Luiz Fernando Guimarães
Also Known As: Luiz Fernando Guimaraes, Luis Fernando Guimarães, Луиш Фернанду Гимараеш
Biography: Luiz Fernando Guimarães (Rio de Janeiro, November 28, 1949) is a Brazilian actor and comedian.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Birthday: November 28, 1949
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Os Normais 2
Overview: After thirteen years of engagement, the boring sex life of Rui and Vani is limited to one intercourse every other week. They decide to seek excitement with a threesome and they decide to invite Vani's cousin Silvinha to participate late night, but an accident interrupts their game. Rui and Vani unsuccessfully spend the night searching for for companion of a bisexual woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-28
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Assaltaram a Gramática
Overview: Through performatic acts and some exposition, a group of poets of that 1980's generation make great use of words, poems and rebellious acts criticizing the then current generation and its lack of admiration for the poetic works that were being created.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Os Normais: O Filme
Overview: The film shows the day when Rui and Vani first met. It was at their wedding (with other partners). Vani was going to marry Sérgio, and Rui would marry Marta in the same church, following Vani's marriage. While waiting for the ceremony, they begin to talk. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-10-24
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The Seven Kittens
Overview: Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.
Genres: Horror Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-04-17
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Se Puder... Dirija!
Overview: A valet parking attendant borrows a client's car to spend the day with his son, but gets into unexpected trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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O Grande Mentecapto
Overview: Geraldo Viramundo (Diogo Vilela) is a nice guy with absurd ideas. Genial and / or insane, he decides to leave her small town in Minas Gerais and win the world. Your goal is to destabilize the system and their accomplices are the prostitutes and the destitute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Brás Cubas
Overview: Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's Posthumous Memories"). A dead man tells about his love life and adventures, specially his affair with Virgília, a dubious married woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-10-15
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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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Engraçadinha
Overview: After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
Overview: A portrays of the period in which Brazilian humor had fewer limits (1986-2003), free from military dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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Bar Esperanza
Overview: A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-05-19
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Areias Escaldantes
Overview: In the near future, in the country of Kali, a group of young terrorists carry out robberies, kidnappings and murders under the orders of a mysterious big boss known as "Entity" and are pursued by the pompous and inefficient Special Police.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-10-17
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O Ibraim do Subúrbio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-18
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What are you Laughing At? Humour and Dictatorship
Overview: Even with all the brutality in the Brazilian dictatorial period, many artists presented themselves as a resistance, using their talent and creativity as a way to trick the censorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Overview: In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-10
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Dedé Mamata
Overview: Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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O Poço
Overview: Two brothers, one straight one gay reopen old childhood issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-04-30
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Elena - Cavalli
Overview: Elena at the prestigious Aix-en-Provence Festival: Cavalli's opera staged for the first time in 350 years!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-22
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Teu Tua
Overview: A comedy divided in four episodes, set in different time periods, each starring a different couple, yet all facing the same issue: marital jealousy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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O Alienista
Overview: The story, set in the 19th century, portrays the hypocritical bourgeoisie of the time. The eccentric Dr. Simão Bacamarte is a doctor who will develop his theories about the treatment of madness, knowledge acquired during his stay in Europe. The city is left at the mercy of this man who decides, at his own risk, to judge who were the madmen in the city and who were the sane...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-07-23
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A Farra do Circo
Overview: This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-30
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