Cláudio Portioli
Nacimiento : , São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Muerte : 2004-05-15
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Documentary about the trajectory of Antônio Polo Galante, known as "The King of Boca". The film maps work and forms of production in Boca do Lixo, popular area in Luz neighborhood located downtown São Paulo, where usually night clubs and sexual services establishments were located.
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Duda, Tato and Nick are inseparable friends, and call themselves "Os Xeretas" (The Snoopers). One day they find a girl with a strange symbol tattooed on her arm, lost in the city. The mystic Alana says she is, in fact, a time traveller, belonging to the Aleph people, responsible for the gates of time and space. She needs to get hold of a medallion to go home, or else she will die, but the medallion has been stolen. The Xeretas decide to help her. They go after the unscrupulous thief and his assistant, who had stolen it from the Museum of São Paulo. In the process, they discover a network of underground tunnels leading to unexpected places.
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This is a remake of Brazil's first international success in the cinema world. Just as its same name predecessor was, this film is a fictional version of the story of the "cangaceiros." These were bandits who sacked towns and spread terror throughout Northeastern Brazil in the 1930s. This group of outlaws is led by Captain Galdino and his wife Maria Bonita.
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A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is assigned to investigate the murder together with fetishist photographer Oscar. Without any lead, they decide to follow a sexy and popular night-club dancer on the streets of São Paulo, trying to identify possible suspects.
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Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub.
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Former athlete enters an old cinema in São Paulo's decadent city centre and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much like the leading lady on the film. He gets involved with her and her problems and in no time is being accused of a crime.
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José Carlos finds his perfect partner, a transvestite, and decides to marry.
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A woman has to choose between being a prostitute or posing nude for a painter, in order to finance an expensive surgery for her son, his only chance to survive.
Cinematography
Flora is a happy housewife but suffer a serious accident and loses her husband and gets her face terribly burned. Depressed, she feels herself guilty for the accident, but her sexuality is still on so she hires men to fulfill her carnal desires. Among them is cynical and ambitious Romeu who makes her do whatever he wants. But by advice of her friend Suzana, she undergoes a plastic surgery and falls in love with her doctor, Romeu who is the lover of Suzana. Romeu and Suzana will do all they can to destroy this love.
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Renata, a millionaire's daughter, shares an apartment with a girl who's proud of her virginity. Virgínia, a single mother, works as a secretary for a big company. Vilma, Raul's fiancee, for whom she pretends to be a virgin, is a bank clerk.
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An unemployed radio worker obsessed with suicide meets a rich brat.
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A stripper is arrested for killing her gigolo who exploited her as a prostitute under the name of Karina. Her despair turns to ardent passion when she meets a lady lawyer who promises her that she will be able to get her out of jail very quickly. But both ladies will have to fight an outlaw who will do whatever he can to possess Karina.
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A stripper is arrested for killing her gigolo who exploited her as a prostitute under the name of Karina. Her despair turns to ardent passion when she meets a lady lawyer who promises her that she will be able to get her out of jail very quickly. But both ladies will have to fight an outlaw who will do whatever he can to possess Karina.
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A stripper is arrested for killing her gigolo who exploited her as a prostitute under the name of Karina. Her despair turns to ardent passion when she meets a lady lawyer who promises her that she will be able to get her out of jail very quickly. But both ladies will have to fight an outlaw who will do whatever he can to possess Karina.
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In "Solo de Violino", bank clerk and aspirant violinist Rodrigo is a serial killer. When his next door neighbor reveals that she is in love with his music and Rodrigo, he has difficulties in controlling his killing impulses. In "A Guerra da Malvina", four female thieves break in the house of the porn star David Cardoso to rob money and jewelry, but they end having sex with the actor.
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With the woman's death in the birth of her child, a father starts to raise him with comfort and affection. When the time is right, the father, in middle age, makes the boy his companion in bohemian and non-committal amorous adventures. Father and son meet at a nightclub frequented by women who make appointments easier.
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Un empleado de una empresa tiene una relación con la hija de su jefe. Sin embargo, el sincero amor no acaba de convecer al padre de ella, por lo que coge un machete y descuartiza al novio de ella en una noche de furia. La chica, poseída por el espíritu del muerto, coge la cabeza de su ex-novio y se la lleva a casa, enterrándola en una maceta. El espíritu del novio irá diciendo a la chica lo que debe de hacer...
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A rich and beautiful young woman stays a few days in a spa, where she seduces the hotel bellboy, teaching him how to make love. His jealous girlfriend forces him to teach her what he had learned.
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To satisfy her costumers, an owner of a luxurious bordello does whatever it takes. but the place’s efficiency is threatened when the most desirable of its ladies decides to quit. The owner set a diabolical plot to keep the girl working.
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Tres cuentos de erotismo: Dos jóvenes damas experimentan con el lesbianismo, un solicitado, apuesto y rico hombre que hace esperara a una mujer hermosa con para hacer el amor con él, y la magnífica, pero controladora y dominando mujer ciega que hace a un semental guapo su rehén sexual en su ostentoso mansión.
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A professional photographer specialized in nude pictures dreams of respectability and the beautiful college student next window.
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A professional photographer specialized in nude pictures dreams of respectability and the beautiful college student next window.
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A farm worker, after seducing the boss's daughter, flees to São Paulo. Naive, he is faced with a new world made of love, free sex and vested interests.
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'Joelma 23rd Floor' faithfully reconstructs the story of young Lucimar, one of the 170 fatal victims of the Joelma Building fire, which occurred in São Paulo, on the morning of February 1, 1974.
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La región de Pantanal es el lugar ideal para hombres sin escrúpulos en busca de fortuna, aventura y anonimato. Piloto de un pequeño avión que brinda servicios en el lugar, el joven Tigre decide defender a Mónica, heredera de una gran granja, contra la conducta depredadora del ambicioso Malamud. Con el objetivo de convertirse en el mayor terrateniente de la región, Malamud utiliza una pandilla de hombres violentos para extorsionar y matar a otros agricultores.
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Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.
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Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.
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During the rehearsals of a play four actresses are poisoned.
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In the miserable Northeastern Brazil, a ruthless land Baron wants to throw a poor farming community out of their land.
Art Direction
In the miserable Northeastern Brazil, a ruthless land Baron wants to throw a poor farming community out of their land.
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The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
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Two groups of men fighting to conquer an automobile race bowl.
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Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.