Claudio Jaborandy
Also Known As: Cláudio Jaborandy
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fortaleza, Brazil
Birthday: January 21, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Oropa, França e Bahia
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-06-17
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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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4x100: Running for a Dream
Overview: The women's athletics (4x100m relay) is about to win a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games, the Brazilian victory is almost certain and the athletes are one step closer to what would be a milestone. If only one fatal error hadn't put off their dreams: the carelessness of the young Maria Lúcia causes the group to be disqualified. This changes Maria Lúcia and Adriana's lives forever, Adriana does not forgive her teammate after the final. Four years go by. Maria Lúcia is still the great promise in athletics while Adriana makes a living out of MMA fighting. A few months away from the Tokyo Olympics, they are called in to join the new 4x100 team. This time, Maria Lúcia and Adriana need to overcome the mistakes of the past. They count on the help of veterans Rita and Jaciara as well as newcomer Bia, athletes who rediscover their true power as a team, showing that the Brazilian women's athletics is stronger than ever.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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Love for Sale
Overview: In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Gonzaga: From Father to Son
Overview: Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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Second Movement for Piano and Needlework
Overview: In Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nicole, a Jewish clothing designer and IK, a Korean music teacher, lead quiet, rather lonely lives until fate unexpectedly brings them together in the city’s old Jewish quarter. In this poetic and charming tale, two contrasting traditions meet. Lush cinematography, beautiful music, gentle humour and superb performances blend seamlessly to tell a sweet story that explores the human need for creative fulfillment and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-17
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The Hijacking of Flight 375
Overview: Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to crash the plane on the Planalto Palace to kill the president - whom he considers guilty for the country's devastating economic crisis.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-12-07
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Araguaya - A Conspiração do Silêncio
Overview: Film about an important episode in Brazilian History: the Araguaya guerrilla. In the 1970s, when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, some left-wing militants and peasants took arms against the Army, in the Amazon. Right in the middle of the conflict, there stood a French priest who had come to the region in the 1960s, and got involved in the events leading to the rebellion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-06-29
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5 Frações de uma Quase História
Overview: An obsessive photographer crazy for female feet; a man that projects himself on situations he sees on TV; a simple public officer that receives a proposal from a corrupt Judge; a slaughter in a marriage crisis and a broken heart secretary that dreams to get married. These five characters will have their lives changed from a hot weekend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-07-04
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Boca
Overview: Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where various nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs can be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused for the murder of his father, who was violently stabbed over 40 times with a razor. Hiroito was not charged, however two months after the death of his father, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo and became one of the most dangerous criminals of the region.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-03
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The History of Eternity
Overview: In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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Amor?
Overview: The dramatic documentary recounts eight stories of love affairs in which those involved experienced some kind of physical or psychological violence. The real cases are interpreted by professional actors. The question raised by the film is whether love can be freed from violence, prompting the viewer to reflect.
Genres: Drama Romance Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-06-07
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Na Quebrada
Overview: In the ghettos of the greatest metropolis in Brazil, a midst flying bullets, love and any number of hurdles, young people's stories mingle and collide in the search for dreams and choices. Inspired by true stories, the feature film 'Broken Town' reveals the struggle faced and the choices made by teenagers who have always been surrounded by weapons, crime, and hardship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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All of God's Creations
Overview: An orphan, a blind virgin who seeks sexual pleasure, a young man who prostitutes himself as a transvestite and is sexually abused by his brother-in-law. What was God thinking of when he created each one of them?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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Latitude Zero
Overview: Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman wanted for a crime he committed in São Paulo. Colonel Mattos was Vilela's superior, and his presence is continually felt by the pair. Two further elements add texture to the plot - the inhospitable landscape and the new baby's crying, which slowly makes life unbearable for the couple. Based on an original stage play by Fernando Bonassi, the film delves into the souls of two Brazilians isolated in one of the country's nameless reaches. A love story and a metaphor taken to extremes: a glimpse at an unequal society which excludes many of its citizens, pushing them into violent adventures of love and death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-07-10
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Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-05
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Nise: The Heart of Madness
Overview: After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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The Middle of the World
Overview: Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga
Overview: Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a trap that nearly kills him. Born again, Matraga resorts to faith and hard work in the pursuit of redemption. Years later, he arrives at the village reigned by the hinterland's ruler and his thugs. This new friendship will challenge his destiny. Inside Matraga, the Saint and the Warrior will duel until his time comes.
Genres: Drama Adventure Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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Aldeotas
Overview: Two friends go their separate ways at age 17, affected by the troubling teenage conflicts in the small and conservative city of Coti das Fuças, in the countryside of Brazil. Levi, a poet, tired of being mistreated, sticks to the friends’ plan of moving to a big city. Elias, opressed by a violent father, gives up on the idea of leaving. At age 50, Levi comes back to reunite with his friend during a funeral, when their memories are relived before the last goodbye. Inspired by the theater play Aldeotas, by Gero Camilo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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O Shaolin do Sertão
Overview: Aluízio Li is a martial arts fan who lives with his head in the world of fights from dreaming and watching Chinese films. He believes he is a Shaolin monk, dressing and behaving just like his cinematic references. However, he is the subject of mocking jokes in his hometown, Quixadá, in the backlands of Ceará. His days of peace will end when retired MMA fighter Toni Tora Pleura announces a "tour" of challenges to bullies in several cities in the interior of Ceará, including Quixadá.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-10-13
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Another Story of the World
Overview: A small town, two families joined together over time. A man who does not forget the values of honor and fraternal friendship. From the director of The Journey to the Sea, history proposes the coalition of two worlds or, perhaps, the same but with different ways of understanding it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-07-20
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The Seamstress
Overview: In the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both of them will assert themselves in their own and surprising way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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Lua Cambará - Nas Escadarias do Palácio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-20
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Iremos a Beirute
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-07
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Quietness
Overview: The passing of the years is merciless for everyone. In the film, seven seemingly ordinary characters lead their lives seeking, each one, what they believe brings personal satisfaction. But, even with different and distant lives, they come closer by the way they guide their existence based on worldly concerns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Rapsódia para um Homem Comum
Overview: Epaminondas is a low-income middle-class civil servant in the early 1970s. He is an ordinary man, a family man, whose day-to-day life is surrounded by bureaucratic commitments and can no longer stand the banal routine he is subjected to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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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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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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O Amor do Palhaço
Overview: The end. Grete, beach personality from Canoa Quebrada, is dead. His story goes back in time, moments in his life reveal his trajectory until the moment he makes the fateful decision to leave Circo Maximo and venture out alone. The beginning of the end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-07-06
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Rifa-me
Overview: A young woman who dreams of leaving her small town in order to live in São Paulo decides to raffle herself in order to get a bus ticket to move there. The raffle winner gets the chance to spend the night with her. But in this small place where everybody knows each other, who'll be the winner?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-08-03
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Dossiê 50: Comício a Favor dos Náufragos
Overview: Journalist Geneton Moraes Neto interviews Brazilian international players who lost to Uruguayan national team in the finals of the World Cup 1950 in Maracanã stadium.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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