Flávio Bauraqui
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Birthday: March 23, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Private Desert
Overview: 40-year-old Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north in search of her, starting on what is apparently a fool's errand. He shows Sara's picture around, but nobody seems to recognize the woman. Until eventually one guy pops up, saying he can put the two in touch under very specific conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-11-25
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The Twelve Labours
Overview: The story of a young black man, Héracles, who after being released from a juvenile institution, tries to apply for his first honest job as a motorcycle delivery boy. To get the job, he has to perform 12 hard tasks in São Paulo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-05
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Almost Brothers
Overview: The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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Zuzu Angel
Overview: Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-08-04
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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
Overview: This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-04
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She and I
Overview: 20 years ago, Bia fell into a coma when her daughter was born, but that hasn't stopped her from being part of the family's daily life for all that time, even if she's unconscious. One day, extraordinarily, Bia wakes up and causes a radical change in the lives of everyone around her. While she needs to relearn how to talk, walk and relate, her adult daughter, her ex-husband and his current wife will have to readjust to a new family configuration, much more complex and full of challenges.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-12-10
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Love for Sale
Overview: In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Noites de Reis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-09-22
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Mussum, o Filmis
Overview: The trajectory of Antônio Carlos Bernardes Gomes, known as Mussum, from Trapalhões. His poor childhood, his military career, his relationship with Mangueira and his success with the group Originais do Samba, as well as behind the scenes as a member of Trapalhões.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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My Name Ain't Johnny
Overview: The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-04
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O Senhor do Labirinto
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-12-11
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Cycle
Overview: A science fiction and suspense feature that presents a frighteningly possible future, where things got even more out of control and what would be just a "quarantine" became the new and totally bizarre normal.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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The Other Side of Paradise
Overview: Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-08-06
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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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Madame Satã
Overview: A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-10-03
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Alexandre e Outros Heróis
Overview: Inspired by an novel by Graciliano Ramos, Alexandre e Outros Heróis is a beautiful way to celebrate his 60th year of death. The story of a man, his life and his death in the Brazil's backwoods.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-18
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Mutum
Overview: Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-15
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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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The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
Overview: Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-21
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Oblivious Memory
Overview: Carlos is a man doomed by restless memories, that meets with himself, in a time warp. Young Carlos faces the forgetfulness of old Carlos, who doesn't recognize his own appearance. They get a package. But the package seems odd. The knot that ties, the smell, the handwriting on the envelope: this could only be sent by his father, Ernesto, who has been dead for many years. A father who always created unusual situations. In this time warp, Carlos is split in two: one Carlos remembers and the other forgets the moments he spent with his father.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-04-19
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Noel: The Samba Poet
Overview: The biopic of Noel Rosa, one of Brazil's best poets and composers.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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Nise: The Heart of Madness
Overview: After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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The Cold Front Brought by the Rain
Overview: A group of playboys organizes the last party of the year in a slum before the change in weather. And for this night, beyond the usual drugs, alcohol and sex, they will receive special guests: an addict that uses and is used by the group, a country singer who was raised around the slum, a strange security guard and the owner of the place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-04-28
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O Bolo
Overview: After eating her boss's birthday cake, the evangelical maid Dirce is overcome by desires and sees her sensuality emerge. What she didn't imagine was that the recipe included a very special ingredient.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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Homem Livre
Overview: After spending years in prison for a crime that shocked the country, a former rock star finds refuge in a humble evangelical church. All he wants is to be forgotten, but his past comes back to haunt him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-06-11
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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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Invisible Life
Overview: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-08-30
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Maré, Our Love Story
Overview: Free adaptation of Romeo and Juliet translated to the harsh life in Favela da Maré, one of largest and most violent slums in Rio de Janeiro. Living in a slum divided between two rival gangs of drug traffickers, Analídia is the daughter of one of the gangs' leaders and Jonathan is a childhood friend of the other gang leader. Both study in a dance group situated exactly in the middle of the two territories, looking for solace in art.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-04-04
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Circular Capital
Overview: In the streets of Rio de Janeiro, survival is the name of the game where the protagonist is an imported 'hot' car. People, from all social levels, will do anything in order to possess it, if only for a few minutes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-08-01
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Ninjas
Overview: In crisis after killing an innocent during action in the favela, a police officer is introduced into the unit of the "Ninjas" - extermination group that is dedicated to sadistically eliminating suspects of violent crimes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-09-03
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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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Macabre
Overview: In the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the trial of the press, police and local society is fundamentally racist, and begins to have doubts about the conviction of one of them. Based on a true story, the film is a work of fiction about the famous case of the "Necrophil Brothers."
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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No Place
Overview: When Nego discovers that a cocoa farm where he lives and works will be sold, he needs to face not only the loss of his home and his job, but also the daily contact he has with the land he loves so much.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-08-20
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Pureza
Overview: "Pureza" tells a story of a mother, Pureza, who goes in search of her son, Abel, disappeared after leaving for the mining in the Amazon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-05-19
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Não Vamos Pagar Nada
Overview: Life is not easy for anyone and the money is getting shorter for Antonia, who is unemployed. But she doesn't lose her sense of humor even when she gets into a huge mess. Outraged by the increase in prices in the only market in the neighborhood, which on top of that no longer accepts credit, the housewife sets up a scandal and ends up infecting other customers who, like her, have no money to pay the bill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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Abraço
Overview: In 2008, Sergipe teachers engaged in legal struggle with the state government to prevent the loss of rights already won. 30,000 teachers from all over the state leave their schools and go on a long journey to fight in the capital Aracaju. The challenge is to convince the judges of the Court not to vote for the end of the teaching career. The trial is postponed twice and the battle lasts for a month. In the midst of this struggle between government and teachers, Professor Ana Rosa lives the challenge of being a mother, a woman and a union leader. She needs to reconcile the multiple tasks of professional and domestic life, but her husband's incomprehension and the macho vision of his own mother make his journey even more challenging.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-03-06
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Executive Order
Overview: In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-04-14
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Falas Negras
Overview: The special features 22 real testimonials from people like Mandela, Martin Luther King and Marielle Franco, who fought racism and freedom in favor of justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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Conversinha Mineira
Overview: In a city in the interior of Minas Gerais, a passerby enters a dairy to have a coffee with milk. The owner of the bar and his accomplice have a long conversation with this customer, until he discovers that the dairy does not always have milk... Short film based on the short story of the same name by famous Brazilian writer Fernando Sabino.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-02-11
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