Babu Santana
Also Known As: Babu
Biography: Alexandre da Silva Santana (born December 10, 1979), known professionally as Babu Santana, is a Brazilian actor. Born in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, Santana acted in plays at school since his 12 years and joined the theater group "Nós do Morro" when he was 17. His first roles in films were in 2002 when he acted in "City of God" and "Something in the Air". He's the winner of two Grande Otelos, the greatest award of Brazilian cinema and a former participant in reality TV show Big Brother Brasil.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Birthday: December 10, 1979
Age: 45 years old
Gender: Male
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O Vampiro Que Pensa Vozes
Overview: Maurino (Marcelo Mac) suffers from auditory hallucinations and thinks he is a vampire, even though he is terrified of blood. After a conversation with Doctor Edvar (Babu Santana), Maurino suffers another psychotic crisis and decides to walk the streets of Lapa with his favorite machete, talking to the voices that keep echoing inside his head. Your biggest concern is thinking you're listening to people's thoughts.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-07-14
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Quatro Amigas Numa Fria
Overview: Dani is about to get married and travels with three other friends to Bariloche for her bachelorette party. The girls expect a fun and peaceful trip, but when they arrive in the Argentine city, things start to go wrong and the group has to make do: Karen forgets to book a place and, from there, the situation only gets worse. Together, they will need to find practical solutions to their problems and experience completely unexpected adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-05-19
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Estômago: A Gastronomic Story
Overview: In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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Era Uma Vez Babu
Overview: An experiment of poetic fiction involving the personality of an important actor in an abstract vision, that goes through past, present and future.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-20
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Não Se Pode Viver Sem Amor
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-06
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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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Elite Cup
Overview: Police officer Jorge Capitão is a competent BOP captain and a Brazilian idol. But after he saved Argentina's greatest ace from a kidnapping, on the eve of the World Cup, he ended up becoming the nation's number 1 public enemy. Expelled from the corporation and discredited by the people, Captain must relearn how to work as a team to avoid an attempt on the Pope in the final of the tournament. That's when the sex shop manager Bia Alpinistinha, a medium and her very crazy mother, enters the scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-04-18
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Memórias da Chibata
Overview: Juca, a black kid, sees his friends and his mother being hit by his stepfather, without being able to do anything against it, but when he knows that he is the great-grandson of João Cândido, the leader of the sailors rebellion against the chibata hits adopted by Brazilian Navy till 1910, he takes an extreme attitude towards changing the course of his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-06-09
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Tim Maia
Overview: Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55, including his passage by the US, where he discovers a new style of music and is arrested for theft and drug possession.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-10-30
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A Festa de Léo
Overview: The film is set in Morro do Vidigal, one of the most famous favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Rita needs to give her son Léo a party that means a lot to her. But on the day of the party, she discovers that all the money for the event, which she had been saving for months, was stolen by Dudu. From this disappointment, Rita, who works at the beach, needs to race against time to make Léo's party possible and save Dudu's life. To do this, she will need the help of her friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-05-23
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Rule 34
Overview: Simone is a young law student who studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights. On her free time, she's a cam girl that makes live sexual performances on the Internet. One night, she watches a video that awakens her interest in BDSM-related activities, leading her into a series of conflicts dominated by violence and eroticism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-19
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Os Suburbanos: O Filme
Overview: Driver Jeferson is the biggest fan of pagode and is willing to do anything to make his dream of being a singer come true, even cleaning the pool of the owner of the record label. After a premonition, he composes a song and sets up his plans for future internet success. However, he ends up getting involved with his boss's wife, at the same time that he discovers that he will be a father for the first time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Baptism of Blood
Overview: In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-04-20
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White House
Overview: Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with his two best friends.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-01-23
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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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In Dog's Words
Overview: São Paulo, 2007. Santana works as a dogcatcher, picking up stray animals. He is a friendly guy, averse to trouble, who has always kept violence away from the doorsteps of his home. One day, he catches a very big dog in a school. Some days later, comes the animal's owner: Babyface, a sociopath ex-cop. The man is furious, considering his dog to be "kidnapped", and demands immediate restitution of his pet. But the dog is not coming back: according to the law, the animal was put to sleep. In a misunderstanding, Babyface argue with Santana, blaming him for his pet's death. From this moment on, Santana's life will be completely changed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-17
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Uma Onda no Ar
Overview: Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give voice to the outcasts' complaints.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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Mamãe Saiu de Férias
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Original Language: pt
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Same Old West
Overview: In the backlands of Goiás, Brazil, brutish men who cannot deal with their weaknesses are constantly abandoned by the women they love. Sad and bitter, these men turn violently against each other.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-03-27
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Firmina
Overview: An elderly woman, when moving to her new apartment, is trapped and incommunicable. Upon hearing the cries for help coming from downstairs, she needs to race against time to save her neighbor.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-08-24
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Mais Uma História no Rio
Overview: Rodolfo Guerra, a young man from the upper class of Rio de Janeiro, has his fancy imported car taken from him at gun point in front of his condo by two men. With the help of the alarm system installed in car and the police, he captures one of the suspects. He will find out that the suspect can also be the victim!
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-09-26
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As Alegres Comadres
Overview: Scoundrel João Fausto, a former Portuguese officer, arrives in Tiradentes,in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Using his status of former Imperial Court member, he tries to become lover of both ms. Lima and ms. Rocha, with the intention of taking their money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Coffee With Cinnamon
Overview: Five friends drink beer and chat at Violeta's house. Bit by bit, their stories of love, loss and suffering are told, revealing the acts of love and friendship that helped them through the hardest times of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-25
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How Do You See Me?
Overview: How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness that are inherent to the job when detached from the glam and glitz of the gossip industry, creating a diverse and comprehensive mosaic of what it means to be an actor in Brazil, a country so full of contradictions. The film brings forward a reality that the masses usually don't get to know: the men and women moved by a deep passion for acting and touching people. With Julio Adrião, Matheus Nachtergaele, José Celso Martinez, Cássia Kis, Nanda Costa, Babu Santana, Luciano Vidigal and Letícia Sabatella, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Os Normais 2 - A Noite Mais Maluca de Todas
Overview: After thirteen years of engagement, the boring sex life of Rui and Vani is limited to one intercourse every other week. They decide to seek excitement with a threesome and they decide to invite Vani's cousin Silvinha to participate late night, but an accident interrupts their game. Rui and Vani unsuccessfully spend the night searching for for companion of a bisexual woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-28
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Achados e Perdidos
Overview: A retired cop becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a prostitute.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-04-19
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Bandeira de Retalhos
Overview: Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the news that the corrupt Rio de Janeiro mayor decided to make everyone move out of Vidigal, aided by police forces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-21
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Praça Paris
Overview: Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator. Throughout the sessions, Camila faces a very violent reality, since Glória was raped by her own father as a child and her brother Jonas is a dangerous bandit that is in prison. Increasingly frightened by the reports she hears, she feels threatened at the same time that Glória sees her as essential in her life.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-10
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Maré, Our Love Story
Overview: Free adaptation of Romeo and Juliet translated to the harsh life in Favela da Maré, one of largest and most violent slums in Rio de Janeiro. Living in a slum divided between two rival gangs of drug traffickers, Analídia is the daughter of one of the gangs' leaders and Jonathan is a childhood friend of the other gang leader. Both study in a dance group situated exactly in the middle of the two territories, looking for solace in art.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-04-04
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Cobrador: In God We Trust
Overview: Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-15
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Memories They Told Me
Overview: A group of friends, who resisted the military dictatorship, and their children will face the conflict between the daily life of today and the past when one of them is dying.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-06-26
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Plastic City
Overview: Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods operation that brings in both money and influence. But their empire is crumbling, as corrupt politicians and rival gangs seek to end their power in the city. Yuda is soon got arrested and his dedicated son tries his best to save not just the family business, but his father's reputation.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-14
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Love is All
Overview: A family with financial difficulties has a brilliant idea: to make their daughter Lindinha get pregnant of the famous singer Ivan Cláudio to inherit a lot of money and get them out of the choke. They plan the right day that the girl should go out with the star and begin to follow his performance schedule. They just didn't count with one thing: the jealous Jennifer, wife of Ivan, who will not let this story cheap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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Intervenção
Overview: Larissa competed for the Rio Military Police in search of the ideal of “protecting the citizen”.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-12-26
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AE-Autoexposure
Overview: After a shooting assignment, Henrique is mugged by two armed motor-bikers who steal his camera and speed off. Seconds later, he watches both get hit by a pickup truck driven by a self-appointed avenger, someone weary of feeling defenseless against the urban violence, and who decided to take action. Henrique recovers his stolen equipment and leaves, feeling avenged. But he goes back to find the memory card, with the photos, lost during the crash. From that moment, he is trapped in a situation where he is now the criminal for failing to rescue a victim, who had been his aggressor. Going from the murder scene to the police station, and then to the emergency ward of the public hospital, he attempts to clear himself.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-09
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Germano
Overview: A short contemporary story about the crew of a small Brazilian fishing boat. Part of the anthology The State of the World.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-24
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A Culpa é do Neymar
Overview: A typical kid from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro starts to support the team that his idol, Neymar, plays for. To his father, this is an unforgivable betrayal.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-01
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The State of the World
Overview: An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-06-16
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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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Welcome Maguila
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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City of Men
Overview: Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-08-31
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Julio Sumiu
Overview: Rio de Janeiro, in the period in which the Police Pacification Units (PPUs) were beginning to be deployed in the city. Edna (Lilia Cabral) is the mother of Julio (Pedro Nercessian) and Silvio (Fiuk). One day she wakes up desperate to see that Julio just disappeared!
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-01-10
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Falas Negras
Overview: The special features 22 real testimonials from people like Mandela, Martin Luther King and Marielle Franco, who fought racism and freedom in favor of justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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My Name Ain't Johnny
Overview: The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-04
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Na Idade da Imagem ou Projeção nas Cavernas
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-04-18
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Rio Mumbai
Overview: Nelson, a skeptical and disillusioned journalist, is having strange experiences. The old scientist who lives in his building tries to convince him that these events are linked to an old study of time travel. Nelson's wife Maria receives a logbook that reveals a timeless communication between them.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-06-21
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Almost Brothers
Overview: The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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Undercover Party Crasher
Overview: In order to get evidence for her case and dismantle a criminal organization, an uptight undercover cop crashes a high school graduation trip to a party-heavy beach in Brazil.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-01-17
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Noah's Ark
Overview: A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark: Vini, a charismatic poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist. When the rains come, only one male and one female of each species is allowed on Noah's Ark. With the help of an ingenious cockroach and fate's good luck, Vini and Tito sneak their way onto the Ark and together avert a showdown among the ships carnivores and plant eaters. All the while, the animals perform a series of classic songs inspired by world renowned poet, Vinicius de Moraes. Can these talented stowaways use music to break the tension and help these cooped up creatures survive the 40 days and 40 nights together?
Genres: Animation Music Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-01-05
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O Diário de Pilar
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
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Party Crashers
Overview: "Party Crashers" chronicles the amusing encounter between Marco Polo (Marcelo Adnet), a Copacabana trickster, and Beto (Eduardo Sterblitch), a shy and insecure man, on the New Year's Eve in Rio. Together they crash parties and create a lot of confusion in search of the beautiful Laura.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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