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1) Riscado
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Bianca is an excellent actress, but theater doesn’t pay the bills yet. In order to make a living, she impersonates movie divas and promotes events. Bianca auditions for a big international production and gets the part. The director of the film, inspired by her work, changes the character he wrote into a version of Bianca. Is this the chance of a lifetime?
2) Castanha
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Joao is a 50 year old actor who lives with his 72 year old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his work at night as a crossdresser in small gay bars and his parts in small plays, movies and TV shows. Tormented and haunted by ghosts from his past, day after day Joao starts to merge the reality in which he lived with the fiction he is interpreting.
Publisher
Magnet Film
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A group of students from the countryside are preparing for a special trip to the beach. Marina, a 15-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome, longs to visit the sea for the first time. Not allowed to travel with the other kids, Marina begins her own journey.
4) The Domain
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Portuguese
Description
This epic family saga follows a charismatic and stridently apolitical landowner over the course of several tumultuous decades. With the passing of his father, Joao (Albano Jeronimo) inherits a sprawling estate in southern Portugal, one of the largest in all of Europe on the south bank of the River Tagus. After Joao marries the elegant daughter of a powerful military general, he becomes pressured to publicly support the country’s authoritarian leadership...
Publisher
One World Digital
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A child is kidnapped. At the police station Silvia and Bernardo, the parents of the victim and Rosa, the main suspect and lover of Bernardo, give contradictory evidence which will take us to the gloomiest corners of desires, lies, needs and wickedness in the relationship of these three characters.
6) City of Men
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
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