Matheus Nachtergaele
Also Known As: Матеус Наштергале, Матеуш Наштергале
Biography: Matheus Nachtergaele was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1969. He showed his talent in many roles, both in cinema and television. Best known for City of God, Central Station and A Dog's Will.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Birthday: January 03, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Central Station
Overview: An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-03
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Cidade de Deus: Oficina dos Atores
Overview: Documentary on the preparation of actors for "City of God".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Four Days in September
Overview: Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Red Carpet
Overview: Quinzinho has a promise to keep: to take his son, Neco, to the city to watch a Mazzaropi movie. They live in a small farm in São Paulo. In this odyssey through the towns of São Paulo, he also takes his wife Zulmira, who goes unwillingly, and their donkey Policarpo. On their journey, they find regional peculiarities and undergo magical situations related to popular belief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Nina
Overview: After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-28
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The Rogue's Trial
Overview: After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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A Dog's Will
Overview: The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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Dry Movie
Overview: Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-14
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Journey to the End of the Night
Overview: In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie, and they have a little son. When a client is killed by his wife in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-21
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Bog of Beasts
Overview: A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-12-12
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The Well Beloved One
Overview: Based on the homonymous work of Dias Gomes , The Well Beloved tells the story of the mayor Paraguassu Odorico, whose primary goal in his administration in the city of Sucupira is the inauguration of a cemetery. One side is supported by the sisters Cajazeiras. On the other, he has to fight against strong opposition led by Vladmir, owner of rag city. For lack of a corpse, the mayor can never accomplish his goal. Not even the arrival of Ernesto - a dying man who does not die - and hiring Zeca Diabo, a bandit killer, provide him with the realization of his dream. Odorico gun situations for someone to die, but the first body to be buried in Sucupira may be the mayor himself, that the hunter becomes the hunted and goes from villain to martyr.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-07-23
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Mango Yellow
Overview: The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-08-14
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Julia's Lover
Overview: Paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, Cássio's relationship with Julia goes through difficulties. Feeling rejected, she starts a new romance. Based on the novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D. H. Lawrence.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-01-18
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The Black Virgin
Overview: Life of inhabitants of a small fishing village of the caribbean , changes drastically after the apparition of a Black Virgin, which disallowed the skies to get dark, stopped the vandals from invaden town. After months of intense changes in the chaotic life of this fishing town, the inhabitants had to face the most cruel of changes in their lives.La vida de los habitantes de un pueblo pesquero del caribe, cambia drásticamente tras la aparición de una Virgen Negra, ésta no permitió que el cielo volviera a oscurecer, impidió que los vándalos invadieran el pueblo. Luego de meses de intensos cambios en la caótica vida de este pueblo pesquero, sus habitantes tuvieron que enfrentarse al más cruel de los cambios en sus vidas
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Delicate Crime
Overview: Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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Conception
Overview: A group of bored well-off young adults come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won't last long.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-11-27
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Heavier Is the Sky
Overview: After taking in an abandoned child, Teresa meets Antônio and the two begin a journey on the roads. The common past, for them, is the memories of a city submerged at the bottom of a dam. Life is a dream, but the future is uncertainty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-08-08
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Bad adolescence
Overview: How a bad company can ruin a teenager?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
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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
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-12-27
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Rat Fever
Overview: Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-06-22
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The Storytellers
Overview: A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As most of the inhabitants are illiterate, they have no choice but to ask for the help of Antônio Biá, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out letters with lies about their reputations as a way to keep his job in Javé's seldom-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the city was founded, yet each inhabitant has his or her own version of what happened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Na Quadrada das Águas Perdidas
Overview: Olegário, a poor man from the Brazilian Northeast, must cross an arid region to sell his animals. He faces several dangers like poisonous snakes, a jaguar, hunger and thirst.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-08-02
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Bald Mountain
Overview: In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' dreams of hitting the jack pot are shattered. Winner of the 2014 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Trinta
Overview: Biopic about the late Joãozinho Trinta, a self-taught classical dancer who turned Rio's Carnival into an international phenomenon in the 1970s and '80s by directing parades for samba schools and putting focus on costumes and decor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Overview: 23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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Twins
Overview: Identical twins Iara and Marilena like to play games and deceive men by pretending to be each other. But when they fall in love with the same man, a rivalry with devastating and horrifying consequences begins.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-04-30
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Bufo & Spallanzani
Overview: Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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500 Almas
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-06-29
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Blue Blood
Overview: When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-09-29
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At the Edge of the Earth
Overview: On 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere in Capitólio Theater in Rio de Janeiro to astonished audiences bewildered by the impressive and poetic images. Considered by many viewers the best Brazilian movie ever made, this feature has never been released commercially. However, in a great paradox, Mário Peixoto has never made any other movie. The director Sérgio Machado pays a great tribute to the life and work Mário Peixoto a.k.a. Maçarico by his close friends with this documentary, using his diary; footages of "Limite", the never concluded "Onde a Terra Acaba" (1933) and the short "O Homem do Morcego" (1980); and interesting testimonies of Olga Breno, Ruy Solberg, Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Walter Salles among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-07-07
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Zama
Overview: In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Ó Paí, Ó - O Filme
Overview: During Carnival at the historic site of Pelourinho, we follow the lives of tenants in a run-down rental house who try to survive using creativity, irony, humor and music. This is an adaptation of the TV show, not the 2007 movie which inspired the TV show.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-14
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Midnight
Overview: On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-08-12
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O Enfermeiro
Overview: A male nurse goes to a small village in Bahia's countryside. Based on the Machado de Assis short story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-07-30
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Antonio Candido, Final Notes
Overview: The film focuses on unpublished texts that deal with the signs of physical fragility, cinematographic preferences, evocations of ancestors, mentions of childhood and memories of Gilda de Mello e Souza.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-03-26
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Big Jet
Overview: The boy Francisco spent his days accompanying his father at work, or rather, on the roads. The man is a driver of the imposing Big Jet, a pickup truck used to clean the city's cesspools without basic sanitation. But the boy is more interested in the ideas of his uncle, a libertarian and anarchist artist. As he discovers his first love, Chico realizes the vocation to become a poet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-19
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Don't Call Me Son
Overview: Pierre is seventeen and in the middle of puberty. He plays in a band, has sex at parties and secretly tries on women’s clothing and lipstick in front of a mirror. Ever since his father’s death, his mother Aracy has looked after him and his younger sister Jacqueline, spoiling them both. But when he discovers that she stole him from a hospital when he was a new born baby, Pierre’s life changes dramatically. In her new film, director Anna Muylaert explores the mother-child relationship through the eyes of a rebellious son whose whole world unravels overnight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-07-20
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A Meeting with Milton Santos
Overview: The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the importance of respecting difference and his belief that an alternative globalisation model could wholly enfranchise all citizens of the world. An illustrious presence in 20th century social sciences, the man dubbed as ‘geography’s philosopher’ eloquently elucidates a developing world perspective on the global age.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-08-17
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When I Stopped Worrying About Scoundrels
Overview: In the midst of a political crisis, Joao Carlos decides to make the most important decision in his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-08-13
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The Serpent
Overview: Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin. Dissatisfied, she wants to dissolve the marriage and thinks about suicide. To prevent her sister’s suicide, Guida offers her own husband, Paulo, for one night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-10-06
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Mercy
Overview: The quiet life of the small town Piedade's inhabitants is shaken up by the arrival of a big oil company, which barges in taking over houses and local businesses, throwing everyone out, to better reach and use the area's natural resources.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-11-23
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Anahy de las Misiones
Overview: Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-11-25
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Birdwatchers
Overview: Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-08-31
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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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492: A Man Called Death
Overview: The story of Júlio Santana, a professional killer who was responsible for almost 500 hundred murders in Brazil.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-10
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All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
Overview: "All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum: O Filme
Overview: A young wizard must create new spells in his magic book before the planets align. His uncle and aunt, powerful mages themselves, help him achieve that. Based on the award-winning Brazilian TV series.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-12-31
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Tito and the Birds
Overview: Tito is a shy 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared. Tito quickly discovers that the cure is somehow related to his missing father’s research on bird song. He embarks on a journey to save the world from the epidemic with his friends. Tito’s search for the antidote becomes a quest for his missing father and for his own identity.
Genres: Animation Adventure Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-02-14
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Making of O Auto da Compadecida
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Câmera, Close!
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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Kenoma
Overview: In the village of Kenoma, inside Brazil, the artisan Linnaeus tries to make a big and quixotic dream: to build a perpetual motion machine. His contract is opposed by Jerome, powerful local landowner, but he wins the aid of mysterious drifter who decides to stay in town after charmed with the beauty of the young Tari.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-06-17
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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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Eclipse
Overview: The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, during a lunar eclipse, Pia is murdered. Her death plunges Gil into a world of shadows. He leaves the town by the river and does not return to the house he shared with Pia until two years later. There, Pia is present in the flood of memories that keep coming back to him, and also lives on deep in his heart. This love, the comfort it brings him, and the girl Elsa lead him out of the darkness and back into the light, back to life. And he will meet Pia's murderer. 'Eclipse' is a love story set against the background of a crime: compelling, poetic, and delicately told.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-09-14
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Overview: Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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The Club of Angels
Overview: Over the years, the monthly meetings of the Stew Club – a fraternity that has gathered seven long-time friends for decades – has gone from rituals of power to melancholic failure assemblies. The end would be its only worthy fate. Until a mysterious cook appears, and starts serving them magnificent feasts. The bonds of friendship are back, gluttony as a celebration of life. But there is a catch: after each dinner, a member of the brotherhood is found dead the next morning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-11-03
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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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O Curupira
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-02
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King Car
Overview: Uno has a fantastic gift: he can talk and listen to cars since he was a child. After a new law prohibiting the use of aged cars puts his father's taxi company in danger, he takes a decision to recover an old family car into a “new one”, and its name is King Car – a car that speaks, listen, and even fall in love. A car that has plans for everyone.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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Get the Goat
Overview: Bruceuilis, a policeman from the countryside, is assigned to rescue Celestina, a goat considered heritage of his small city, and travels to São Paulo. There, he meets police clerk Trindade, who decides to venture out into the field, even though it is not his specialty.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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Amizade
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-11-09
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Cabras da Peste 2
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Original Language: pt
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Conquista Central Station - The 7 days of creation
Overview: Exclusive record of the filming of Central do Brasil in Vitória da Conquista in 1997. The ProVídeo Uesb team had access to the backstage, testimonies from the team, actors and director Walter Sales, keeping unique moments from one of the most emblematic films of what came to be known as Cinema da Retomada. A project carefully thought out by cultural producer Jorge Melquisedeque, the video ended up not being produced by him - who would die in 2001. All the raw tapes were rescued in 2002 and edited with the script by Marcelo Lopes (based on Jorge's chronicles about the period) and directed by Esmon Primo for the tribute program to the 10 years of the Indiscreet Window Cine Vídeo Uesb Program.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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