Nelson Xavier
Also Known As: Nelson Agostini Xavier, Нельсон Ксавьер, Нельсон Шавьер, Нельсон Хавьер
Biography: Nelson Agostini Xavier (30 August 1941 – 10 May 2017) was a Brazilian actor. He appeared in more than 95 films and television shows between 1959 and 2017. He starred in the 1964 film Os Fuzis, which won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1976 Xavier co-directed A Queda along with Ruy Guerra, a sequel to Os Fuzis. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Birthday: August 30, 1941
Deathday: May 10, 2017
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Gender: Male
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Overview: "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Chico Xavier
Overview: A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-04-02
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Overview: After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-11-22
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Moon Over Parador
Overview: Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Chica de Río
Overview: Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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O Filme dos Espíritos
Overview: Após perder a esposa e a caminho do suicídio, um homem se depara com O Livro dos Espíritos e começa uma jornada de transformação interior rumo aos mistérios da vida espiritual e suas influências no mundo material.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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As Mães de Chico Xavier
Overview: Three mothers see their reality become completely, they are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces problems with drugs; Elisa, trying to make up for the absence of her husband giving full attention to the child, the little Theo, and Lara, teacher who faces the dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy. These three women, living in different times of their lives, seeking comfort next to Chico Xavier. And Karl reporter remains insisting on interviewing the medium, even without being prepared for it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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The Storytellers
Overview: A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As most of the inhabitants are illiterate, they have no choice but to ask for the help of Antônio Biá, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out letters with lies about their reputations as a way to keep his job in Javé's seldom-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the city was founded, yet each inhabitant has his or her own version of what happened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Boca
Overview: A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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Of Gods and the Undead
Overview: In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in the battle for land and cacao plantations. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" Santana, taking his wife and money. He starts a bloody conflict, in which many simple people and landowners die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-06-25
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The Fall
Overview: An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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Rei do Rio
Overview: Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-06-11
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The Guns
Overview: A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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Cesium-137
Overview: In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137, being the biggest radiological accident in the history of Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-10
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Two Lost in a Dirty Night
Overview: Two outcasts fight over a pair of shoes in a run-down boarding-house room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-03-22
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Gordos e Magros
Overview: After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He is drunk and end up having a fight and leaving home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Deceased
Overview: After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-09-22
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The Wizard and the Sheriff
Overview: Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Farewell
Overview: A 92-year-old man decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his life, including his lover – who is 55 years younger than him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-08-08
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O Cangaceiro Trapalhão
Overview: Severino do Quixadá (Renato Aragão), a humble northeastern shepherd of goats, rescues Captain Virgulano or simply Captain (Nelson Xavier) and his band of cangaceiros of an ambush armed by the lieutenant Zé Bezerra (Jose Dumont), its eternal persecutor. Captain escapes taking with him the mysterious box that he removed from the interior of the assaulted train in the city of Cajarana. Seeking to escape the shooting, Severino ends up finding himself in the cangaceiros' camp, along with the mishap friends Mussum and Zacarias who, taking advantage of the confusion, fled the chain.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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A Dama do Estácio
Overview: Zulmira is an old mistress who lives in the neighborhood of Estacio, in Rio de Janeiro. One day she wakes up obsessed with the idea of dying. All she needs is a good coffin. A tribute to Leon Hirszman's "The Deceased", the first film starred by Fernanda Montenegro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-19
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Trash
Overview: Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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O Auto de Leidiana
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-09-01
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A Rainha do Rádio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Go To Work You Bum!
Overview: Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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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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The Devil Queen
Overview: Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can trust her subjects, however fabulous? When she sets up a stoolie to take the fall for her boy, a plot against Her Majesty arises!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-05-27
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Lampião e Maria Bonita - O Filme
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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Bububu no Bobobó
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-08-30
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Segunda-Feira
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Denying Brazil
Overview: A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyses race relations in Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to their likely influence on Brazilian African-Americans' identity-forming processes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-11-20
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A Culpa
Overview: Heitor and Matilde are two siblings who decide to murder their rich father in order to quickly inherit his wealth. They get the killing done, aided by Matilde's boyfriend Henrique, but after a while the three of them begin to recieve mysterious notes which suggest that their secret is in danger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Doomed Lovers
Overview: The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished its purity. The modern transposition of the legend is set in Brazil, in a village of poor fishermen on Guanabara Bay, framed by mountains not far from Rio de Janeiro. Two young cousins, Marcos and Jeronimo, get together to fish successfully - the arrastao is a large fishing net - and to resist the ugly local landowner, who sets the rules and the prices. This owner has a niece: Emaïsa, who loves Marcos and is loved by him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-06-02
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BLABLABLÁ
Overview: The tensions experienced by three different people during the military dictatorship in Brazil: a politician, a revolutionary and a common citizen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
Overview: Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Benjamim
Overview: Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the woman he loved was hiding with her guerilla lover. As a result, the two were killed. One day, he casually meets a woman who looks very much like his former love, and this fact changes his life. Could she be the daughter of his great love? Or her reincarnation?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-10-21
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Desesperato
Overview: Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leaves his home to carry out literary research in the country's most obscure settings. Unhappy with the current national situation, the historian joins a guerrilla force with serious consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-03-17
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Eu Carrego um Sertão Dentro de Mim
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Animal's Skin
Overview: In the 20's, in the State of Piauí, Brazil, a young cowboy is used politically after killing his wife, who had been seduced by her boss and his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-08-05
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Música Contemporânea no Brasil
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Comeback
Overview: Amador is a retired and ostracized gunman. Alone and bitter, he collects newspaper clippings of his old crimes in an album. After several humiliations, he will react with violence to the world’s hostility that surrounds him while also trying to get back to action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-05-21
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As Confissões de Frei Abóbora
Overview: The loving adventures of a priest disillusioned with religion and life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-09-04
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Napomuceno's Will
Overview: Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Rondon, o Desbravador
Overview: The life and highlights of Marshal Cândido Rondon.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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O Bom Burguês
Overview: True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his disguise, he gets involved with high society, and with industrialists who were financing repression to the groups he stood for.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-08-25
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Para Viver Um Grande Amor
Overview: Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich girl falls in love with a poor composer. Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica", by Vinícius de Moraes and Carlos Lyra.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-04-30
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O Gerente
Overview: A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-22
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Ovelha Negra, Uma Despedida de Solteiro
Overview: João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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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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Soledade - A Bagaceira
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-10-10
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They Don't Wear Black Tie
Overview: Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-09-28
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Sombras de Julho
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-17
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Referência
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Moving Forest
Overview: Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second largest private bank in Brazil. One day, Elias meets a mysterious woman who claims to be able to predict his future and says he will become vice president that day and the next day, he will become president of the Bank. The wheel of fortune is bound activated and a series of murders is committed by Elias and his wife Clara, leaving a trail of blood on his way to power and making them executioners and victims of their own destinies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-11-12
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Seara Vermelha
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-05-23
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Overview: Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-06
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Lua Cambará - Nas Escadarias do Palácio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-20
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Lamarca
Overview: The real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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O Tempo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-12-01
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Os Sonhos de um Sonhador - A História de Frank Aguiar
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-11-26
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Tensão no Rio
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-08-29
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Stolen Dreams
Overview: Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their consumer desires. However, even faced with the trials of absolute uncertainty and lack of hope, Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane insist on loving, having fun and planning their future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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O Bandido Antônio Dó
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-08-25
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É Simonal
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-06-26
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O Príncipe do Fogo
Overview: The story of the black mystic murderer Febrônio Índio do Brasil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-04-27
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Lonesome Women
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-04-18
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O Natal da Grande Família
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: O Pagador de Promessas - O Filme
Overview: Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from death. The payment is to carry a heavy cross from the interior of Bahia to a church in Salvador. When you reach the steps of the church, with injured shoulders, you have to deal with the incomprehension of a conservative priest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-09
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Gabriela
Overview: In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-03-24
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Plínio Marcos — Nas Quebradas do Mundaréu
Overview: The theatrologist, actor, director and overall polemist Plínio Marcos gets his life traced through images of the many spectacles he has put on interviews from various moments in his life, from the most rebellious and marginal, when he lacked resources for his art, to when he was invited to go to Paris and talk about his work
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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