Nina de Pádua
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Birthday: October 09, 1955
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Verão
Overview: In a beach house, snapshots of a couple's relationship are interspersed with flashbacks to a political past that still threatens their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-08-21
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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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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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Menino do Rio
Overview: Romantic adventures of a group of Rio de Janeiro teenagers and surfers.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-12-05
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The Secret of the Mummy
Overview: A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-09-06
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Engraçadinha
Overview: After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Madre Paulina: Súdita de Deus
Overview: This film tells the life of Mother Paulina, today Saint Paulina, who was born in Italy in 1865. Her original name was Amábile Lúcia Visintainer, second daughter of the couple Antônio Napoleone Visintainer and Anna Pianezzer. She emigrated to Brazil in 1875 with her parents, siblings and other families in the region. Here, she lived in the town of Vígolo, in the city of Nova Trento, in the state of Santa Catarina. The film presents the main moments of the saint's life, from her arrival from Italy to her death in Brazil, when she was 77 years old. There are also testimonies of her beatification that took place in 1991.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Scarlet Scorpion
Overview: Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful fashion designer.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-18
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Obscenidades
Overview: A bourgeois housewife's life is shaken by a series of anonymous letters that she periodically receives, increasingly obscene. At first, she believes the sender to be a complete stranger, then she begins to suspect her husband's friends. But she doesn't dare talk to her husband about the letters or their contents: she remains anxious, thinking about suicide, and always waiting for the postman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Eternamente Pagu
Overview: Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic activist. An important figure of the Brazilian Modernism, Pagu was also a militant for the Brazilian Communist Party after she married writer Oswald de Andrade. She broke up with Andrade and, as a journalist was arrested by the Dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. After she left prison, she abandoned Communism in favor of Trotskyist Socialism, married Geraldo Ferraz, and started a career as theatre director.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-05-12
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It's Not All True
Overview: Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-08-22
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Noite
Overview: Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of police officers about the barbaric murder of a socialite. Without recognizing himself in the documents he carries in his pocket, he wanders through the underworlds of the city in search of an answer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-07-19
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Me Beija
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-11
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Observatorium
Overview: Post-modernity spaces brings out more violence from wars and love relationships. A young couple and the post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the Cold War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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A Farra do Circo
Overview: This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-30
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Nothing to Lose
Overview: Authorized biopic of Brazilian evangelical bishop Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and owner of Record TV network. Based on a book trilogy of the same name, the movie tells the story of the self-made man who faced several moments of turbulence while pursuing his conviction.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-03-29
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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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