Movies: Paula Pretta

  • 2006
    Drained

    Drained (2006)

    Drained

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    A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control....

    Drained
  • 2021
    Insensate

    Insensate (2021)

    Insensate

    6.82021HD

    A woman tries to help her twin sister, with whom she has a strong connection, recover from a trauma. But weird things surround their lives....

    Insensate
  • 2013
    Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury

    Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)

    Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury

    7.32013HD

    “Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian his...

    Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
  • 2017
    Just Like Our Parents

    Just Like Our Parents (2017)

    Just Like Our Parents

    7.22017HD

    Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the expectations of three generations, she tries to discover who she really i...

    Just Like Our Parents
  • 2009
    Paulista

    Paulista (2009)

    Paulista

    4.12009HD

    Three 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 Av...

    Paulista
  • 2004
    Up Against Them All

    Up Against Them All (2004)

    Up Against Them All

    5.32004HD

    A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny....

    Up Against Them All
  • 2009
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009)

    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

    6.52009HD

    In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited ...

    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  • 2018
    Express Kidnapping

    Express Kidnapping (2018)

    Express Kidnapping

    5.52018HD

    Sao Paulo, Brazil. Isabel, a 25-year-old girl, is kidnapped. The first ATM the criminals try to withdraw money from is broken. It's almost 10:00pm. The kidnappers realize they will not be able to get to the next one on time. What was meant to be an e...

    Express Kidnapping
  • 2021
    Dr. Gama

    Dr. Gama (2021)

    Dr. Gama

    8.72021HD

    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 fat...

    Dr. Gama
  • 2011
    Onde Está a Felicidade?

    Onde Está a Felicidade? (2011)

    Onde Está a Felicidade?

    5.52011HD

    Teodora discovers that her husband was having a virtual relationship and enters a crisis, which results in the loss of her job as a presenter of a culinary program. Disillusioned, she decides to hit the road and sets out on a journey of self-discover...

    Onde Está a Felicidade?
  • 2016
    Bring It Inside

    Bring It Inside (2016)

    Bring It Inside

    6.22016HD

    Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He decides to stage a play and, with threads of memory, he improvises the lines with his young cast. Telm...

    Bring It Inside
  • 2007
    Antônia

    Antônia (2007)

    Antônia

    5.42007HD

    Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they succ...

    Antônia
  • 2016
    Love in Sampa

    Love in Sampa (2016)

    Love in Sampa

    5.92016HD

    Cosmo is a taxi driver who loves traveling around São Paulo. One day, when he meets Mauro in a bar, he receives an unusual proposal: to record testimonials from passengers in his taxi, in which people would talk about what they like in São Paulo....

    Love in Sampa
  • 2012
    Chamada a Cobrar

    Chamada a Cobrar (2012)

    Chamada a Cobrar

    5.22012HD

    A 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...

    Chamada a Cobrar
  • 2023
    Salve, Guys!

    Salve, Guys! (2023)

    Salve, Guys!

    102023HD

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    Salve, Guys!
  • 2013
    While My Guitar Gently Weeps

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps (2013)

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps

    52013HD

    Produced for TV Cultura within the project Telefilmes IV: Music and City, this made-for-TV film follows the story of Erica, a 14-year-old teenager growing up in Brazil, who has to learn how to deal with her British mother who is going off the rails. ...

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps