Sérgio Machado (Director)
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Works
Four for None
Four people with different values and standards meet in the urban chaos of Copacabana. Rita and Waldick come from the country, and befriend two Rio de Janeiro native guys, upon arrival: the playboy and surfer Paulo Roberto and a pimp called Tim.
Release Date2005-07-08
Charactersd Monike Caveira
Vote Count5
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
DepartmentProduction
JobCasting
Vote Count1005
City of God: The Fight Rages On
Twenty years after City of God, Buscapé recounts how conflicts between police, traffickers, and militias impacted the community.
Release Date2024-08-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count70
Lower City
Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.
Release Date2005-11-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count92
Madame Satã
In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã.
Release Date2002-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count79
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.
Release Date2010-05-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count43
The Invisible Collection
The young Beto ventures to the Brazilian countryside in search of a collection of rare drawings. There he meets Samir, the collector, and his family ruined by the demise of the cocoa plantations. The journey and the encounter will irrevocably change the young man’s soul.
Release Date2013-09-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count9
Noah's Ark
A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark: Vini, a charismatic poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist. When the rains come, only one male and one female of each species is allowed on Noah's Ark. With the help of an ingenious cockroach and fate's good luck, Vini and Tito sneak their way onto the Ark and together avert a showdown among the ships carnivores and plant eaters. All the while, the animals perform a series of classic songs inspired by world renowned poet, Vinicius de Moraes. Can these talented stowaways use music to break the tension and help these cooped up creatures survive the 40 days and 40 nights together?
Release Date2024-01-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count110
Alice Especial, Part 2: The Last Night
In the wake of an argument with Nicholas, Alice has a chance encounter that transforms into a deeply affecting event.
Release Date2010-11-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Brava Gente
Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.
Release Date2000-12-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
3 Obás de Xangô
The friendship between Jorge Amado, Dorival Caymmi, and Carybé, artists who were largely responsible for creating an image of the culture of Bahia that persists to this day, and who believed that the strength of their work lay in documenting what they saw on the streets.
Release Date2025-08-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Maria: The Outlaw Legend
Maria de Déa, Lampião's companion and first woman in the Cangaço, is a fearless young woman who dares to have a voice in a group of outlaws. In a life of escapes and armed disputes, Maria faces a pregnancy and is subdued to the harshest law of the Cangaço: handing over her baby to be raised by someone else. She begins to live between life in the group and the hopeless desire to raise her daughter.
Release Date2025-04-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count7
Aqui Deste Lugar
A documentary following the everyday lifes of three families that take part of Brazilian government "bolsa familia" program.
Release Date2015-10-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Alice
Alice is a 26-year old woman, who moves to São Paulo after her father's unexpected death. In this intense and eclectic city, she starts to live life to the fullest, discover pleasures, chalk up successes and fearlessly face her failures.
Release Date2008-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
River of Desire
Three brothers find themselves sharing a home with the alluring new wife of the middle sibling. As they become infatuated with the same woman, a complex and enthralling tale ensues in this tropical paradise.
Release Date2023-03-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count23
The Prince Charming
Raimundo, a hit man who suffers from a serious illness, is hired to kill Grace, a prostitute who moved to São Paulo to get away from the persecution of her son’s father. Their fates meet in a peep-show booth, setting off a love story on the razor’s edge.
Release Date2010-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Betinho: No Fio da Navalha
After eight years of a political exile imposed by the Brazilian military dictatorship, sociologist Herbert de Souza returns to his homeland. Alongside democracy activists, he faces the arrival of AIDS and puts the devastating impact of hunger under the spotlight. Overcoming his fragile health and personal tragedy, he creates the largest social awareness campaign in Brazilian history.
Release Date2023-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count8
Vote Count3
3 Histórias da Bahia
Release Date2001-05-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Irmãos Freitas
Release Date2019-10-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count5
Pastores da Noite
The Night Shepherds universe is inhabited by prostitutes, priests, rogues, saint's parents and street vendors. For a very Brazilian people who fight every day for survival and only rely on the solidarity spirit and friendship of each other. The seductive Cabo Martim, the romantic Curió, the noble Massu, the artful Foot of Wind and the Jesuit master live their adventures in four independent episodes, which are completed in their poetry and the strength of each story.
Release Date2002-11-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
A Bahia Me Fez Assim
Meetings between Bahian artists from different generations and their creative processes of reinterpreting classic Bahian compositions.
Release Date2025-04-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Troca de Cabeça
Release Date1991-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Luta do Século
The documentary recounts the trajectory of the boxers Reginaldo "Holyfield" and Luciano "Todo Duro", who found in boxing a way to escape misery and became two of the greatest idols in the sport. The rivalry between them mobilized the states of Bahia and Pernambuco in the 1990s. For more than 20 years they both hated each other so much that they could not share the same space without attacking each other. They faced each other 6 times, with 3 wins for each side. During the filming, the enemies, already over 50, decided to face each other for the last time.
Release Date2016-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Untitled Chico Mendes Biopic
Chico Mendes, who was murdered by a rancher in 1988, is an international symbol of the struggle to protect the Amazon Rainforest. As the leader of the rubber tapper trade union, he organized the so-called empates, a pacifist resistance action in which workers blocked the advance of machines entering the forest with their bodies.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Behind the Sun
Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
Release Date2001-12-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count125
The Violin Teacher
After failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school. He soon finds his world transformed by the power of music and friendships formed with his pupils.
Release Date2015-11-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count56
Midnight
On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.
Release Date1998-08-12
DepartmentProduction
JobCasting
Vote Count11
Neojiba - Música Que Transforma
This documentary traces the impact of the State Centers for Youth and Children Orchestras of Bahia and the program's powerful community music projects.
Release Date2020-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
O Sal da Vida
Jorge Amado was an aggregator and throughout his life formed a large collection of friends from all over the world, from the most diverse backgrounds and occupations. Many of these friends were important names in 20th century culture and thought. His house was always open to them, in a permanent celebration of the joy of living and the union between people. Among these friends, three had special importance: Caymmi, Verger, and Carybé. It is the history of this friendship, which went beyond real life and penetrated art and the battle for the valorization of popular culture, that our project dives into. A friendship that became the salt of Brazilian life.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
At the Edge of the Earth
On 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere in Capitólio Theater in Rio de Janeiro to astonished audiences bewildered by the impressive and poetic images. Considered by many viewers the best Brazilian movie ever made, this feature has never been released commercially. However, in a great paradox, Mário Peixoto has never made any other movie. The director Sérgio Machado pays a great tribute to the life and work Mário Peixoto a.k.a. Maçarico by his close friends with this documentary, using his diary; footages of "Limite", the never concluded "Onde a Terra Acaba" (1933) and the short "O Homem do Morcego" (1980); and interesting testimonies of Olga Breno, Ruy Solberg, Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Walter Salles among others.
Release Date2002-07-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Odu
Release Date2013-01-01
Sala de Roteiristas
What is the difference between a story and a good story? In this short documentary, ten of the greatest screenwriters in Brazil answer this and other questions, guiding us through the universe of creative writing and all its possibilities.
Release Date2019-08-17