Marcos Bernstein

Born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1970, Bernstein is a screenwriter and director. With João Emanuel Carneiro, he wrote Central Station (1998), movie directed by Walter Salles, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival and screened at the 42nd Mostra. He also wrote Oriundi (1999, 23rd Mostra), Zuzu Angel (2006), Chico Xavier (2010) and Brazilian Western (2013), among other films. As a director, he made the features The Other Side of the Street (2004) and My Sweet Orange Tree (2012).

Works

7.0

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 Date:2023-08-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

7.2

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 Date:2022-12-22

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:18

Pride and Passion
7.7

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 Date:2018-03-20

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:10

6.2

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 Date:2016-11-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

4.5

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 Date:2015-10-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:4

Arpoador, Praia and Democracy

Release Date:2015-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Descalç sobre la terra vermella

Descalç sobre la terra vermella

Release Date:2014-03-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Beyond the Horizon
7.0

Beyond the Horizon

Release Date:2013-11-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:155

Vote Count:5

6.3

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 Date:2013-05-31

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:185

6.7

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 Date:2013-05-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:155

7.4

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 Date:2013-04-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:46

8.0

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 Date:2012-01-01

Character:Himself

Vote Count:1

7.7

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 Date:2011-10-10

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:3

The Life We Lead
8.0

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 Date:2011-09-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:137

Vote Count:12

Chico Xavier

Chico Xavier

Release Date:2011-01-25

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Miracle Hands
7.9

Miracle Hands

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

Release Date:2010-08-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:7

7.2

Chico Xavier

A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.

Release Date:2010-04-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:90

5.5

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 Date:2007-06-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

4.6

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 Date:2007-06-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

6.7

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 Date:2006-08-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:58

6.3

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 Date:2004-03-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:16

6.5

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 Date:2001-09-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:39

4.8

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 Date:2001-08-31

Department:Writing

Job:Script Consultant

Vote Count:8

4.3

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 Date:2001-06-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

1.0

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 Date:2000-06-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

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 Date:1998-12-31

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

8.1

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 Date:1998-04-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:931

7.1

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 Date:1996-09-04

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:49

João & Antônio

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

Release Date:1992-12-29

Department:Production

Job:Research Assistant

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