The best Daniel Dantas’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Daniel Dantas’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Daniel Dantas.
Stolen Dreams
6.3/10
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their consumer desires. However, even faced with the trials of absolute uncertainty and lack of hope, Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane insist on loving, having fun and planning their future.
O Homem Nu
6/10
O escritor Sílvio Proença precisa embarcar para São Paulo, a fim de divulgar seu novo livro. No aeroporto, encontra um grupo de velhos companheiros. Com o embarque cancelado devido à uma forte tempestade, o grupo segue para o apartamento de Marialva, filha de um dos amigos de Proença. Seduzido pela música e pelos encantos de Marialva, Proença passa a noite ali mesmo, onde desperta no dia seguinte, completamente nu. Ainda zonzo da ressaca, vai apanhar o pão deixado à porta do apartamento; é quando o vento fecha a porta e deixa-o nu do lado de fora.
Getulio
6.6/10
The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The crisis began with the attempted assassination of journalist and politician Carlos Lacerda in August 5, 1954, at rua Toneleros, Rio de Janeiro, in which Major Vaz was assassinated instead. Investigations pointed to Gregório Fortunato, chief of Vargas' personal guard, as the orderer of the frustrated assassination. This incident was one of the most importants in the history of Brazil.
Os Normais 2
5.8/10
After thirteen years of engagement, the boring sex life of Rui and Vani is limited to one intercourse every other week. They decide to seek excitement with a threesome and they decide to invite Vani's cousin Silvinha to participate late night, but an accident interrupts their game. Rui and Vani unsuccessfully spend the night searching for for companion of a bisexual woman.
Jenipapo
6.2/10
Michael is a U.S. journalist who works for a Brazilian newspaper. One day he is put in charge of interviewing Father Louis Stephen, a famed catholic missionary who helps the needy in the jungles of Brazil. Yet he has one problem: the Father has rarely ever given an interview. However, Michael decides that he will be the first to have interviewed the Father personally, and goes on a journey to the center of Brazil, in search of the priest. Michael will soon know how hard it can be to get an interview, and that the Father's apparent media-shyness has deeper implications than he thought.
Chronically Unfeasible
6.9/10
Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
Little Book of Love
6.8/10
Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruined relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long-term marriage with divorce. When they both meet, chances that they can do well together are not that big. But they will try to, even if their friends Barata (a convict bachelor totally skeptical when it comes to love) and Marta (a mathematic analyst who wishes that human relations were just as exact as numbers are). Written by Pedro Aguiar
O Vestido
5.7/10
Ulisses has failed in his professional life, but leads a happy life with his wife Ângela and their two daughters. Until the day he is introduced to Bárbara, a very beautiful woman living in Rio de Janeiro. Ângela becomes her friend and gives her the dress Ulisses had given her. From then on, marital problems arise, and he becomes increasingly attracted to Bárbara.
Betrayal
7.2/10
This film shows three episodes: "The First Sin" portrays the relationship of a man and married woman; in "Devilish", the desire between a young woman and her brother-in-law is shown; and in the episode "Cachorro!", a man sees his wife with her lover.
Love Stories Only Last 90 Minutes
6.5/10
In Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the idle aspirant writer Zeca has been living with Arts Professor Júlia for five years. He is stuck on page 50 of his novel for a long time and Zeca claims lack of inspiration to conclude the plot. He leads a comfortable life from inheritance left by his mother and administrated by his father Humberto. When Zeca sees Júlia alone with her best friend Carol in his flat, he believes that they are having a love affair and becomes obsessed with Carol, following her. Júlia travels to São Paulo with work giving Zeca the perfect opportunity to have an affair with Carol. So begins his complicated life: while Júlia works and studies for her doctorate, Zeca has sex with Carol during the days and with Júlia during the nights. Zeca plots a scheme to stay with either Carol or Júlia but his plan does not go as he hoped.
Engraçadinha
5.7/10
After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.
Couples Counseling
5.6/10
A seasoned couples therapist comes to realize she might need help with her own marriage after meeting a new pair of young clients.
BR 716
6.6/10
In 1960s Rio de Janeiro, aspiring writer Felipe leads a life of wild parties held in an apartment in famous street Barata Ribeiro in Copacabana. There he and his friends enjoy freedom even in the midst of a complicated political moment.
Money on the Side
6.1/10
Fishy businessman deposits some money in his secretary’s (and lover) account. But a typing mistake sends the money to an honest woman’s account, whose husband had just been fired.
The Dream's Not Over
6.6/10
The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a context of a country that was on the final years of a dictatorship back in the 1980s.
Me and My Umbrella
6/10
Eugênio (Lucas Cotrim) é um garoto de 11 anos que jamais se separa do guarda chuva herdado de seu avô. No último dia de férias ele e Cebola (Victor Froiman), seu melhor amigo, precisam entrar na sombria casa onde fica sua nova escola. O motivo é para resgatar Frida (Rafaela Victor), a grande paixão de Eugênio, que foi sequestrada pelo fantasma do Barão Von Staffen (Daniel Dantas)
Rúcula com Tomate Seco
4.7/10
Little Book of Love 2
5.9/10
Fifteen years after their split, a man and woman reconnect during a chance encounter and reconsider their new loves and lives.
What would have happened or not on that quiet and mysterious Sunday afternoon at the Zoo
Ian is a middle-aged man forced to live with frequent and incontestable frustration of not having fulfilled any of his dreams. An unexpected encounter with Otto eventually take Ian, violently, from his constant and unchanging comfort zone.
