Marat Descartes
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: May 17, 1975
Age: 50 years old
Gender: Male
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Capitão Brasil
Overview: When chaos takes over the streets, the life of a ten-year-old boy begins to crumble. It is at the moment when the desperation is based that Captain Brazil finds space.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-06-01
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Aos Ventos que Virão
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-07-24
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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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Joãozinho da Babilônia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Hard Labor
Overview: After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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The Tenants
Overview: Valter's life turns upside-down when a gang of smalltime criminals move in next door. Valter's wife Iara wants something to be done about their new neighbors whos nigthtly activities does not allow them to sleep. Valter just wants to be left alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-09-29
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Two Rabbits
Overview: Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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Super Nothing
Overview: Guto, aspiring actor, dreams of hitting the big-time in São Paulo. He takes classes, rehearses, works out, auditions. He knows his big chance could find him anyplace, at any moment. His idol and role model is Zeca, an old-school TV comedian who—even on his last legs— still lives on in the hearts of a generation. When their paths intersect, Guto’s luck begins to change. But is that really possible?
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-03-15
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Corpo Presente
Overview: Three desperate stories about working life in São Paulo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-11-18
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When I Was Alive
Overview: After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-01-31
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We're Together
Overview: A sensitive drama located in São Paulo, Brazil, about a young doctor who gets involved with two men and a homeless community at the same time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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A Violent Dose of Anything
Overview: Pedro has taken the road and he does not know where he is going. Lucas does not know it either. After meeting at a roadside café, they travel through the Brazilian Savannah seeking for a violent dose of anything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-22
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My Drywall Cocoon
Overview: Virginia’s death during her 17th birthday shakes up a luxurious building complex. For most residents, it’s a passing tragedy. For her mother and her friends, it is the beginning of a transformation: the crack in their drywall cocoon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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Doutor Monstro
Overview: A stubborn prosecutor is tasked with putting a plastic surgeon in jail who confessed to killing and dismembering a former patient. What should be an easy case ends up becoming one of the most difficult and disturbing jobs of his career. More than presenting incontrovertible proof and evidence, she will have the challenge of making the jurors -and millions of Brazilians- forget the absurd thesis, constructed with the help of the media by a brilliant lawyer, that the defendant is not a cold-blooded killer and cruel, but a peaceful good man, driven crazy by the unhealthy pursuit of an ex-girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
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Between Valleys
Overview: This is the story of Vicente, a successful, married, economist with a nine-year-old son. It also tells the story of Antônio, the same man, living as a hugadores—one of the homeless, trash scavengers who live and work in Brazil’s enormous garbage dumps. Vicente seems to have it all, but as we watch his life begins to crumble little by little. Meanwhile, Antônio, already at rock bottom, struggles to rebuild his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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A Stem
Overview: Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-05-18
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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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Lula, the Son of Brazil
Overview: The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Chamada a Cobrar
Overview: A high class lady from Brazil falls into a fake kidnapping scam when she answers a stranger’s phone call. Believing that one of her daughters has been kidnapped, she is guided by a terrifying voice for 12 hours through the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-08
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While It Lasts
Overview: A separated couple still share the same roof as a seemingly conventional family. The balance is broken with the arrival of the new ex-husband's girlfriend, highlighting the neuroses of the family's routine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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Irina
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-19
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Overview: Produced for TV Cultura within the project Telefilmes IV: Music and City, this made-for-TV film follows the story of Erica, a 14-year-old teenager growing up in Brazil, who has to learn how to deal with her British mother who is going off the rails. Living amidst an anxiety that switches between fear and love for her mother, Erica tries to find her way in a ship that seems to be sinking rapidly. It is in this moment that she picks up a guitar, and in her relationship with it, finds a way to re-shape her reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-05-19
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Nalu on the Border
Overview: Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-06-22
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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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Ballad of Return
Overview: One day, Eduardo arrives at his house and discovers that Julia, his wife, tried to commit suicide. She left her husband and two children without saying goodbye. After some time, she comes back home. He tries everything to set her straight, but the impossibility of knowing her fully grieves him. The shadow of the suicide and the inevitable ghost of a new chance hover over their heads. Eduardo insists on understanding his wife, but an increasing jealousy and an unexpected discovery of her past torture him. He does not realize that, most of the time, the search for control easily becomes an obsession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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The Killer
Overview: In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-13
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Good Manners
Overview: Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-08-04
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Time and the Wind
Overview: Based on Érico Verissimo's literary trilogy, Time and the Wind follows 150 years of the Terra Cambará family and their opponents, the Amaral family. The struggles between the two families begin in the missions and lasts until the end of the 19th century. The film also features the period of formation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and the dispute of territory between the Portuguese and Spanish crowns.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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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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Querida Mamãe
Overview: Dear Mom centers on the conflictive relationship between Heloisa, a recently divorced doctor, and her mother Ruth. Heloisa blames Ruth for her bad relationship with her own daughter, her failed marriage, and even her unsuccessful career. It’s a conflict that worsens when Ruth, after being diagnosed with cancer, finds out that Heloisa has fallen in love with Leda, a painter she met at the hospital where she works. The new relationship is not well accepted by her family, let alone by Ruth, which worsens the friction between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-11
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Kawa
Overview: A group of scientists digs on land within the Amazon in search of fertile black earth, used for agricultural purposes. As they approach the site of the Kawa Indians, they notice that the land acquires energetic and sensory powers.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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We Still Have the Deep Black Night
Overview: Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries her luck in Berlin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-12-05
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Maysa: Quando Fala o Coração - O Filme
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-09
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Love Kills
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Original Language: pt
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