Description: Bringing words to life on page, stage, and screen, these storytellers exposed truths through prose. Fictionalized portrayals unveil the struggles and satisfactions of the writing life.

More characters to explore:     Characters: Monarchs (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls527455444/)     Characters: Rebels (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561908628/)     Characters: Polymaths (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls527851696/)     Characters: Singers (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561815543/)     Characters: Filmmakers (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561953299/)     Characters: Politicians & Influencers in History (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561906705/)     Characters: Gangsters (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561902912/)     Characters: Pioneers (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561953884/)     Characters: High IQ (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561957867/)     Characters: Poets (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561417109/)     Characters: Fashion Designers (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561415775/)     Characters: Teachers (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561908458/)     Characters: Painters & Sculptors (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561415667/)     Characters: Pirates (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561901336/)     Characters: Music Composers (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561959841/) Characters: Mafioso / Mobsters (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls561902912/)

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Fictitious or not modern totalitarian regimes have not been incuded. Movies about colonial oppression have.

See also my list about distopy and fictional dictatorships (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls056242937/).

 Add: Militares da Democracia, by Silvio Tendler (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0854913) - https://www.facebook.com/Militares-Da-Democracia-Militares-que-resistiram-ao-Golpe-de-64-584276421662211/ On Sacred Land -  https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/works/2017.9/ https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/354.1988/

Prostitution appears in all films here, but not always as the main subject.

Films about prostitution: nearly from best to worst

Documentaries are not listed here. The best Brazilian documentaries, many about Rio de Janeiro, are in this link (http://www.imdb.com/list/ADI-TwJFFH0).

You can also see two other lists of mine for Brazilian films: Movies about Northeastern Brazil (http://www.imdb.com/list/BiIMlz_ibww/) Great movies about/in São Paulo (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls066179863)  Some nice Brazilian movies (http://www.imdb.com/list/ONPVdh561Og)

I have also made a list of Brazilian movies with up to three films representative of each state (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077633656).

ADD: short film "O bolo". https://www.facebook.com/obolocurta/  https://youtu.be/a-6GfbdBkCA

Movies about/in Rio de Janeiro (excluded the very bad ones)

Add: "Mario Filho, o criador das multidões": http://www.revistadocinemabrasileiro.com.br/node/1005

Biographical Films on Famous Writers/Authors, Playwright and Poets  (research started in 2007 and work is still in progress)

Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923)

Inhabitants of Belo Vale Boa Morte and Cidade de Congonhas and Paige Ellens in City of God (2002)

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