Paulo César Grande
"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How...
A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Zapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. When her aunt sends her a pair of shoes instead of the money to start up the restaurant, she angrily sells the useless gift for spare change. Her dream fades away - until she discovers that the money was hidden in the heel. The zany search for the shoes begins, as she follows the footsteps through the lively streets of Havana, running into the quirky, colorful characters that bring Viva Zapato and Dolores' dream.
Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.
Que Rei Sou Eu? é uma telenovela brasileira do gênero capa e espada produzida pela Rede Globo e exibida no horário das 19 horas, entre 13 de fevereiro e 15 de setembro de 1989, em 185 capítulos. Foi escrita por Cassiano Gabus Mendes e Luís Carlos Fusco e dirigida por Jorge Fernando, Lucas Bueno e Mário Márcio Bandarra. Contou com Edson Celulari e Giulia Gam como protagonistas Natália do Vale, Daniel Filho, Marieta Severo, Cláudia Abreu, Stênio Garcia, Ítala Nandi, Edney Giovenazzi, Aracy Balabanian, Ísis de Oliveira, Paulo César Grande, Carla Daniel, Marcelo Picchi, Cristina Prochaska e Gianfrancesco Guarnieri como co-protagonistas Tato Gabus Mendes, Jorge Dória, Antônio Abujamra, Tereza Rachel, Carlos Augusto Strazzer, Oswaldo Loureiro, John Herbert, Laerte Morrone e Vera Holtz como antagonistas principais da trama. Foi reapresentada pelo Canal Viva, de 7 de maio de 2012 à 18 de Janeiro de 2013 em 185 capítulos, substituindo Roque Santeiro e sendo substituída por Rainha da Sucata.
The movie shows the life of brazilian actress Leila Diniz, who dies in a plane crash.
Yet another Godfrey Ho-scripted / Joseph Lai-produced / IFD-distributed "cut-and-paste" job. This one takes much of its footage from the 1983 Brazilian movie Doce Delirio and adds new and unrelated martial arts footage shot by Phillip Ko.
Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding.
Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.
