Janaína Kremer
Also Known As: Janaina Kremer, Janaína Kremer Motta
Biography: Janaína Kremer Motta is a Brazilian actress who debuted in cinema with the short film O Sanduíche (2000). With this film, she was awarded Best Actress at the Brazilian Film Festival in Miami, in the short film category. Her first feature film was Houve Uma Vez Dois Verões (2002). Her filmography includes titles such as Sal de Prata (2005), Saneamento Básico, O Filme (2007) and O Tempo e o Vento (2013).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Birthday: October 22, 1972
Age: 52 years old
Gender: Female
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Before the World Ends
Overview: The countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. Daniel has a crush on his girlfriend Mim, who has just broken up with him but is still his friend, and his best friend, Lucas, is one of the best students in São Lucas High-School. Daniel is the son of Elaine and the photographer Daniel, who left Elaine when she was pregnant and moved alone to Thailand. Daniel is raised by Elaine and his stepfather Antônio, and shares a house with his half-sister, Maria Clara. One day, Daniel receives a letter from his biological father, who has malaria, and he is reluctant to open the envelope.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-08-20
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Two Summers
Overview: A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. They meet up again the following summer
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-12-28
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Still Orangutans
Overview: The film tells the story of sixteen people in the hottest day of the year in the city of Porto Alegre.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-06-27
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Time and the Wind
Overview: Based on Érico Verissimo's literary trilogy, Time and the Wind follows 150 years of the Terra Cambará family and their opponents, the Amaral family. The struggles between the two families begin in the missions and lasts until the end of the 19th century. The film also features the period of formation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and the dispute of territory between the Portuguese and Spanish crowns.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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Through Ernesto's Eyes
Overview: Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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My Uncle Killed a Guy
Overview: Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-12-12
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Hard Paint
Overview: Pedro earns a living in chat rooms. He transforms himself into NeonBoy in front of the webcam. Slowly, this young man dips his fingers into pots of coloured paint and glides them across his naked body. But things change when Pedro notices that somebody is imitating his performances. He agrees to go on a date with his mysterious rival. This rendezvous will have far-reaching consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-02-18
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Entreturnos
Overview: Beto is a bus conductor married to Gilda, who longs to have a child. When Beto gets closer to Leia, owner of his favorite bar, he meets Valcir, a newcomer who completes the love triangle that results in pregnancy. Amid the difficulties in dealing with this situation, the characters run through the city and find out more about themselves as they learn to confront their personal conflicts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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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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The Sandwich
Overview: A couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Stray Dog
Overview: In Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspirant actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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Wood & Stock: Sex, Oregano and Rock'n'Roll
Overview: Experience an adventure of counterculture, psychedelia, and an abundance of peace and love with Angeli’s beloved comic characters, the hippies Wood & Stock. As the euphoria of the 1970s fades, it's time to focus on family and work. However, a new rock band might just rekindle the spirit of those iconic years.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-10-12
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The Last Poem
Overview: Helena Maria Balbinot, a countryside teacher from the south of Brazil, exchanged letters during 24 years with Brazilian modernist poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. The movie reveals part of these letters. Through scenes of poetry and extreme beauty, this friendship is reinvented in the audience eyes. A meeting between the poems of Drummond and the particular universe of Helena Maria.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-29
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Sweet Mother
Overview: Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she uses her many years of experience to solve problems in the best way possible.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-12-27
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Homens de Bem
Overview: Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-12-29
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Dysphoria
Overview: Dario is a psychologist who has recently began taking child patients again, after going through a traumatic experience. His first patient is Sofia, a girl who makes others around her feel disturbing sensations.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-03-12
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Body
Overview: A boy finds a body in the woods. Every stare turns to the body.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-02-02
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The Staple of News
Overview: Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play “The Staple of News” provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and focus of their subjects, the resistance of the media in accepting itself as a political agent, the inevitability of interpretation as there are no hard facts in nature, and above all the search for an always complex balance between credibility and the public’s growing demand for news.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-04-09
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The City of Pirates
Overview: A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-08-17
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The First Death of Joana
Overview: Late summer of 2007, South of Brazil. Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt Rosa died at 70 without ever having dated anyone. Encouraged by her friend Carolina, Joana starts an investigation about Rosa’s past. As she confronts the values of her community, Joana realizes that all the women in her family have a secret, while something hidden inside her also reveals. She plunges into her imagination to find answers while a large wind power plant is being built in their small town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-08-04
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