Nelson Dantas

Nelson Dantas

Born: November 17, 1927
Died: March 18, 2006
in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nelson Dantas was a Brazilian-born television and movie actor and producer. In 1981, was the recipient of the Festival de Gramado award. Dantas died in 2006 in Rio de Janeiro.

Movies for Nelson Dantas...

Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme
Title: Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme
Character: Justino
Released: January 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a bride and is brutally strangled in the middle of the act of love. To prove the authorship of the crimes is the great challenge of detective França.
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Zuzu Angel
Title: Zuzu Angel
Character: Antônio Lamarca
Released: August 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
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Title: O Pequeno Alquimista
Released: March 20, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Celebridade
Character: Alcir Nogueira "Dr. Alcir"
Released: October 13, 2003
Type: TV
A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.
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The Storytellers
Title: The Storytellers
Character: Vicentino
Released: September 19, 2003
Type: Movie
A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As most of the inhabitants are illiterate, they have no choice but to ask for the help of Antônio Biá, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out letters with lies about their reputations as a way to keep his job in Javé's seldom-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the city was founded, yet each inhabitant has his or her own version of what happened.
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Title: Desejos de Mulher
Character: Ubaldo Moreno
Released: January 21, 2002
Type: TV
Fashion designer Andréa Vargas finds out the hard way she is adopted. The relationship with her sister Júlia had always been difficult, since childhood, and the antagonism grew when Júlia came between Andréa and her first true love, Diogo. But the worst is still to come: her first assistant in her atelier, Selma, is having an affair with her husband Bruno.
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Sonhos Tropicais
Title: Sonhos Tropicais
Character: Pereira Passos
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt.
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Title: Os Normais
Character: Gabriel
Released: June 1, 2001
Type: TV
Rui and Vani, are a couple facing normal discussions, problems and situations such as infidelity and convivency problems, but they solve it with great humor.
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Title: A Grande Família
Character: Gamboa
Released: March 29, 2001
Type: TV
The daily lives of a typical Brazilian middle-class family, that are always very close and tries, in their way, to survive the financial and relationship difficulties.
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Retrato Pintado
Title: Retrato Pintado
Released: August 18, 2000
Type: Movie
The story of a portraitist of northeastern Brazil and how his art resists time.
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Tiradentes
Title: Tiradentes
Character: Vice-rei
Released: June 12, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of one of the most important Brazilian heroes, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes. He was the leader of a group who tried to proclaim Brazil's Independence from Portugal in 1789. But he was betrayed by one of his comrades and hanged.
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Title: Força de um Desejo
Character: Dr. Xavier
Released: May 10, 1999
Type: TV
Força de um Desejo is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Globo TV and was shown in the schedule of 18 hours between May 10, 1999 and January 29, 2000, in 226 chapters. It was written by Gilberto Braga and as collaborators with Alcides Nogueira Marques, Lilian Garcia, Eliane Garcia, Philip Miguez and Mark Silver and directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho, Carlos Araújo, Fabricio Mamberti and João Camargo, with production of the core Marcos Paulo. Featured Malu Mader, Fábio Assunção, Cláudia Abreu, Marcelo Serrado, Selton Mello, Nathália Timberg, Lavínia Vlasak, Isabel Fillardis and Denise Del Vecchio in leading roles.
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O Viajante
Title: O Viajante
Character: Mestre Juca
Released: November 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards, leaving a poetic feeling in the air, which is always deadly to the ones who stay. Mrs. Ana de Lara, the proud rich widow, and Missy, still a child, whose beauty and innocence are like the Tiê-Sangue, a red bird, are the travelers victims. There is also Master Juca do Vale, a criminal, whose passion turns him incredibly human, in this story of love, death, forgiveness and resurrection.
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Love and Co.
Title: Love and Co.
Character: Asprígio
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
Godofredo suffers a terrible blow when he comes back home earlier than usual and finds his wife in the arms of his partner. He sends his wife away to a coast town and dares his rival to a duel. But he begins to miss his wife and the company of his friend.
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Farmacêutico
Released: August 12, 1998
Type: Movie
On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.
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The Nutty Boy 2
Title: The Nutty Boy 2
Released: July 10, 1998
Type: Movie
In this new adventure, Maluquinho is spending the holidays at the home of his grandfather Tônico (Stênio Garcia), an inventor who lives in a small community in the interior of Minas Gerais. His friends Junim (Samuel Brandão), Lucio (Cauã Bernard Souza), Bocão (João Romeu Filho) and Nina (Fernanda Guimarães) are coming to the city to help Maluquinho organize the circus for the centenary of the city. On this trip, they meet Tatá-Mirim, a small flame that ends up making the city believe that they are being invaded by the Capeta. So they end up living many adventures.
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The Patriot
Title: The Patriot
Character: Caldas
Released: April 29, 1998
Type: Movie
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.
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Four Days in September
Title: Four Days in September
Character: Toledo
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
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O Capeta Carybé
Title: O Capeta Carybé
Character: Narrador
Released: January 2, 1996
Type: Movie
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Title: Tropicaliente
Character: Velho Bujarrona
Released: May 16, 1994
Type: TV
Tropicaliente was a Brazilian soap opera produced and displayed at the time of 18 hours by Rede Globo, ran from May 16 to December 31, 1994, totaling 194 chapters. Written by Walter Negrao, in collaboration with Elizabeth Jhin, Angela Lamb, Mark Silver and directed by Vinicius Vianna and Blota Gonzaga, Marcelo Gomes and Roger Traverso. The general direction was Blota Gonzaga.
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Lamarca
Title: Lamarca
Character: Pai de Lamarca
Released: May 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.
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Lúcio Cardoso
Title: Lúcio Cardoso
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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Title: As Noivas de Copacabana
Character: Pastor Nelson Reis
Released: June 2, 1992
Type: TV
Donato Menezes, a renowned art restorer from Copacabana is also a serial killer obsessed with women in their bridal gowns. His crimes follows the same pattern: he seduces and then kills the victim during the sexual act, always when they're wearing the gown.
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A Maldição do Sanpaku
Title: A Maldição do Sanpaku
Character: Gold
Released: May 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Gafanhoto is a smuggler who tries to take a hit by stealing a valuable stone. He awakens the fury of the old boss of the gang, and ends up involving in the plot a former colleague, Poeta and his girlfriend Cris, a beautiful woman who brings in the eyes the mark of the tragedy.
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A Viagem de Volta
Title: A Viagem de Volta
Released: July 18, 1990
Type: Movie
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Minas Texas
Title: Minas Texas
Character: Correia
Released: November 5, 1989
Type: Movie
In a country town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Januária is going to marry the shy and naive Amorim. But in her heart she wants to escape with her dream hero, the cowboy Roy Pereira, and start a new life in Texas.
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Title: O Salvador da Pátria
Character: Décio de Abreu
Released: January 9, 1989
Type: TV
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O Natal da Grande Família
Title: O Natal da Grande Família
Character: Raul
Released: December 23, 1987
Type: Movie
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Urubus e Papagaios
Title: Urubus e Papagaios
Character: Desembargador Fausto
Released: May 14, 1987
Type: Movie
High Court judge returns to the small town where he was born, bringing along his beautiful and young wife. The local men get aroused and start looking for young lovers at the local bordello. Their wives even make promises and novenas asking the disappearance of the new couple. One day, the judge dies, leaving his wife unsatisfied. The corpse, as if wanting revenge, keeps an erection on.
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Title: Roda de Fogo
Character: Dr. Moisés Rodrigues
Released: August 25, 1986
Type: TV
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Fulaninha
Title: Fulaninha
Character: Porteiro
Released: February 5, 1986
Type: Movie
Movie director in his forties and in existential crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing she's the daughter of the woman he's having a relationship with.
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Noite
Title: Noite
Released: July 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Night falls when, in an elegant neighborhood of Porto Alegre, a socialite is brutally murdered. The entire police department act immediately to identify and arrest the killer. A man in his 30s wanders down a large avenue. He wears fine clothes, he walks elegantly. His broken watch reads 18:47. The man searches his pockets for documents he cannot find. Neither he can recognize himself in the objects he carries: a wallet full of bills, a theater entrance ticket, a bloodstained handkerchief. Crossing pedestrians for whom that night will be like any other, he seeks to recover his memory and identity.
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Title: Roque Santeiro
Character: Salustiano Duarte ("Beato Salu")
Released: June 24, 1985
Type: TV
In the tiny poor town of Asa Branca, in the middle of Brazilian Northeast, Roque Santeiro is worshiped as a saint. He was supposedly killed by a bandit, 18 years ago, trying to save the local church. After his disappearance, local leaderships such as landowner Sinhozinho Malta and mayor Florindo, took profit on that to control the humble population. They even make up a widow, Porcina, who should have married Roque secretly before his death. What they don't expect is that Roque is alive, and he's back to, allegedly, "save his people". Now Malta, Florindo, Porcina, and others must hold him down and explain the "truth" to their commoners, in a desperate attempt to save their own bottoms. Meanwhile, mysterious facts surround Asa Branca, such as a Werewolf, a film crew who are trying to shoot a movie about Roque's story, and violent murderers.
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Chico Rei
Title: Chico Rei
Released: January 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the properties of his former owner, and his companions' freedom, becoming Chico Rei, the first black man to own lands in Brazil.
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Memories of Prison
Title: Memories of Prison
Character: Dr. Sarmento
Released: June 18, 1984
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.
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The Blue Horse
Title: The Blue Horse
Character: Pai
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Boy from a poor family loses his only asset: a colorless little horse that his imagination turns into a magical and colorful pretty stallion. To get his pet back, he leaves home and faces all dangers ahead with courage, getting involved in many adventures.
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Title: Meu Destino É Pecar
Character: Padre Clemente
Released: May 21, 1984
Type: TV
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O Bom Burguês
Title: O Bom Burguês
Character: Billy
Released: August 25, 1983
Type: Movie
True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his disguise, he gets involved with high society, and with industrialists who were financing repression to the groups he stood for.
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Bar Esperanza
Title: Bar Esperanza
Character: Ivan
Released: May 19, 1983
Type: Movie
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, and her husband Zeca, a writer in crisis about his work.
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The Brazilwood Man
Title: The Brazilwood Man
Released: February 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.
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Insônia
Title: Insônia
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.
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The Saint and the Star
Title: The Saint and the Star
Character: Maire
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Successful businessman, Paulo Chupadinha send his wife to a convent every year to really enjoy Brazil’s carnival. He meets a cabaret woman that wants to make a show in his little nd peaceful village. For that, however, she will have to seduce every important man of the city: the police chief, the priest and the mayor.
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Cabaret Mineiro
Title: Cabaret Mineiro
Character: Paixão
Released: March 30, 1981
Type: Movie
An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.
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Engraçadinha
Title: Engraçadinha
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.
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A Noiva da Cidade
Title: A Noiva da Cidade
Character: Doutor Q.Q.Q.
Released: May 26, 1978
Type: Movie
When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her influence in order to get ambiguous deeds done.
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Title: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Character: Clodoaldo
Released: November 22, 1976
Type: Movie
After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life.
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A$$untina of the Amerikas
Title: A$$untina of the Amerikas
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spend their time to talk about everyday life and make love. Based on the novels of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Wilhelm Reich.
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The Wedding
Title: The Wedding
Character: Xavier
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
On the eve of her wedding, Glorinha finds herself looking back at her life and confronting the injustices, sexual perversions, adultery and crimes that are hidden under the happy bourgeoise facade.
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Title: Escalada
Character: Zé Sereno
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
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Aventuras d'um Detetive Português
Title: Aventuras d'um Detetive Português
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo!
Title: Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo!
Character: Mamede
Released: January 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.
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O Picapau Amarelo
Title: O Picapau Amarelo
Character: Elias Turco
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Conspirators
Title: The Conspirators
Character: Padre
Released: January 5, 1972
Type: Movie
The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.
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Lúcia McCartney, Uma Garota de Programa
Title: Lúcia McCartney, Uma Garota de Programa
Character: F.A.
Released: November 29, 1971
Type: Movie
In the 60's Lúcia McCartney is a call girl who is a fan of the Beatles. A diplomat tries to get her out of prostitution by falling in love with her.
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The Murdered House
Title: The Murdered House
Released: February 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Newly wed arrives at her husband's family house, in the country. The heavy atmosphere of the house frightens her, and she takes refuge in her homosexual son-in-law's room, who is kept locked and hidden from society. A tragedy occurs, causing her departure. She's only to return seventeen years later, and sick.
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O Doce Esporte do Sexo
Title: O Doce Esporte do Sexo
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Erotic comedy in five segments, starring the same actor, Chico Anysio: O Torneio (The Tournament), A Boca (The Mouth), O Filminho (The Short Film), A Suspeita (The Suspicion) and O Apartamento (The Apartment).
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The Alienist
Title: The Alienist
Character: Sacristão
Released: September 21, 1970
Type: Movie
Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.
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Capitu
Title: Capitu
Released: November 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Machado de Assis’s classic novel “Dom Casmurro”. Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not really his.
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Pluft, o Fantasminha
Title: Pluft, o Fantasminha
Character: Fantasma / Humano
Released: August 20, 1962
Type: Movie
It tells the story of a girl being abducted by the evil pirate with a wooden leg.
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Carnival in Caxias
Title: Carnival in Caxias
Released: February 28, 1954
Type: Movie
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Almas Adversas
Title: Almas Adversas
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie