Gracindo Júnior
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Biography: Gracindo Júnior, stage name of Epaminondas Xavier Gracindo (Rio de Janeiro, May 21, 1943), is a Brazilian actor, lyricist, director, author and screenwriter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: May 21, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
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The Fall
Overview: To overcome the fear of losing his ill and aging grandfather, a forensic photographer needs to discover the truth behind the alleged suicide of an elderly man.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-07-14
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Segurança Nacional
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Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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Rádio Nacional
Overview: The documentary Rádio Nacional performs a precious sewing, with more than 40 testimonies, and with it weaves the rich plot of the greatest mass communication vehicle of all times, until it abruptly suffered the 1964 coup.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Kickboxer 3: The Art of War
Overview: Kick-box champion David Sloan arrives in Rio de Janeiro for an exhibition fight. He and mentor Xian take pity on Brazilian rascal Marcos Coasta, an urchin who offers guide services but routinely steals from tourists for himself and his older sister Isabella. David is shocked when he sees how his Argentinian opponent Marcelo needlessly abuses a courteous local sparing partner. That's the doing of his evil US manager, Lane. He has nasty plans to force David to cheat and runs a white slavery racket.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-11
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Os Trapalhões na Serra Pelada
Overview: The friends Curió, Boroca (Dedé Santana), Mexelete and Bateia they venture in search of gold in the mine of Serra Pelada. The area is controlled by the foreigner Von Bermann, whose orders are executed by the bully Bira. Thirsty of being able to, the foreigner smuggles the gold and he wants to take possession of the lands of the Brazilian Ribamar, that refuses to do business before the son's arrival Chicão. With the help of the four dabblers, the boy struggles with the thieves and it helps the father in danger.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-05-07
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Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária
Overview: Edgard works as a subordinate in the company of millionaire Werneck and is in love with Ritinha, a simple woman who works as a teacher to support her mother and her three sisters. One day, Peixoto, Werneck's son-in-law, makes him a proposal to marry Maria, the boss's daughter. The reason is that Maria was abused and now is being forced to marry by her family. Edgard hesitates first but accepts the offer. From then on he enters into a great doubt: should he deposit the check and marry Maria or stay with Ritinha, his great love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-05-24
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Mário Lago
Overview: Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-05
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A Hora Marcada
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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O Trapalhão na Arca de Noé
Overview: Duda is a zoo cleaner. He and his friend Kiko and Zeca are actively engaged in an animal protection group. For this reason, they are summoned by mystic Noé to fight animal hunters in the Pantanal region, in Brazil, who are after animal skins and furs, and are led by the mean Morel. They accept the mission and, on their way, meet archaeologist Marcos and photographer Carla, who are in search of a lost pyramid built by the Phoenician. Together, they try to beat the hunters.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-12-15
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A Casa de Açúcar
Overview: After a newlywed couple moves into a whitewashed house, the former owner shows up and complications begin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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O Pai do Povo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-11
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Topografia De Um Desnudo
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-10-28
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As Moças Daquela Hora
Overview: Film in three segments. In the first, engaged girl falls in love with an acrobat. In the second, married woman is loved by two men. In the last, the daughter of a traditional family is rejected on her wedding night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-09-28
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Irmã Dulce
Overview: Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the “Good Angel of Bahia”, also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and canonized by the Catholic Church. Contemplating from the 1940s to the 1980s, the film shows how the Catholic nun faced an incurable respiratory disease, machismo, the indifference of politicians and even the dogmas of the Church to dedicate her life to the care of the miserable, leaving a legacy that continues today.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Tainá - An Amazon Legend
Overview: The film tells the story of Tainá, a 5 years old orphan Indian girl who dreams of becoming a warrior and discovering her true origin. Along the way, she makes unexpected friends such as Laura, a lost city girl, and Gobi, a nerd Indian boy. They learn to overcome their mutual differences while going through their eventful journey. Taina confronts the ancestral enemy of her family, Jurupari, the incarnation of Evil, who wants to destroy the Forest.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-07-03
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The Men I Had
Overview: Married woman only feels well when she's in love. In search of a ravishing love, she has many love affairs, with her husband's consent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-05-25
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Primo Basílio
Overview: Luísa is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luísa was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basílio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luísa will discover the price of her infidelity.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-08-10
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The Emerald Forest
Overview: For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-22
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How Do You See Me?
Overview: How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness that are inherent to the job when detached from the glam and glitz of the gossip industry, creating a diverse and comprehensive mosaic of what it means to be an actor in Brazil, a country so full of contradictions. The film brings forward a reality that the masses usually don't get to know: the men and women moved by a deep passion for acting and touching people. With Julio Adrião, Matheus Nachtergaele, José Celso Martinez, Cássia Kis, Nanda Costa, Babu Santana, Luciano Vidigal and Letícia Sabatella, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Desterro
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-06-06
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A Saga da Alma de um Poeta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-06-20
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Buena Sorte
Overview: Farmer raised in the USA returns to Brazil when he discovers that his uncle is involved with some illegal activities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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Bufo & Spallanzani
Overview: Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Bandidos da Falange
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-07-14
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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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As Cartas de Chico Xavier
Overview: Three people accused of murder who were pardoned by the parents of the victims and acquitted by Justice thanks to the letters psychographed by the medium Chico Xavier.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-06-08
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Marquesa de Santos
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-08-21
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Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado
Overview: The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts from films and videos in which he acted.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-11-19
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The Forest
Overview: Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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Sítio do Picapau Amarelo: O Minotauro
Overview: At Pedrinho's request, Dona Benta begins to tell the legend of the Minotaur. In the middle of the story, a strange visitor appears on the farm and takes Aunt Natácia to some unknown place. Upon discovering that she was kidnapped by the Minotaur, the whole gang goes on an adventure to try to save Aunt Nastácia. And that's when the fun begins.
Genres: Fantasy Family History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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