Maitê Proença
Also Known As: Maite Proença, Maitê Proença Gallo, Майте Проэнса
Biography: Maitê Proença Gallo (São Paulo, January 28, 1958) is a Brazilian actress, presenter and writer. Proença has worked on Brazilian telenovelas, films and plays. Her role in the telenovela Dona Beija was her first major TV success in Brazil, Portugal and some 50 other countries where it was shown. Proença has written two books. Her first book, Entre ossos e a escrita, published in 2005, contained the best of her essays. The second book, Uma Vida Inventada, sold 100,000 copies in Brazil and was exported to Portugal. She has also written two plays one of which, As Meninas, won her several prizes. She has a column in the Brazilian magazine Época. Proença has been a TV host for Video Show (1983), Programa de Domingo (1987) and Saia Justa (2006/2007). In 2006, Proença wrote her first theater play, Achadas e Perdidas. In 2002, she made her debut as a theater producer with the play Buda. In 2009, due to controversial remarks on the Brazilian TV show Saia Justa, Proença prompted public outrage in Portugal and was accused of being Lusophobic, though she has since affirmed numerous times her love for Portugal. She has since denied the accusation and recorded several apologies, as well as issuing one on her official blog. Proença emphasized that despite the misunderstanding, she is of recent Portuguese ancestry and likes Portugal and the Portuguese. For about a week, the affair was discussed or reported on several Portuguese television networks and major newspapers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Birthday: January 28, 1958
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Gender: Female
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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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Kuarup
Overview: This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema
Overview: After meeting a beguiling woman in a movie theater, a realtor becomes embroiled in a mysterious plot involving murder, double identities and movies.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-07-19
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What Ever Happened to Dulce Veiga?
Overview: In the 1980s, a journalist sets out to find the whereabouts of a famous singer/actress who disappeared decades earlier. During his search, he goes across several states in what ultimately becomes not only a search for a missing person but a journey of self-discovery.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-06-27
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The Forest
Overview: Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer
Overview: On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their crisis and limitations, and search for a meaning for their lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-29
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Tolerância
Overview: Julius is a photographer working as a men's magazine photo retoucher. His wife, Marcia, is a criminal lawyer who defends Teodoro, a squatter accused of murder. For years they had a quiet wedlock. However, Marcia gets involved with her client, and as revenge, Julius sleeps with Ana Maria, a friend of their daughter Guida. From this episode on, their lives are no longer the same.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-10-01
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Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Overview: 23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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Paixão Perdida
Overview: A paralized twelve year boy watches his womanizer dad seduce his baby sitter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-01-15
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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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Underground Game
Overview: To find the woman of his life, man makes a game up: he enters a subway train wagon, picks a woman he likes and waits to see whether she's going to take the same course and connections as he. If she is, he tries to make contact.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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Bufo & Spallanzani
Overview: Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Prova de Fogo
Overview: As soon as Mauro, an Administration student, discovers a strong vocation for mediumship, he drops everything to go deeper and dedicate himself to Umbanda, a religion he embraces so strongly that it makes him give up his studies. Determined to open his own spiritist center, Mauro moves to the countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-05-25
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A Hora Mágica
Overview: In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-07-03
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My Hindu Friend
Overview: Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live with the pain and also conversing with death, he meets a Hindu boy who is a fellow patient and who becomes his friend. But one day the boy disappears. Diego is discharged, but his life has changed forever. His marriage fails and, living alone, he begins to wonder whether he may in fact be dying and no one has told him. He tries to find out what happened to his Hindu friend, and eventually meets another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-03
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Kiss 2348/72
Overview: Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the hardships of the labor lawsuit he filed against the company.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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Brasa Adormecida
Overview: Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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Elvis & Madonna
Overview: In Copacabana, lesbian photographer Elvis is hired to deliver pizzas in the night shift on her motorcycle. Her first assignment is a delivery to the transgender hairdresser Lady Madonna, whom she falls in love with.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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À Beira do Abismo me Cresceram Asas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-02-05
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Bio
Overview: The film tells the story of a man who was born in 1959 and died in 2070, told by people who knew him and somehow contributed to his trajectory.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-08-24
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Barros - A Lagoa
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Sixteen-Oh-Sixty
Overview: Rich executive being threatened by a burglar who had been caught trying to steal his mansion hires a hitman to kill him in prison. But another man is killed instead, leaving a widow and three kids. Full of remorse, he tries to help the family, taking everyone home. Soon, conflicts arise from the impossible coexistence of such contrasting families under the same roof.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-10-03
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Vox Populi
Overview: A man is accused of shooting his wife and her lover but as we find out. It wasn't her lover...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Viva Sapato!
Overview: A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Zapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. When her aunt sends her a pair of shoes instead of the money to start up the restaurant, she angrily sells the useless gift for spare change. Her dream fades away - until she discovers that the money was hidden in the heel. The zany search for the shoes begins, as she follows the footsteps through the lively streets of Havana, running into the quirky, colorful characters that bring Viva Zapato and Dolores' dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-05-17
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Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor
Overview: Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one of his best friends and marries her; soon after, she cheats on him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-08-17
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The Inheritance
Overview: Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than an apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles, the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, and expectations. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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Marquesa de Santos
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-08-21
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Sexo Frágil
Overview: To get money and produce the play in which his girlfriend acts, an unemployed actor dresses up as a woman and falls in love with a millionaire widower.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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Em Busca de Carlos Zéfiro
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-05
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Chiquinho Brandão: Um Sopro Vital
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
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