Irandhir Santos
Also Known As: Irandir Santos, Irandhir
Biography: Irandhir Santos Pinto (Barreiros, August 22, 1978) is a Brazilian actor. He has received several awards throughout his career, including an APCA Award, five Guarani Awards, and an Extra Award, in addition to receiving nominations for seven Grande Otelo Awards, an ACIE Award, and a Quality Brazil Award. Santos is revered for his work in cinema, which earned him awards at the most important festivals, including a Kikito Trophy for Best Actor at the Gramado Festival. Recently he has stood out for his performances on television.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Barreiros, Pernambuco, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: August 22, 1978
Age: 46 years old
Gender: Male
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The Assailant
Overview: Based on the life of a legendary capoeira fighter from Bahia, "Besouro" spins a fantastic tale of a young Brazilian man of African descent in search of his mission.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-10-30
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Recife, Cidade Roubada
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
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Carnival is Over
Overview: Regina and Valerio are a happy and sexy couple, casually enjoying their fortune from their luxurious villa on top of the Rio de Janeiro’s hills. Since the death of Valerio’s father, the biggest mobster in town, they desperately seek a way out of this criminal hornets’ nest. But Valerio’s uncle, Linduarte, insists on him assuming his responsibilities. One night, attempting to reason with Linduarte, the couple accidentally kills him. They then fall into a spiral of violence, leading them onto the very path they wanted to escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-05-08
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Overview: After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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Blue Eyes
Overview: Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by causing the death of a young Brazilian. After a period in prison, Marshall goes to Brazil, deadly ill and in a desperate search in order to purge his guilt. In his quest, he is guided by Bia, a young prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-28
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I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
Overview: José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the region. As the field trip progresses, it becomes clear that Renato shares with those places the same emptiness, sense of abandonment and isolation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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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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Rat Fever
Overview: Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-06-22
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Tattoo
Overview: Paulete, the star of a daring theater group, is visited by his military brother-in-law, the young Fininha. A torrid relationship arises between the two, and now the soldier must deal with the prevailing repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-14
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The History of Eternity
Overview: In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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The Eye of the Beholder
Overview: A young architect embarking upon his first major project is unexpectedly brought face to face with dark secrets from his ancestral past.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-28
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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Overview: 1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-05-17
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Bog of Beasts
Overview: A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-12-12
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O Senhor do Labirinto
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-12-11
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Coffee Stains
Overview: A photographer travels to São Paulo for his first solo exhibition and decides to stay in his now married, ex-girlfriend’s house.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-10-04
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Absence
Overview: Serginho has a hard time finding his place in the world as he works with his uncle at the market, supports his depressed mother, and takes care of his little brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-27
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The Telescope of Time
Overview: Musical drama that uses popular myths of Brazilian culture to narrate a story full of meetings and misunderstandings, betrayals and loves, crimes and punishments. Against the backdrop of the Pernambuco backlands – its people and its culture, the cordel, the bandits, the cinema and the circus – the film is a universal drama, laden with unique poetry, where reality and the dreamworld mingle.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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Deixem Diana em Paz
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga
Overview: Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a trap that nearly kills him. Born again, Matraga resorts to faith and hard work in the pursuit of redemption. Years later, he arrives at the village reigned by the hinterland's ruler and his thugs. This new friendship will challenge his destiny. Inside Matraga, the Saint and the Warrior will duel until his time comes.
Genres: Drama Adventure Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
Overview: Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-21
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Amigos de Risco
Overview: After years on the run, Joca is back again in town. And, to commemorate, nothing better than a night on the tiles with his good friends Nelsão and Benito. However, the happy occasion turns to a nightmare when Joca is suddenly taken ill. With no money, no transportation or communication, his friends now have to carry him through the deserted town to the closest hospital. A race against the clock is about to begin, with umpteen surprises and enough to shake the firmest of bonds of friendship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-15
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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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Whirlpool
Overview: Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, trying to make the most of what he has. One day, his childhood friend Gildo reappears, driving a fancy car and boasting of his successful life in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. As the two sit down for a beer, memories, regrets and old resentments slowly resurface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-02-09
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Mercy
Overview: The quiet life of the small town Piedade's inhabitants is shaken up by the arrival of a big oil company, which barges in taking over houses and local businesses, throwing everyone out, to better reach and use the area's natural resources.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-11-23
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Décimo Segundo
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Friendly Beast
Overview: A restaurant owner going over the edge when an armed robbery is attempted at his establishment. He holds everyone captive at gunpoint – criminals and customers alike – and situations corrode into a nightmare state, guided by manipulation and raw compulsion.
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-08-09
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Iran
Overview: An account on the immersion process of Brazilian method actor Irandhir Santos, while building up his character for "Redemoinho" (Whirlpool, 2017), captured on set by director of photography Walter Carvalho.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-08
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Party Over
Overview: Returning early from his vacation after the Carnival period to investigate the murder of a young French tourist, Breno Wanderley is faced with possible reflections of his own history from which he cannot escape. Between Ash Wednesday and post-Carnival Sunday, Breno tries to unravel the crime and sees in his son, also called Breno, a chance to reinvent himself in a broken and sullen city.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-12-09
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Remains of a Man
Overview: Renata lives isolated in the countryside with her teenage daughter and her husband, conceiving fear as a common feeling. The arrival of a stranger awakens in her the desire for all that was asleep.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-04-07
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Enquanto o Céu Não Me Espera
Overview: A simple farmer, attached to the memories of his father, struggles to stay with his family on their small farm, despite the difficulties imposed by the flooding of the Amazon rivers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-12-04
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Pele de Rinoceronte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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Salu and the Cavalo-Marinho
Overview: The film tells the story of Mestre Salustiano, one of the most famous folk artists in Brazil. Son of the fiddle's player, João Salustiano, Salu dreams from an early age of joining a Cavalo-Marinho group, a traditional folk dance from the region where he lives.
Genres: Animation Music Adventure Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-03-30
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