
Maria Manoella
Actor · b. 1978 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Movies20
Movie7.9DramaHistoryA woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
Movie7.8DramaRio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
Movie5.0DramaThe father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto.
Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala
2008 · 3 votes
Movie6.1ComedyA man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!
Movie7.2ComedyDramaThe life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
Movie8.0DramaThrillerAfter the death of former Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek in a car accident in August 1976, a journalist decides to investigate the case. The death of another former president, João Goulart, in December of the same year, heightens her suspicions of a conspiracy.
Movie6.0DramaA lonely architect attends the funeral of his childhood best friend and embarks on a personal journey of reminiscence and self-reflection.
Os Amigos
2013 · 1 votes
Movie4.1DramaRomanceThree metropolitan stories entwine in São Paulo. Would-be actress Marina arrives in the city looking for independence, falls madly in love with Justine, a bisexual rock singer, and is swept up into her wild, edgy lifestyle. Marina shares a flat on Avenida Paulista with Suzana, a mysterious lawyer who begins a relationship with a male colleague who is unaware that she's transsexual. Jay lives a few floors above them. He is a frustrated writer trying to give a meaning to his life by idealizing a stunningly beautiful prostitute, whom he transforms into a sort of muse. Following the frenetic pace of the city, the three "Paulista" characters will experience the euphoria of passion and its downside.
Movie6.4ComedyRomanceLaura and Alan fall in love, but have to deal with the strange death of Alan's wife and with a rival, Lilith, who wants to break their relationship. At the same time, a narrator gives lessons on how to make a love story movie, exposing all clichés on that kind of film.
Movie6.0DramaMarta and Manu are two Brazilian actresses that decide to move to Moscow to study the Stanislavski method. There, wrapped around a complex love triangle, they must overcome their differences to survive in a different country.
Movie5.5HorrorEdgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink of destruction, Edgar and his unlikely companion Tomás – a disgraced and excommunicated priest – embark on a dangerous road trip through a landscape plagued by chaos and despair.
Movie5.7DramaThrillerA high class lady from Brazil falls into a fake kidnapping scam when she answers a stranger’s phone call. Believing that one of her daughters has been kidnapped, she is guided by a terrifying voice for 12 hours through the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Movie5.4DramaAntônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.
Movie7.2ThrillerDramaAfrânio is a retired voice actor. Lonely and tormented by memories of his childhood. In her small apartment, looking for a way to re-integrate into society.
O Gorila
2015 · 8 votes
Movie6.4In Rio Grande do Sul, the newcomer intern Paula sees the schizophrenic Dante Becker and she decides to study his case for her graduation work in the university. She learns that Dante was left in the institution ten years ago and has been abandoned by his family, friends and even the doctors and his files are lost. Her supervisor retrieves the name of Dante's father Gregório and the women Renê Heller and Berenice that had visited him in the past and she interviews them to discover what happened with Dante.
Menos que Nada
2012 · 8 votes
Movie5.3RomanceLuiz Mario, a São Paulo night-club impresario and a classic "bon vivant", is also an avid collector of love affairs. He is surrounded by all types of women, with whom he has torrid flings, but he is never able to emotionally involve himself. Until one day, while passing by Rio de Janeiro, he falls head-over-heels for the carioca Malu, who practically runs him over on her bike while riding down Leblon's beach bike path. The couple's fervent romance is abruptly thrown into disarray when an enigmatic love letter is discovered. From then on, the story between the two lovers is turned upside-down. Luiz Mario is consumed by jealousy and his emotions slowly seep into his relationship, destroying everything.
Malu de Bicicleta
2011 · 8 votes
Movie7.3DramaThe life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exchanged stardom for a quiet and religious life.
Lara
2002 · 3 votes
Movie4.5DramaPedro has taken the road and he does not know where he is going. Lucas does not know it either. After meeting at a roadside café, they travel through the Brazilian Savannah seeking for a violent dose of anything.
Movie6.0DramaLeandro is a young man frustrated by his job. His master’s thesis is on the military dictatorship in Brazil. That takes him into a search for recently deceased artist Jairo Mendes’ controversial film The Beheading Game, which was censored by Brazilian censors in 1973.
Movie6.0ComedyA broke guitarist rents his studio to Loly, his musical pupil, and is confronted by his convictions.
Dissonantes
2022 · 4 votes
Series6
TVTalk ShowDocumentaryO País do Cinema
2016
TV6.8SoapDramaSeven siblings search for the same biological father and discover their lives are linked to Miguel, a solitary oceanographer presumed dead during an expedition in Antarctica.
TV8.2Action & AdventureCrimeA Divisão
2019 · 8 votes
TV7.5Drama1988. Diagnosed with a serious ailment that could bring an end to his career in front of the cameras, Brazilian TV presenter Silvio Santos looks back on his journey to becoming one of the biggest presenters in all of Brazil.
TV5.0DramaAction & AdventureThe collapse of a medical center in construction - over invoiced by the engineer in charge - creates two parallel realities: under the debris, the engineer himself, the daughter of the construction's main investor and a few workers struggle to survive. Meanwhile, above ground, there is a frenetic chase for those to blame.
Treze Dias Longe do Sol
2017 · 4 votes
TVComedy"E Aí - Comeu?" is a brazilian serie about the movie with the same name. The plot shows the story of love lives of three best friends Fernando (Bruno Mazzeo), Honório (Marcos Palmeira) and Afonsinho (Emilio Orciollo) who live different phases of their lives.
E Aí... Comeu?
2016