Buda Lira

Buda Lira

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The Backlands Shall Sea
Title: The Backlands Shall Sea
Character: Coronel Plínio
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: Antônio
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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Mais Pesado é o Céu
Title: Mais Pesado é o Céu
Character: Zé Caminhoneiro
Released: August 14, 2023
Type: Movie
After taking in an abandoned child, Teresa meets Antônio and the two begin a journey on the roads. The common past, for them, is the memories of a city submerged at the bottom of a dam. Life is a dream, but the future is uncertainty.
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The Salamander
Title: The Salamander
Character: Pericles
Released: July 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Paralysed by fear of the future, a middle aged French bureaucrat escapes to Brazil where a destructive affair with a boy forces her to learn to live in the present.
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The Pastor and the Revolutionary
Title: The Pastor and the Revolutionary
Character: Tio Chico
Released: April 13, 2023
Type: Movie
O Pastor e o Guerrilheiro is a Brazilian feature film inspired by a true story, which takes place in the 1960s and 1970s and at the turn of the millennium - in the last days of 1999.
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Paloma
Title: Paloma
Character: Father João Manuel
Released: October 10, 2022
Type: Movie
On a hot summer day, Paloma decides to fulfill her most cherished dream: a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. She is a devoted mother, a hard-working farmhand in a papaya plantation and has been saving to afford the celebration. The priest’s refusal to marry her and Zé will force Paloma to confront the rural society. She suffers violence, betrayal, prejudice and injustice but nothing shakes the faith and determination of this transgender woman.
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Title: Caminho de Volta
Character: Stênio
Released: January 16, 2022
Type: TV
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Riff-Raff
Title: Riff-Raff
Released: October 11, 2020
Type: Movie
After receiving a washing machine delivery man at home and experiencing an uncomfortable situation, Carmen begins to understand the limits between her body, as well as those of other women and the city from a new angle.
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Bacurau
Title: Bacurau
Character: Claudio
Released: August 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
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Title: Aruanas
Character: Robson
Released: June 28, 2019
Type: TV
Three friends leading a nonprofit organisation investigate environmental crimes in the Amazon involving a major mining company.
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The Devil's Knot
Title: The Devil's Knot
Released: June 28, 2018
Type: Movie
During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.
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Sol Alegria
Title: Sol Alegria
Character: Capitan/Gardner
Released: January 27, 2018
Type: Movie
While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of weapons to a group of militant nuns who have withdrawn to the jungle, living off the income from their cannabis plantation. As gay , bi, trans, the converts so organized to make revolution.
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Rasga Mortalha
Title: Rasga Mortalha
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
A man hears the sounds of an owl that, according to the local legend, signals the arrival of death. He will try to capture the bird to bring joy back to the city.
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Dead Leaves
Title: Dead Leaves
Character: Man
Released: December 1, 2017
Type: Movie
An elderly couple lives in an abandoned farm. Every night they receive a visit from a young man who comes join them. The past comes to light when the memories of the couple seems to arise from dreams and nightmares.
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The Seamstress
Title: The Seamstress
Character: Cartógrafo Mais Velho
Released: October 12, 2017
Type: Movie
In the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both of them will assert themselves in their own and surprising way.
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Aquarius
Title: Aquarius
Character: Antonio
Released: September 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
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The Great Kilapy
Title: The Great Kilapy
Character: Ernesto Lopes
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.
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O Cão Sedento
Title: O Cão Sedento
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Based on a comic book by fanzine artist, comic book writer and graphic artist Shiko, "O Cão Sedento" marks Bruno de Sales' directorial debut. The film is set in 1970, when a series of car thefts, involving the burning of the victims, shakes João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba.