Rocco Pitanga
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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Nobody Belongs to Nobody
Overview: Gabriela, Roberto's wife, is called to work in the office of Renato, a successful lawyer married to Gioconda. After that, the quartet begins to suffer from lies, exhausting relationships and tragedies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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Once Upon a Time in Rio
Overview: Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-07-25
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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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Seja O Que Deus Quiser!
Overview: After getting involved with an MTV VJ, a musician ends up being accused of setting up a robbery against her. To clear his name, he goes to São Paulo, but gets involved in situations that distance him from his peaceful life.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Daughters of the Wind
Overview: In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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Possessões
Overview: Three stories are intermingled by the same theme: possessions.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-22
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Garotas do ABC
Overview: Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-12-18
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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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Xuxa and The Treasure of the Lost City
Overview: Deep in the Amazon rain forest, there is a lost subterranean city. The place was built by Vikings who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and ventured up the Amazon River, and shelters a mysterious treasure. In order to find the secret location, Bárbara and the children Riacho and Manhã will have to face many challenges. Vicious snakes and dangerous pendulum blades are only the beginning of our heroes' adventures.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-12-10
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Vestido de Noiva
Overview: While in the hospital, after being run over, Alaíde thinks about her life, specially after the moment she'd found the diary of Madame Clessy, in the house where her family had moved in, which was a former bordello.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-10
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Deixe-me Viver
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-10-13
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Running After
Overview: Paulo Ventania is a black Brazilian man, always doing his best to bring some happiness in his life, and by happiness he means money. When he's at a dead end, he discovers the opportunity to become a football manager by leading some boy from the neighborhood to becoming the new Neymar of international soccer. Going through the suburbs of Rio, he finds Glanderson, a young boy with an enormous talent for soccer despite missing two toes. With good humor, high hopes, and a lot of mistakes, the quixotic duo tries their best to make their dream come true.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-07
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Eu Sinto Muito
Overview: A filmmaker is producing a documentary on personality disorders. He follows three people with some crisis or emotional instability, whom all have difficulties on maintaining personal relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-14
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Os Escravos de Jó
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-24
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Os Espetaculares
Overview: An egotistical stand-up comedian fights with a spectator and gets fired. To be able to pay his son's pension, he decides to participate in a comedy group contest. Now he will need to work harmoniously with the rest of the team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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M8 - When Death Rescues Life
Overview: When Maurício becomes a student at a top medical school, he becomes obsessed with a mystery linked to the dead bodies used for dissection.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-12-03
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O Auto da Boa Mentira
Overview: In four stories inspired by humorous tales by Ariano Suassuna, each created based on phrases by the poet from Paraíba, we meet Helder, Fabiano, Pierce and Lorena, living different situations where, ironically, the lie is always the protagonist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-29
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Knitting
Overview: Five brothers end up being raised by their older brother after their mother's death. One day, as adults, they receive the news that a comatose man in an ICU could be their father. In the hospital's waiting room, the brothers immerse themselves in their conflicts and memories, and through the knitting learned in childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-08-13
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Linger
Overview: João and Vitor used to be paramours but haven't spoken to each other for 30 years. At 70, they reunite and reconcile past, present, and a possible future after the passing of Vitor's wife, at a moment when so much of their lives seem to have reached an end.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-12
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