Edmilson Barros
Also Known As: Edmílson Barros
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Birthday: April 16, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Well Beloved One
Overview: Based on the homonymous work of Dias Gomes , The Well Beloved tells the story of the mayor Paraguassu Odorico, whose primary goal in his administration in the city of Sucupira is the inauguration of a cemetery. One side is supported by the sisters Cajazeiras. On the other, he has to fight against strong opposition led by Vladmir, owner of rag city. For lack of a corpse, the mayor can never accomplish his goal. Not even the arrival of Ernesto - a dying man who does not die - and hiring Zeca Diabo, a bandit killer, provide him with the realization of his dream. Odorico gun situations for someone to die, but the first body to be buried in Sucupira may be the mayor himself, that the hunter becomes the hunted and goes from villain to martyr.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-07-23
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Executive Order
Overview: In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-04-14
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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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The Inventor of Dreams
Overview: Centered on two young boys, an aristocrat and a native, chronicles the period in which Brazil went from colony to the center of the Portuguese Empire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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Mussum, o Filmis
Overview: The trajectory of Antônio Carlos Bernardes Gomes, known as Mussum, from Trapalhões. His poor childhood, his military career, his relationship with Mangueira and his success with the group Originais do Samba, as well as behind the scenes as a member of Trapalhões.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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A Pelada
Overview: Frightened by the routine of marriage, a young couple of modest origin thinks they can revive the flame of their passion through new sexual experiences. Regrettably, the confrontation with their own taboos is going to complicate their relation, plunging them into the most absurd situations unless no fantasy can come true. The inevitable intimate revelations, which are made in the course of this exposure, are going to push the couple on the edge of the abyss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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Streets of Glória
Overview: Gabriel, a 24-year-old anthropologist from a wealthy family from the interior of the Northeast, is gay and in the closet. Following the death of his grandmother, he decides to go to Rio de Janeiro to study the lives of sex workers. Seduced by his object of study, Gabriel will become one of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-16
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Captains of the Sands
Overview: About the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as "Capitães da Areia" (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia, during the 1950s.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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Romance
Overview: During a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Peter and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-11-14
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A Invocação da Chucka
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
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Tudo Acaba Em Festa
Overview: Vlad is one of the employees in the Human Resources department at his company. As the end of the year approaches, he becomes responsible for organizing the "firm party", an end-of-year party to boost the morale of the staff, deeply shaken by a series of layoffs. Determined to prove himself to his ex-girlfriend, he accepts the challenge. Everything starts well, but things end up getting out of Vlad's control, who will have to do everything possible and impossible to solve all the problems and make the party work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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Head Over Heels 2
Overview: Alice owns a network of sex shops and workaholic who, in trying to reconcile the harsh routine of work and family life, suffers nervous breakdown, she is forced by her husband to go to spa. Precisely at this time, appears unique opportunity to expand its business in New York. Using fun gimmicks, risks his health, leaves spa party there with family to ride, but actually in order to facilitate their professional interests. In trying to reconcile the agendas, engage in hilarious situations and mistakes that culminate in the possible separation of the couple.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-12-28
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Gonzaga: From Father to Son
Overview: Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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My Mom Is a Character 3
Overview: Dona Hermínia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-12-26
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Isolados
Overview: A couple, Lauro and Renata, travels to a remote area surrounded by rain forest in Rio De Janeiro. Once they are there, Lauro is told by a bar owner that gruesome murders are taking place in that area. Intending to keep this information hidden from his girlfriend, Lauro and Renata discover they might be not alone when staying in a isolated house.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-18
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Eu Sou Maria
Overview: The filme relates how a victory - winning a scholarship to an elite private school - may become an obstacle race for an impoverished young person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-11-30
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Ópera do Mallandro
Overview: The short tells the story of a boy who, in his last recovery test at school, has the task of writing a text in 15 minutes. During the creative process, the boy embarks on a musical universe full of characters and myths from the 80's revived in four musical numbers packed with reinterpretations of Sérgio Mallandro's hits.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-10-01
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Under Pressure
Overview: Over a tense day in the emergency hospital, we follow the surgeon's work Evandro and staff in three cases that require risk surgery: a drug dealer, a military police officer and a rich family child, all injured during a shootout in a slum next to the hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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Depois de Tudo
Overview: Ney and Marcos share an apartment, the passion for music and for the same girl until time tears them apart. A few years later they meet again reviewing their attitudes, emotions and memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-08
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My Mom Is a Character
Overview: After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-06-21
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The Machine
Overview: In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré’s son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world to Karina. For that, Antônio leaves town and announces, in a TV show that he will set off on a sensational adventure: a trip into the future, starting from Nordestina’s square. A story where dreams contradict reality, geographical and political conditions threaten to block life, and love plays the part of the transforming element.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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No Control
Overview: In the movie, Eduardo Moscovis is Danilo, a stage director obsessed with the injustice committed against XIX century farmer Manoel da Motta Coqueiro, case that initiated the process of extinction of death penalty in Brazil. Incited by a beautiful and mysterious woman, Danilo takes a fateful decision. He stages a play about the case with himself as Motta Coqueiro and psychiatric patients playing all the other parts. When the borders between reality and fantasy start to blend, Danilo relives the historical facts in first person, all the time conscious of the tragic doom of his character. Full with uncommon characters and surprising turns, the movie approaches the issue of death penalty in a refreshing new perspective.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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Real: The Plan Behind History
Overview: In May 1993, Brazil experienced one of the worst economic crises in its history. The government then decides to set up a real task force to solve the problem. Confined to a bunker as a way of shielding the operations of growing political pressures, the special economic team will have to do its best to reach agreement and create the Plano Real.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-05-18
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Golden Mouth
Overview: After his death, infamous Rio de Janeiro mob boss Golden Mouth (named after his all-golden teeth) gets multiple accounts of his life told to the press by his former lover.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-12-14
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Three Summers
Overview: Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-03-11
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Esses Moços
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-05-25
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Miguel's Destiny
Overview: This beloved Brazilian parody of Shakespeare in Love tells the story of Miguel's relentless furiculite. For better or worse, it is his aim to conquer every single ass in the county, right up to the toughest of them all: the governor's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Cachaça
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-21
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