Isabél Zuaa
Also Known As: Zua Mutange, Isabel Zuaa
Biography: Isabél Martins Zuaa Mutange (Lisbon, April 5, 1987), is a Portuguese actress and performer, winner of the Guarani Brazilian Cinema Award (2017), in the Revelation category, for her role in the film Joaquim, by Marcelo Gomes. In 2020, she was distinguished by the Gramado Film Festival with two Best Actress awards, for her performance in the feature film Um Animal Amarelo by Filipe Bragança and in the short film Deserto Estrangeiro, by Davi Pretto.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
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Birthday: April 05, 1987
Age: 38 years old
Gender: Female
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Um Filme em Forma de Assim
Overview: Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-04-28
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Dialogues After the End
Overview: Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-10-31
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Coup de Grâce
Overview: The sunlight illuminates a couple in bed. During the day, the house loses its cozy air and turns into a temple. She changes from lover to priestess. He transforms his embarrassment into a confession.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Lilith
Overview: The mythological story of the first woman on Earth, who came before Eve. She is created by God to be Adam’s wife. However, Lilith does not accept a position of inferiority in relation to man, she rebels and goes to the desert. Lilith reappears as Eve’s double, eats the forbidden fruit, takes revenge on Adam, on God, and becomes the first woman to rise up against the ruling patriarchal system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Greice
Overview: Greice, a Brazilian girl studying in Lisbon, gets involved with a mysterious guy and ends up getting accused of a strange incident that occurs at the students' welcoming party, which forces her to return to her hometown to renew her residence permit. Hidden in a hotel, while preventing her mother from discovering she’s back in the country and with the help of some friends, Greice tries to find a place of comfort in the world.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-07-18
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Capoeira, um passo a dois
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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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: 2026-01-26
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Joaquim
Overview: Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-04-20
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Good Manners
Overview: Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-08-04
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The Devil's Knot
Overview: During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-28
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Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Overview: The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The trip makes Pedro conquer his fears and face his life from a personal point of view. He goes back in time and relives outstanding moments of his earlier life – since his childhood, when in 1808 he arrived coming from Portugal with his family, until he left in the dead of the night, in 1831, running away from Brazil.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-01
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The Rehearsal
Overview: Isa, a young artist invited to propose a project for an exhibition, sets out to stage a dramatic adaptation of ‘The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas’, a satirical 19th-century novel by Machado de Assis. The rehearsal is marred by difficulties which the viewer must interpret as being due to the fact that Isa is a woman, young, black, all of the above, or as difficulties anyone would encounter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-02-08
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Arriaga
Overview: On the shores of Lisbon, Arriaga, a 25 years old boy from a middle-class family of emigrants walks alone through the silent and wrinkled streets by vices of the nightlife. Arriaga deals with his self-destructive alter ego to be accepted among the youth of his neighborhood. Everything happens in one place, everything revolves around a single moment, what is suspicious only the unexpected can unfold.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-05-04
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Malandro de Ouro
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Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-01-22
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A Yellow Animal
Overview: Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholic fable mixes animation, live-action, voice-overs, genres, and continents to explore Brazil's colonial past.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-15
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Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain
Overview: In the year 74 BC, Titus Lucretius Carus, a young man with bold ideas, tries to convince his friend Memio that moving to the city of Rome to study is a total waste of time. Years later, Lucretius returns from the capital. Trying to find a balance between his explanations of the natural world and his emotional experience of it, Lucretius lives a deep and troubled passion with his foreign wife Isa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-24
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Foreign Desert
Overview: A young Brazilian, who has just started working in a huge forest in Berlin, is dragged into a nightmare involving the German colonial past when he tries to find a girl lost in the woods.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-26
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Abandonment
Overview: The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and cares. Their relationship seems headed for the rocks, and the only one who seems to still be looking for something from life is Lucas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-11-25
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Mupepy Munatim
Overview: As he learns his mother died, a man who had left for France to find a job and a living is now returning to Portugal. We follow his wanderings, the places he forgot. We feel the stranger he has become in the eyes of the other people. Gone long ago, he didn't know then he would lose everything. He has now to grieve his own way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars
Overview: Strike on the red carpet.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-28
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Pedra que Samba
Overview: Rehearsal on a roda de samba, event that takes place every week at Pedra do Sal. A tour of the African Heritage circuit in the region of the old port of Rio de Janeiro. A slave's voice evokes the past. Buildings are demolished. The city never tires of reinventing itself. Remain the people. And the samba.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-13
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Kbela
Overview: Kbela is an experience of being a woman and becoming black. The film’s screenplay is based on the tale of MC K-Bela, which tells the story of a black girl, a resident of Rio’s Baixada Fluminense region, who went through a process of whitening during her life and decided to liberate herself from this, letting her natural hair grow again, getting rid of chemical interference.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-12
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Bustagate
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Peripheral Workout
Overview: Two artists go out to train, they don't fit the standards of their neighborhood, their city, or their imposing culture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-08-24
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Dr. Gama
Overview: Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-07-29
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Knitting
Overview: Five brothers end up being raised by their older brother after their mother's death. One day, as adults, they receive the news that a comatose man in an ICU could be their father. In the hospital's waiting room, the brothers immerse themselves in their conflicts and memories, and through the knitting learned in childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-08-13
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Jealous White Men
Overview: A wild, tragicomic adventure that satirizes history through dueling narratives by Jules Verne and his wife Honorine, each recounting young Charles Darwin’s journey to the Galápagos — a voyage teeming with pirates, pink iguanas, and a riotous mix of chaos, discovery, and revolt.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy History
Original Language: fr
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