Marcos Bernstein

The Screenwriter

32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.

Release Date2012-01-01

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count1

Beyond the Horizon

Release Date2013-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count155

Vote Count6

Pride and Passion

At the beginning of the 20th century, a mother dreams of marrying her five daughters to eligible bachelors but marriage is not a priority in Elisabeta Benedito's life. More than finding true love, the strong-willed dreamer and her sisters want to live according to their own choices and to do so they must go against traditional rules and customs. Inspired by Jane Austen's works, this romantic comedy retells classic novels from the point of view of modern and empowered women.

Release Date2018-03-20

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count13

The Life We Lead

This moving telenovela tells the story of an unconditional love that overcomes life’s unexpected turnarounds. Ana is a promising tennis player who counts on best friend and sister Manuela for support. After a terrible car accident, Ana goes into a deep coma and only emerges from it five years later. Now, she must struggle to recover the life that went on without her and that she no longer recognizes as her own.

Release Date2011-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count137

Vote Count14

Little Secret

Little Secret is a film with three interlocked stories all connected by a single secret that converge to reveal the tragic yet beautiful lives of three families and how hope, dreams and destiny can unite people from very different parts of the world.

Release Date2016-11-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Central Station

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Release Date1998-04-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count997

Zuzu Angel

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.

Release Date2006-08-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count60

João & Antônio

A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Release Date1992-12-29

DepartmentProduction

JobResearch Assistant

Foreign Land

During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring.

Release Date1996-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count55

The Xango from Baker Street

Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve the case.

Release Date2001-09-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count40

Chico Xavier

A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.

Release Date2010-04-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count95

Beatriz

In Lisbon, Marcelo writes a novel, using the life of his own wife, Beatriz, as the main inspiration to the story. The creative process of the book takes a dangerous path, ultimately compromising the love they feel for each other.

Release Date2015-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

Suspension Points

André is a young doctor who, after spending a year working in Africa, discovers that he has been exchanging letters not with his long-time girlfriend, but with someone very close to her.

Release Date2022-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count20

Meteoro

Based on a true story about a road crew that raced to build the road between Brasilia and Fortaleza and the unexpected events that unfold make this film funny, engaging, and a true gem.

Release Date2007-06-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Bufo & Spallanzani

Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.

Release Date2001-08-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Consultant

Vote Count10

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.

Release Date1998-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Miracle Hands

A young medical doctor discovers some paranormal abilities. He can operate people with the assistance of the spirits of dead people.

Release Date2010-08-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

Vote Count7

Brazilian Western

When João goes to Brazil in search of a better life, he meets punk music enthusiast Maria and falls in love with her. But his involvement in the local drug trade makes him the target of a vicious drug lord.

Release Date2013-05-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count191

The Other Side of the Street

Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of events that will force her to take stock of her life.

Release Date2004-03-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count16

Oriundi

In a love story set in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, a patriarch witnesses the crumbling of his life-long family business at the hands of his descendants. Suddenly Sofia appears. Is she from this world, and is she the key to this family's happiness and their hope for survival?

Release Date2000-06-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Tempos de Barbárie – Ato I: Terapia de Vingança

During an attempted robbery, the daughter of the lawyer Carla's is shot and in serious condition. With no answers, Carla tries to move on with her life by seeking help from support groups. Unable to accept his daughter's fate and the lack of solutions on the part of the police, he transforms the search for justice into a search for revenge and tests his own limit to see how far he could go.

Release Date2023-08-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

My Sweet Orange Tree

Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which is in his backyard. Until one day he meets Portuga, a man who begins to help him and soon becomes his best friend.

Release Date2013-04-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count49

3 Champions

An intimate look at the history of Brazilian drivers from the '70s to the '90s, an era in which Brazil dominated Formula 1 racing, from the colorful point of view of its protagonists, especially Fittipaldi, Piquet and Senna, but without forgetting the drivers who failed to reach the profession's pinnacle, and the many behind-the-scenes helpers.

Release Date2011-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Inesquecível

Laura goes to Buenos Aires and falls for the photographer Guilherme. When she returns to Brazil, her homeland, she discovers Guilherme is actually her fiancé's best friend.

Release Date2007-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

Descalç sobre la terra vermella

Release Date2014-03-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

We're So Young

The life of Renato Russo, from his first involvement with music, to his years in the punk rock band Aborto Alétrico, to the formation of Legião Urbana, in the Brasília rock scene of 1970s and 1980s.

Release Date2013-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count161

Chico Xavier

Release Date2011-01-25

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Favorite Son

Claudia Maccari, an Italian doctor who has a Brazilian adopted son suffering from leukemia, goes to Rio de Janeiro to find the child's biological mother for a transplant. She is reluctantly helped by a Detective.

Release Date2001-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Arpoador, Praia and Democracy

Release Date2015-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector