Marcos Prado

Marcos Prado

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1961. He studied at the Brooks Photography Institute in California. As a photographer, he won prizes such as the World Press Photo and the UN Focus on Your World.

  • Title: Marcos Prado
  • Popularity: 0.1966
  • Known For: Directing
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Marcos Prado Movies

  • 2015
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    Drift

    Drift

    1 2015 HD

    Daniel turns 20 and has the night in his life that will redefine who he is, his future and his moral self.

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  • 2002
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    Bus 174

    Bus 174

    7.339 2002 HD

    Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

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  • 2017
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    Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl

    Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl

    6.2 2017 HD

    The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars and indigenous genocide.

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  • 2010
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    Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

    Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

    7.827 2010 HD

    After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

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  • 2010
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    Secrets of the Tribe

    Secrets of the Tribe

    6.9 2010 HD

    What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe – and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.

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  • 2007
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    Elite Squad

    Elite Squad

    8.058 2007 HD

    In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

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  • 2000
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    The Charcoal People

    The Charcoal People

    7.7 2000 HD

    This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile industry. The film examines the children and elders and their daily lives and work as they burn timber in igloo-looking huts, their bodies charred gray for $2 a day, struggling to survive.

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  • 2004
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    Estamira

    Estamira

    7.6 2004 HD

    Estamira is a 63-year-old woman who suffers from schizophrenia. She leads a tough life and has supported herself for the past 20 years by picking through garbage at the Jardim Gramacho Disposal Area in Rio de Janeiro. The film follows her starting in 2000, the year she begins treatment in a psychiatric clinic. At first, it is hard to understand her in her stream-of-consciousness sentences, delusions and obsessions. Gradually, however, we get to know her as a woman who can have quiet and lucid moments despite her illness.

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  • 2012
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    Artificial Paradises

    Artificial Paradises

    6.168 2012 HD

    Nando and Erika, two young people in their twenties, meet several times without noticing. The story of the subculture of electronic music and rave parties and drugs like MDMA.

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  • 2007
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    Estamira Para Todos E Para Ninguém

    Estamira Para Todos E Para Ninguém

    1 2007 HD

    The documentary brings new philosophical statements by Dona Estamira and portrays her relationship with her friends who inhabit the Jardim Gramacho Sanitary Landfill, in Rio de Janeiro.

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  • 2007
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    Estamira Para Todos E Para Ninguém

    Estamira Para Todos E Para Ninguém

    1 2007 HD

    The documentary brings new philosophical statements by Dona Estamira and portrays her relationship with her friends who inhabit the Jardim Gramacho Sanitary Landfill, in Rio de Janeiro.

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  • 2016
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    Curumim

    Curumim

    7 2016 HD

    Marco ‘Curumim’ Archer’s life changed abruptly when police at Jakarta airport seize 13.5 kilogrammes of cocaine hidden in his hang-glider. At first he manages to escape, hiding out in Indonesia for sixteen days before being arrested and sentenced to death. Eleven years later, on 17 January 2015, he was executed for drug dealing.

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  • 2000
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    The Charcoal People

    The Charcoal People

    7.7 2000 HD

    This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile industry. The film examines the children and elders and their daily lives and work as they burn timber in igloo-looking huts, their bodies charred gray for $2 a day, struggling to survive.

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  • 2004
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    Estamira

    Estamira

    7.6 2004 HD

    Estamira is a 63-year-old woman who suffers from schizophrenia. She leads a tough life and has supported herself for the past 20 years by picking through garbage at the Jardim Gramacho Disposal Area in Rio de Janeiro. The film follows her starting in 2000, the year she begins treatment in a psychiatric clinic. At first, it is hard to understand her in her stream-of-consciousness sentences, delusions and obsessions. Gradually, however, we get to know her as a woman who can have quiet and lucid moments despite her illness.

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  • 2004
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    Estamira

    Estamira

    7.6 2004 HD

    Estamira is a 63-year-old woman who suffers from schizophrenia. She leads a tough life and has supported herself for the past 20 years by picking through garbage at the Jardim Gramacho Disposal Area in Rio de Janeiro. The film follows her starting in 2000, the year she begins treatment in a psychiatric clinic. At first, it is hard to understand her in her stream-of-consciousness sentences, delusions and obsessions. Gradually, however, we get to know her as a woman who can have quiet and lucid moments despite her illness.

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  • 2009
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    Garapa

    Garapa

    8.2 2009 HD

    A documentary on three families struggling to survive in Brazil.

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  • 2012
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    Artificial Paradises

    Artificial Paradises

    6.168 2012 HD

    Nando and Erika, two young people in their twenties, meet several times without noticing. The story of the subculture of electronic music and rave parties and drugs like MDMA.

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  • 2012
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    Artificial Paradises

    Artificial Paradises

    6.168 2012 HD

    Nando and Erika, two young people in their twenties, meet several times without noticing. The story of the subculture of electronic music and rave parties and drugs like MDMA.

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  • 2015
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    Brazil vs Brazil

    Brazil vs Brazil

    1 2015 HD

    The documentary seeks to contribute to the construction of the memory of the World Cup in Brazil, in 2014, launching a reflection on the multiplicity of possible views about the phenomenon of this event and generating a historical document on the relationship between politics and football in the country.

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  • 2019
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    Macabre

    Macabre

    6.5 2019 HD

    In the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the trial of the press, police and local society is fundamentally racist, and begins to have doubts about the conviction of one of them. Based on a true story, the film is a work of fiction about the famous case of the "Necrophil Brothers."

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  • 2019
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    Macabre

    Macabre

    6.5 2019 HD

    In the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the trial of the press, police and local society is fundamentally racist, and begins to have doubts about the conviction of one of them. Based on a true story, the film is a work of fiction about the famous case of the "Necrophil Brothers."

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  • 2016
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    Curumim

    Curumim

    7 2016 HD

    Marco ‘Curumim’ Archer’s life changed abruptly when police at Jakarta airport seize 13.5 kilogrammes of cocaine hidden in his hang-glider. At first he manages to escape, hiding out in Indonesia for sixteen days before being arrested and sentenced to death. Eleven years later, on 17 January 2015, he was executed for drug dealing.

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  • 2016
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    Curumim

    Curumim

    7 2016 HD

    Marco ‘Curumim’ Archer’s life changed abruptly when police at Jakarta airport seize 13.5 kilogrammes of cocaine hidden in his hang-glider. At first he manages to escape, hiding out in Indonesia for sixteen days before being arrested and sentenced to death. Eleven years later, on 17 January 2015, he was executed for drug dealing.

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  • 1970
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    7.012 1970 HD

    A scandal erupts in Brazil during an investigation of alleged government corruption via oil and construction companies. Loosely inspired by true events.

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