Rubens Santos
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São José do Belmonte, Pernambuco, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: January 14, 1985
Age: 40 years old
Gender: Male
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Curral
Overview: Curral is a political drama set in the rural Brazilian city of Gravatá. During the mayoral elections, the population is divided between the Blue and Red parties, two political oligarchies fighting each other for power. A recent severe drought means water is the main bargaining chip when it comes to securing a majority of people's votes. Chico Caixa is a former city employee. He lost his job trying to take water supplies to a poor neighborhood which had been abandoned for political reasons. Caixa is invited by a childhood partner, Joel, to work on his councilor campaign. Joel presents himself as a new alternative to the older candidates, who have been in power for decades. But as the campaign progresses, Chico Caixa soon realizes that breaking apart from the established political game is not always as easy as it may seem
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-15
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Pictures of Ghosts
Overview: Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-08-24
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The Backlands Shall Sea
Overview: When an ocean-fascinated cowboy from the Brazilian backlands discovers that the farm where he has worked all his life will be sold, he abandons everything to, finally, get to know the sea. Guided by an old postcard sent by a long-lost love, he embarks on a quest that will redefine his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-02-26
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Partiu América
Overview: Matheus is the owner of a very simple amusement park and has the dream of visiting the famous parks in the USA. But when his family finally gets the opportunity to travel abroad for the first time, things don't go as expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-05-14
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Neighboring Sounds
Overview: An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-19
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The Mandarin
Overview: The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.
Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-11-06
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Aquarius
Overview: Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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Bacurau
Overview: Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Genres: Mystery Western Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-08-29
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Recife Assombrado
Overview: The creepy stories and imaginaries from one of Brazil's most important cities.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-21
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A Presepada
Overview: When a con man on the run gets mistaken for a poor church's visiting priest, he is tapped to lead the parish in a grand caroling for the holiday season.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-12-15
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Superpina
Overview: In the heart of the neighborhood of Pina, in Recife, a quiet supermarket sees its daily life changed by an inexplicable phenomenon of nature, "Multicor Sky Flashing". Among Superpina's shelves and stocks, customers and employees experience "Amor Primo".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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Divine Love
Overview: In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-27
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The Salamander
Overview: Paralysed by fear of the future, a middle aged French bureaucrat escapes to Brazil where a destructive affair with a boy forces her to learn to live in the present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-07-27
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Revolução da TV
Overview: A girl discovers that the only TV in town is going to be closed by the Mayor and the only people who can help her are the residents and a character who lives inside the television.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-04-07
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The Secret Agent
Overview: Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non violent refuge he seeks.
Genres: Thriller History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-05-18
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Maria: The Outlaw Legend
Overview: Before going down in history as Maria Bonita, the most important woman in the Cangaço, Maria de Déa was a fearless young woman who dared to have a voice at a time when violence prevailed and women were subjected to the will of men. Partner of famous cangaceiro leader Lampião, Maria was caught by surprise by a pregnancy and subjected to the harshest law of the Cangaço. Forced to hand over her daughter to be raised by Homeone else, she begins to live between her life outside the law and the impossible desire to raise her daughter. The last years of the Cangaço are narrated from the visceral perspective of the woman from the Cangaço who became a mother, and of the mother who became a legend. The project is based on Adriana Negreiros' book "Maria Bonita: Sex, Violence and Women in Cangaço."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-04
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The Best Mother in the World
Overview: To escape her abusive husband, garbage collector Gal packs her two young children, Rihanna and Benin, onto the top of her cart and heads across São Paulo to her cousin’s house. As she struggles to avoid the dangers of the streets along the way, she convinces the children that they are on a big and exciting adventure. When they arrive at her cousin’s house, they are warmly welcomed and fed. However, what initially seems like a safe haven soon turns out to be a trap. Gal realises that not only her own safety is at risk, but also the future of her children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-02-15
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