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A Mulher Sensual (1981)
Character: N/A
Famous soap opera actress finds out her sexuality after breaking up with her former boyfriend, an important TV executive.
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11 e Meia Perguntas Para Julio Calasso (2022)
Character: Zecão (archive footage)
A final conversation with departed actor, director and musical producer Julio Calasso Jr., a key character in the Brazilian artistic scene. At his old house in Butantã, São Paulo, Julio talks about his experiences, frustrations, joys and tragedies.
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Rio de Cinemas (2001)
Character: Self
The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme (2015)
Character: Donato Menezes
Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a bride and is brutally strangled in the middle of the act of love. To prove the authorship of the crimes is the great challenge of detective França.
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Pierre Verger: Mensageiro Entre Dois Mundos (1998)
Character: Self
Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.
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Zoando na TV (1999)
Character: Rodolpho Augusto
Angel works in a wedding dress store. Ulisses, her boyfriend, works as personal trainer. They are swallowed for the television and, to leave, need to discover how to use the Ulisses' ring.
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O Sonho Não Acabou (1982)
Character: Silveirinha
The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a context of a country that was on the final years of a dictatorship back in the 1980s.
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Cleópatra (2007)
Character: Júlio César
The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The strategy of Cleopatra is to seduce the Roman General Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to protect their civilization.
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A Partilha (2001)
Character: Ator no Funeral
Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than an apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles, the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, and expectations. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.
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Sai de Baixo: O Filme (2019)
Character: Caco Antibes
Based on the classic Brazilian television series that conquered audiences during Sunday night prime time on TV Globo, with improv that happens like in scenes of a play. The feature film’s structure maintains the members of a middle-class family from São Paulo, their maid, and the building’s doorman. It’s the return of iconic characters like Caco Antibes, Magda and Ribamar, and also new characters.
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Biônicos (2024)
Character: Modelo
When the progress of robotics makes Paralympic athletes the new sports stars, Maria dreams of competing against her sister. For that, she will have to enter a world of crime and violence.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Character: Lieutenant
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
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Redentor (2004)
Character: Otávio Sabóia
Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
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Dzi Croquettes (2009)
Character: Self
A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
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Divinas Divas (2016)
Character: Self
Eight iconic performers of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists go on stage to celebrate their 50th career jubilee. The film depicts the human, personal dimension behind these icons, deconstructing gender stereotypes.
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Beijo 2348/72 (1990)
Character: Zecão
Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the hardships of the labor lawsuit he filed against the company.
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A Dama do Cine Shanghai (1987)
Character: Lana
After meeting a beguiling woman in a movie theater, a realtor becomes embroiled in a mysterious plot involving murder, double identities and movies.
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A Longa Viagem do Ônibus Amarelo (2023)
Character: N/A
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 backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
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Sole nudo (1984)
Character: N/A
An Italian businessman travels to Brazil looking for a new job. When things don't go his way, he becomes despondent until he meets a beautiful woman who reveals Rio de Janeiro's most magical, secret locales.
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Missão Porto Seguro (2025)
Character: Delegado Genaro
In order to get evidence for her case and dismantle a criminal organization, an uptight undercover cop crashes a high school graduation trip to a party-heavy beach in Brazil.
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