Norma Bengell
Also Known As: Norma Benguel, Norma Benguell, Норма Венжель, Норма Бенгелл, Норма Бенгель
Biography: Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães d'Áurea Bengell (Rio de Janeiro, February 21, 1935 – Rio de Janeiro, October 9, 2013) was a Brazilian actress, filmmaker, producer, singer and songwriter. Considered one of the greatest muses of Brazilian cinema and theater in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Norma began her career in the early 1950s, being launched into the artistic world through revue theater by producer Carlos Machado. She acted in 64 films during her career, several of them in Europe.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: September 21, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 09, 2013
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Défense de savoir
Overview: When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-29
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OSS 117 Takes a Vacation
Overview: OSS 177 goes on holiday to Brazil, but is called into action when he finds himself being stalked by a double.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-04
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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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Mafioso
Overview: When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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The Unscrupulous Ones
Overview: Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-03-24
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Maria Gladys, Uma Atriz Brasileira
Overview: The artistic career and daily life of actress Maria Gladys.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-11-19
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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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Planet of the Vampires
Overview: After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-15
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The Hellbenders
Overview: A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the Colonel plans to revive the Confederacy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-02
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The Angel Was Born
Overview: Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-02-12
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Dzi Croquettes
Overview: A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-04
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The Given Word
Overview: Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross - like Jesus - all the way from his city to Saint Bárbara's church, in the state capital. Upon the recovery of his donkey, Zé leaves on his journey. He makes it to the church, but the priest refuses to accept the cross once he discovers the context of Zé's promise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-04-17
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Conceição
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1960-06-14
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Rio Babilonia
Overview: A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-09-14
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I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!
Overview: Don Ramon, a wealthy patron, receives his son back after he has sent him away to medical school, only to have him fall in love with his new young wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-05-05
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Mulheres & Milhões
Overview: Three men who never met each other are hired by a mysterious client to carry out a daring bank robbery.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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Men and Women
Overview: Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes, uncovering their anguish and deeper feelings, and the emptiness of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-08-17
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The Palace of Angels
Overview: Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends transform a small apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", at first securing money and success, but...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-05-25
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Eros, the God of Love
Overview: A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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Of Gods and the Undead
Overview: In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in the battle for land and cacao plantations. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" Santana, taking his wife and money. He starts a bloody conflict, in which many simple people and landowners die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-06-25
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The Man of The Sputnik
Overview: An UFO that could be the Russian satellite Sputnik falls on a hillbilly's hencoop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-08-21
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The Murdered House
Overview: Nina, a typical woman of the big city, marries a powerful farmer and goes to live in the countryside of Minas Gerais. There, however, she is faced with a decomposing, decadent family who seems to dislike her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-02-21
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The Abyss
Overview: Man tries to decipher a manuscript about an ancient civilization and gets involved in strange situations. In fact, the plot is just an excuse to tackle the subjects of mysticism and human condition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-06-24
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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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The Ballad of Husbands
Overview: Giulio and Armando, both married, attempt an escape from their respective married lives, invent a secret mission and leaves for the south.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-09
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A Espiã que Entrou em Fria
Overview: A scientist discovers a breakthrough formula for harnessing nuclear energy and becomes the target for numerous secret agents around the world.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-10-05
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The Captain from Toledo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-08-26
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Vagas para Moças de Fino Trato
Overview: In Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse Madalena. Gertrudes misses and daydreams her former love and has a motherhood relationship with Lúcia; Madalena has a promiscuous life, having one night stand with the most different men every day and her behavior is criticized by Gertreudes; and Lúcia is dreamer that manipulates Gertrudes and expects that the handyman Alfredo becomes her prince charming. Their conflictive relationship ends when Madalena discloses their inner feelings and secrets to each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Violence and Love
Overview: The nature of love and marriage is studied in two episodes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-26
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Nuclear Shelter
Overview: Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-09-07
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Sea of Roses
Overview: A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-07-29
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Tensão no Rio
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-08-29
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Tabu
Overview: The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-03-10
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The Suns of Easter Island
Overview: Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Overview: Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-06-07
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Na Boca do Mundo
Overview: A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafona. His biggest ambition is to stash enough money to leave to a big city with his fiancee, a mix-raced girl who sells fresh crabs to locals and wishes for a better life. When a rich white woman from the high society arrives to spend a few days away after ending a failed marriage, Antônio soon bonds with her and begins to change his plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-22
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The Constancy of Reason
Overview: Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and family friend in love with Bruno's widowed mother Ivana — are an obstacle. His relationship with Lori, a beautiful and tormented young woman who has just returned from Milan, reshapes his convictions. Freely adapted from a minor novel by Vasco Pratolini.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-11-27
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The Colour of His Destiny
Overview: Teenager and his Chilean parents live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exile, after his brother is killed by the military government in Chile. Years later, still haunted by the past, he undergoes a crisis when he learns his cousin had been arrested in Santiago, and quarrels with his family when he decides to know his country and the details of his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-11-11
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Fonte da Saudade
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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As Cariocas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-10-24
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The Age of the Earth
Overview: Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's image: a black man, a soldier, an Indian, and a guerrilla fighter. These courageous individuals, hailed as the harbingers of doom in the tupiniquim lands, valiantly combat the insatiable avarice and oppressive "civilizing" brutality propagated by the formidable John Brahms—a foreign exploiter devoid of morals.
Genres: Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-11-17
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Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-26
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Assim Era a Atlântida
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-08-27
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Before, the Summer
Overview: A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the breaches of the house, their marriage begins to crumble. And like a bad omen, a mysterious murder takes place in the vicinity.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-05-26
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Paixão na Praia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-08-09
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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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Carnival of Crime
Overview: Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-05
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Paranóia
Overview: Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-09-13
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No Tempo de Glauber
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Desesperato
Overview: Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leaves his home to carry out literary research in the country's most obscure settings. Unhappy with the current national situation, the historian joins a guerrilla force with serious consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-03-17
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The Demiurge
Overview: A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada", Mautner says. He also affirms that the work focuses a lot on the longing for Brazil, on the will that the exiled had to return to their homeland. The idea came from conversations between the musician and his old father, "always talking about the pre-Socratics", he recalls. Glauber Rocha states that "The Demiurge" is the best film "of" and "about" exile.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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J. Carlos - O Cronista do Rio
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-04-14
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As Confissões de Frei Abóbora
Overview: The loving adventures of a priest disillusioned with religion and life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-09-04
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Mar Corrente
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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O Filho Adotivo
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Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-03-22
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Running Out of Luck
Overview: A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.
Genres: Music Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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Mulheres de Cinema
Overview: Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-06-06
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The Reckless
Overview: In the figure of Ettore Zambrini, a small industrialist with a dream of opening a factory overlooking the Autostrada del Sole, Montaldo offers us an effective narrative transposition of the 'animal spirits' that governed the economic boom in Italy at the time. He is a character of contradictory humanity: capable of handling business, overdue bills, trade union relations, marital betrayal, but also the passion that binds him to his wife with equal unscrupulousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-05-24
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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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Juventude e Ternura
Overview: The young singer Beth is torn between love for the honest pianist Guy; and the powerful smuggler Estênio, who sponsors his promising career.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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I cuori infranti
Overview: Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-21
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Edu, Coração de Ouro
Overview: A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had managed to make him fall in love, until he met with mysterious Tatiana.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-01-22
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The Femme Fatale Meets the Ideal Man
Overview: A poor woman is visited by the fairy godmother who turns her into a brilliant movie and TV star.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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As Mulheres no Cinema Brasileiro
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-05-04
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Banquete
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-08-24
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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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Freedom of Inês Etienne Romeu
Overview: August 29, 1979, Talavera Bruce Penal Institute, Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. After serving eight years in prison, Inês Etienne Romeu, the only survivor of the "House of Death" in Petrópolis and the first political prisoner sentenced to life in prison in Brazil, left prison benefiting from Amnesty. Norma Bengell filmed this moment: from the prison door to her home with her family, Inês was welcomed by family, friends and members of the Brazilian Amnesty Committee, in what marked the first act of the historic denunciation that Inês would carry out against her tormentors and the Military Regime.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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O Último Homem
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Cinéma 16 Une vieille maîtresse
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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