Carla Ribas
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: Not available
Age: Not available
Gender: Female
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Alice's House
Overview: Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children, the eldest of whom is doing his military service, and a mother who works as a maid in her house. None of the three siblings pay much attention to their mother, and they treat their grandmother with lack of respect. Alice's life in the female working world contrasts strongly with the powerful masculine presence in her home. Although she's a good girl, the chance to betray uncovers other betrayals she didn't know existed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-15
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Alice Especial, Part 2: The Last Night
Overview: In the wake of an argument with Nicholas, Alice has a chance encounter that transforms into a deeply affecting event.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-11-28
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The Other Side of the Street
Overview: Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of events that will force her to take stock of her life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-03-12
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I'm Still Here
Overview: In 1971, military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family — Rubens, Eunice, and their five children — live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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Testemunha 4
Overview: A character, an actress and the passing of hours in a Holocaust interrogation. The film moves through the echoes of reality: representation, testimony, memory, fiction and investigates the limits between actress and character.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
Overview: Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-21
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A Procura de Martina
Overview: Martina, who has Alzheimer's, has been searching for her grandson for over three decades. Discovering he is in Brazil, her long and solitary journey becomes an intense struggle against time and oblivion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-04
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Campo Grande
Overview: A wealthy middle-aged woman unexpectedly finds herself caring for two impoverished young siblings, in this subtle, touching and sincere study of class disparity from Brazilian filmmaker Sandra Kogut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-13
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The Silver Cliff
Overview: Violeta is a married dentist on a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma, says he is leaving her and going to another city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-17
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Aquarius
Overview: Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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Chacrinha: O Velho Guerreiro
Overview: The story of José Abelardo Barbosa, narrated from the time of his youth, when he was at medical school, and dropped everything to become a radio announcer. After that, we follow the transformation of his life and the creation of his alter ego, Chacrinha.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-25
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Empty Days
Overview: "Empty Days" tells the story of a day in the life of Jean and Fabiana, a couple of young boyfriends who try to reinvent their lives in a small town in the Brazilian interior. They are in their senior year of high school and live the old dilemma: either we leave this city or we stay here and continue the history of our parents. At the end of this day Jean commits suicide and Fabiana disappears. Two years later, Daniel and Alanis, another couple of young boyfriends, try to understand how everything happened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-25
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Marighella
Overview: Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-01-29
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Three Summers
Overview: Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-03-11
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Alice Especial, Part 1: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
Overview: Two years after her arrival in São Paulo, Alice continues her relationship with Nicholas and has begun to look for a place where they can live together. She has also launched a business that produces children's shows, and a stable life seems to be taking shape. But as she goes about the apartment search and shares in the loves and uncertainties of old and new friends, what she observes leaves her far less certain of her decisions and her future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-11-20
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