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A Cabana (2024)
Character: N/A
A woman and a man live their life together in a vague manner, absent and mechanical in the cloud that surrounds them. A couple who cannot see each other. Till when?
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Corpo em Delito (1990)
Character: N/A
During the Brazilian military dictatorship, a doctor forged autopsy reports to hide the victims of the regime.
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Vida e Obra de Ramiro Miguez (2000)
Character: N/A
A painter is found dead with a gun in his hand, in his shabby studio in Lapa, a bohemian district in Rio de Janeiro. A brief note is published on a newspaper and, from then on, he becomes a national sensation.
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Cronicamente Inviável (2000)
Character: N/A
Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
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Mulheres no Poder (2016)
Character: María Pilar
A corrupt senator, Maria Pilar sees a great opportunity to win in the bidding process for the Brasil Brasileiro project. After contacting Minister Ivone Feitosa in search of more information, Maria is told to talk to the ministry's executive secretary, Madalena, to set up a frame-up. Little does she know, however, that Madalena has her own plan to get along on her own...
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Idade da Água (2018)
Character: Self
The film warns us about the world's water crisis and the international greed for the Amazon Forest, the largest fresh water reservoir on the planet. In addition to concentrating 20% of the world's drinking water, the Amazon is the region with the greatest chance of maintaining its water sources in the next decades, thanks to the humidity of its forest.
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Land (1987)
Character: Maria
The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The peasants look to the priest for help, and are contemplating taking up arms. A stranger arrives who provides an answer to their plight.
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Falas da Terra (2025)
Character: N/A
A special event to celebrate Brazil's indigenous peoples and debate issues that directly affect the country's indigenous people.
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Encantados (2017)
Character: Cotinha
The real-life story of Zeneida, a girl who moves to a farm with her mother and finds herself having an unusual connection with a forest spirit.
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Anahy de las Misiones (1997)
Character: Luna
Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead.
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Dona Onete - Meu Coração Neste Pedacinho Aqui (2025)
Character: Self
A teacher, activist, and guardian of Amazonian knowledge, Dona Onete became a music star at 72, but her story began much earlier. In this documentary filmed among the rivers and forests of Pará, Onete sings of the banzeiros (drums), the dolphins, and the flavors of the forest with humor and wisdom in a celebration of the living Amazon that pulsates in her voice.
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Noite de São João (2003)
Character: N/A
An arrogant young woman, the landowner's daughter, gets involved with the farm straw boss.
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Pasárgada (2024)
Character: Irene
Irene is a lonely 50-year-old ornithologist who, during secret research in the rainforest, immerses herself in a sensory journey to rescue her desires, facing her dilemmas that confront the illegal trafficking of wild birds.
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O Segredo dos Diamantes (2014)
Character: Mãe de Ângelo
Ângelo arrives at his grandmother's house in Minas Gerais. There, a small chest full of coins and an enigma were discovered, supposedly left by a priest who, 200 years earlier, would have hidden a handful of diamonds.
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Corisco & Dadá (1996)
Character: Dadá
Cruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid region, rapes 12-year-old Dadá, who becomes his woman, following him and his gang. Although they were supposed to fight against social injustice, they terrorized the small villages along their way.
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Até a Vista (2012)
Character: Aneci
Young filmmaker is looking for a story for his first feature film. In an attempt to obtain the copyright for a novel, the young man accepts the author's unusual proposal and together they set off in search of an old love of the writer.
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Ó Paí, Ó 2 (2023)
Character: Psilene
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.
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Ó Paí, Ó (2007)
Character: Psilene
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.
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Baixio das Bestas (2006)
Character: Bela
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
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Matinta (2010)
Character: Valquíria
A little fisher village in Brazilian Amazon. Without aparent reason, the dweller start falling ill. Would it be a witchcraft? Felício looks desperatelly for the cure to save the life of his wife.
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Amarelo Manga (2002)
Character: Kika
The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.
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Febre do Rato (2012)
Character: Amiga de Zizo
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
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À Beira do Caminho (2012)
Character: Rosa
To escape past traumas, a truck driver João decides to leave his hometown behind and travel cross the country. Alone and lonely he drives all over Brazil until João discovers hiding in his truck a motherless boy looking for his father. Reluctantly, João agrees to take the boy to the nearest town and, during the trip, he finally finds the courage to face his past.
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Os Amigos (2013)
Character: Maju
A lonely architect attends the funeral of his childhood best friend and embarks on a personal journey of reminiscence and self-reflection.
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Dona Flor e Seus 2 Maridos - O Filme (2015)
Character: Celeste
The beautiful Flor marries Vadinho -- and soon finds out he's spending all their money on gambles and has mistresses all over the city. Vadinho suddenly dies while partying during Carnival, and Flor, left helpless and full of debts, ends up marrying Teodoro, who's the exact opposite of her late husband.
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Meu Tio Matou um Cara (2004)
Character: Cléia
Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory.
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2 Filhos de Francisco (2005)
Character: Helena Siqueira de Camargo
The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
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Divino Amor (2019)
Character: Joana
In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.
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E Aí... Comeu? (2012)
Character: Leila
Three male friends navigate different stages of romantic relationships: One is starting to date; another fears infidelity; the third is divorcing.
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O Casamento de Louise (2001)
Character: Luzia
Two women, from opposite worlds, Louise and her maid Luzia, both share a passion for music and finding the perfect man. What can happen during a luncheon where the tastes of both women coincide and clash, while in the presence of two desirable men?
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A Grande Família: O Filme (2007)
Character: Marina
Public functionary and family man Lineu and his beloved wife Nenê celebrate the 40th anniversary of their first date. In the present day, Lineu feels uncomfortable when colleague Pacheco dies and goes to the doctor for an examination. When the result of his tomography arrives, Lineu steals the document, afraid of having a tumor, but he believes he will die sooner. Meanwhile, Nenê meets Lineu's old rival Carlinhos, who manages the local market, and invites him to dinner.
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Ribeirinhos do Asfalto (2011)
Character: Rosa
Young Deisy (Ana Letícia) dreams of moving to bustling Belém, but instead she lives on Combu Island, across the river, cut off from the city she often admires from afar. Her mother (Dira Paes), aware of her daughter’s longing, wants to help her achieve it — though her husband (Adriano Barroso) is firmly against the idea. Together, mother and daughter hatch a plan to make the dream a reality.
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Agentes Muito Especiais (2026)
Character: Onça
Two friends determined to become respected police officers face prejudice and ridicule for being openly gay. Given one final chance, they go undercover to infiltrate a dangerous gang terrorizing the city. Posing as inmates, they navigate chaotic events, including a botched prison escape, while maintaining their cover and planning an ambush to take down the gang leader and her operation. Their mission culminates unexpectedly at a major fashion event, where they confront the criminals and finally prove their abilities, earning the respect they’ve long sought. The story blends action, comedy, and satire, highlighting themes of courage, friendship, and queer identity in traditionally macho spaces.
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Pureza (2022)
Character: Pureza
"Pureza" tells a story of a mother, Pureza, who goes in search of her son, Abel, disappeared after leaving for the mining in the Amazon.
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Redemoinho (2017)
Character: Toninha
Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, trying to make the most of what he has. One day, his childhood friend Gildo reappears, driving a fancy car and boasting of his successful life in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. As the two sit down for a beer, memories, regrets and old resentments slowly resurface.
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Veneza (2021)
Character: Rita
Reencountering the only man she ever loved is Gringa’s dream. She is the owner of a brothel in the interior of Brazil and even though she is blind and very sick, she insists on fulfilling her last wish: to go to Venice to apologize to the lover she abandoned decades ago. To take her to the Italian city, Tonho, Rita and the other girls who work for Gringa come up with a fantastic plan with help from a circus troupe.
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Lino: Uma Aventura de Sete Vidas (2017)
Character: Janine (voice)
Lino works as an entertainer at children's parties, but he can't stand the way children treat him, making fun of him because he works in a cat's costume. Determined to change his life, he visits a wizard, but the magic doesn't work in the right way, and he wakes up as a big cat.
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Manas (2025)
Character: Aretha
Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate herself and her younger sister from a dark abyss of silence held by her own family.
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Celeste e Estrela (2005)
Character: Celeste Espírito Santo
While waiting for her at the airport, a film critic recounts to a receptionist how he met his great love, Celeste.
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A Festa da Menina Morta (2009)
Character: Diana
The story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a “miracle” upon the suicide of his own mother. The film seeks to be an intimate picture of those who are involved in this sect and of the infinite human capacity of “fabricating” faith and seeking some sense in the horrifying experience of death.
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The Emerald Forest (1985)
Character: Kachiri
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
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Sudoeste (2011)
Character: Conceição
In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.
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Estamos Juntos (2011)
Character: Leonora
A young doctor has a promising career in São Paulo, but the diagnosis of a serious illness profoundly changes her relationship with the world around her.
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Candango: Memórias do Festival (2020)
Character: Self
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 cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
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Ele, o Boto (1987)
Character: Corina
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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