José Dumont
Also Known As: José Melo
Biography: José Dumont (Bananeiras, August 1, 1950) is a Brazilian television, film and theater actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bananeiras, Paraíba, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: July 01, 1950
Age: 74 years old
Gender: Male
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Lower City
Overview: Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-05-16
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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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Dry Movie
Overview: Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-14
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Behind the Sun
Overview: Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-12-12
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O Sonho de Inacim
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-14
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Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz
Overview: Didi, Soró and Tatu in search food and water head for the town of Oróz. On their journey they find a Scarecrow, a man in a metal vat, and later are arrested by a Lion Sheriff.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-12-05
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Os Trapalhões no Auto da Compadecida
Overview: In the small town of Taperoá João Grilo and confusion Chicó live setting, addressing a sacristan and a humble baker. Everyone lives under the excesses of the bishop, the priest and the major. Until an attack on the city, all die at the hands of the bandit Severino and must stand trial in the sky, which puts everyone before God and the Virgin Mary.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-04-22
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Memories of Prison
Overview: In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-18
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The Storytellers
Overview: A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As most of the inhabitants are illiterate, they have no choice but to ask for the help of Antônio Biá, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out letters with lies about their reputations as a way to keep his job in Javé's seldom-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the city was founded, yet each inhabitant has his or her own version of what happened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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The Wrung-Out Man
Overview: Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-12-13
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Minas Texas
Overview: In a country town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Januária is going to marry the shy and naive Amorim. But in her heart she wants to escape with her dream hero, the cowboy Roy Pereira, and start a new life in Texas.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-11-05
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Lucio Flavio
Overview: The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-02-01
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Milagre em Juazeiro
Overview: Ceará, 1889. Father Cícero Romão Batista ministers to the faithful in the parish of Juazeiro do Norte. Among them is Maria de Araújo, a simple and religious woman who, on receiving communion from the hands of father Cícero, transforms it into blood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Onde Anda Você
Overview: Felício, an old comedian, is in decadence after his partner Mandarim's suicide. When he finds out his former love Paloma has died, he leaves São Paulo and heads for the faraway State of Piauí, North of Brazil, in search of a new partner. He believes that if he manages to find him, the good times will return.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-04-09
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Mary, Mother of the Son of God
Overview: Maria Auxiliadora is a 24 year-old woman very poor, that she lives Joana, her 7 year-old daughter close to. Needing go look for the result of Joana's exam in the hospital, Maria asks the priest of the local church that takes care of her to return. In spite of Joana's insistence to go with the mother Maria insists that she is with the priest, because she distrusts that her daughter suffers of a serious disease. To entertain the girl while it awaits the mother's return, the priest decides to tell her a mother's history that dedicated her life to the son: Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-10-10
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O Baiano Fantasma
Overview: Lambusca, a man from the State of Paraíba, Brazil, goes to São Paulo, looking for a job. But he ends up working for a group of fishy loan sharks, collecting money. In one of his visits, the debtor dies. The police then starts chasing him, believing he had murdered the man.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-04-13
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Everything's Alright
Overview: Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-10-23
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Morte e Vida Severina
Overview: The saga of Severino, a poor guy living in the back country of Northeast Brazil, leaving for the big city of Recife, in search of a better life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-12-22
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The Patriot
Overview: Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Gaijin: A Brazilian Odyssey
Overview: Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-02-20
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República dos Assassinos
Overview: In 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The photos of the victims, adorned by the skull, symbol of the group, caused an uncomfortable indignation. This is the story of Mateus Romeiro, the most famous of the policemen, who was part of the Homens de Aço (Steelmen) group, one of the factions in which the squadron was divided.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-11-11
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As Tranças de Maria
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-13
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O Cangaceiro Trapalhão
Overview: Severino do Quixadá (Renato Aragão), a humble northeastern shepherd of goats, rescues Captain Virgulano or simply Captain (Nelson Xavier) and his band of cangaceiros of an ambush armed by the lieutenant Zé Bezerra (Jose Dumont), its eternal persecutor. Captain escapes taking with him the mysterious box that he removed from the interior of the assaulted train in the city of Cajarana. Seeking to escape the shooting, Severino ends up finding himself in the cangaceiros' camp, along with the mishap friends Mussum and Zacarias who, taking advantage of the confusion, fled the chain.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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Avaete, Seed of Revenge
Overview: Little Indian boy survives his tribe massacre, growing up together with his wish for revenge and his quest for his own identity. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-08-26
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Trash
Overview: Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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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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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Lampião e Maria Bonita - O Filme
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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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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Outlaw Love
Overview: Police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he looks for a serial killer, he also searches for his estranged daughter, Sandra, whom he kicked out of the house. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho, befriends Sandra, now an exotic dancer and prostitute living and working in the seamy underside of late 1970s Rio.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-03-12
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Olga
Overview: Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-08-20
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Two Sons of Francisco
Overview: The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-08-19
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Colonel Delmiro Gouveia
Overview: In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Blood and Wine: A Brazilian Story
Overview: Mateus, his wife Antônia, their three kids and his brother Pedro opened a grocery/bar in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1959, called "Armazém Brazil". But in the opening party, the Police, headed by a violent inspector nicknamed "Capitão", arrive to arrest, with extreme violence, an outlaw known as "Flexa". This violent scene scars the family permanently and becomes the prelude to a tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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Irmãos de Fé
Overview: Priest Marcelo Rossi visits a juvenile correction center, and gives Paulo, one of the interns, a Bible. He starts reading the story of St. Paul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Parahyba Mulher Macho
Overview: Account an important part of the history of Brazil, through its main character, Anayde Beiriz a poet, journalist and revolutionary and libertarian teacher of the early twentieth century, known for its sexual liberalism, which shocked the pre-Revolution in the state of Paraíba during 1930. His love for João Dantas eventually forge João Pessoa's death, at that time, governor of of Paraíba. These events served as a trigger for the a revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-09-15
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O Escolhido de Iemanjá
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Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-06-12
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Tigipió - Uma Questão de Amor e Honra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-12-10
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The Cambridge Squatter
Overview: The Cambridge Squatter tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the world commingle with the threat of impending eviction.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-16
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Noites Paraguayas
Overview: The path of Paraguayan immigrants who drive to Asuncion and then arrive in São Paulo. They are rural workers, musicians, vendors and underemployed people. Two parallel worlds: the Guarani culture and the Brazilian adventure in São Paulo juxtaposed with Paraguayan songs and the Guarani language, spoken by the main characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Morte e Vida Severina
Overview: The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads for Recife, passing through desert and forest regions, expecting to find a better life.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-07-29
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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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To the Last Drop
Overview: Documentary about the traffic of human blood in the Third World.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Overview: Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-06
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Tungstênio
Overview: A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-21
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Hour of the Star
Overview: Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-04-25
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Intimate Strangers
Overview: A woman moves back, from São Paulo to her hometown Rio de Janeiro, to support her husband's job. On their new residence, she forms an unlikely bond with her young neighbor based on their past memories, sadness and loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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Iara
Overview: In the heart of the forest, Pedro hears a beautiful chant and meets Iara, the Mother of the Waters.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-06-19
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Vento Sul
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-08-16
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Midnight
Overview: On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-08-12
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Kenoma
Overview: In the village of Kenoma, inside Brazil, the artisan Linnaeus tries to make a big and quixotic dream: to build a perpetual motion machine. His contract is opposed by Jerome, powerful local landowner, but he wins the aid of mysterious drifter who decides to stay in town after charmed with the beauty of the young Tari.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-06-17
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The Miracle of the Birds
Overview: Sabô marries Lindolfo Ezequiel in exchange for the life of his brother, who was sworn to death by the captain. The brunette is known as the most desired woman in the region and her husband is reputed to be a killer. One day, Ubaldo Capadócio arrives in the city of Cachoeira, in Bahia, and takes away hearts. The poet is a handsome man, has nine children and is married to three women: Rosecler, Romilda and Valdelice. Rosecler is the most fiery and spendthrift, Romilda abandoned her butcher husband for Ubaldo and Valdelice is the most daring. In Cachoeira, Ubaldo sees Sabô and is attracted by so much beauty. The captain's wife surrenders to the poet's charms, but they are caught by Lindolfo Ezequiel. Then begins the saga of Ubaldo to escape death. That's where the miracle of birds happens.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-12-20
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Se Segura, Malandro!
Overview: Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-08-26
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J.S. Brown, o Último Herói
Overview: João da Silva Brown, a resident of Salvador, has always been a fan of comics, movies and adventure series and superheroes. Once he learns about a course for detectives and decides to attend it. With his private detective degree, he sets up an office and places an ad in the newspaper. Now wearing a cape and hat, he waits in vain for customers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-03-10
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Curral
Overview: Curral is a political drama set in the rural Brazilian city of Gravatá. During the mayoral elections, the population is divided between the Blue and Red parties, two political oligarchies fighting each other for power. A recent severe drought means water is the main bargaining chip when it comes to securing a majority of people's votes. Chico Caixa is a former city employee. He lost his job trying to take water supplies to a poor neighborhood which had been abandoned for political reasons. Caixa is invited by a childhood partner, Joel, to work on his councilor campaign. Joel presents himself as a new alternative to the older candidates, who have been in power for decades. But as the campaign progresses, Chico Caixa soon realizes that breaking apart from the established political game is not always as easy as it may seem
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-15
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Flores da Estrada
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Rosa Tirana
Overview: In a sun-drenched land, during the greatest drought that the Northeastern hinterland has ever lived, The girl Rosa dives on a long journey through the arid and fantastical caatinga, in search of an encounter with our lady Immaculate, the queen of the hinterland. With an insightful tone, the plot is enveloped by an amalgamation of factors that, in the dryness of the portrayed landscape, becomes fertilizer for the understanding of human drama, from the perspective of the little protagonist.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-12-12
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Carga Pesada: A Grande Viagem - O Filme
Overview: Bino advises Pedro to get married, but he is reluctant until Rosa calls him and arranges a meeting in Fortaleza. Along the way, adventures chase truck drivers.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-04-24
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As Paralelas
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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O Marajá
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Genres: TV Movie Crime History Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-07-26
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