Camila Pitanga
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Biography: Camila Manhães Sampaio (born June 14, 1977), professionally known as Camila Pitanga, is a renowned Brazilian actress known for her performances in film and television. The daughter of actors Vera Manhães and Antônio Pitanga, and the sister of actor Rocco Pitanga, Camila began her artistic career as a child at the age of six in the film Quilombo (1984). Throughout her career, she stood out in various television productions, including the telenovela Paraíso Tropical (2007), where she played the character Bebel, a role that earned her the APCA (São Paulo Association of Art Critics), Qualidade Brasil, and Contigo! awards for Best Actress. She also starred in Cama de Gato (2009), Lado a Lado (2012), and Velho Chico (2016). In cinema, Camila starred in films such as Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil (2001), Redentor (2004), and Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos Seus Lindos Lábios (2011), for which she won the Prêmio Guarani for Best Actress. In September 2016, she was named the national ambassador for UN Women Brazil, committing to the defense of women's rights and the promotion of gender equality. In Beleza Fatal on Max, Camila Pitanga received a prominent role with great recognition, gaining significant attention for her performance, which became one of the telenovela's highlights.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Birthday: June 12, 1977
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Gender: Female
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70 Anos Esta Noite
Overview: With the participation of great stars of television drama, the documentary promotes an emotional journey through the great moments of soap operas, celebrating its seven decades on Brazilian TV.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-12-21
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Basic Sanitation, the Movie
Overview: When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-07-20
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Malês
Overview: Based on historical facts, the film portrays the largest slave rebellion in Brazilian history, the Malê Revolt. The uprising mobilized the black population in the streets of Salvador against slavery in 1835. After the failure of the revolt, the protesters were harshly punished and repression against black people in Brazil increased.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-14
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Redeemer
Overview: Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil
Overview: Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last.
Genres: Comedy Romance History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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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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Noel: The Samba Poet
Overview: The biopic of Noel Rosa, one of Brazil's best poets and composers.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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The Sign of Chaos
Overview: A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. Then, a party in which repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-25
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The Price of Peace
Overview: In 1894, with a coup d'état, President Floriano Peixoto closed down The National Congress, soon reinstated with co-religionaries in key positions. In the south of Brazil, the Maragatos revolutionaries would not come to terms with this. They rebelled and marched to Rio de Janeiro to join Admiral Saldanha's troops and depose the President in an episode known today as the Federalist Revolution. The rebels fought bloody battles with Floriano soldiers during the march. Idelfonso Corrêa is a quiet, reserved citizen of humble origin who becomes the Baron of Serro Azul. His mature demeanor makes him a choice for mediator between both groups. Midst negotiations and difficulties to safeguard the family and his protegés, the Baron expands his domains, starts a newspaper, a bank, and exports herva-mate. With the battle over, his form of address, Baron, becomes synonymous with traitors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-08-23
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Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
Overview: “Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
Genres: Animation Drama History Romance Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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Sal de Prata
Overview: After her boyfriend's death, a successful executive finds some unfinished scripts in the dead man's computer, and decides to make a film of them. Her relationship with the world of movie-making is going to change her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Super Colosso
Overview: Movie version of Brazillian children's television series TV Colosso.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-25
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Mulheres do Brasil
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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Pitanga
Overview: This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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Bendito Fruto
Overview: An accident involving a flying manhole cover leads to a chance meeting between two childhood friends: a widow and the owner of a beauty parlor. Thus begins an entertaining game of seduction that brings memories and hidden desires to the surface - furtive passions that end up threatening the hairdresser's de facto marriage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-11-28
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Stray Bullet
Overview: The path of five bullets and the people they pass during a shootout in a square. Anyone can die.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-08-01
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Barravento Novo
Overview: Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha’s first feature, Barravento, from 1962—and his daughter, Camila Pitanga, a well-known actor and filmmaker working today.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-09
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Juntos a Magia Acontece
Overview: The death of the matriarch on Christmas eve provokes a crisis that makes the family review attitudes and give a new meaning to the date.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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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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História de Amor
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Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-28
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