An orphaned, seventeen year-old deep-sea diver struggling to make ends meet in an impoverished Brazilian fishing village...
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Joao
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2006
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2003
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2002
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The destinies of the downtrodden citizens of a Brazilian shantytown converge in director Claudio Assis' stark tale of life on...
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Wellington
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2002
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Cape Verde author Germano Almeida wrote the novel (Mr. Napumoceno's Last Will and Testament) that provides the source for...
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Carlos
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1999
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Every country seems to have its own gallery of criminal legends, those outlaws, highwaymen, gangsters and defiant rogues who...
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1997
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In this Brazilian crime drama, a veteran gangster tells his young protégé about his life and times as a hit man while...
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1997
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This Brazilian fantasy ostensibly tells the story of a child who works miracles, but it also subtly attacks the morality of...
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Rigerio
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1994
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The female residents of a boarding house in this political allegory battle to achieve some freedom from the harsh dictates...
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1989
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Made for Spanish television, Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier (Fabula de la Bella Palomera) stars Claudia Ohana in the...
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Fulvia's Husband
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1988
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All three of the main female characters in this film were performed by Lucella Santos. The three women in question all live...
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1987
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The Brazilian Color of Destiny stars Guilherme Fontes as a tormented Rio de Janeiro teen. Fontes' family had fled Chile's...
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1987
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This drama concerns the clash of two worlds in the person of a young boy. The small boy (Alessandro Rabelo) is the offspring...
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1986
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In an avant-garde onslaught that involves literary readings from authors as diverse as Thomas Mann and Brazilian writer...
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1986
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Weighing in heavily on the side of atrocities against the black slaves of 18th-century Brazil, this uneven drama is centered...
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1986
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Stewart Granger plays a Joseph Mengele type in the grim Hell Hunters. Hiding out in jungles of South America, Granger plans...
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1986
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Gabriela was based on Jorge Armado's novel Gabriela, Clove and Cinammon, which also served as the source of a typically...
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1983
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Two young friends grow up in the same region and share the same music and dances, and the same religious and cultural...
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1982
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