Luciana Souza
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Gender: Female
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Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This
Overview: During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-30
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Quando Eu Me Encontrar
Overview: Dayane suddenly leaves. Her mother Marluce, her sister Mariana and her fiancé Antônio stay. Between the incessant search, silent resignation and silent denial, this touching family drama from Ceará is located.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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Ó Paí, Ó 2
Overview: Experience Roque's routine years after the first movie. Joana's tenement is still full of parties, gossip and confusion. The neighborhood prepares for the Iemanjá party, while dealing with the controversies of the neighbors.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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Bando, um Filme de
Overview: The 28-year history of the Olodum Theater Band, Latin America's longest-running black theater company. Created in Salvador in 1990, in partnership with the Olodum Cultural Group, the company was responsible for launching names such as Lázaro Ramos and Érico Brás. Gathering archive images and interviews with Bando members, collaborators and other guests, the group's trajectory is built.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-01
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Captains of the Sands
Overview: About the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as "Capitães da Areia" (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia, during the 1950s.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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Reaching for the Moon
Overview: In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-02-09
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Na Rédea Curta
Overview: Júlio was raised only by his mother. Now, at the age of twenty, he discovers that it will be his turn to be a father, and that's why he decides to go after the father he's never seen.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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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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A Matriarca
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-03-15
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Redbelt
Overview: Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-07
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The Guardian
Overview: After hearing about a Brazilian folklore party at the neighborhood school, Fernando, an 8-year-old child, decides to go dressed as Curupira, with a skirt and everything, and suggests it to his grandfather, Mr. Lino, 70 years old. The dynamics between grandfather and grandson begin to be affected as Lino perceives Fernando to be a different child. Through subtleties in the dialogues and the silence, social conventions and the responsibility of being the guardian-protector of something precious, the film evokes conceptions of the masculine within a queer childhood.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-05-01
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Jonah
Overview: During Carnival in São Paulo, a young man and young woman who knew each other as children meet again after many years and the social barriers that have kept them apart. Bad decisions lead the boy to hide with the girl inside a whale float.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-10-27
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Tungstênio
Overview: A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-21
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Bacurau
Overview: Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Genres: Mystery Western Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-08-29
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1798 - Revolta dos Búzios
Overview: One of the most important events in Brazilian history, the Búzios Revolt of 1798 was led by dozens of black men who rose up to overthrow the colonial government, proclaim independence and establish a democratic Republic, free from slavery. The boldness of these men called on the people to make the Revolution and the conspiracy spread to the city of Bahia. The seizure of power is near. But the movement is denounced, the government sets up a Devassa against hundreds of people and four of them are hanged and quartered.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-05-30
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Unliveable
Overview: Just before the pandemic, the world experiences a phenomenon never seen before. Marilene looks for her daughter Roberta, a trans woman who went missing. While running out of time, she discovers a hope for the future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-08-20
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Greice
Overview: Greice, a Brazilian girl studying in Lisbon, gets involved with a mysterious guy and ends up getting accused of a strange incident that occurs at the students' welcoming party, which forces her to return to her hometown to renew her residence permit. Hidden in a hotel, while preventing her mother from discovering she’s back in the country and with the help of some friends, Greice tries to find a place of comfort in the world.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-07-18
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