Magnifica 70
A man bored with his reality, works in the São Paulo government censorship department, is married to Isabel, but falls in love with Dora Dumar, an actress of the films he has the obligation to censor.
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A film censor with a boring and conventional life falls in love with the actress playing the lead in an erotic film that he must ban in this flamboyant and stylish Brazilian drama set in 1970.
1.At Boca do Lixo
24-05-201552mMarried film censor Vicente falls for actress Dora, the star of a Magnifica erotic film, and offers to help producer Manolo get the movie into cinemas. But Dora's secretly plotting...
2.Screenplay
31-05-201564mVicente gives film producer Manolo an outline for a feature -- a thinly veiled version of Vicente's own experience with Angela.
3.Production
07-06-201551mVicente tries his hand at directing. Manolo is called upon for censorship help by another director and grows jealous of Vicente and Dora.
4.Main Cast
14-06-201554mHelena, Dora's ex-partner-in-crime, turns up at a casting shoot to demand a role in the new film in return for her silence. A shocked Isabel finds the script for Vicente's movie am...
5.Principal Photography
21-06-201557mIsabel confronts Vicente about the film script and checks in to a controversial clinic. Shooting on Vicente's movie begins, but his inexperience and insecurity as a director make e...
6.Wrap Up
28-06-201550mLarsen, Magnifica's owner, demands that a kiss between Helena and Dora should be added to the film, but Vicente refuses to direct the scene. Helena tells Dario she thinks Dora and...
7.The End
05-07-201550mDora confesses to Vicente that her marriage to Manolo is fake and she is a criminal working as an insider to steal the film's profits. A murder takes place at Magnifica and the pol...
8.Editing
12-07-201549mIsabel turns to fellow patient Carlos but he chooses to reject her. When Larsen tells Manolo what his hatchet man has found out about Vicente, Manolo confronts Dora, but there's an...
9.Original Score
19-07-201548mIsabel unburdens herself to her mother and hears the truth about her sister Angela. Larsen orders Manolo to doctor the accounts because he is planning to steal from the backers and...
10.Censorship
26-07-201549mManolo informs Dora about Larsen's devious plans. Vicente wants to ban the film in order to prevent the robbery and save Dora's life. Isabel tells her father she wants nothing more...
11.Premiere
02-08-201548mIsabel tells Vicente that her father was abusing Angela, and her mother finds a roll of film in the general's safe. Dora and Manolo decide to fight for Magnifica. The film is launc...
12.Profit Sharing
09-08-201550mManolo, Dora and the backers turn on Larsen and demand that he hand over Magnifica to them, but Larsen is armed and a fight ensues. Isabel considers switching her father's heart pi...
13.The Magnificent
16-08-201547mThe general gets a nasty surprise at his birthday party when the fake film is screened. One by one, the backers pull out of Magnifica Films. Must Vicente, Dora and Manolo go their...
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