Antônio Pitanga
Antônio Luiz Sampaio (born June 13, 1939), better known by his stage name Antônio Pitanga, is a Brazilian actor and filmmaker, who became internationally known for playing several roles on films of the Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.567 |
| Birthday | 1939-06-13 |
| Place of Birth | Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
| Also Known As | Antônio Luiz Sampaio, Antônio L. Sampaio, Antônio Sampaio, Антониу Питанга, |
1962
Tocaia no Asfalto
6.6/5
A gunman is hired to kill a corrupt politician. However, the agreement is canceled. Despite being a hired killer, the man takes his job seriously and...
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Tocaia no Asfalto
1962
The Given Word
8.1/105
Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his do...
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The Given Word
1982
Rio Babilonia
5.3/16
A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations,...
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Rio Babilonia
1985
Rei do Rio
1/1
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
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Rei do Rio
1966
Plantation Boy
6.8/5
After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sugarcane plantation where he grows up, studies, lear...
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Plantation Boy
1964
The Guns
7.3/26
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposi...
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The Guns
1963
Ganga Zumba
6.1/7
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
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Ganga Zumba
2013
Vendo ou Alugo
5.4/19
A once-rich family of women in Rio de Janeiro must sell their mansion in order to keep their high standard of living, but the proximity to the slums d...
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Vendo ou Alugo
1972
Câncer
8/2
This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and socie...
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Câncer
1964
Esse Mundo é Meu
7/5
The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker.
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Esse Mundo é Meu
1972
When Carnaval Comes
5.8/6
Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.
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When Carnaval Comes
1966
The Big City
5.5/4
In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way....
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The Big City
1969
The Woman of Everyone
7.2/14
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them...
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The Woman of Everyone
1970
Juliana do Amor Perdido
6/1
A beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with an outsider, a train machinist. But her father, a viol...
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Juliana do Amor Perdido
1979
Na Boca do Mundo
4.3/3
A black fisherman now working at a local gas station, Antônio lives at the small beach town of Atafona. His biggest ambition is to stash enough money...
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Na Boca do Mundo
1969
Tropico
0/0
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Tropico
1990
Barrela: Escola de Crimes
1/1
In an overcrowded prision cell, each man has to make his own way and secure himself from the constant threat of sexual violence coming from the rest o...
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Barrela: Escola de Crimes
2012
The Great Kilapy
7/2
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off...
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The Great Kilapy
1969
Compasso de Espera
8.5/4
Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and...
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Compasso de Espera
1976
Bahia
5.3/3
The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen fr...
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Bahia
1980
The Age of the Earth
6.2/20
Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during...
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The Age of the Earth
2011
I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips
6/14
In a remote part of the Amazon, a traveling photographer has an intense affair with a preacher's wife, but secrets from her past threaten to ruin them...
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I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips
1976
Deadly Cruelty
5.7/3
Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his life, but f...
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Deadly Cruelty
2006
Zuzu Angel
6.746/56
Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stua...
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Zuzu Angel
1982
The Brazilwood Man
4.8/9
Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two...
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The Brazilwood Man
1963
Lampião, King of the Badlands
7.5/2
The story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the path to become Lampião, the greatest leader of the cang...
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Lampião, King of the Badlands
1977
Cordão de Ouro
0/0
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Cordão de Ouro
1985
Chico Rei
0/0
Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the properti...
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Chico Rei
1979
Jorge Amado no Cinema
6/2
Jorjamado no Cinema foi feito para um programa de televisão consagrado ao escritor Jorge Amado. Nesse documentário, Jorge Amado é filmado em sua casa,...
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Jorge Amado no Cinema
1967
Cangaceiros de Lampião
5.7/3
On the day of Pedro Boiadeiro's wedding, a band of cangaceiros who survived the Angicos massacre invade his home, then proceed to beat him up, and abu...
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Cangaceiros de Lampião
2007
Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha
5/3
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from t...
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Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha
1972
Vozes do Medo
0/0
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Vozes do Medo
2012
Água de Meninos – A Feira do Cinema Novo
0/0
Recalling the films "Sol Sobre a Lama" and "A Grande Feira", which portrayed the living conditions of Bahian society in the 1960s, the scenario was th...
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Água de Meninos – A Feira do Cinema Novo
1999
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
7.2/8
A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had...
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Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
2012
A Promessa de Gerônimo
0/0
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A Promessa de Gerônimo
2007
The Man Who Challenged the Devil
6.929/86
After being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his father-in-law, Zé Araújo becomes the mythical Ojuara, a...
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The Man Who Challenged the Devil
1978
Black Goddess
0/0
A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine war...
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Black Goddess
2003
Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
6.5/2
Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved...
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Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria
1987
Eternamente Pagu
6.25/4
Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic activist. An important...
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Eternamente Pagu
1974
Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável
0/0
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Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável
1987
No Tempo de Glauber
0/0
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No Tempo de Glauber
1969
Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
0/0
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Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
1977
Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber
6/20
This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.
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Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber
1988
Dedé Mamata
2.5/2
Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandm...
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Dedé Mamata
1973
Joanna Francesa
4.4/7
Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at São Paulo, and...
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Joanna Francesa
1977
Sweet Thieves
7/5
After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the reality...
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Sweet Thieves
2016
Pitanga
5.6/5
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career span...
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Pitanga
2000
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
5.2/11
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music...
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Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
1961
Bahia of All Saints
4/4
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Outlaw Tonio is involved in a conflict between strikers and the police. His mistre...
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Bahia of All Saints
1962
The Turning Wind
7/32
In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which...
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The Turning Wind
1967
Mar Corrente
0/0
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Mar Corrente
1970
República da Traição
5/2
European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local man, whom they hire as an employee, will...
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República da Traição
1984
Quilombo
6.5/12
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-kn...
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Quilombo
1961
A Grande Feira
8.2/6
Made in the famous "Água de Meninos" market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices, from the...
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A Grande Feira
2016
O Cinema Foi à Feira
0/0
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O Cinema Foi à Feira
1963
Sol Sobre a Lama
5/1
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Sol Sobre a Lama
1975
Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
5/1
A film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and then the conflicts that break out as they tour Iran an...
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Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
2006
Bom Dia, Eternidade
0/0
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Bom Dia, Eternidade
2000
A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar
7/1
The ideological conflict between Joaquim Bolívar, a young barber member of the Communist Party and the powerful Coronel Gaudêncio, a typical province...
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A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar
1970
Uma Nega Chamada Tereza
0/0
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Uma Nega Chamada Tereza
2003
Garotas do ABC
5.8/17
Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with...
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Garotas do ABC
2017
Barravento Novo
0/0
Barravento Novo depicts correspondences between Antônio Pitanga—a Cinema Novo actor seen here delivering lines from Glauber Rocha’s first feature, Bar...
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Barravento Novo
2018
Bandeira de Retalhos
0/0
Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the news that the corrupt Rio de Janeiro mayor decide...
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Bandeira de Retalhos
1965
My Home Is Copacabana
6.6/7
Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by shini...
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My Home Is Copacabana
2018
Riscados pela Memória
0/0
The owner of a record store, amid a purchase of second-hand LPs, is faced with something that goes far beyond a trivial acquisition.
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Riscados pela Memória
2012
O Terno do Zé
0/0
Flávio is a filmmaker who was famous during the 1970s, but who's now forgotten by the public. Urging to become relevant again, he's willing to try eve...
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O Terno do Zé
2010
Lula, the Son of Brazil
5.609/78
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 B...
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Lula, the Son of Brazil
1983
Bandidos da Falange
7/1
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Bandidos da Falange
1968
Garden of War
6.857/7
Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for he...
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Garden of War
2019
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
0/0
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic...
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
1998
Como Ser Solteiro
5.9/7
A comedy addressing the issues of being single in Rio de Janeiro.
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Como Ser Solteiro
2022
Memory House
3/2
An older man begins to work in a modern dairy factory. He feels distant and does not identify with the place, the people and even the society. Little...
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Memory House
2020
Os Escravos de Jó
0/0
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Os Escravos de Jó
1990
The Fifth Monkey
9/1
When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is s...
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The Fifth Monkey
2020
A Day with Jerusa
7.333/3
"A Day with Jerusa" follows Silvia, a young, mediumic market researcher facing the hardships of underemployment while awaiting the result of a public...
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A Day with Jerusa
2019
Pressed, Ripped Apart
0/0
What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes use of archival...
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Pressed, Ripped Apart
2020
Porfírio do Amaral: A Verdade Sobre o Samba
7/1
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Porfírio do Amaral: A Verdade Sobre o Samba
1964
Senhor dos Navegantes
0/0
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Senhor dos Navegantes
2020
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
5/1
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cult...
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2006
Referências
0/0
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Referências
1986
The Manor of Araucaima
6.3/9
In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and t...
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The Manor of Araucaima
2021
The Good Cinema
0/0
An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the...
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The Good Cinema
1997
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
0/0
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
2003
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
5.8/8
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and...
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
2023
Aunt Virginia
7.3/7
Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and Valquíria,...
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Aunt Virginia
2006
The Passenger: Adult Secrets
3.7/3
A coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds out about his family and where he came from.
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The Passenger: Adult Secrets
2022
The Coup d'État Factory
8.3/3
Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the support of the big media, particularly TV Globo. Two B...
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The Coup d'État Factory
2023
Our Dream: A Rio De Janeiro Funk Story
7.821/42
The life story of Claudinho e Buchecha, greatest icons and most successful duo of the Brazilian funk melody in all time, showing how the rhythm and po...
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Our Dream: A Rio De Janeiro Funk Story
2023
Tinnitus
5.4/9
Marina Lenk is an experienced Ornamental Jumping athlete. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from th...
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Tinnitus
1965
Samba
2.6/13
Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis...
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Samba
2023
Favela do Papa
0/0
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Favela do Papa
1969
Golias Contra o Homem das Bolinhas
0/0
The adventures of a peaceful and infatuated man, who tries to identify the man who killed his sweetheart, an unconventional young woman who used to re...
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Golias Contra o Homem das Bolinhas
2024
A Vilã das Nove
0/0
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A Vilã das Nove
2022
Our Children
5.3/6
Vera, who fought in the armed left-wing movements against the Brazilian military dictatorship, has lived in multiple South American countries. Her dau...
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Our Children
1977
The Force of Xango
4/1
Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets beautiful Zulmira; they pledge love and projects for many...
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The Force of Xango
2023
Lenita
0/0
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Lenita
2023
Wedding Games
5.5/7
When Alex and Eva choose to exchange vows at the very spot they first crossed paths, a series of hilarious missteps derails their journey to the altar...
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Wedding Games
2022
A Força do Gigante
0/0
This documentary is a true treasure for Vasco fans, who will remember or learn about important facts related to our favorite club, Club de Regatas Vas...
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A Força do Gigante
2018
Running After
4/3
Paulo Ventania is a black Brazilian man, always doing his best to bring some happiness in his life, and by happiness he means money. When he's at a de...
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Running After
2018
Carvana
0/0
Chronicles the life and career of Hugo Carvana, brazilian actor and filmmaker.
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Carvana
2024
Sérgio Ricardo: Uma Outra História do Cinema Novo
0/0
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Sérgio Ricardo: Uma Outra História do Cinema Novo
2021
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
0/0
Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues...
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2023
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
9/1
For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwar...
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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
2024
Same Old West
0/0
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Same Old West
2018
Possessões
0/0
Three stories are intermingled by the same theme: possessions.
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