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Wagner Moura

Wagner Maniçoba de Moura (born June 27, 1976) is a Brazilian actor, director and musician. Critically considered one of the protagonists of current Brazilian cinema. He is internationally recognized for the role of Pablo Escobar in the TV series Narcos and Nationally known for the role of Captain Nascimento in the movie Elite Squad and Elite Squ... more

Wagner Maniçoba de Moura (born June 27, 1976) is a Brazilian actor, director and musician. Critically considered one of the protagonists of current Brazilian cinema. He is internationally recognized for the role of Pablo Escobar in the TV series Narcos and Nationally known for the role of Captain Nascimento in the movie Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within. He started doing theater in Salvador, where he worked with renowned directors, such as Fernando Guerreiro and Celso Júnior, and soon had some participation in films. In 2003, he starred in Deus é Brasileiro and O Caminho das Nuvens, besides having a prominent role in Carandiru, which propelled him to the main scene of Brazilian cinema. He continued starring in national feature films. In 2007, he was the antagonist of the soap opera Paraíso Tropical, being praised for his performance by both the public and critics.

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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
(2022)
Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
Runtime:
103 min
Cast:
Antonio Banderas, Chris Miller, Harvey Guillén, Wagner Moura, Wagner Moura
7.8
N/A
73
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Elite Squad
(2007)
Action, Crime, Drama
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.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
José Padilha
Cast:
Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Fernanda Machado
8.0
51%
33
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
(2010)
Action, Crime, Drama
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 corrup...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
José Padilha
Cast:
Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Pedro Van-Held, Maria Ribeiro
8.1
93%
71
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The Magnificent Seven
(2016)
Action, Adventure, Western
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a dead...
Runtime:
132 min
Director:
Antoine Fuqua
Cast:
Chris Pratt, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jason Momoa, Matt Bomer, Denzel Washington
6.9
63%
54
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Elysium
(2013)
Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citiz...
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Neill Blomkamp
Cast:
Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna
6.6
67%
61
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Carandiru
(2003)
Drama
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he discovers the victim of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based o...
Runtime:
148 min
Director:
Héctor Babenco
Cast:
Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Gonçalves, Ivan de Almeida, Ivan de Almeida
7.6
67%
71
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Trash
(2014)
Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Runtime:
112 min
7.2
N/A
50
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Behind the Sun
(2001)
Drama
Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fu...
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Walter Salles
Cast:
José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany, Ravi Ramos Lacerda, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
7.7
74%
73
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The Man from the Future
(2011)
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction
Zero is a brilliant scientist, but unfortunate because 20 years ago was publicly humiliated and lost in college Helena the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions makes him travel in time, more precisely, to the past. After the chance to change his story, Zero returns to this totally changed.
Runtime:
106 min
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Woman on Top
(2000)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's r...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Fina Torres
Cast:
Penélope Cruz, Murilo Benício, Mark Feuerstein, John de Lancie, Anne Ramsay
5.3
34%
41
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Lower City
(2005)
Drama
Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Sérgio Machado
Cast:
Wagner Moura, Lázaro Ramos, Alice Braga, Harildo Déda, Maria Menezes
6.6
60%
61
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The Man of the Year
(2003)
Crime, Drama
Jobless and insecure to the point where he can't even face himself in the mirror, a terrified Máiquel enters a salon to have his hair died platinum blond after losing a soccer bet to a friend. His new look supplying an unexpected jolt of confidence, Máiquel asks Cledir, the salon employee who died his hair, to join him at the bar in ce...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
José Henrique Fonseca
Cast:
Murilo Benício, Cláudia Abreu, Natália Lage, Jorge Dória, Jorge Dória
7.2
100%
N/A
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VIPs
(2011)
Drama
A human look on the life of one of the biggest frauds in the world happened by important people in Brazil.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Toniko Melo
Cast:
Wagner Moura, Gisele Fróes, Juliano Cazarré, Jorge D'Elia (Patrão)
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Basic Sanitation: The Movie
(2007)
Comedy
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, Brazilian villagers decide to make a short sci-fi monster movie about the problem.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Jorge Furtado
Cast:
Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Camila Pitanga, Bruno Garcia, Janaína Kremer
7.3
N/A
N/A
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Futuro Beach
(2014)
Drama
Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Karim Ainouz
Cast:
Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Jesuíta Barbosa, Sabine Timoteo, Sophie Charlotte Conrad
6.1
65%
64
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God is Brazilian
(2003)
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. So He goes to the Northeast of Brazil, where He believes there's a very good man for the job. As soon as He comes down to Earth, a young man comes along to help on His quest.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Carlos Diegues
Cast:
Antônio Fagundes, Wagner Moura, Paloma Duarte, Bruce Gomlevsky, Stepan Nercessian
5.9
N/A
N/A
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The Middle of the World
(2003)
Drama
Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Vicente Amorim
Cast:
Cláudia Abreu, Wagner Moura, Ravi Ramos Lacerda, Carol Castro, Sidney Magal
6.6
N/A
32
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Ó Paí Ó: Look at This
(2007)
Comedy, Music
During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Monique Gardenberg
Cast:
Lázaro Ramos, Dira Paes, Wagner Moura, Stênio Garcia, Luciana Souza
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Nina
(2004)
Drama, Thriller
Psychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Heitor Dhalia
Cast:
Guta Stresser, Myrian Muniz, Milhem Cortaz, Wagner Moura, Matheus Nachtergaele
6.7
17%
N/A
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Father’s Chair
(2012)
Drama
Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His beloved mentor and surrogate father is dying, and his wife announces that she wants a divor...
Runtime:
93 min
6.7
N/A
N/A
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The Machine
(2006)
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré’s son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world to Karina. For that, Antônio leaves town and announces, in a TV show that he will set ...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
João Falcão
Cast:
Gustavo Falcão, Mariana Ximenes, Paulo Autran, Vladimir Brichta, Wagner Moura
7.3
N/A
N/A
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Romance
(2008)
Romance
During a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Peter and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Guel Arraes
Cast:
Letícia Sabatella, Wagner Moura, Andréa Beltrão, Vladimir Brichta, José Wilker
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Bald Mountain
(2013)
Drama, Western
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.
Runtime:
120 min
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Director:
Felipe Hirsch
Cast:
Gabriela Poester, Bianca Comparato, Wagner Moura, Javier Drolas, Rodrigo Pandolfo
N/A
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N/A
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Wasp Network
(2019)
Drama, History, Thriller
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
Runtime:
128 min
Cast:
Edgar Ramírez, Pedro Pascal, Penélope Cruz, Wagner Moura, Gael García Bernal
N/A
N/A
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