Paulo Autran
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Paulo Paquet Autran (Rio de Janeiro, September 7, 1922 — São Paulo, October 12, 2007) was a Brazilian theater, film and television actor. His accomplishments during his life earned him the nickname, "Lord of the Stage".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: September 07, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 12, 2007
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Overview: "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Overview: A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-09-26
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-17
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Entranced Earth
Overview: Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-02
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The Past
Overview: After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and constantly harasses him. She reappears again and again on Rímini's horizon to reconquer him, torture him or redeem him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-10-26
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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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Poeta de Sete Faces
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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É Proibido Beijar
Overview: Eduardo wants to become a police reporter. To do so, he unravels a mysterious crime, but fails to get the editor of his newspaper to promote it. He is engaged to Suzy, who works at a nightclub. In charge of interviewing a famous actress, June, gets involved in several embarrassing situations that are created by Suzy and two other reporters, Harry and Steve, who follow June since her arrival in Brazil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1954-06-02
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Uma Pulga na Balança
Overview: Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1953-04-15
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Veneno
Overview: An employee of a glass factory suffers with his wife's contempt and starts to develop homicidal delusions about her. One night, he meets a singer which resembles his wife a lot and conjures up a plan.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-11-26
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Oriundi
Overview: In a love story set in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, a patriarch witnesses the crumbling of his life-long family business at the hands of his descendants. Suddenly Sofia appears. Is she from this world, and is she the key to this family's happiness and their hope for survival?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-06-16
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Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Overview: italian documentary
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-02-19
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Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos
Overview: A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-10
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Tiradentes
Overview: The story of one of the most important Brazilian heroes, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes. He was the leader of a group who tried to proclaim Brazil's Independence from Portugal in 1789. But he was betrayed by one of his comrades and hanged.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-06-12
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Overview: Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Glauces, Estudo de um Rosto
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Depois do Transe
Overview: The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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O País dos Tenentes
Overview: With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-05-25
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O Enfermeiro
Overview: A male nurse goes to a small village in Bahia's countryside. Based on the Machado de Assis short story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-07-30
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Fogo e Paixão
Overview: The story of citizens from different parts of the world who come together to participate in a project to visit a Latin American city, however its location is not revealed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-04-29
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Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova
Overview: Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Overview: Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-05-15
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Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-08-22
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Vertiges
Overview: In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of Figaro has his mind and heart on other matters -- an entrancing diva who keeps him enraptured with her presence and voice. In the meantime, he finds fault with his cast members who cannot, of course, measure up to the woman of his dreams. As singers encounter one problem or another, it is clear that something has to be done about the conductor. Director Laurent designed costumes for both theater and opera, giving her some insight into the venue.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-09
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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Overview: For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-30
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Mar Corrente
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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Flávio Rangel - O Teatro na Palma da Mão
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-11-21
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Appassionata
Overview: Sílvia Nogalis, a renowned concert pianist, prefers her career to her marriage. On the night she performs Beethoven's "Appassionata", she learns of the death of her husband, maestro Walter Hauser.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-05-26
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As Sete Evas
Overview: When a lady-killer announces his wedding, seven of his ex-girlfriends decide to kidnap him, keeping him in a sailing ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Felicidade É...
Overview: Four directors tell stories related to the concept of happiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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Inezita Barroso - A Voz e a Viola
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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Destiny in Trouble
Overview: This was Brazil's first feature film in color.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1953-10-15
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Le tout pour le tout
Overview: An unlucky trumpeter and a young singer try to rebuild their lives in Brazilian nightclubs. They will try everything for everything while making a risky heist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-06
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Teatro Brasileiro: Origem e Mudança
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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O Menino Arco-Íris
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Genres: Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-15
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Crônica da Cidade Amada
Overview: Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-09-24
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O Construtor de Sonhos
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-08-03
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O Transformista
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-15
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The Crow
Overview: Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-02-08
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Zimba
Overview: The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of generations of Brazilian actors. The polyphonic montage builds on vast unpublished material, covering half a century of performances, teletheaters and interviews by Zimba, as he was known – before and after fleeing Poland, on the eve of the invasion of Warsaw – and recreates fragments of Wedding Dress , a play by Nelson Rodrigues which the Polish-Brazilian director won a revolutionary montage in 1943.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-14
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Paulo Autran 100 Anos
Overview: A tribute to Paulo Autran with historical interviews and archive material from the actor, including previously unpublished testimonies from artists who worked with him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-12-26
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