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Heitor Dhalia

Highest Rated: 71% Adrift (2009)

Lowest Rated: 12% Gone (2012)

Birthday: Jan 18, 1970

Birthplace: Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Heitor Dhalia is a Brazilian film director who wanted to make motion pictures since he was a child, falling in love with the idea of telling stories for a wide audience. After attending university, he worked in advertising, but wanted to break into feature films. His first production was the bizarre drama "Nina," a sort of dark fantasy retelling of Dostoevsky's classic novel "Crime and Punishment" set in São Paulo. He made a bigger splash, however, with his second movie, "Drained," an absurdist blackly comedic tale about a strange man who owns a pawnshop and becomes obsessed with a woman's behind, coveting the one thing he can't purchase. His fixation on her eventually drives him mad. His next film was the sexually-charged coming-of-age tale "Adrift," about a teenage girl dealing with the sometimes tumultuous transformation into womanhood and with her novelist father's own extramarital affair. Despite the film starring international star Vincent Cassel and receiving strong critical notices at Cannes and other film festivals, the film was never released theatrically in the U.S. Dhalia was, though, lured to Hollywood on the strength of his films and next helmed the 2012 thriller "Gone," starring Amanda Seyfried and set in Portland, Oregon. Seyfried played a woman who hunts down the serial killer who kidnapped her a year earlier.

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Highest rated movies

71% 62% Adrift
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40% 33% The Three Marias
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17% 53% Nina
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12% 42% Gone
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Tungsten
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44% On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace
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69% Bald Mountain
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The Battle
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Doutor Gama
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Dr. Gama
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Battle Producer - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Doutor Gama Producer - 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Gama Producer - 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tungsten Director,
Producer
- 2018
No Score Yet 44% On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace Director,
Producer
- 2017
No Score Yet 69% Bald Mountain Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 2013
12% 42% Gone Director $11.7M 2012
71% 62% Adrift Director,
Writer
- 2009
No Score Yet 80% Drained Director,
Writer
- 2006
17% 53% Nina Director,
Writer
- 2004
40% 33% The Three Marias Writer - 2002