Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos (Umbuzeiro, June 25, 1954) is a Brazilian actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Umbuzeiro, Paraíba, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: June 25, 1954
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Male
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Carandiru
Overview: When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-21
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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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Me, You, Them
Overview: A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-08-17
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Perfumed Ball
Overview: A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-08-01
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The Midday Sun
Overview: After a tragic crime of passion, Artur leaves the depths of Brazil on a journey in search of redemption. Early on, he meets Matuim, the anarchic captain of an old vessel, and comes to befriend him through a series of tense and comic situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-01
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O Natal do Menino Imperador
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Genres: TV Movie Family History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-12-23
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How to Die in Cinema
Overview: Memories of a parrot who participated in the filming of the classic Vidas Secas, in 1962, where it was featured along the puppy Baleia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-03-07
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Fragma
Overview: Two lives look for meaning into a time that was lived, dreamed, and above all, felt.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-28
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Time and the Wind
Overview: Based on Érico Verissimo's literary trilogy, Time and the Wind follows 150 years of the Terra Cambará family and their opponents, the Amaral family. The struggles between the two families begin in the missions and lasts until the end of the 19th century. The film also features the period of formation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and the dispute of territory between the Portuguese and Spanish crowns.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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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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Irmã Dulce
Overview: Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the “Good Angel of Bahia”, also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and canonized by the Catholic Church. Contemplating from the 1940s to the 1980s, the film shows how the Catholic nun faced an incurable respiratory disease, machismo, the indifference of politicians and even the dogmas of the Church to dedicate her life to the care of the miserable, leaving a legacy that continues today.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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The Inventor of Dreams
Overview: Centered on two young boys, an aristocrat and a native, chronicles the period in which Brazil went from colony to the center of the Portuguese Empire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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Acalanto
Overview: An illiterate lady seeks to soothe the missing of her son asking for a friend to read several times the same unique and old letter sent by her son ten years ago. Through these readings , a great friendship and complicity were born between them.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-08-16
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Romance do Vaqueiro Voador
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-02
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O Homem Mau Dorme Bem
Overview: In a petrol station near the road, three characters meet: Rita, the station's owner, that keeps searching for a love that she thought she once had; Wésley, a seller of pirate DVD's and CD's that, after thrown into underemployment, is trying to rebuilt his life; and Caburé, that haven't slept in years waiting to redeem a past of life and death. Gathered by an apparent coincidence, they weave their fate until they discover what is common in their stories.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-11-19
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Marighella
Overview: Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-01-29
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Son of Ox
Overview: João is a lonely boy living in the outback. No friends, no mother, and no bond with his father, he finds a chance to overcome his fears and a possibility to fit in when a small circus arrives in town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-01
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Mutum
Overview: Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-15
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A Family Submerged
Overview: Marcela’s world becomes strange and unfamiliar after her sister Rina dies. She feels lost in her own house, and her relationship with her husband and children seems to suffer. But when Nacho, a young friend of her daughter’s, unexpectedly drops by, she starts to talk and walk with him. Gradually Marcela begins to have conversations with relatives from another dimension.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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Under the Heavens
Overview: Marta, a young Venezuelan mother, immigrates to Brazil. During her journey, she meets a struggling young couple. The couple has a baby and Marta the ability to breastfeed.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-12-05
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Légua Tirana
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-12-13
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Chofre
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Genres: Drama
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Menino Azul
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos Não Está Neste Filme
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
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