Mauro Mendonça
Also Known As: Мауру Мендонса
Biography: Mauro Mendonça (Ubá, April 2, 1931) is a Brazilian actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Birthday: April 02, 1931
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Overview: After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-11-22
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Kuarup
Overview: This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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Love Strange Love
Overview: A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-11
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Rio, 100 Degrees F.
Overview: On a scorching summer day in Rio de Janeiro, five impoverished black boys venture out of their favela to peddle peanuts throughout the bustling city. As they navigate the various districts of Rio, they bear witness to a series of unfortunate events and encounters, unfolding a vivid tapestry of urban life in Rio de Janeiro during that period. These true misadventures shed light on the gritty reality of the city, unveiling its vibrant urban tapestry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1955-08-24
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Nos Embalos de Ipanema
Overview: Toquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together with his widow mother and a younger sister. Although he is poor, he is also ambitious, and wants to change his life. He spends all his time on the beach, at Arpoador, Ipanema, where he dreams to become a famous surfer. Besides, he usually finds Patricia there, a rich and liberated young woman, whom he likes a lot. To impress Patricia and satisfy some of her wishes, he lets himself be seduced by André, a gay guy who, in return for his sexual favors, promises him a trip to Hawaii for a surf championship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Redeemer
Overview: Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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O Descarte
Overview: After Cláudia, haunted by her husband’s death on a car crash, starts a romance with another man, she starts receiving threatening letters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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Doce Delírio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-26
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Benjamim
Overview: Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the woman he loved was hiding with her guerilla lover. As a result, the two were killed. One day, he casually meets a woman who looks very much like his former love, and this fact changes his life. Could she be the daughter of his great love? Or her reincarnation?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-10-21
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Maria... Sempre Maria
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-10-07
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High Art
Overview: Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a local call girl.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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Official Exterminator 3: Joy for Living Dead
Overview: Yet another Godfrey Ho-scripted / Joseph Lai-produced / IFD-distributed "cut-and-paste" job. This one takes much of its footage from the 1983 Brazilian movie Doce Delirio and adds new and unrelated martial arts footage shot by Phillip Ko.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Seara Vermelha
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-05-23
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Natal da Portela
Overview: Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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Uma Certa Lucrécia
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1957-12-30
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Dona Violante Miranda
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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The Clove and The Rose
Overview: Documentary on Rosamaria Murtinho and Mauro Mendonça’s 60-year long career in Brazilian theater, film and television. The film not only runs through the career of these artists, but also paints a portrait of a generation that rose alongside them and that works with art till this day.
Genres: Documentary Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-06-29
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Tô Ryca!
Overview: Selminha is a lower-class woman who receives a family inheritance, but only if she meets the challenge of spending 30 million reais in 30 days, without accumulating anything. However, in this marathon, she will find out that there are things that money does not buy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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Um Breve Encontro
Overview: Laura remembers an affair that just ended: for a few weeks, she and a married doctor, Alec, met every Thursday for lunch in a train station and a movie. They fell in love in this short period together. Based on the story by Noel Coward, and shot for Grupo Bandeirantes' tele-theatre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Overview: In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-10
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Seu Arlindo vai à Loucura
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-11-21
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Didi, o Cupido Trapalhão
Overview: A clumsy angel is sent away from heaven by God Himself. He may only return after he becomes a good Cupid. But the first couple he tries to connect is a real challenge: the man is poor, and the girl comes from a rich family. And their names are Romeu and Julieta.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-04-27
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