Rogério Fróes
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santos Dumont, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Birthday: September 21, 1934
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Gender: Male
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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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Amada Amante
Overview: A family leaves a small town in the state of São Paulo to move to Rio de Janeiro when the father gets a job promotion there. In Rio, everyone of them will fall prey to the city's sinful ways.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-06-01
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Delirious Saturdays
Overview: From Friday night 'til Sunday morning, the doors of a new world open inside a nightclub in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. We watch the emotions and conflicts experienced by a series of characters, who find on the dance floor the ideal stage to represent the tragedy of their lives.
Genres: Music Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-04-29
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Não Se Pode Viver Sem Amor
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-06
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Summer Dream
Overview: Grieved over the loss of their daughter, an elderly couple has decided do spend their vacation travelling around Europe. The cab driver who takes them to the airport, Leo, overhears their conversation and decides to profit from their situation: Leo convinces the couple's staff he's their nephew, and invites his friends and girlfriend over for a special summer. Things go awry when his friend Marcelo arrives with a bus full of teenagers, who believe the mansion is actually a summer camp.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Love Lesson
Overview: A German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s. But soon they get involved, and she teaches him love lessons instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-03-04
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Romance Policial
Overview: Antonio, young Brazilian civil servant, travels to the Atacama Desert in search of inspiration to write a short story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-03-09
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Memórias do Medo
Overview: With Brasilia as a setting, the film tries to recreate the political environment in Brazil when civilians were able to found new political parties, after 10 years of strict military rules. In the midst of a nationwide crisis, a group of politicians found an opposition party to the military regime, triggering violent denunciation against multinationals operating in the country. The explorer of the Seesaw deposit, United Mining, an American multinational that is being accused of several irregularities, sees in the internal struggle that divides the opposition party its only chance to silence the nationalist campaign that denounces it. Thus, a game is developed that ends up leading the characters to a tragic plot of corruption and fear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-09-21
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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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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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Essa Mulher é Minha... e dos Amigos
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-10
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The Claudia Case
Overview: Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress Márcia Rodrigues's sister, was found in the seashore. After Police investigation, it was found she had been murdered on a party by a rich industrialist's son and his socialite hairdresser buddy, after much sex, alcohol and drugs, specially Mandrax (methaqualone). She'd probably resisted being raped and the killers threw away the body in the water. One of the guys tried to escape flying to Switzerland.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-08-26
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Perpétuo Contra o Esquadrão da Morte
Overview: Inspired by the life of one of the most famous policemen in the history of Brazil: detective Perpétuo de Freitas, immortalized in the annals of Brazilian criminal history for relentlessly pursuing and without the slightest assistance of the Rio police force one of the most wanted criminals in the country.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-12-16
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The Man from the Future
Overview: Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-09-02
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Vai Que Cola: O Filme
Overview: Valdomiro gets involved in yet another scheme, this time involving the same people that tricked him into losing everything - and he brings everyone from Ms. Jô's hostel along.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Saideira
Overview: Two sisters with very different personalities and who have not spoken with each other for years come together to fulfill their grandfather’s last wish, a kind of wild treasure hunt that leads them to know their true history, helping them to grieve the sufferings of the past and reconnect with themselves and with one another.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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O Barão Otelo no Barato dos Bilhões
Overview: João-Sem-Direção knows Carvalhaes that proposes a blow to him. John does not accept the proposal, but ends up earning a hefty cash in the game.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-05-26
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Missão: Matar!
Overview: A professional hitman returns to Brazil and is hired to eliminate an Argentine Delegate in a Rio de Janeiro convention. Inspector José da Silva realizes the plot and starts to pursuit him.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-03-26
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As Mulheres Que Fazem Diferente
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-04-04
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República dos Assassinos
Overview: In 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The photos of the victims, adorned by the skull, symbol of the group, caused an uncomfortable indignation. This is the story of Mateus Romeiro, the most famous of the policemen, who was part of the Homens de Aço (Steelmen) group, one of the factions in which the squadron was divided.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-11-11
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Loucas pra Casar
Overview: Malu, Lúcia and Maria found the ideal man to marry. Until they discover that in reality this man is the same person: Samuel, who was dating all of them over the past years. The three will have to decide if they will fight amongst each other for exclusivity or will unite in revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-08
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Three Summers
Overview: Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-03-11
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Vida e Obra de Ramiro Miguez
Overview: A painter is found dead with a gun in his hand, in his shabby studio in Lapa, a bohemian district in Rio de Janeiro. A brief note is published on a newspaper and, from then on, he becomes a national sensation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Tepê
Overview: An atheist gets into a taxi whose driver is a believer who will try to convince him that God exists, but it was not quite as he had imagined.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
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Consórcio de Sexo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-03-30
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Maria Bonita, Rainha do Cangaço
Overview: Romantic biography of Maria Bonita, daughter of a poor farmer who was kidnapped by Lampião and became his lover.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-07-31
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Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado
Overview: The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts from films and videos in which he acted.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-11-19
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Redeemer
Overview: Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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