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Plot Summary:
Five independent stories centering on a theme of isolation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like 5X Comedy (2021):
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The Missing (2021)
Plot Summary:
Every two minutes, someone disappears in Brazil. Os Ausentes, an agency run by a former cop with a search of his own, takes the cases no one will to help other people reunite with their loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Action
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Maids (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling. Quitéria is naive, a gull for thieves. Cida has a husband and also a lover. While each woman gets what she wishes for (more or less), it doesn't always make things better.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, manga
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Playing in the Dark (2004)
Plot Summary:
A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Beyond the Universe (2022)
Plot Summary:
While waiting for a kidney transplant, a young pianist finds an unexpected connection with her doctor — and the courage to fulfill her musical dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Nobody's Looking (2019)
Plot Summary:
A new guardian "angelus" uncovers a secret behind the Angelus System's bureaucracy that leads him to break its official rules about protecting humans.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: existential
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Someone Borrowed (2022)
Plot Summary:
To fulfill his mother’s dying wish and avoid being removed from her will, an inflexible bachelor hires an actress to play his fiancée.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Smother-in-Law (2022)
Plot Summary:
Living with her family since the pandemic struck, the meddling Isadir does her best to disrupt the lives of her bumbling son and rival daughter-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Sound & Fury (2009)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a Shakespearian theatre group and their personal struggles to organize the production of 'Hamlet'.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sixteen-Oh-Sixty (1995)
Plot Summary:
Rich executive being threatened by a burglar who had been caught trying to steal his mansion hires a hitman to kill him in prison. But another man is killed instead, leaving a widow and three kids. Full of remorse, he tries to help the family, taking everyone home. Soon, conflicts arise from the impossible coexistence of such contrasting families under the same roof.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: black comedy
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Heavy Load (2003)
Plot Summary:
The show presents the misadventures of two truck drivers, Pedro and Bino, who struggle to make their livings on the roads of Brazil, trying not to be misled by life's traps.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Henpocalypse! (2023)
Plot Summary:
Five women head out on a weekend of a lifetime to celebrate Zara's engagement only to be interrupted by the end of the world. They subsequently have to wait it out in an isolated holiday cottage in Wales and, emerging from quarantine into the harsh new post-apocalyptic world, find the male population has almost entirely been wiped out.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags:
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Hard (2020)
Plot Summary:
A recent widow learns her deceased husband was in the porn production business and faces the challenge of saving the company she's inherited.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: erotic, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sensual
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The King of TV (2022)
Plot Summary:
1988. 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.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Forgotten Valley (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of youngsters get lost while hiking in the woods and are suddenly attacked. Wounded and with one of them have being captured, they find shelter in an eerie village shrouded in an eternal mist, a place from where no one can escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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Macho Macho Man (2019)
Plot Summary:
Carlão is a prejudiced man who works in a car dealership with Cadinho, Zeca and Antunes. In conversations between them, Carlão always boasts of being the greatest soccer and mechanics savvy, all amidst macho and homophobic jokes. When Evaristo is the target of such verbal assaults, he pursues him and locks him in a magic locker. From there comes Carlinhos, a homosexual alter ego that takes over Carlão's body when night comes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Isolation Stories (2020)
Plot Summary:
A series of four short dramas depicting life in lockdown. Each episode will be 15 minutes in duration and will reflect what families are going through after weeks of isolation. The series will be filmed observing the strict rules of lockdown with actors and their families filming the scenes themselves watched remotely by the directors. Each of the directors — Paul Whittington, Paul Andrew Williams, Louise Hooper and David Blair — will be watching footage via their mobile phones and giving advice to the actors and their family members about camera positioning, scene composition and lighting as they record the scenes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Buzz (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brazilian telenovela based on the 1985 telenovela of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: sexy, novela, realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, soap opera, telenovela
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In Treatment (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in an office of a psychoanalyst, the series follows the professional and personal day-to-day work of therapist Theo. Displayed daily, each episode of the plot is marked by the story of one of his patients, and the last episode of the week will always bring an assessment of Theo's by his supervisor Dora.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, clever, serious, tense, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Haru and Natsu (2005)
Plot Summary:
As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left behind in the care of spiteful relatives. Losing all contact, each must make her own way in an unforgiving world. Hardships abound in the struggle to survive in war-torn Japan and in the face of anti-Japanese sentiment in Brazil, financial ruin, familial pressure, abandonment and lost love. However they also experience the precious joy of survival and success. Now, after 70 years, Haru comes back to Japan to find her estranged sister.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Second Call (2019)
Plot Summary:
5 teachers deal with terrible conditions in public schools but renew everyday their faith on the work they do.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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Call Me Bruna (2016)
Plot Summary:
Raquel is a girl, adopted by an upper-middle-class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in São Paulo to become a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, soap opera, erotic, sexy, hot
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All the Women in the World (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this contemporary romantic comedy about love in all its forms, All the Women in the World tells the story of Paulo, a bohemian dreamer that lives his relationships intensively, falling deeply for all the women he meets. Never able to forget Maria Alice, his greatest love, he counts on the advice of his two best friends to face the emotions of his accomplishments and breakups.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, emotional, talky, romantic comedy
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September Mornings (2021)
Plot Summary:
The journey of Cassandra, who starts to see things get on track in her life with a place of her own for the first time, a boyfriend who she loves, Ivaldo, a job as a courier in downtown São Paulo, and fulfilling her dream of being a cover artist of Vanusa, a famous Brazilian singer from the 70s. Her life takes an unexpected turn, however, when her ex, Leide, shows up with Gersinho and claims he is Cassandra’s son.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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Fight or Love? (2012)
Plot Summary:
Guerra dos Sexos is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired by Globo October 1, 2012 to April 26, 2013, replacing Floods Charme1 and being substiuída Good for Blood Written by Silvio de Abreu and directed by Jorge Fernando, was the 81st "novel of the seven" displayed by the issuer. The actors Gloria Pires, Edson Celulari, Mariana Ximenes, Reynaldo Gianecchini, Bianca Bin, Paulo Rocha, Guilhermina Guinle, Drica Moraes, Eriberto Leão, Luana Piovani, Tony Ramos and Irene Ravache play in the lead roles.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, humorous, captivating, telenovela
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Staged (2020)
Plot Summary:
David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' in the West End. The pandemic has put paid to that, but their director (Simon Evans) is determined not to let the opportunity pass him by.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: ironic, light, atmospheric, humorous, witty, funny, buddy comedy
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Shades of Sin (2004)
Plot Summary:
Da Cor do Pecado is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo in the traditional schedule of 19 hours between January 26 and August 28, 2004 with 185 chapters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, telenovela
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The Business (2013)
Plot Summary:
Karin, Magali and Luna are three call girls, who decide to apply some marketing knowledge on the world's oldest profession.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, captivating, erotic, sex comedy, sensual, semi serious, buddy comedy, family comedy
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All the Same… or Not (2022)
Plot Summary:
Carol and her friends prepare for a new year of going to school, to the beach, and having fun in their beloved Rio de Janeiro... but their friendship will be put to the test. Carol will deal with her mother's marriage, her stepfather being her teacher, her insufferable half-brother, and her friends' personal problems. But they will stick together... or not.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: satirical, teen comedy
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City of Men (2002)
Plot Summary:
City of Men is a Brazilian television programme created by Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles, the directors of the film City of God. The series was watched by 35 million viewers in Brazil and was released internationally on DVD shortly after the film. In 2007, a feature length film based on the series was released. It is often cited as a 'spin-off' of the film; City of Men is a less violent and more light-hearted affair with dramedy elements. However, the two do share some common aspects: the directors, some of the actors, and the setting of the Brazilian favela with its background of gangsters and poverty. The programme tells the stories of Luis Claudío and Uolace, better known by their nicknames Acerola and Laranjinha, respectively, who are two best friends who live in a notorious Rio slum, in a community of drug-dealers, hustlers, and teenagers struggling to fulfill their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Best Things in the World (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries to make his way through life, with its first sexual experiences, his depressed brother and his self-centered parents. It’s a humorous homage to the pitfalls of daily life and the diversity of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, captivating, spectacular, realistic, queer cinema