Paulo José
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Paulo José Gómez de Souza (born 20 March 1937, Lavras do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul) was a Brazilian television and film actor, director and narrator.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lavras do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: March 20, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 11, 2021
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Searching for Makunaima
Overview: Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between Brazil-Venezuela-Guiana, first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg at the beginning of the 1910s. With interviews in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang, Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways (from literature to cinema to theatre) and remains relevant to date.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-11-19
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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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The Dead Girl's Feast
Overview: "The Dead Girl's Feast" narrates the story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a “miracle” upon the suicide of his own mother. The film seeks to be an intimate picture of the ones who are involved in this sect and of the infinite human capacity of “fabricating” faith and seeking for some sense in the horrifying experience of death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-12
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The Man Who Copied
Overview: A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-06-13
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Landi, o arquiteto régio do Grão-Pará
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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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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Isle of Flowers
Overview: A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-09-06
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Basic Sanitation, the Movie
Overview: When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-07-20
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Manual for Love Stories
Overview: Laura and Alan fall in love, but have to deal with the strange death of Alan's wife and with a rival, Lilith, who wants to break their relationship. At the same time, a narrator gives lessons on how to make a love story movie, exposing all clichés on that kind of film.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Clown
Overview: The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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My Country
Overview: A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the brothers, finally forming a real family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-11-07
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The Priest and the Girl
Overview: In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair soon turns into an unbridled passion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-03-28
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Days of Nietzsche in Turin
Overview: A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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Better Days Ahead
Overview: Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-03-01
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The Amorous Ones
Overview: An anguished university student in his early 30's ponders the state of his life in light of his relationships with a politicized classmate, a TV actress selling the image of a femme fatale and his bourgeois sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-11-22
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The Naked Man
Overview: A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-03-04
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Bebel, Garota Propaganda
Overview: Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-11-17
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All the Women in the World
Overview: When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to go on with his old life, or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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Edu, Coração de Ouro
Overview: A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had managed to make him fall in love, until he met with mysterious Tatiana.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-22
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The Patriot
Overview: Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Two-Edged Knife
Overview: Paulo is a rich lawyer who has a happy and comfortable family life, with his kid and very loyal to his wife. But when he finds out that the woman is cheating on him with his business partner and best friend, he decides to execute a perfect plan that involves murdering both and easily getting away with murder. However, Paulo's plans are about to be ruined due to some unpredictable factors involving powerful people, plenty of money, the kidnap of his son and a tenacious inspector following his steps.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-06-21
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Poeta de Sete Faces
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Leila Para Sempre Diniz
Overview: A documentary that presents home movies and several excerpts of known films of famous actress Leila Diniz. Friends of the late actress, tragic killed on a plane crash in 1972, discuss about her life, her work and her legacy in Brazilian culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-23
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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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King of the Night
Overview: In the 1940s, São Paulo nightlife is the setting for Tezinho's love affairs. In love with Aninha, he needs to get away from the girl and ends up getting involved with other women, including an obsessive relationship with a prostitute.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-11-20
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Cassy Jones, O Magnífico Sedutor
Overview: A tireless and incorrigible seducer looks for - and seems to find - the woman of his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-06-10
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500 Almas
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-06-29
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Macunaima
Overview: Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-09-03
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Sunstroke
Overview: In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia – a distorted mirror-image of the Soviet utopia – located in the heart of the Brazilian desert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Overview: Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Juventude
Overview: David, a man in his twillight years, lives all by himself and decides to invite two childhood friends for a day at his house in Petrópolis, where they spend hours talking about the past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-11-03
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The Nutty Boy
Overview: The principal character in Helvécio Ratton's delightful film has been adapted from a book and comic created by the Brazilian cartoonist Ziraldo, and tells the tale of a happy-go-lucky 10-year-old child growing up in a city in the 60s.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-07-07
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On Borrowed Time
Overview: During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-11-26
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O Vestido
Overview: Ulisses has failed in his professional life, but leads a happy life with his wife Ângela and their two daughters. Until the day he is introduced to Bárbara, a very beautiful woman living in Rio de Janeiro. Ângela becomes her friend and gives her the dress Ulisses had given her. From then on, marital problems arise, and he becomes increasingly attracted to Bárbara.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-05-16
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Humor Amargo
Overview: Set of carioca sketches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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O Conjunto Arquitetônico do Pelourinho
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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Paulo Leminski - Coração de poeta
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Overview: Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-10-28
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The Outsiders
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-27
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Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
Overview: A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-10-11
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O Mentiroso
Overview: The friendship between four men is at stake when one of them is invited to work in another city. But the other three decide to go along.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-02
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The Brazilwood Man
Overview: Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.
Genres: Comedy History Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-02-22
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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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Love!
Overview: A funny yet bitter panorama of the several possible viewpoints of this feeling that fulfils hearts and minds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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High Art
Overview: Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a local call girl.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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A Difícil Viagem
Overview: Evandro Souza is an engineer and travels for the first time to the interior of the country, in the village of Barreira Pequé, on the banks of the Araguaia River. He begins to make friends with the natives of the region, like Marão, but what he did not expect was to be involved in a murder. Evandro was the only witness to the crime committed by Marão, however, when questioned, he does not know what to say. Until there is a meeting between Evandro, Marão and the local corporal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-08-22
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Bruta Aventura em Versos
Overview: Documentary about the brazilian poetess Ana Cristina Cesar, icon of the Mimeógrafo Generation and "Poesia Marginal", books like A Teus Pés, her aspirations, her life e her creative proccess. Artists, friends and researches remembers the poetess.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-10
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Morte.
Overview: Couple prepare their "great voyage" in all details, not forgetting the flowers, music and luggage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-19
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Villa-Lobos - O Índio de Casaca
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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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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Anahy de las Misiones
Overview: Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-11-25
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Bliss
Overview: Rodrigo and Suzana have started a relationship recently. He's seventy-two, she's sixty, and they are completely in love with each other. Together, they spend days in bed, talking, eating, laughing and making love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
Overview: "All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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Outras Estórias
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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How Are You, Well?
Overview: Two fanatical Flamengo fans get drunk after a defeat of time; a voyeurist peers at his neighbor's nakedness with binoculars; a suburbanite kills his wife over a chicken; an ambitious father makes money from his daughter who pretends to see the virgin Mary; a loving couple desperately seeks to satisfy their sexual desires; a priest tries to extort more alms from his parishioners; a married man, to survive, poses as a transvestite on a boat; a suburbanite prepares to sing on the Chacrinha show! Anything can happen in this film!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Comrade: The Life of Luiz Carlos Prestes
Overview: Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-05-07
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Viagem pelo Interior Paulista
Overview: "A view of São Paulo's rural architecture, from the remains of a sugar mill from the 1500s to a farm at the height of the coffee cycle in 1822. Documentary illustrating Morada Paulista, book by Luis Saia". (ACPJ/CCM)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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João & Antônio
Overview: A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-12-29
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As Mulheres no Cinema Brasileiro
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-05-04
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Person
Overview: Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-08-10
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Fraternidade
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-06-16
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Domingos
Overview: A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Oswaldo Cruz na Amazônia
Overview: The visits of Brazilian sanitarist Oswaldo Cruz to Amazon in early 20th century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-09-12
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Formas do Afeto
Overview: An affective approach to the relationship between Mário Pedrosa, one of the greatest art critics of the 20th century, and some of the most important Brazilian artists takes the viewer on a journey through Brazilian art from the 1950s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Overview: Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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Show 50 Anos
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-04-25
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Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
Overview: Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women and idolized by his audience and friends. His contagious joy attracts the attention of American scientist Dr. Boris Lewitsky, who comes to Brazil in order to interview Apolônio's close friends and make them a most unusual offer concerning the remains of the late musician.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-08-21
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Eduardo Galeano, Vagamundo
Overview: A hug movie, for the biggest storyteller in Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-08-07
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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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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Overview: Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-11-26
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Pequenas Histórias
Overview: On the porch of a farm, a woman tells stories while cutting and sewing scraps of cloth, creating images that form a towel. There are four stories of humor and magic. The fisherman's wedding with Iara, a mermaid from the rivers. The altar boy of a church that sees the procession of souls. The encounter between a Santa Claus in a store and a street boy and the adventures of Zé Burraldo, a naive guy who always lets himself be carried away by others.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-22
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Zimba
Overview: The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of generations of Brazilian actors. The polyphonic montage builds on vast unpublished material, covering half a century of performances, teletheaters and interviews by Zimba, as he was known – before and after fleeing Poland, on the eve of the invasion of Warsaw – and recreates fragments of Wedding Dress , a play by Nelson Rodrigues which the Polish-Brazilian director won a revolutionary montage in 1943.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-14
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Nunc et Semper
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Overview: For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-30
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Gaudêncio! O centauro dos pampas
Overview: A gang plans to carry out a major heist in a city in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. What they don’t know is that the city is home to the result of a mad scientist’s experiment — a man transformed into a superhero.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-01
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