João Falcão (Writer)

Little is known about João Falcão, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Hamburg Dockland

Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.

Release Date2007-01-04

Charactersd Leon Badura

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

Luzia Homem

After witnessing the assassination of her parents, Luzia is raised by a cowboy and starts behaving like the men of Brazilian "Sertão". As a grown-up, she sets out to find her parent's murderer, but ends up discovering love.

Release Date1988-05-05

Charactersd Padre

Vote Count6

Sexo Frágil

Alex, Edu, Fred and Beto are four friends who live torn between the role of man in society and the need to be more sensitive. They try to understand the female head and put themselves in the place of the opposite sex. They appear to be very safe, but feel totally lost around safe, independent women.

Release Date2003-10-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count10

Vote Count5

O Auto da Compadecida

The (mis)adventures of João Grilo and Chicó in Brazil's Northeastern region. The four-chapter miniseries original version of O Auto da Compadecida.

Release Date1999-01-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count76

Louco Por Elas

Release Date2012-03-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count44

Vote Count1

Histórias Quase Verdadeiras

Release Date2023-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

Clandestinos: O Sonho Começou

Release Date2010-11-04

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

The Rogue's Trial

After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city.

Release Date2024-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count104

Soap Opera

Isabel is a promising screenwriter who has dedicated her life to become a writer for a hit telenovela. When she finally gets her chance, her mentor Lauro Valente betrays her. At the premiere, Isabel decides to confront him and magically ends up in his telenovela as the main character. From the inside, she will be able to prove her creativity.

Release Date2023-07-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count9

A Dog's Will

The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.

Release Date2000-09-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1171

Nothing Remains the Same

Set in the 1950s, the plot follows the fictional creation of the first Brazilian TV station.

Release Date2016-09-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count2

Dear Death: The Movie

This is an adaptation of the 2015 TV show, featuring two intertwining love triangles that drive the plot. The first triangle involves Aragão, his wife Arlinda, and her lover, Chico. The second triangle unites Malvina, Lena, and Gabriel, who is the son of Arlinda and Chico but raised by Aragão.

Release Date2017-06-24

DepartmentSound

JobMusic Supervisor

Vote Count3

O Auto da Boa Mentira

In four stories inspired by humorous tales by Ariano Suassuna, each created based on phrases by the poet from Paraíba, we meet Helder, Fabiano, Pierce and Lorena, living different situations where, ironically, the lie is always the protagonist.

Release Date2021-04-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

The Machine

In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré’s son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world to Karina. For that, Antônio leaves town and announces, in a TV show that he will set off on a sensational adventure: a trip into the future, starting from Nordestina’s square. A story where dreams contradict reality, geographical and political conditions threaten to block life, and love plays the part of the transforming element.

Release Date2006-03-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

Stay with Me Tonight

The musician and writer of the comic book "Ghost with Heart of Stone" Eduardo meets the gorgeous Laura, who is engaged and close to her marriage, in a bookstore and immediately they fall in love for each other. Sooner they get married, and one night, Eduardo unexpectedly dies, but his soul does not move to the Third World. He meets the Ghost with Heart of Stone stranded in his house, stalking his beloved next door neighbor D. Mariana and he asks to the ghost how he can communicate and say farewell to Laura.

Release Date2006-09-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Owner of the Story

A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.

Release Date2004-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count26

O Coronel e o Lobisomem

Colonel Furtado struggles to keep his lands, the Sobradinho Farm, and win the heart of his cousin Esmeraldina. In the process, he fights big beasts, experiences the taste of a bohemian life in town, fends usurers and thieves off, and uses all his cunning to get rid of haunting entities. His rival is the man he was brought up with, Pernambuco Nogueira, a werewolf.

Release Date2005-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count45