Catalina Bonakie
Also Known As: Catalina Bonaki, Catalina Bonaky, Catalina Botkay, Catarina Bonack
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 15, 1918
Deathday: October 22, 2005
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Vampire of Copacabana
Overview: Carlos and Suely are a normal couple. He has some extramarital adventures and she's a standard housewife. During a Carnival, when he goes out wearing a vampire costume, Suely decides to follow a friend's advice and go for it. On Ash Wednesday, he finds her with an odalisk costume on and happier than usual.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-20
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Pedro Bó, o Caçador de Cangaceiros
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Trama Familiar
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-08-14
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A Mulher Sensual
Overview: Famous soap opera actress finds out her sexuality after breaking up with her former boyfriend, an important TV executive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-12-20
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Fish in a Barrel
Overview: Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-10-31
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Teu Tua
Overview: A comedy divided in four episodes, set in different time periods, each starring a different couple, yet all facing the same issue: marital jealousy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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Se Segura, Malandro!
Overview: Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-08-26
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Bye Bye Brazil
Overview: The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-02-08
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Fulaninha
Overview: Movie director in his forties and in existential crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing she's the daughter of the woman he's having a relationship with.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-02-05
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Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil
Overview: The life of Carlota Joaquina, the Spanish infanta who met the prince of Portugal when she was only 10 years old and was immensely disappointed with her future husband.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-06
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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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Bar Esperanza
Overview: A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-19
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Feminino Plural
Overview: "Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the behavior imposed on women, they seek to rescue the strength of the feminine. The new woman, born in the Brazilian land, incorporates the Amazons and Santa Guerreira. At his side, the new man, more loose and creative. Closing the cycle, the initial road is resumed. " (HBH / QC)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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A Cobiça do Sexo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-08-01
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Jardim de Alah
Overview: An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of squares on the middle of neighborhoods Ipanema and Leblon. There, people of different social classes interact together - workers who live in the Cruzada de São Sebastião building and the local bourgeois class who live in fancy condos. There, the rich and the poor unite in the same spirit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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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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As Borboletas Também Amam
Overview: Monica, a naive schoolgirl from a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, meets Virginia, a former neighbor, now living in Copacabana. Influenced by her, she decides to take on a double life: in the morning she is the suburban girl, in the afternoon she attends a brothel in the South Zone. One day she meets Flávio, a friend and eventual lover of Virginia. Flávio falls in love with the purity of Monica and wants to drive away her friends, for considering Virginia a bad company for her beloved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-12-15
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Os Foragidos da Violência
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-12-15
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O Monstro de Santa Tereza
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-12-15
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Maneco, o Super Tio
Overview: Maneco takes his nephews to spend his holidays at his grandfather's place. But the old scientist discovered a way to travel in time and got lost in the year 1926. Maneco and the boys will try to bring him back.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-11-25
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The Fifth Monkey
Overview: When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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Family Album
Overview: Follows the decadence of an incestuous oligarch family in a rural Brazilian household through the years during the early 20th century.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-03-05
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Denúncia Vazia
Overview: An elderly couple decides to commit suicide after receive a eviction order. The first short-film of Adélia Sampaio, the first black woman in Brazil to direct a feature film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-09-10
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Bonitinha mas Ordinária
Overview: The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-03-12
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O Sequestro
Overview: A robber breaks into a house in the Santa Teresa district of Rio de Janeiro and kidnaps the family's youngest son. Based on a true kidnapping that happened in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, whose victim, Carlinhos, has never been found to this day.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-11-23
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Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon
Overview: Night of Abandon: A wild blissful night in Brazil during Carnival. Liar's Tale: A burned out photojournalist's obsession with a high-class call girl awakens her ability to feel again. In the Blink of an Eye: A passionate boxer seduces a happily married woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-11
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