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Ajuricaba, o Rebelde da Amazônia (1977)
Character: N/A
In the 17th century, to guarantee the possession of the region, disputed with Spanish and Dutch pirates, the Portuguese built a fort at the point where the dark waters of the Rio Negro meet the clear waters of the Rio Solimões, forming the Amazon River. Around the fort, the city of Manaus was born. Alli lived the Manaús Indians, warriors who worshiped Manari, the Good, and from him they received the order to fight all the invaders of the forest.
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Perdida (1976)
Character: Estela/Janete
The story of a poor woman living in the backwoods of Brazil and working as a maid. One day she is unfairly fired from the house where she was working and goes to the big city, facing a cruel and hostile world, working in factories, bars and bordellos.
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Gordos e Magros (1976)
Character: N/A
After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He is drunk and end up having a fight and leaving home.
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Minas Texas (1989)
Character: Alda
In a country town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Januária is going to marry the shy and naive Amorim. But in her heart she wants to escape with her dream hero, the cowboy Roy Pereira, and start a new life in Texas.
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O Diabo a Quatro (2005)
Character: Odisséia
Four people with different values and standards meet in the urban chaos of Copacabana. Rita and Waldick come from the country, and befriend two Rio de Janeiro native guys, upon arrival: the playboy and surfer Paulo Roberto and a pimp called Tim.
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Amor & Cia. (1998)
Character: Margarida
Godofredo suffers a terrible blow when he comes back home earlier than usual and finds his wife in the arms of his partner. He sends his wife away to a coast town and dares his rival to a duel. But he begins to miss his wife and the company of his friend.
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Mar de Rosas (1977)
Character: Mulher no Trem
A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.
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Tudo Bem (1978)
Character: Aparecida de Fátima
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.
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Noites do Sertão (1984)
Character: Dona-Dona
The film shows the drama of the young and fragile Lalinha. After being abandoned by her husband, who ran away with another, the girl seeks comfort on the farm where the two in-laws live and the widowed father-in-law. There, the girl discovers a new world.
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Desejo (2005)
Character: Dona Odete
A journey into the psyche of Atanásio, a doorman in Copacabana, confused while attempting to understand his desires and aspirations.
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Cabaret Mineiro (1981)
Character: Família Sorôco
An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.
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Como Nascem os Anjos (1996)
Character: Dona Conceição
Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American citizen lives with his daughter.
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Eu Te Amo (1981)
Character: N/A
After the collapse of their relationships with other people, Maria and Paulo embark in an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.
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Anchieta, José do Brasil (1977)
Character: N/A
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
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A Queda (1976)
Character: Lindalva
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
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Luz Del Fuego (1982)
Character: Ivonete
Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.
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Ele, o Boto (1987)
Character: Tia
According to an amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a brazilian fishing village receives a mysterious guest: the Dolphin, who transforms into a human to seduce and be loved by women and hated by men. One of her conquests is the daughter of a fisherman, who has a son with the Dolphin. He constantly reappears to seduce her, and even when she marries, he continues to look for her. This provokes the ire of the husband, who wants to kill him anyway.
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