Heitor Dhalia

Heitor Dhalia (born 18 January 1970) is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He has directed five films since 1988. His film, À Deriva, competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diane Lane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Criminal Code

To crack the code of an investigation into a larger-than-life robbery, federal agents need to get creative.

Release Date2023-11-14

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Gone

Jill Conway is trying to rebuild her life after surviving a terrifying kidnapping attempt. Though she is having a difficult time, she takes small steps toward normalcy by starting a new job and inviting her sister, Molly, to move in with her. Returning home from work one morning, Jill discovers that Molly has vanished, and she is certain that the same man who previously abducted her has returned for revenge.

Release Date2012-02-23

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Vote Count1170

Renegaded Archangel

Mikhael is a sergeant in charge of BOPE, always on dangerous missions in Rio de Janeiro. But after getting involved in a controversial operation that culminated to a slaughter, he is transferred to a police unit at the state countryside.

Release Date2020-02-07

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Episode Count30

Vote Count19

Adrift

A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.

Release Date2009-07-31

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Vote Count73

O Jogo Que Mudou a História

Release Date2024-06-13

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On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace

Based on Michael O’Neill’s book of the same name, this documentary tells the story of the ten years the author spent photographing yoga’s great masters. Created as a deep extension of the original book, the film poses very human questions from our current perspective, mixing it with elements of movement and experiential sound, resulting in a new view of the Art of Yoga.

Release Date2017-10-05

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Vote Count11

He, She, They

Rafa, Vini and Maia are three young adults who share an apartment in São Paulo. Each living their own experiences, they seek to affirm their identities, find their own paths and a space where there is a place and respect for everyone.

Release Date2020-03-22

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Vote Count5

Bald Mountain

In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' dreams of hitting the jack pot are shattered. Winner of the 2014 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize.

Release Date2013-10-18

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Vote Count62

Ballad of a Hustler

Upon leaving prison, Brazilian Jonathan discovers that his ex-fiancee has disappeared, leaving behind a six-year-old son. The unlikely duo venture into New York's dangerous underworld of illegal immigration in a desperate attempt to find her

Release Date2023-10-05

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Serra Pelada: A Saga do Ouro

Serra Pelada: A Saga do Ouro

Release Date2014-01-21

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Episode Count4

Drained

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.

Release Date2006-09-27

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Vote Count142

The Battle

21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the students and professors of the Left-wing Student Movement, in the Philosophy Faculty building of USP.

Release Date2025-03-27

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Nina

After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.

Release Date2004-01-28

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Vote Count24

Dr. Gama

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 father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.

Release Date2021-07-29

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Vote Count15

Restless Love

São Paulo best friends Julia, Micaela and Diego enter their thirties entirely unprepared for the considerations of adult maturity. Julia has chosen to remain blind to the obvious signs that her current boyfriend is a two-timing cad, but her eyes are forced wide-open when she discovers that she is pregnant with his child. Diego is a party boy with daddy issues who can’t stay faithful to his sweet, dependable boyfriend. Micaela, meanwhile, is wasting her time chasing a bisexual actress who won’t even acknowledge their shared intimacy in private. As these three charismatic but troubled friends keep spinning their wheels, even their own chosen-family bonds get stress-tested to their breaking point.

Release Date2016-05-19

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A Fit of Rage

The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in his fence. This simple fact raises accusations and discord between the two lovers.

Release Date1999-06-01

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Vote Count12

Great Sertão

In the concrete jungles of lawless futuristic Brazil, enemies spout slam poetry in duels as their movements remind us of parkour. The adrenaline rush breaks into three timelines: the past introduces teenager Riobaldo and handsome Diadorim, the present depicts a bloody clash and reveals sexual identities, and the future exposes Riobaldo’s deal with the devil.

Release Date2024-06-06

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Vote Count9

All the Reasons to Forget

After ending his long-term relationship, Antonio is sure that he can quickly get over Sofia. But nothing is as simple as it seems. And realizing the impossibility of controlling his own feelings, he begins to boycott them, using all sorts of contemporary palliative measures to free himself from the memories of his ex: cognitive psychoanalysis, prescription drugs, Tinder, among others. Ergo, Antonio will go through several tragicomic situations.

Release Date2017-10-25

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Vote Count57

Anna

Within a society that reviews its values ​​and paradigms, where power relations are put in check, the feminine and the masculine gain new meanings.

Release Date2019-10-24

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Vote Count3

Tungstênio

A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.

Release Date2018-06-21

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Vote Count13

Out of Breath

An approach to the pandemic with a focus on care, revealing the human face of the collective struggle against Covid-19 in interviews with doctors, nurses and community workers.

Release Date2022-04-04

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The Three Marias

A mother, with her three daughters, exacts revenge on her former fiancé for killing her husband and sons.

Release Date2002-08-02

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Vote Count5

The Pantomime of Death

Portuguese horror movie.

Release Date1988-01-01

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Conceição

Release Date2000-04-02

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Thiago Pethit: Moon

Video for Thiago Pethit's "Moon."

Release Date2013-09-11

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Em Busca da Cerveja Perfeita

The documentary came from a question: Does a perfect beer exist?

Release Date2019-07-18

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