Mary Sheila
Also Known As: Mary Sheila de Paula, Mary de Paula
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Birthday: December 27, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Orfeu
Overview: Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood. But the local drug boss Lucinho stands between them and will drastically change both their lives.
Genres: Drama Crime Music Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-04-21
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Alone Man
Overview: The film tells the story of Arnaldo, that to get rid of his miserable life, seeks of a clinic that promises to copy people. With a copy occupying his place, he would take a new life. But, when having his request denied, Arnaldo has no choice but to try and change the course of his history. When he falls in love with Josie, the clerk of a pet cemetery, Arnaldo believes that he found a chance to finally be happy. But maybe he's wrong. A Lone Man is an urban fable that addresses the complexity of relationships, with a good dose of irony, and humor.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-15
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A Festa de Léo
Overview: The film is set in Morro do Vidigal, one of the most famous favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Rita needs to give her son Léo a party that means a lot to her. But on the day of the party, she discovers that all the money for the event, which she had been saving for months, was stolen by Dudu. From this disappointment, Rita, who works at the beach, needs to race against time to make Léo's party possible and save Dudu's life. To do this, she will need the help of her friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-05-23
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Crô em Família
Overview: Already famous, at the top of his career, owner of his own school of etiquette, Crô sees himself alone and without a family. Lonely and vulnerable, he ends up living at the whim of supposed family, Orlando, Marinalva, Luane and Nando, whose intentions are far from the best. With the inseparable Geni, Magda and Jurema by his side, Crô will embark on an adventure to find his true family while constantly avoiding the venom of the top columnist Carlota Valdez.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-09-06
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City of God
Overview: In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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The Silver Cliff
Overview: Violeta is a married dentist on a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma, says he is leaving her and going to another city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-17
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Suspiros Republicanos ao Crepúsculo de um Império Tropical
Overview: The film tells a little of the history of Brazil immersed in the caricature of the conditions of making cinema in this country. Flora and Carlos Manoel fall in love. She, from a family linked to the Monarchy, and he, a republican activist, live their love in the last days of the monarchy, without knowing that the end of the empire would also mean the end of their romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Mais uma Vez Amor
Overview: In Rio de Janeiro, the teenagers Lia and Rodrigo have opposite behaviors and personalities. The clumsy Rodrigo is responsible and good student, while the emancipated Lia is totally irresponsible. They have their first sexual intercourse together on April 23rd, and they schedule to meet each other every year in the same date. Along the years, Rodrigo graduates in engineering and gets married with Clara (Christine Fernandes), having a son. The single mother Lia has a life without any commitment, moves to Paris and comes back to Brazil later. After a comedown, Rodrigo leaves his family and quits his job to live with Lia. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Angels of the Sun
Overview: In Northeastern Brazil, twelve-year-old Maria is sold to have a better life as a housemaid. However, Maria is resold and sent to a brothel in the Amazon gold fields and put to work by the despicable Saraiva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-03-04
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Urban Snap-Shots
Overview: Comedic portrait of middle-aged women in Rio de Janeiro, including overworked housewife Magali and her over-the-top twin sister Magda, psychoanalyst Paula and her troublesome daughter Melanie, and stage star in crisis Lise.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-02-29
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Playing
Overview: Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-09
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Rio Sex Comedy
Overview: A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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Vai que Cola 2: O Começo
Overview: Long before they socialized almost every day at Dona Jô's pension, Jéssica, Ferdinando and Máicol didn't even know each other. But when Terezinha decides to organize a big feijoada at Morro do Cerol, they all meet for the first time, in the most unusual way possible.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-12
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A breve estória de Cândido Sampaio
Overview: A nouveau riche is advised to be a philanthropist in order to have a better insertion in upper class society. When she is approached by a beggar carrying a baby and a puppy, she sees her chance.
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Original Language: en
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Campo Grande
Overview: A wealthy middle-aged woman unexpectedly finds herself caring for two impoverished young siblings, in this subtle, touching and sincere study of class disparity from Brazilian filmmaker Sandra Kogut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-13
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A Esperança É a Última que Morre
Overview: Hortência is a dedicated, dreamy TV reporter, who hopes to stop doing boring reports and become an anchor of the local news. When she learns that the newspaper's anchor is about to be fired, she is excited about the big opportunity, but Vanessa also wants the job. Needing to find a way to secure her new post, Hortência invents a serial killer and starts "investigating" the case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-03
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