Rita Assemany

Acting

Rita Assemany

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Acting

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14 titles

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Beyond the Universe poster
7.9

While waiting for a kidney transplant, a young pianist finds an unexpected connection with her doctor — and the courage to fulfill her musical dreams.

Beyond the Universe

2022

Above Justice poster
7.1

In this realistic and touching series told in an innovative format, seemingly independent plots intertwine to show how justice can sometimes be a personal matter.

Above Justice

2016

Justice: Misconduct poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Justice: Misconduct

2024

Central Station poster
8.1

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Central Station

1998

Oxygen Masks Will Not Drop Down Automatically poster
9.5

1988: A Brazilian flight attendant named Fernando jets between Rio and New York, loves many men, and lives life to the fullest. He ignores the fact that lots of people around him are contracting a mysterious illness. When he himself is diagnosed with HIV, he resolves to fight it. Taking a risk, he smuggles a drug out of the US and into Brazil, where it is illegal.

Oxygen Masks Will Not Drop Down Automatically

2025

The Seamstress poster
6.3

In the 1930s, two sisters separated by destiny face prejudice and sexism: one from the big city's high society, the other from a group of renegades in the back country. Emilia is romantic and marries a rich young man who is full of secrets. Luiza, of a wilder nature, falls in love with an outlaw who provokes mixed feelings in her. In this feminine and intimate epic, the sisters know they only have each other and both will surprisingly leave their marks in the world.

The Seamstress

2017

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos poster
6.0

In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies. Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman – the owner of the drugstore (Teodoro). Now she’s very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. Then the ghost of Vadhino comes to earth to chase her.

Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos

2017

The Seamstress poster
7.6

In the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both of them will assert themselves in their own and surprising way.

The Seamstress

2017

The Last Drive-In Theater poster
6.4

When returning to his hometown with his ill mother, Marlombrando meets again his father and the Drive-in cinema where he spent his childhood. Almeida keeps the cinema functioning with the assistance of only two employees: Paula, who takes care of the projection and the snack bar; Jose, an old friend of Almeida, who helps selling tickets at the cashier and cleaning up the place. The arrival of Marlombrando and the demolition threatening of the Drive-in will bring new directions to their lives.

The Last Drive-In Theater

2014

Pau Brasil poster
NR

In Pau Brasil, a small, lost village in the heart of Brazil, the families of Joaquim and Nives live side by side. Despite living in the same perverse structure of social oppression, they deal with life in radically different ways.

Pau Brasil

2014

2000s · 3 titles

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