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The extraordinary story of Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas, who served as Brazilian Ambassador to Paris during WWII. A largely unsung hero, he defied his own government’s orders by granting hundreds of unauthorised visas to Jews and others facing imminent capture and death.
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La vida de Manuel dos Reis Machado, o Mestre Bimba (1899-1974), que iluminó y revolucionó la práctica de la capoeira, volviéndose el más conocido y admirado nombre en el mundo. Una historia con mucha capoeira, contada por algunos de sus más importantes alumnos, sus familiares y aquellos que se dedicaran a estudiar genial personalidad.
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Júri do programa Flávio Cavalcanti
The movie shows the life of brazilian actress Leila Diniz, who dies in a plane crash.
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Enterprising youths live many adventures when they decide to start a business specializing in making video clips for rock groups.
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70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.
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Jorden Er Flad or The Earth is Flat is based on the play Erasmus Montanus, from the classical era in Danish literature, by Ludvig Holberg. Director Henrik Stangerup had the play translated into Portuguese, and adapted it for filming in contemporary Brazil. In this comic movie, a group of villagers have scrimped and saved to send their fellow villager Erasmus Montanus (Fausto Wolff) away for an education. When the boy returns to his village, he is stuffed full of book-learning of a kind which is of absolutely no use to those of the village. The boy, rather than seeing his situation clearly, continues to spout learned platitudes, including the incredible observation, "the earth is round," supported by nothing other than his authority as an "educated man." Understandably, his posturing provokes derision.
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Documentary about middle-class people in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1960s, when Brazil was going through a hard period in its history, with the military coup and the following dictatorship. Interviews with people in the street disclose their fears, aspirations and political alienation.
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The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
