Gero Camilo
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Biography: Gero Camilo, stage name of Paulo Rogério da Silva (Fortaleza, December 18, 1970), is a Brazilian poet, actor, director, singer, composer and playwright.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Birthday: December 18, 1970
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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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O Amor Segundo B. Schianberg
Overview: Trapped inside an apartment in Sao Paulo, an actor and a director of videos explore mutual love. Adapted from Benjamin Schianberg character, in this book Marcal Aquino, "I receive the worst news of your beautiful lips."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-02-12
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Madame Satã
Overview: A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-10-03
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Federal Bank Heist
Overview: "The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-07-22
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I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips
Overview: In a remote part of the Amazon, a traveling photographer has an intense affair with a preacher's wife, but secrets from her past threaten to ruin them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-11
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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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Hotel Atlântico
Overview: A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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Pequenas Histórias
Overview: On the porch of a farm, a woman tells stories while cutting and sewing scraps of cloth, creating images that form a towel. There are four stories of humor and magic. The fisherman's wedding with Iara, a mermaid from the rivers. The altar boy of a church that sees the procession of souls. The encounter between a Santa Claus in a store and a street boy and the adventures of Zé Burraldo, a naive guy who always lets himself be carried away by others.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-22
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Mussum, o Filmis
Overview: The trajectory of Antônio Carlos Bernardes Gomes, known as Mussum, from Trapalhões. His poor childhood, his military career, his relationship with Mangueira and his success with the group Originais do Samba, as well as behind the scenes as a member of Trapalhões.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now!
Overview: A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. The production brings a mix of interviews, concerts, artistic interventions and actors in small sketches. An intersection of the social and artistic contexts of 68 with the current one.
Genres: Music Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-16
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Stories of Samba
Overview: At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly remembers the maloca where he lived with Joca and Mato Grosso, their passion for Iracema and other characters eternalized in his sambas, chronicles of a metropolis swallowed up by the voracious appetite of progress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-03-21
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5 Frações de uma Quase História
Overview: An obsessive photographer crazy for female feet; a man that projects himself on situations he sees on TV; a simple public officer that receives a proposal from a corrupt Judge; a slaughter in a marriage crisis and a broken heart secretary that dreams to get married. These five characters will have their lives changed from a hot weekend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-07-04
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Satyrianas – 78 horas em 78 minutos
Overview: A document of one of the greatest cultural events of Latin America in an innovative way, the film mixes documentary and fiction to pay homage to the artists of the contemporary Brazilian theater, who come together in the city of São Paulo every year to celebrate the coming of the spring. The fictional storyline shows the shooting of the documentary which is directed by a foreigner director and his Brazilian second-rate crew. They join forces to make a successful film based on the event.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-21
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Na Quebrada
Overview: In the ghettos of the greatest metropolis in Brazil, a midst flying bullets, love and any number of hurdles, young people's stories mingle and collide in the search for dreams and choices. Inspired by true stories, the feature film 'Broken Town' reveals the struggle faced and the choices made by teenagers who have always been surrounded by weapons, crime, and hardship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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200 Anos da Independência: Ainda tem Pendência?
Overview: A fun reinterpretation of the main landmarks and characters of the movement and what independence means for the people 200 years after the cry on the banks of the Ipiranga River.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-07
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Os Pobres Diabos
Overview: The Gran Circo Teatro Americano takes its attractions to the northeastern hinterland. In the city of Aracati, the troupe puts on a fun play about the crisis in hell. With a rochamboesque plot and inspired by string literature, the attraction shows the arrival of the bandit Lamparino to hell and how Lucifer participates in international capitalism. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, loves and tragedies move the lives of artists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-18
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Aldeotas
Overview: Two friends go their separate ways at age 17, affected by the troubling teenage conflicts in the small and conservative city of Coti das Fuças, in the countryside of Brazil. Levi, a poet, tired of being mistreated, sticks to the friends’ plan of moving to a big city. Elias, opressed by a violent father, gives up on the idea of leaving. At age 50, Levi comes back to reunite with his friend during a funeral, when their memories are relived before the last goodbye. Inspired by the theater play Aldeotas, by Gero Camilo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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Chronically Unfeasible
Overview: Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-08-10
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Brainstorm
Overview: Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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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 Dionti Family
Overview: THE DIONTI FAMILY is a lyrical family drama, infused with magic realism, about a father and the two sons he is bringing up alone. It depicts a striking part of the Brazilian countryside, rarely seen in cinema and tells a universally engaging tale about first love, loss and personal transformation.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-16
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Dá Licença de Contar
Overview: The film is based on lyrics from the very famous Brazilian samba composer Adoniran Barbosa, following the aesthetics of his time. Notable facts and characters of his songs takes us through the story, a portrait of São Paulo city in the 50's, a place full of music, love stories and gentrification (poor people getting evicted from their places in order to build great buildings), subjects often explored in Adoniran's work, always with a good touch of humor. This way he became the 'poor people poet'.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-26
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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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Maybe a Love Story
Overview: After another day at work, Virgílio turns on the answering machine at home and hears a disturbing message. It's a message from Clara, communicating the end of their relationship. Virgílio then listens to the message repeatedly, seeking some meaning. Breaking up is not the problem; the problem is that Virgílio has no idea who Clara is.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-14
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Man on Fire
Overview: Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-23
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Poemaria
Overview: Inspired by Eduardo Coutinho's films, debutant director Davi Kinski proposes the documentary Poemaria, assembled from conversations with 24 personalities. The subject: poetry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-16
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