Marco Ricca
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Biography: Marco Antonio Ricca (São Paulo, November 28, 1962) is a Brazilian actor and filmmaker. Marco was born in São Paulo in 1962. His television debut was in 1993, in Rede Globo's soap opera Renascer, playing the character José Augusto. The following year he transferred to SBT, where he acted in the soap opera Éramos Seis. In 1995, he made a quick stint in the teledramaturgy of Rede Bandeirantes, participating in the telenovela A Idade da Loba. He then returned to SBT to star in the telenovela Razão de Viver.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Birthday: November 28, 1962
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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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Verônica
Overview: When a teacher takes one of her students to his home in the slum, she discovers that drug traffickers have killed the child's parents and are looking for the boy.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-02-06
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Romeo and Juliet Get Married
Overview: The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck by a handsome man, Romeu, that she sees rooting for the Palmeiras' chief rivals, the Corinthians. After meeting the same man again in the middle of eye exam, Julieta and Romeu quickly become a couple. However, in order to avoid incurring the wrath of her parents, Romeu is forced to pretend to be an adoring Palmeiras fan, an increasingly difficult task for the die-hard Corinthiano.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-03-18
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Olhos de Vampa
Overview: A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is assigned to investigate the murder together with fetishist photographer Oscar. Without any lead, they decide to follow a sexy and popular night-club dancer on the streets of São Paulo, trying to identify possible suspects.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-08-01
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The Trespasser
Overview: Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-11-24
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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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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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Os Amigos
Overview: A lonely architect attends the funeral of his childhood best friend and embarks on a personal journey of reminiscence and self-reflection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-08-21
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Canta Maria
Overview: After her parents were killed by a troupe of soldiers in search of Lampião, an outlaw living in Northeastern Brazil, Maria marries Filipe, a horse whisperer. But his nephew Coriolano soon develops an attraction for Maria, while a jealous Filipe decides to break his marriage and sends Maria away.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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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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Cristina Wants to Get Married
Overview: Cristina still lives with her mother and wants to find her true love. She looks for help in a matrimonial agency, that arranges a meeting between her and Paulo. She likes the guy, but Paulo doesn't seem too enthusiastic. As time goes by, Chico, the owner of the agency, feels he is becoming too fond of Cristina...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-02-28
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De Pai Para Filho
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-08
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O Guarani
Overview: The forbidden love affair between Peri, an Indian, and the beautiful Ceci, a Portuguese white girl, in the 17th century Brazil.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-05-31
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6th Street, No Number
Overview: Am unemployed man receives a package from a dying stranger to be delievered to a certain Maira at 6th Street but he never learns the number.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-03-14
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The Milky Way
Overview: A modern love story set in Sao Paulo about Heitor, a writer and literature professor, and Julia, a theatre student turned veterinarian. A fight over the telephone propels Heitor into a journey through the chaotic city streets to reconcile with Julia. Their personal history unfolds against the backdrop of the city and its people in a series of events representing the struggle between poetry and science.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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O Fim e os Meios
Overview: Paulo (Pedro Brício), a publicist of Rio de Janeiro, moves to Brasília (capital of Brazil) to be the manager of the public image of a senator who wants reelection. Paulo is accompanied by his wife, Cris (Cintia Rosa), a journalist with whom he has a small daughter. But their relationship is not moved by love, they are only together for the girl, the result of an unwanted pregnancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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Chatô, The King of Brazil
Overview: The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-11-19
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Black Box
Overview: After running away from home in his youth, Túlio has grown adrift from his family. 40 years later he has to come home one last time to bury his parents and his brother and claim what now is his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-12-01
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Canastra Suja
Overview: Batista and Maria form a couple who, apparently, are very happy in their marriage. However, the truth is that appearances deceive and much; in the background, Batista, an inveterate alcoholic and Maria, who has an affair with her eldest daughter's boyfriend, Emilia, represents a family on the edge of the ruins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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Bio
Overview: The film tells the story of a man who was born in 1959 and died in 2070, told by people who knew him and somehow contributed to his trajectory.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-08-24
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Two Irenes
Overview: In the shimmering heat of Brazil, 13-year-old Irene discovers a dark secret her father's been hiding: he has another family and even another daughter with the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-02-12
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Liquid Truth
Overview: Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy's mother. Other parents and colleagues are only too eager to condemn him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-19
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Tiradentes
Overview: The story of one of the most important Brazilian heroes, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes. He was the leader of a group who tried to proclaim Brazil's Independence from Portugal in 1789. But he was betrayed by one of his comrades and hanged.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-06-12
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Até Que a Vida nos Separe
Overview: A group of friends in Sao Paulo see each other regularly in different venues of this huge metropolis, and act as their own de-facto family. They are similar in many ways, all upper middle class professionals between 28 and 32 years of age, and very conscious of their psyche and lives. The diversity within the group however, is also remarkable. It's made up about half men and half women. The men are the most diverse, ranging from your average guy looking for love to an Afro-Brazilian womanizing rich playboy, to a conflicted homosexual, heir to a business empire. It is the friendship (Amizade) and bond between these people that the film exposes, and at the same time it explores the different personalities of this apparently homogeneous, but actually psychologically diverse group of Sao Paulo yuppies. They stick together "'til friendship should ever separate them"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-05-29
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The Greatest Love of All
Overview: Antônio is an astrophysicist who has just found out he has an inoperable brain tumor. After decades living in the United States, he returns to Brazil and tries to learn more about his biological mother. His quest sends him off into the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-09-07
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The Nightshifter
Overview: Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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Florianópolis Dream
Overview: A recently separated Argentinian man and woman, with their two teenage children, go on a family holiday to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-11-15
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Rend Your Heart
Overview: 40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-15
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Hebe
Overview: Hebe Camargo is one of the most emblematic entertainments in Brazil. At her 60s, she went on to control her own career and, despite the criticism, the dreadful husband and the powerful and sexist bosses, she revealed herself to the public as an extraordinary woman, capable of overcoming any personal or professional crisis.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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Lamento
Overview: We are at all times making decisions that define who we are and what we face in our day to day. Elder manages the hotel inherited from his father throughout his life. In his hands the hotel went from a luxury resort to a hotel on the verge of bankruptcy. He is the portrait of a people whose life was easy but at the height of his fifties he faces the consequences of a life of excess with an erratic and cyclical addiction to alcohol and cocaine. Unsuccessful in his professional life, this failure is repeated in his social life with a marriage in ruins and with no prospect of improvement. At the limit of his emotional balance, Elder puts everything at risk when facing his demons and the consequences of their decisions. A story that finds its peer in every family nucleus of the Brazilian middle class.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-05
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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 Surgeon of the Rusty Knife
Overview: José Pedro de Freitas, better known as Zé Arigó, was a simple man who lived with his wife Arlete in Congonhas, Minas Gerais. During the 1950s, a time when Spiritism was not as well known and respected in the country, Arigó became a symbol of hope through his surgeries and spiritual cures. Based on a true story, Arigó, with the help of the spirit of Dr. Fritz, performed numerous spiritual surgeries on people from Brazil and the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-01
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Paterno
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-06-14
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Batimam and Robim
Overview: Batimam and Robim are two close friends. Their real names are Léo and Mário, but they've got those nicknames after dressing up for mardi-gras as Batman and Robin. To get some money, they decide to rob a small supermarket, but they meet some reaction and Mário gets shot by the owner, who is killed by Léo. They run away and find solace in an abandoned house. Léo decides to go out to try to get some help for his friend, whose leg was wounded, but to no avail. When he returns, the two start an argument.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-03
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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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Making Senna
Overview: Ever wondered how Senna's races came to life in the limited series? This behind-the-scenes look reveals how the cast and crew made them happen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-28
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