Newton Couto
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
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The Kiss
Overview: When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-06-01
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Fish in a Barrel
Overview: Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-10-31
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Memories of Prison
Overview: In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-18
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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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Fruit of Love
Overview: Blum and Elza conduct Scientific and anthropological researches in a desert island, where they use as subjects a old fisherman, the house keeper and a prostitute from the country. But the affection grows between the three of them, and this feelings are capable of compromising the whole research.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Escalada da Violência
Overview: An architect has his family brutally murdered and leaves for relentless vengeance.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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Go Ahead, Brazil!
Overview: Mid-1970s. When the military regime's "economic miracle" and the victory of the Brazilian football team on the World Cup serve as a distraction for the persecution of opposition leaders by the political police of the dictatorship. Under this context, Jofre Godoi da Fonseca, an alienated middle-class man, is mistaken for Sarmento, a political activist he met at an airport prior to his assassination. He is then arrested for being "subversive".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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The Claudia Case
Overview: Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress Márcia Rodrigues's sister, was found in the seashore. After Police investigation, it was found she had been murdered on a party by a rich industrialist's son and his socialite hairdresser buddy, after much sex, alcohol and drugs, specially Mandrax (methaqualone). She'd probably resisted being raped and the killers threw away the body in the water. One of the guys tried to escape flying to Switzerland.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-08-26
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Estranhas Relações
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-12-15
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Bar Esperanza
Overview: A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-19
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A Noite dos Assassinos
Overview: In a little forgotten town three bandits robbers a bank and manages to run away with a lot of dough. The police is triggered killing two of them after a pursuit and Ruth now is the only to scape.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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Bonitinha mas Ordinária
Overview: The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-03-12
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O Sequestro
Overview: A robber breaks into a house in the Santa Teresa district of Rio de Janeiro and kidnaps the family's youngest son. Based on a true kidnapping that happened in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, whose victim, Carlinhos, has never been found to this day.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-11-23
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Rio Babilonia
Overview: A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-09-14
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