Zezita Matos

Zezita Matos

Born: August 28, 1941
in Pilar, Paraíba, Brazil

Movies for Zezita Matos...

The Backlands Shall Sea
Title: The Backlands Shall Sea
Character: Maria José
Released: February 26, 2024
Type: Movie
When an ocean-fascinated cowboy from the Brazilian backlands discovers that the farm where he has worked all his life will be sold, he abandons everything to, finally, get to know the sea. Guided by an old postcard sent by a long-lost love, he embarks on a quest that will redefine his life.
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The Sound of God
Title: The Sound of God
Character: Dona Maria
Released: December 14, 2023
Type: Movie
An existential western about the pain of a family and the silence of a country.
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Atmosfera
Title: Atmosfera
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Edmundo is the caretaker of a ranch in São Paulo. He lives isolated in nature. His mother's presence haunts him with poetry and memories of the hinterland where he was born. The fine line between memory and delirium leads Edmundo to plunge into fantasies. The poet-caretaker, face to face with death, seeks to give significance to life.
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Alegria do Amor
Title: Alegria do Amor
Released: September 26, 2023
Type: Movie
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The Cage and the Dream
Title: The Cage and the Dream
Character: Joana Eulália
Released: November 27, 2022
Type: Movie
Vicente is a retired widower teacher who lives between lucid dreams and everyday life in the Alecrim neighborhood.
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Private Desert
Title: Private Desert
Character: Tereza (Grandmother)
Released: November 25, 2021
Type: Movie
40-year-old Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north in search of her, starting on what is apparently a fool's errand. He shows Sara's picture around, but nobody seems to recognize the woman. Until eventually one guy pops up, saying he can put the two in touch under very specific conditions.
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O Quarto Negro
Title: O Quarto Negro
Character: Amélia
Released: November 23, 2020
Type: Movie
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Não Me Esqueças, Me Ame Para Sempre
Title: Não Me Esqueças, Me Ame Para Sempre
Character: Gegê
Released: March 5, 2020
Type: Movie
Gegê wants to die but it will not be an easy task.
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Acqua Movie
Title: Acqua Movie
Character: Dona Neném
Released: October 17, 2019
Type: Movie
A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.
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Familiar Environment
Title: Familiar Environment
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: Movie
There are many ways to overcome the losses and drop-outs of childhood. Three boys reinvent the concept of family to face the traumas of their lives.
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O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)
Title: O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)
Released: September 25, 2019
Type: Movie
The comic docu-drama that follows four characters who share their stories (real and imagined) about frustrated love, addressing the most diverse superstitions and rituals performed in search of success in love. To delve into the nature of the accounts, fortune tellers, pais de santo, mums-de-santo, and seers are consulted to predict futures, give advice, and explain why people are obsessed with loving and being loved.
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Pacarrete
Title: Pacarrete
Character: Chiquinha
Released: June 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teacher who dreams of getting a big shot and starring at a dance spectacle for the whole town to see. She's close to fulfilling that dream, but not without overcoming a few impediments along the way.
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Currais
Title: Currais
Character: Dira
Released: January 24, 2019
Type: Movie
In the 1932 drought of Ceará, several concentration camps were created to imprison and prevent refugees from reaching the city of Fortaleza. Remnants narrate fragments of his memories and unfulfilled regrets, witnessed in the ruins of concentration camps and in the cult of the “souls of the dam”, resistant to the strong historical erasure.
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Blessed is the Fruit
Title: Blessed is the Fruit
Released: January 27, 2018
Type: Movie
After committing a crime, the woman leaves her home and family in search of an unknown destination. It is not known who she is, nor the reason for the crime. The mystery about this woman is one of the key points of the narrative. Throughout history she will be called Maria, Rosa and Ana, perhaps one of them will be her real name, perhaps none. She will walk for a whole day, hugging a watermelon and will have brief encounters that will mark her day and her life, facing a world that is sometimes hostile and sometimes delicate, in an attempt to live with the love and disaffection that she brings in her. .
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Regresso
Title: Regresso
Character: Maria
Released: December 13, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Velho Chico
Character: Piedade dos Anjos
Released: March 14, 2016
Type: TV
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Holy Biker
Title: Holy Biker
Character: Deinha
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: Movie
In an arid and poor region of Brazil, bikers search for a miracle to make it rain and save the land, risking their lives.
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The History of Eternity
Title: The History of Eternity
Character: Dona das Dores
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: Movie
In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.
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Os Pobres Diabos
Title: Os Pobres Diabos
Released: September 18, 2013
Type: Movie
The Gran Circo Teatro Americano takes its attractions to the northeastern hinterland. In the city of Aracati, the troupe puts on a fun play about the crisis in hell. With a rochamboesque plot and inspired by string literature, the attraction shows the arrival of the bandit Lamparino to hell and how Lucifer participates in international capitalism. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, loves and tragedies move the lives of artists.
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Good Luck, Sweetheart
Title: Good Luck, Sweetheart
Character: Empregada da Família
Released: November 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Dirceu, 30 years old, has origins that go back to the aristocracy of Northeast Brazilian backlands. Settled in a kind of subjective amnesia, Dirceu tries to bury his family's past. He is a demolition man in Recife, an urban landscape undergoing an uncontrolled process of transformation. Maria shares the same country origins, but she uses the city for a different purpose. She is a carefree and joyful music student. If Dirceu aspires to a world that is stable and present, Maria lives in discord with the present. To her, nothing is as it should be. Maria's apparition unleashes in Dirceu an urge for being somebody else. On a route of escape through the desert of the backlands, a unique encounter is set to happen. Boa sorte, meu amor (Good luck, sweetheart) is an anti-romance of the impact between music and silence.
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Ferrolho
Title: Ferrolho
Character: Odete
Released: June 12, 2012
Type: Movie
While a soccer team plays its games, events are experienced inside the houses. In other spaces, clay and the measure of a family's conflict.
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Mother and Daughter
Title: Mother and Daughter
Released: February 10, 2012
Type: Movie
After a long time apart, a mother and her daughter meet again in the desert, between ruins and memories. The daughter destiny denies her mother dream. The past is circle that imprisons both the dead and the alive. The daughter wants to break it but shadows are spying out.
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Blue Eyes
Title: Blue Eyes
Character: Mãe de Nonato
Released: May 28, 2010
Type: Movie
Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by causing the death of a young Brazilian. After a period in prison, Marshall goes to Brazil, deadly ill and in a desperate search in order to purge his guilt. In his quest, he is guided by Bia, a young prostitute.
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O Sonho de Inacim
Title: O Sonho de Inacim
Released: June 14, 2009
Type: Movie
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Bog of Beasts
Title: Bog of Beasts
Released: December 12, 2006
Type: Movie
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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Love for Sale
Title: Love for Sale
Character: Zezita
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: Movie
In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.
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A Canga
Title: A Canga
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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Plantation Boy
Title: Plantation Boy
Released: May 19, 1966
Type: Movie
After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sugarcane plantation where he grows up, studies, learns about politics, love and disillusionment.
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Memory Road
Title: Memory Road
Character: Old Woman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A truck driver travels the roads as if going through his memories.