Jorge Coutinho
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: September 06, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
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Memories of Prison
Overview: In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-18
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Ganga Zumba
Overview: The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-04-16
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Cascalho
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-11-27
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Parceiros da Aventura
Overview: Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-06-10
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Black Goddess
Overview: A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine warfare fanned by overseas slave traders. He is sold into slavery in Brazil. In present day Nigeria, at his father's deathbed, the young Babatunde promises to go to Brazil and search for traces of their once-enslaved ancestors. Beginning with a Candomblé ritual, his journey takes him ever deeper into this culture and, in a dream-like sequence, affords him a deeper understanding of his ancestors' suffering and powers of resistance. Balogun effortlessly links present with past, real with magical worlds and discourse with trance. The hypnotic atmosphere is also heightened by the music of the Nigerian drummer Remi Kabaka, which plays with repetitive patterns and distortions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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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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Crioulo Doido
Overview: Fable about the financial and social ascension of a black man in a small town, in the interior of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and his existential crisis when he begins to believe the world is going to end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-04-12
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Roberto Farias - Memórias de um Cineasta
Overview: Filmmaker Roberto Farias' passion for cinema is revealed by his daughter Marise Farias through an intimate look, from childhood to his political, economic and cultural role in Brazilian Cinema. Through Roberto Farias himself and friends such as Luís Carlos Barreto, Cacá Diegues and Zelito Viana, the film tells the stories of the director who achieved a direct dialogue with the public through successes such as O Assalto ao Trem Pagador (1962), the trilogy with singer Roberto Carlos (1968 to 1971) and Pra Frente Brasil (1982). Texts from an unpublished book of memories are interpreted by his brother, actor Reginaldo Faria.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-08-18
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In Evil Hour
Overview: The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis family, reduced to a widow and son, tries to hold out against the young, despotic mayor. No less effective then actions are anonymous rumors and accusations, which often stir the inhabitants' moves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-02-02
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Gimba, Presidente dos Valentes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-06-22
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Quilombo
Overview: Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-03
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O Cortiço
Overview: This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-04-21
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Running Out of Luck
Overview: A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.
Genres: Music Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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Cry Freedom
Overview: Balogun's most political film is a confrontation with the African wars of liberation. Based on Carcase for Hounds, Meja Mwangi's novel about the Mau-Mau uprising, it is set in an unnamed country and thus offers the vision of a pan-African struggle for freedom and against colonial oppression. The central figures in the straightforwardly and powerfully told story are the guerrilla leader Haraka and his adversary, the English colonial official Kingsley. In the end, the film becomes a homage to the freedom fighters from all over Africa: the final images show Patrice Lumumba, Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela and Amílcar Cabral, among others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Summer Showers
Overview: 70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-04-24
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Five Times Favela
Overview: Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-11-20
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O Matador Profissional
Overview: Hit man does his part in a deal, but doesn't get the money he was promised. For the treason, he decides to eliminate them all.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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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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Massacre no Supermercado
Overview: Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective on their heels.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Uma Aventura do Zico
Overview: Rich and spoiled kid, frustrated for not being chosen to join the soccer lessons his idol Zico was going to give, asks his father to clone the player. But a small girl smells something fishy going on and asks her friends to help save the Brazilian soccer star.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-06-09
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Stelinha
Overview: A young rock singer meets his childhood heroine, a famous singer who is now wallowing in alcohol and sex.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Mussum: Um Filme do Cacildis
Overview: The trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os Trapalhões", a group that revolutionized the way of making humor on Brazilian television.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-04-04
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O Concurso
Overview: Four candidates for a federal judge position embark on a madcap, no-holds-barred race to outdo one another, each committing his own brand of mayhem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-07-19
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Referências
Overview: During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo Bulbul gathered some of the most notorious Brazilian black directors to talk about their works, their lives and their perspectives on the future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Sweet Thieves
Overview: After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the reality of Brazil - with the theme of Inconfidência Mineira.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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Candeia
Overview: The life and work of the late samba singer-songwriter Candeia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-16
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