Marcos Contreras

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Marcos Contreras

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Pineapple Pizza and The End of the World
0h 15m
Movie 2023

Pineapple Pizza and The End of the World

The motel room destroyed, a hell of a hangover and a dead body; the world really should have ended.

1961
0h 15m
Movie 2023

1961

In 1961, father and son travel to Porto Alegre. Their severance leads both to unknown realities.

The Babbling Boil
0h 15m
Movie 2022

The Babbling Boil

Daniel has a misunderstanding with a witch and recieves an interesting curse;

Cold War
0h 15m
Movie 2021

Cold War

On a bus trip, Rodrigo and Pedro fight for the armrest between their seats.

The Nightshifter
1h 50m
Movie 2019

The Nightshifter

Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.

Through Ernesto's Eyes
2h 3m
Movie 2019

Through Ernesto's Eyes

Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl.

Resistance
2h 2m
Movie 2019

Resistance

Brazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros and the movement to keep vice-president João Goulart from taking office. Using the radio transmitter from his improvised bunker, Brizola sets up the Legality movement, to ensure Goulart's right to the presidential chair. Caught in the crossfire, two brothers who are in love with the same woman unite to fight alongside Brizola.

Rend Your Heart
1h 55m
Movie 2018

Rend Your Heart

40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.

The City of Pirates
1h 20m
Movie 2018

The City of Pirates

A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.

The Movie of My Life
1h 53m
Movie 2017

The Movie of My Life

The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.

Biography

Marcos Contreras is a Brazilian Actor, Director and Producer, mostly known for his performances at Um Animal Menor (2010), Restless Sea (2016), Camel On The Tarmac (2015), Resistance (2019), City of Pirates (2018), Pineapple Pizza and The End of World (2023), Waiting Room (2009) Stray Dog (2007), The Movie of My Life (2017), 1961 (2023), Rend Your Heart (2018), The Babbling Boil (2022), The Nightshifter (2019) and A Última Estrada da Praia (2010).

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