Marcos Contreras

Marcos Contreras


in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Marcos Contreras is a Brazilian Actor, Director and Producer, mostly known for his performances at Um Animal Menor (2010), Restless Sea (2016), Camel On The Tarmac (2015), Resistance (2019), City of Pirates (2018), Pineapple Pizza and The End of World (2023), Waiting Room (2009) Stray Dog (2007), The Movie of My Life (2017), 1961 (2023), Rend Your Heart (2018), The Babbling Boil (2022), The Nightshifter (2019) and A Última Estrada da Praia (2010).

Movies for Marcos Contreras...

Pineapple Pizza and The End of the World
Title: Pineapple Pizza and The End of the World
Character: Geraldo
Released: December 20, 2023
Type: Movie
The motel room destroyed, a hell of a hangover and a dead body; the world really should have ended.
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1961
Title: 1961
Character: Turco
Released: December 20, 2023
Type: Movie
In 1961, father and son travel to Porto Alegre. Their severance leads both to unknown realities.
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The Babbling Boil
Title: The Babbling Boil
Character: Dr. Heleno
Released: December 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Daniel has a misunderstanding with a witch and recieves an interesting curse;
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The Nightshifter
Title: The Nightshifter
Character: Paramédico
Released: October 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
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Through Ernesto's Eyes
Title: Through Ernesto's Eyes
Character: Gustavo
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl.
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Resistance
Title: Resistance
Character: Pereio
Released: April 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Brazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros and the movement to keep vice-president João Goulart from taking office. Using the radio transmitter from his improvised bunker, Brizola sets up the Legality movement, to ensure Goulart's right to the presidential chair. Caught in the crossfire, two brothers who are in love with the same woman unite to fight alongside Brizola.
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Rend Your Heart
Title: Rend Your Heart
Character: Interrogador
Released: October 15, 2018
Type: Movie
40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.
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The City of Pirates
Title: The City of Pirates
Character: Captain
Released: August 17, 2018
Type: Movie
A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
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The Movie of My Life
Title: The Movie of My Life
Character: Irmão Paco 1
Released: August 3, 2017
Type: Movie
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.
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Restless Sea
Title: Restless Sea
Released: May 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Anita an ex junkie moves with her husband to an isolated wind blown coastal town hoping to leave her out of control drug fueled past behind her. Her laddish, bad tempered husband is not sensitive to Anita's emotional needs and her new life does not seem to fulfill her. In her utter isolation in the misty lonely endless beach she falls victim to terrifying demoniac visions from which she will need to liberate herself before her real new life can begins.
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The Staple of News
Title: The Staple of News
Released: April 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play “The Staple of News” provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and focus of their subjects, the resistance of the media in accepting itself as a political agent, the inevitability of interpretation as there are no hard facts in nature, and above all the search for an always complex balance between credibility and the public’s growing demand for news.
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Camel on the Tarmac
Title: Camel on the Tarmac
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Camel on the Tarmac is made of two movements: the walking and the feeling. Walking under the sky of platinum winter; and on the asphalt. Feeling under the silence of the journey; relive the emotional memories. Peter walks and feel; walks and crosses the border between sister countries, Brazil and Uruguay. Follows in search of man who, like him, live recluse addition in their own digressions: his father.
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Homens de Bem
Title: Homens de Bem
Character: Marido
Released: December 29, 2011
Type: Movie
Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.
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A Última Estrada da Praia
Title: A Última Estrada da Praia
Released: August 10, 2010
Type: Movie
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Waiting Room
Title: Waiting Room
Released: May 12, 2009
Type: Movie
A young man wearing a gas mask wanders in an grey and empty city.
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Stray Dog
Title: Stray Dog
Character: Lárcio
Released: May 11, 2007
Type: Movie
In Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspirant actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.