Paulo Betti
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Paulo Sérgio Betti (Rafard, September 8, 1952) is a Brazilian actor, author and director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rafard, São Paulo, Brazil
Birthday: September 08, 1952
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Gender: Male
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The Invisible Woman
Overview: A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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O Pai da Rita
Overview: Roque and Pudim, composers from the old school of Vai-Vai, share a kitchnete, decades of friendship, love for their samba school and a doubt about the past: what happened to dancer Rita, their passion. The emergence of Ritinha, the dancer's daughter, threatens to collapse this great friendship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-05-19
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Who Killed Pixote?
Overview: The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, he got involved with crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Red Carpet
Overview: Quinzinho has a promise to keep: to take his son, Neco, to the city to watch a Mazzaropi movie. They live in a small farm in São Paulo. In this odyssey through the towns of São Paulo, he also takes his wife Zulmira, who goes unwillingly, and their donkey Policarpo. On their journey, they find regional peculiarities and undergo magical situations related to popular belief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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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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Golden Oldies
Overview: Four friends who only think about enjoying life, with big parties, women and drinks, are surprised by an eviction. In need of money, the group is forced to think about what they hate most: working! Confusion arises when everyone looks for an easy way to get money, with minimum effort. The days pass and the hilarious confusion only increases!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Zuzu Angel
Overview: Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-08-04
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A Grande Família: O Filme
Overview: For forty years, the public functionary and family man Lineu and his beloved wife Nenê celebrate their first date going to the same ball where Lineu borrowed the jacket his competitor Carlinhos. In the present days, Lineu feels uncomfortable when his colleague Pacheco dies and goes to the doctor for health examination. When the result of his tomography arrives, his doctor says that he had seen some blur in his lungs and with that report he would give the correct diagnosis. Lineu steals the document afraid of having a tumor, but he believes he will die sooner. Meanwhile, Nenê meets Carlinhos in the supermarket where he is the manager and invites him to have dinner with her family. Lineu hides his concerns to Nenê, and his attitudes in the dinner misguide Nenê, and she believes Lineu has a lover and does not love him anymore
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-26
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A Ronda
Overview: One night André hopes to make peace with his boyfriend Ismael, who has other plans for that night: to break free. With the same intention, other beings cross paths with Ismael in search of pleasure and punishment for their guilt. Conscious or not, they just want to live.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-07-15
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Besame Mucho
Overview: The story of two couples - Xico and Olga, Tuca and Dina - through 20 years of friendship, from adolescent dreams to maturity frustrations. They meet in a small town in the State of São Paulo, but one of the couples decides to try their luck in the big city. As background, the political events in the 60's and 70's, and how they affect their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Cesium-137
Overview: In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137, being the biggest radiological accident in the history of Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-10
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Oriundi
Overview: In a love story set in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, a patriarch witnesses the crumbling of his life-long family business at the hands of his descendants. Suddenly Sofia appears. Is she from this world, and is she the key to this family's happiness and their hope for survival?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-06-16
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Golden Oldies 2
Overview: The heroes of Golden Oldies 1— Juca, PR, and Montanha — are back, following different routes. Montanha lives in an old mansion and gets ready to reunite with his friends. Once together again, the three friends get into hilarious situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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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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Panair of Brazil
Overview: Panair do Brasil revives the story of the most important commercial aviation company in Brazil, between 1930 and 1965, with its commercial daring in establishing routes to the four corners of a continental country, taking the adventure of air transport to never-before imagined places, as well as the first international routes. Four decades after it closed its doors, it still retains a marked presence in the country's collective imagination for its pioneering spirit and stories of heroic deeds and for the bewilderment which was aroused by the facts surrounding its closure during the military regime.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-27
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Lamarca
Overview: The real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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Acorda, Raimundo... Acorda!
Overview: Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife Marta is the family breadwinner. Things escalate in the relationship when the man starts to feel undervalued by his wife.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Colônia Cecília
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-07-31
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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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Os Homens Querem Paz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-04-02
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O Debate
Overview: Paula and Marcos have just split up after 20 years together. He is editor-in-chief of a news program and she is a television presenter. They have differing opinions, but remain friends and work partners. But despite this, the relationship of respect between them does not prevent them from having different views on how they should conduct the edition of the best moments of the debate that the TV will show - and that can interfere in the choice of hundreds of thousands of undecided voters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-08-25
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Childhood
Overview: The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behavior.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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October
Overview: A view of Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections, held in October of that year. The polarizing Election led to the rise of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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Carvana
Overview: Chronicles the life and career of Hugo Carvana, brazilian actor and filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-04-11
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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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Jogo Duro
Overview: A former boxer is hired to take care of an empty house in the Pacaembu neighborhood in São Paulo. The property is for sale and its function is received when purchased. On the first night on the job, he discovers that a woman and a daughter are living clandestinely in one of the mansion's rooms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-02-24
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Biu, a Vida Real Não Tem Retake
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-07-06
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Chatô, The King of Brazil
Overview: The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-11-19
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The Call of the Oboe
Overview: The plot deals with the developments in an old decadent village after a stranger arrives at the old train station, an event in itself. This stranger is a Brazilian musician who carries and plays his "oboe". The music from the oboe, the musician's instrument, will change the lives of everyone involved, and that small village itself will forever be changed by the sound of the oboe.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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Loucos Amores Líquidos
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pt
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Eliezer Batista - O Engenheiro do Brasil
Overview: Eliezer Batista – O Engenheiro do Brasil is a documentary about the life of Eliezer Batista, former president of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, twice Minister of State and one of the most influential characters in modern Brazil. The film reflects the thoughts and feelings of a visionary man and his achievements in Brazil and the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Sound & Fury: Film
Overview: Follows the struggles of a small theatre company attempting to adapt a Shakespeare play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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Dedé Mamata
Overview: Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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Nelson Gonçalves
Overview: Fiction/documentary about great Brazilian singer Nelson Gonçalves, where interviews about him are mixed with dramatization of episodes in his life. The film tell us about Nelson's childhood, the time when he tried his luck as a professional boxer, his career as a radio singer in the 1950s, the decadence caused by his cocaine addiction and his comeback.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-09
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Ed Mort
Overview: A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-05-05
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Chico e Amigos
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-12-29
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O Amor Está No Ar
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-08-08
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A Fera na Selva
Overview: A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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The Sign of the City
Overview: Teca, a late-night radio show host, uses her astrological skills to help listeners who call in for advice. But her own life feels empty and lonely. One day she makes the acquaintance of her handsome new neighbour, Gil, only to find out he is married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-29
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Um Anjo Trapalhão
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Patient
Overview: The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Guerra de Canudos
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, a poor family comes to the rural Canudos, a community led by Antônio Conselheiro, seen by many as a holy prophet. Their ways bother the powerful people of the region, and the newly founded Republic sends their army to destroy the settlement, which culminates in one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Brazil.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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Uma Noite Não é Nada
Overview: São Paulo, 1984. Agostinho, an old and tired Physics professor, is married to Januária, a retired school principal. In his classes, he begins to feel attracted to one of his students, Márcia, an HIV positive teenager. Quickly, the attraction of the two turns into an impossible love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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As Doze Estrelas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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Irma Vap: O Retorno
Overview: After many flops, theatrical producer decides to stage a former hit, "O Mistério de Irma Vap". But he is going to face many problems to find the right actors and get the necessary permissions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-04-07
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The Moneychanger
Overview: Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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Onde Andará Petrucio Felker?
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-07-27
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Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta
Overview: The intense life of Ferreira Gullar, one of the most influential poets in Brazil, is revisited by his personal friend Silvio Tendler, based on his most acclaimed work: Poema Sujo. In addition to addressing other poems by Gullar, the documentary also includes the testimony of people who lived directly with the artist's work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-11
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Incidente em Antares - O Filme
Overview: Film adaptation of the TV Show in 1994, based on the novel of the same name by Érico Veríssimo. During a general strike in the city of Antares, gravediggers refuse to carry out burials, to increase pressure on employers. During the night, however, the dead claim the right to be buried.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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Saci
Overview: Shows the characteristics and tells the story of one of the most popular characters in Brazilian folklore: Saci. A man long ago cut paths on his farm in search of something lost, but his work is delayed with the visit of Saci. When this boy appears, the whole order is broken and no one escapes his bewilderment. The farmer then begins an adventure to try to capture him.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-03-05
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Golpe de Ouro
Overview: After the coup of 1964, the media conglomerate Diários Associados organized a campaign called "Gold for Brazil," exhorting the people to donate wealth to the military government. The symbol of the campaign was the wedding ring, sealing the union between the people and the State. The film picks up the trail of the millions collected, but never channeled back into society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-08
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The Earth's Shadow
Overview: Night of rain and thunderstorms. A lonely pianist gives shelter to a mysterious wanderer who believes he carries with him a kind of curse linked to the moon and the tragedies of humanity.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-02-02
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35 - O Assalto ao Poder
Overview: Documentary about the frustrated insurrection of 1935 that resulted in the consolidation of the absolutist government of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil (1930-1945).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-07-05
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Chiquinho Brandão: Um Sopro Vital
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
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