Isabél Zuaa

Isabél Zuaa

Born: April 5, 1987
in Lisbon, Portugal

Movies for Isabél Zuaa...

Greice
Title: Greice
Character: Clea
Released: January 25, 2024
Type: Movie
Greice, a 21 year old Brazilian girl, studies at Fine Arts university in Lisbon. In the early days of summer, she gets involved with the mysterious guy: Afonso. The couple is accused for a strange accident that occurs at the students welcoming night party. Greice needs to return to Fortaleza, her hometown, to renew his residence permit. Hidden in a hotel, while preventing her mother from discovering the problems in which she was involved and with the help of some friends, Greice tries to find a place of comfort in the world.
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Dialogues After the End
Title: Dialogues After the End
Character: Hermes
Released: October 31, 2023
Type: Movie
Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
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Coup de Grâce
Title: Coup de Grâce
Released: October 6, 2022
Type: Movie
The sunlight illuminates a couple in bed. During the day, the house loses its cozy air and turns into a temple. She changes from lover to priestess. He transforms his embarrassment into a confession.
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Lilith
Title: Lilith
Character: Lilith
Released: October 6, 2022
Type: Movie
The mythological story of the first woman on Earth, who came before Eve. She is created by God to be Adam’s wife. However, Lilith does not accept a position of inferiority in relation to man, she rebels and goes to the desert. Lilith reappears as Eve’s double, eats the forbidden fruit, takes revenge on Adam, on God, and becomes the first woman to rise up against the ruling patriarchal system.
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Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Title: Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Character: Dira
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The trip makes Pedro conquer his fears and face his life from a personal point of view. He goes back in time and relives outstanding moments of his earlier life – since his childhood, when in 1808 he arrived coming from Portugal with his family, until he left in the dead of the night, in 1831, running away from Brazil.
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Um Filme em Forma de Assim
Title: Um Filme em Forma de Assim
Released: April 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.
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Title: Vanda
Character: Mónica
Released: March 24, 2022
Type: TV
In the middle of the 2008 global financial crisis, Vanda finds herself alone and broke, with two children to raise. She embarks on a string of bank heists using a blonde wig and a toy gun and, in the process, becomes a folk hero.
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Abandonment
Title: Abandonment
Character: Woman in Bus
Released: November 25, 2021
Type: Movie
The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and cares. Their relationship seems headed for the rocks, and the only one who seems to still be looking for something from life is Lucas.
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Knitting
Title: Knitting
Character: Alzira
Released: August 13, 2021
Type: Movie
Five brothers end up being raised by their older brother after their mother's death. One day, as adults, they receive the news that a comatose man in an ICU could be their father. In the hospital's waiting room, the brothers immerse themselves in their conflicts and memories, and through the knitting learned in childhood.
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Dr. Gama
Title: Dr. Gama
Character: Luiza Mahin
Released: July 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.
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A Yellow Animal
Title: A Yellow Animal
Character: Catarina
Released: October 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholic fable mixes animation, live-action, voice-overs, genres, and continents to explore Brazil's colonial past.
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Peripheral Workout
Title: Peripheral Workout
Character: Coragem
Released: August 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Two artists go out to train, they don't fit the standards of their neighborhood, their city, or their imposing culture.
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We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars
Title: We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars
Released: January 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Strike on the red carpet.
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Foreign Desert
Title: Foreign Desert
Character: Cadija
Released: January 26, 2020
Type: Movie
A young Brazilian, who has just started working in a huge forest in Berlin, is dragged into a nightmare involving the German colonial past when he tries to find a girl lost in the woods.
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Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain
Title: Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain
Released: January 24, 2020
Type: Movie
In the year 74 BC, Titus Lucretius Carus, a young man with bold ideas, tries to convince his friend Memio that moving to the city of Rome to study is a total waste of time. Years later, Lucretius returns from the capital. Trying to find a balance between his explanations of the natural world and his emotional experience of it, Lucretius lives a deep and troubled passion with his foreign wife Isa.
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Bustagate
Title: Bustagate
Released: January 1, 2020
Type: Movie
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Arriaga
Title: Arriaga
Character: Kenya
Released: May 4, 2019
Type: Movie
On the shores of Lisbon, Arriaga, a 25 years old boy from a middle-class family of emigrants walks alone through the silent and wrinkled streets by vices of the nightlife. Arriaga deals with his self-destructive alter ego to be accepted among the youth of his neighborhood. Everything happens in one place, everything revolves around a single moment, what is suspicious only the unexpected can unfold.
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The Rehearsal
Title: The Rehearsal
Released: February 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Isa, a young artist invited to propose a project for an exhibition, sets out to stage a dramatic adaptation of ‘The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas’, a satirical 19th-century novel by Machado de Assis. The rehearsal is marred by difficulties which the viewer must interpret as being due to the fact that Isa is a woman, young, black, all of the above, or as difficulties anyone would encounter.
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Malandro de Ouro
Title: Malandro de Ouro
Released: January 22, 2019
Type: Movie
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The Devil's Knot
Title: The Devil's Knot
Character: Luka
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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Title: Thin Air
Character: Lúcia Nazário
Released: August 5, 2017
Type: TV
Cristian Nazario abandoned his family to climb Mount Everest and now returns home with terminal cancer. His homecoming brings to light his troubled family relationship and Brazil’s social situation: he is the fourteenth Brazilian to have climbed Mount Everest, but the first black man among them.
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Good Manners
Title: Good Manners
Character: Clara
Released: August 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.
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Joaquim
Title: Joaquim
Character: Preta
Released: April 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.
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Capoeira, um passo a dois
Title: Capoeira, um passo a dois
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: Movie
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Pedra que Samba
Title: Pedra que Samba
Character: narrator
Released: October 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Rehearsal on a roda de samba, event that takes place every week at Pedra do Sal. A tour of the African Heritage circuit in the region of the old port of Rio de Janeiro. A slave's voice evokes the past. Buildings are demolished. The city never tires of reinventing itself. Remain the people. And the samba.
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Kbela
Title: Kbela
Released: September 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Kbela is an experience of being a woman and becoming black. The film’s screenplay is based on the tale of MC K-Bela, which tells the story of a black girl, a resident of Rio’s Baixada Fluminense region, who went through a process of whitening during her life and decided to liberate herself from this, letting her natural hair grow again, getting rid of chemical interference.
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Mupepy Munatim
Title: Mupepy Munatim
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
As he learns his mother died, a man who had left for France to find a job and a living is now returning to Portugal. We follow his wanderings, the places he forgot. We feel the stranger he has become in the eyes of the other people. Gone long ago, he didn't know then he would lose everything. He has now to grieve his own way.
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Title: Reencarne
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV