Abrahão Farc
Also Known As: Abram Jacob Szafarc
Biography: Abram Jacob Szafarc (São Paulo, July 28, 1937 — São Paulo, September 24, 2012), better known as Abrahão Farc, was a Brazilian actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: July 28, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 24, 2012
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Vera
Overview: Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a trans man who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with young librarian Clara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-10-24
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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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Excitation
Overview: Helena and Renato are a couple who leave behind the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house and help Helena recover from her nervous crises. But soon she begins to suffer from increasingly worrying hallucinations, and the house’s appliances begin to come to life. Is it all real or in her head?
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-05-30
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Bang Bang
Overview: An anonymous urban protagonist experiences a series of absurd situations--including a crazy cab ride, an encounter with a wacky criminal gang, and lots of gunplay--infused with a unique anarchic energy, eventually suggesting our true animal nature.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-02-11
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The Ripper of Women
Overview: Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-09-10
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Buccaneer Soul
Overview: 50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-07-07
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Oswaldianas
Overview: Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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The Woman of Everyone
Overview: Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-10-24
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Cafundó
Overview: Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. João de Camargo represents the genesis of religious and cultural syncretism in Brazil.
Genres: Drama History Documentary War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-29
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O Mulherengo
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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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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Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Overview: In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-10
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A Grande Viagem
Overview: Mr. Mario can't distinguish anymore the past from the present. He lives again, inside his own mind, a period of his life when he was a salesman going door to door selling travel guides. However, Mr. Mario has never traveled, but now, an opportunity to see the world arises. Felipe, his grandson, will be his loyal partner on this great journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-08-26
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Tiradentes, O Mártir da Independência
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Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-04-04
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O Predileto
Overview: Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais, Totônio is a symbol of the golden age of state farms: old and accustomed to having all his wills obeyed. However, after moving to his son's home because of his wife's death and the resulting loneliness, he realizes that he has lost his job as a boss and is struggling to regain his prestige by moving to a brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-12-19
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Manual for Love Stories
Overview: Laura and Alan fall in love, but have to deal with the strange death of Alan's wife and with a rival, Lilith, who wants to break their relationship. At the same time, a narrator gives lessons on how to make a love story movie, exposing all clichés on that kind of film.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Nina
Overview: After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-28
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O Detetive Bolacha Contra o Gênio do Crime
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Genres: Adventure Family Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-12-22
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Cada um Dá o Que Tem
Overview: Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-06-23
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Act of Violence
Overview: Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-04-06
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Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Overview: Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-13
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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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Perigo Negro
Overview: Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer player who has his career spoiled by a unscrupulous gambler
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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Father’s Chair
Overview: Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His beloved mentor and surrogate father is dying, and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares him for the day when he comes home to discover that his 15-year-old son, Pedro, has disappeared. Theo takes to the road in search of his son. In a journey that leads him throughout Brazil, Theo discovers what really matters to him. Searching for his missing son, Theo finds himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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A Primeira Missa ou Tristes Tropeços, Enganos e Urucum
Overview: On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, they confiscate the filmed negatives. The paranoid director grumbles: "Are they from the government?". The execution of the film is compromised. Will the director in trouble be able to complete his film?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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Love!
Overview: A funny yet bitter panorama of the several possible viewpoints of this feeling that fulfils hearts and minds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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