Stênio Garcia
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Biography: Stênio Garcia Faro (Mimoso do Sul, April 28, 1932) is a Brazilian actor. Known for his performances on screen and stage, he is the winner of numerous awards throughout his career spanning more than six decades, including three APCA Awards, a Guarani Award, a Molière Award, a Brazil Quality Award, and a Press Trophy, in addition to receiving a nomination for a Grande Otelo.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mimoso do Sul, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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Birthday: April 28, 1932
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This
Overview: During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-30
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Hans Staden
Overview: On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not Portuguese (their enemies) but a friend of the French (their allies), and that his God would be very angry if they were to eat him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-07-31
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Me, You, Them
Overview: A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-08-17
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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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O Vigilante Contra o Crime
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1964-06-09
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De Revolutionibus
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Belly Up
Overview: Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-09-10
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The Woman of Everyone
Overview: Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-10-24
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The Amorous Ones
Overview: An anguished university student in his early 30's ponders the state of his life in light of his relationships with a politicized classmate, a TV actress selling the image of a femme fatale and his bourgeois sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-11-22
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O Pornógrafo
Overview: Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upset the magazine's owner, a rich and powerful woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-11-22
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Everything's Alright
Overview: Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-10-23
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A Guerra dos Pelados
Overview: In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former owners of the land. The episode became known as Guerra dos Pelados.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Compasso de Espera
Overview: Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Leila Diniz
Overview: The life of Brazilian actress Leila Diniz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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Perlimps
Overview: Claé and Bruô, secret agents from enemy Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon, must overcome their differences and combine forces to find the Perlimps and infiltrate into a world controlled by Giants where war is imminent.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-18
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The House of Sand
Overview: A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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The Nutty Boy 2
Overview: In this new adventure, Maluquinho is spending the holidays at the home of his grandfather Tônico (Stênio Garcia), an inventor who lives in a small community in the interior of Minas Gerais. His friends Junim (Samuel Brandão), Lucio (Cauã Bernard Souza), Bocão (João Romeu Filho) and Nina (Fernanda Guimarães) are coming to the city to help Maluquinho organize the circus for the centenary of the city. On this trip, they meet Tatá-Mirim, a small flame that ends up making the city believe that they are being invaded by the Capeta. So they end up living many adventures.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-07-10
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O Vigilante Rodoviário: Missão Secreta
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Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Morte e Vida Severina
Overview: The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads for Recife, passing through desert and forest regions, expecting to find a better life.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-07-29
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The Inventor of Dreams
Overview: Centered on two young boys, an aristocrat and a native, chronicles the period in which Brazil went from colony to the center of the Portuguese Empire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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The Asphalt Kiss
Overview: When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is spotted by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a tabloid reporter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-12-06
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Overview: Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-06
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O Circo das Qualidades Humanas
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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O Crime do Zé Bigorna
Overview: In the 1930s, a blacksmith is accused of murdering his wife and becomes a hero and political leader.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-01-11
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O Esquadrão da Morte
Overview: A gang robs a factory in the State of Rio de Janeiro taking 500 million cruzeiros. In the shooting, several bandits and police are killed. The police manage to arrest some criminals involved in the robbery but do not recover the money. The mystery grows with the occurrence of some deaths clearly related to the robbery.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-09-20
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Bandidos da Falange
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-07-14
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As Três Mortes de Solano
Overview: Solano is often plagued by nightmares in which, during the Middle Ages, he is pursued by the hunter Faro, who intends to kill him. On discovering, in an antiquarian, a tapestry that represents a hunt and that reminds him of his dream, he tries to buy it, but the owner refuses to sell it.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-11-11
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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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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Hoje é Dia de Maria - O Filme
Overview: Maria is a gifted girl, who faces a hard life in the fields. She is happy when her father decides to remarry, thinking that he will rejoice again. However, to the girl's despair, her stepmother is bad and starts to mistreat her. Maria still has to face the devil's tricks. Adaptation of the miniseries shown in 2004.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Music Family TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-06-05
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The Obsessed of Catulé
Overview: In the Brazilian countryside, poor sharecroppers join a messianic group led by Joaquim, who believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Gaining power over the peasants, he begins to persecute those who do not pay absolute obeisance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1965-05-21
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Carga Pesada: A Grande Viagem - O Filme
Overview: Bino advises Pedro to get married, but he is reluctant until Rosa calls him and arranges a meeting in Fortaleza. Along the way, adventures chase truck drivers.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-04-24
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Mulher Oceano
Overview: After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those two women apparently share no connection, until their lives start to interfere in one another, strangely linked through the sea. Hannah, the writer, plunges into a journey of self-discovery in Japan, while Ana, the swimmer in Rio de Janeiro, oddly has her body transformed into some kind of inner Ocean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: O Pagador de Promessas - O Filme
Overview: Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from death. The payment is to carry a heavy cross from the interior of Bahia to a church in Salvador. When you reach the steps of the church, with injured shoulders, you have to deal with the incomprehension of a conservative priest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-09
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Rito do Amor Selvagem
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-04
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Out of Sight
Overview: Roberta is an employee of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro who infiltrates an energy realignment clinic to investigate the mysterious death of actress Antuérpia Fox. During the course of the investigation, Roberta will have to deal with the dramas of actress Natasha Ferrero, who is being "cancelled" on the internet, and with the reunion of her great love from the past, the federal police officer Rodrigo, who is investigating a suspicion of international trafficking involving the same clinic. For this mission, she will have the support of Isabela, her therapist, with whom, little by little, she forms a great duo.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-03-24
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Conversinha Mineira
Overview: In a city in the interior of Minas Gerais, a passerby enters a dairy to have a coffee with milk. The owner of the bar and his accomplice have a long conversation with this customer, until he discovers that the dairy does not always have milk... Short film based on the short story of the same name by famous Brazilian writer Fernando Sabino.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-02-11
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Show 60 Anos
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Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-04-28
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