Ruth Escobar
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: March 31, 1935
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 05, 2017
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Primavera
Overview: Moments before a father's death, all of his family memories are transferred to his son through a dream, from the first ancestor, an Englishman living at the end of the 18th century, to his Brazilian heirs, the protagonists of this story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-02-17
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Hitler in the Third World
Overview: Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Gregório de Mattos
Overview: The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his transgressive poetry against the élite of the time.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-02-14
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Romance
Overview: After a man dies under mysterious circumstances, his girlfriend and his gay lover deal with his death in different ways.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-09-18
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Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
Overview: A film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and then the conflicts that break out as they tour Iran and France with a performance of Calderon's autos sacramentales. A problem with a scenery prop sparks a crisis in the group and the film chronicles this disaster.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Wrung-Out Man
Overview: Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-12-13
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The Jew
Overview: The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-16
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