies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Go To Work You Bum!
Overview: Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Overview: Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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O Engano
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Entranced Earth
Overview: Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-02
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5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
Overview: The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities - with the promise of escape stereotypical representations.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-08-25
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Macunaima
Overview: Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-09-03
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The Lion Has Seven Heads
Overview: A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-08-03
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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 History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Carro de Bois
Overview: Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais, it was Mauro's only film in color and also his last.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Bar Esperanza
Overview: A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-19
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The Naked Man
Overview: Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Depois do Transe
Overview: The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Love Stories Only Last 90 Minutes
Overview: In Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the idle aspirant writer Zeca has been living with Arts Professor Júlia for five years. He is stuck on page 50 of his novel for a long time and Zeca claims lack of inspiration to conclude the plot. He leads a comfortable life from inheritance left by his mother and administrated by his father Humberto. When Zeca sees Júlia alone with her best friend Carol in his flat, he believes that they are having a love affair and becomes obsessed with Carol, following her. Júlia travels to São Paulo with work giving Zeca the perfect opportunity to have an affair with Carol. So begins his complicated life: while Júlia works and studies for her doctorate, Zeca has sex with Carol during the days and with Júlia during the nights. Zeca plots a scheme to stay with either Carol or Júlia but his plan does not go as he hoped.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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The Big City
Overview: In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, later, the company of Inácio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-05-13
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Tati, a Garota
Overview: The seamstress Manuela, Tati's single mother, moves from the suburbs to Copacabana but faces severe financial difficulties. A friend of Manuela's sometimes fills in for Tati's father, giving the girl temporary happiness.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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On Borrowed Time
Overview: During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-11-26
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Before, the Summer
Overview: A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the breaches of the house, their marriage begins to crumble. And like a bad omen, a mysterious murder takes place in the vicinity.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-05-26
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G.R.E.S. Concentração
Overview: The film reveals the moments that preceded the Samba Schools' competitive parade in Rio de Janeiro's 1996 carnival. Narrated by actor Hugo Carvana and filmed by three separate 16mm camera units, the documentary focuses exclusively on the gathering of each school before its parade at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí - the real and imaginary space where everything happens.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-06-01
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Arquitetura de Morar
Overview: An enchanted journey through three extraordinary houses built by Master José Zanine on the seaside hillside of Joatinga, in Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by a stunning musical score, specially created for the film by maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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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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Humor Amargo
Overview: Set of carioca sketches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Pindorama
Overview: This Brazilian film is set during the period of its initial colonial discovery and settlement. The title refers to a word the native peoples used for the coastal lands: "pindorama," or "place of the small trees." A ponderous and grandiose film, it was roundly booed when it was aired at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-06-06
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The Deceased
Overview: After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-09-22
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Overview: Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-05-15
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Klaxon
Overview: It is the magazine that continues the Modern Art Week of 22.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Overview: Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women and idolized by his audience and friends. His contagious joy attracts the attention of American scientist Dr. Boris Lewitsky, who comes to Brazil in order to interview Apolônio's close friends and make them a most unusual offer concerning the remains of the late musician.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-08-21
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Overview: Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-10-28
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
Overview: Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-11-26
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Un animal doué de déraison
Overview: A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but a prisoner of her strict education. He then shared his project with a journalist friend, who decided to make it the theme of a novel he imagined in 18th century Brazil...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-24
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Movie Theaters of Rio
Overview: The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-09-27
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Abry
Overview: At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the risk to her life, Lúcia, laconic, tells the doctor: 'Then open it'. This is the second time she has undergone bypass surgery. From this gesture, the documentary Abry was born (with y, sign of the unconscious, according to the nomenclature invented by his son, Glauber Rocha). To relate her memories, she invites filmmaker Joel Pizzini, who offers his mini camera as an instrument to amplify Lúcia's imagination. Abry is a poetic dive into Lúcia Rocha's fabulous universe, reconstructing her trajectory in Brazilian cinema through sounds, images and characters with whom she lived closely.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-20
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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
Overview: Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Na Casa de Rio Vermelho
Overview: Brazilan writer Jorge Amado and his everyday life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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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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Dramática Popular
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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O Homem do Morcego
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Um Sonho de Vampiros
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Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-08-10
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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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Leila Diniz
Overview: The life of Brazilian actress Leila Diniz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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A Man and His Cage
Overview: The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe. After his wife's death, Tino continues living with Selma, with whom he had ambiguous relations, which he now wants to sever. Weak at this impossible love, he asks the maid Enedina to lock him in his room. There, he revives memories through letters, notes and photographs. Selma's son João is waiting for her at the airport and dreams of loving fulfillment in his own mother's arms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-09-23
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The Man Who Bought the World
Overview: In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-09-16
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Gordos e Magros
Overview: After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He is drunk and end up having a fight and leaving home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Boca de Ouro
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-04-04
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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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Golden Oldies
Overview: Four friends who only think about enjoying life, with big parties, women and drinks, are surprised by an eviction. In need of money, the group is forced to think about what they hate most: working! Confusion arises when everyone looks for an easy way to get money, with minimum effort. The days pass and the hilarious confusion only increases!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-08-23
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To the Last Drop
Overview: Documentary about the traffic of human blood in the Third World.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Rio, I Love You
Overview: The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-04-19
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Chorinhos e Chorões
Overview: An educational documentary short film on choro, an authentic brazilian musical genre, and its biggest and most influential musicians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Achados e Perdidos
Overview: A retired cop becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a prostitute.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-04-19
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Mulheres de Cinema
Overview: Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-06-06
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The Greatest Love of All
Overview: Antônio is an astrophysicist who has just found out he has an inoperable brain tumor. After decades living in the United States, he returns to Brazil and tries to learn more about his biological mother. His quest sends him off into the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-09-07
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Carvana
Overview: Chronicles the life and career of Hugo Carvana, brazilian actor and filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-04-11
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O Cabeça de Copacabana
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Esse Rio que Eu Amo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-07-09
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Time of Violence
Overview: Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find out about him, Antônio and his wife are both targeted and pursued by the criminals.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Brave Warrior
Overview: Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-11-22
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How Are You, Well?
Overview: Two fanatical Flamengo fans get drunk after a defeat of time; a voyeurist peers at his neighbor's nakedness with binoculars; a suburbanite kills his wife over a chicken; an ambitious father makes money from his daughter who pretends to see the virgin Mary; a loving couple desperately seeks to satisfy their sexual desires; a priest tries to extort more alms from his parishioners; a married man, to survive, poses as a transvestite on a boat; a suburbanite prepares to sing on the Chacrinha show! Anything can happen in this film!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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A Hora do leão - Os sete leões de Glauber
Overview: Documentary about Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Sonhos Tropicais
Overview: A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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The Heirs
Overview: An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-09-15
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Ipanema, Adeus
Overview: Young and rich executive living in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, leaves his wife and kids behind and goes to Porto Seguro, Bahia, to try and live as a fisherman with his mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-09-29
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Não Se Preocupe, Nada Vai Dar Certo!
Overview: Lalau (Gregorio Duvivier) is presented by the country's interior with his show jokes, whose main theme is her father, Ramon Velasco (Tarcisio Meira), an actor who always gets into shenanigans. One day, when present in Ceará, Stan receives a tempting proposal by Flora (Flávia Alessandra), which offers $ 100,000 so he pretends to be a famous guru in a motivational speech in Rio de Janeiro. He accepts and goes to Rio without telling his father. After seeing his son on the cover of a newspaper, Ramon decides to go after him and creates many characters to ensure their part.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-07-22
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O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
Overview: Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian press, produced daily for six months, in the 1960s. The newspaper spoke of culture, politics and education through satires and prominent figures in the cultural scene of the time passed through him. Archive scenes and music from the period seek to reconstitute the spirit of the 68-generation. The film has the participation of personalities such as Ziraldo, Zuenir Ventura, Arnaldo Jabor, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Carlos Heitor Cony, Fernando Gabeira, Betty Faria, Hugo Carvana, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-08-19
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Oito Universitários
Overview: The political activity of students in the 60s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Alô Tetéia
Overview: In a humorous way, the film narrates the adventures - or misadventures - of a typical girl from the south of Rio de Janeiro who decides to go to the beach, but her car won't start. Having decided, she goes on the bus and gets into a thousand messes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-10-17
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Tatu Bola
Overview: Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent fisherman. As soon as he finds out that Zefa is very ill, Expedito runs back home and finds his adoptive mother in agony. At the edge of the bed, a mysterious woman, who claims to be Death, sits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Éramos Todos Loucos
Overview: A documentary about the production of Hugo Carvana's successful film "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo", from 1973.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme
Overview: Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a bride and is brutally strangled in the middle of the act of love. To prove the authorship of the crimes is the great challenge of detective França.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-20
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Vênus de Fogo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Colagem
Overview: The new Brazilian cinematic movement (Cinema Novo) through films starring actors Antonio Pitanga and Luiza Maranhão.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-11-06
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