Carlos Gregório
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Carlos Alberto Mendes Gregório (Rio de Janeiro, August 31, 1947) is a Brazilian actor, director, writer and screenwriter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Birthday: August 31, 1947
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Gender: Male
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Doida Demais
Overview: Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes with her new lover, a pilot.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Screenwriter
Overview: 32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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The Brazilwood Man
Overview: Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.
Genres: Comedy History Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-02-22
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Baixo Gávea
Overview: Clara directs the rehearsals of a theatrical play about Fernando Pessoa while constantly seeking the right man and the love of his life. One of the actresses is the lesbian Ana, who interprets the poet Mário de Sá Carneiro. She is Clara's friend and confidant with whom she shares an apartment. Clara does not perceive Ana's love for her, that always helps her to recover from the disappointments. Unlike the character Sá Carneiro, poet of decadentism, nostalgia, metaphysics and vague, Ana is the pragmatic side of Clara, who often brings a disillusioned vision as if it were Fernando Pessoa himself, who may be associated with concepts of the poet's heteronyms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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Engraçadinha
Overview: After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Prata Palomares
Overview: While waiting for directions, two revolutionaries hide in a church, where they meet a woman who wants to have a son with one of them.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Conspirators
Overview: The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-05
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Family Album
Overview: Follows the decadence of an incestuous oligarch family in a rural Brazilian household through the years during the early 20th century.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-03-05
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Duas Vezes com Helena
Overview: The affectionate relationship between mentor Alberto and his favorite pupil Polydoro is disturbed by Alberto's marriage to Helena, with life-changing and long-lasting consequences for all of them.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Rei do Rio
Overview: Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-06-11
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Memórias do Medo
Overview: With Brasilia as a setting, the film tries to recreate the political environment in Brazil when civilians were able to found new political parties, after 10 years of strict military rules. In the midst of a nationwide crisis, a group of politicians found an opposition party to the military regime, triggering violent denunciation against multinationals operating in the country. The explorer of the Seesaw deposit, United Mining, an American multinational that is being accused of several irregularities, sees in the internal struggle that divides the opposition party its only chance to silence the nationalist campaign that denounces it. Thus, a game is developed that ends up leading the characters to a tragic plot of corruption and fear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-09-21
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The Dream's Not Over
Overview: The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a context of a country that was on the final years of a dictatorship back in the 1980s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-08-06
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Love and Co.
Overview: Godofredo suffers a terrible blow when he comes back home earlier than usual and finds his wife in the arms of his partner. He sends his wife away to a coast town and dares his rival to a duel. But he begins to miss his wife and the company of his friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
Overview: A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de reis. The movie shows his life from poverty to riches and back to poverty again, as is common in Brazil, rich people die poor.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-10-15
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O Auto da Boa Mentira
Overview: In four stories inspired by humorous tales by Ariano Suassuna, each created based on phrases by the poet from Paraíba, we meet Helder, Fabiano, Pierce and Lorena, living different situations where, ironically, the lie is always the protagonist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-29
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Conjugal Warfare
Overview: Many stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other, still live together under the same roof.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-05-01
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Eternamente Pagu
Overview: Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic activist. An important figure of the Brazilian Modernism, Pagu was also a militant for the Brazilian Communist Party after she married writer Oswald de Andrade. She broke up with Andrade and, as a journalist was arrested by the Dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. After she left prison, she abandoned Communism in favor of Trotskyist Socialism, married Geraldo Ferraz, and started a career as theatre director.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-05-12
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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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Por Dúvida das Vias
Overview: A Journalism intern makes her first report in a public office, getting lost in the bureaucratic intricacies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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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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Para Viver Um Grande Amor
Overview: Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich girl falls in love with a poor composer. Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica", by Vinícius de Moraes and Carlos Lyra.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-04-30
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Dedicatórias
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-08-08
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The King of the Candle
Overview: Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Summer Showers
Overview: 70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-04-24
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Tônica Dominante
Overview: Three days in the life of a young clarinetist (Fernando Alves Pinto), who is in love with a violinist (Vera Zimmerman), but can't get her attention. In the first day he feels alone and frail; in the second day what was supposed to be pleasant becomes a nightmare; in the third day he finally achieves fulfillment through music and helps a pianist (Vera Holtz) who is rehearsing for a concert. These three days correspond to a three movement sonata - the director (Lina Chamie) is a musician, so she imprinted a musical structure to her movie, with few dialogs and poetic images. It's a movie for music lovers. Written by CeciliaWolf
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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Xuxa and the Elves
Overview: Kira is a botanist with magical abilities, though the origins of her powers remain unknown to her. Her life takes an unexpected turn when her friend Nanda discovers an elf named Damiz trapped in her room. They soon learn that Damiz is the prince of the elves and has been captured by Gorgon, a greedy executive who seeks to purchase the house where Nanda’s family lives. In order to help defeat Gorgon, Kira decides to venture into the world of the elves, where she uncovers hidden secrets about her past.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-12-14
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A Extorsão
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-11-06
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The Man in the Black Cape
Overview: Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-03-31
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A Maldição do Sanpaku
Overview: Gafanhoto is a smuggler who tries to take a hit by stealing a valuable stone. He awakens the fury of the old boss of the gang, and ends up involving in the plot a former colleague, Poeta and his girlfriend Cris, a beautiful woman who brings in the eyes the mark of the tragedy.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-05-21
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After Eight... Forever
Overview: Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-03-11
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Amar...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-07-08
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Loop
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-28
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Bar Esperanza
Overview: A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-19
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Woman on Top
Overview: Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-22
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A Volta do Filho Pródigo
Overview: Unemployed, penniless in the big city and after accidentally stealing and killing his landlady, Antonio flees Rio de Janeiro towards Northeast of Brazil to find his mother. On the way he meets a beautiful woman and a pair of criminals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-06-16
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São Bernardo
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-11
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Marquesa de Santos
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-08-21
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O Natal da Grande Família
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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