Guel Arraes was born on December 12, 1953 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. He is a director and writer, known for A Dog's Will (2000), Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003) and A Comedy of Private Lives (1995). He has been married to Carolina Jabor since 2003. He was previously married to Virginia Cavendish and Andrea Beltrão.
Release Date:2025-01-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:1
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 Date:2024-12-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:48
After two middle class teenagers commit a horrific crime, their parents debate whether they should protect their loved ones or let them face the consequences for their actions.
Release Date:2024-10-04
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
In the concrete jungles of lawless futuristic Brazil, enemies spout slam poetry in duels as their movements remind us of parkour. The adrenaline rush breaks into three timelines: the past introduces teenager Riobaldo and handsome Diadorim, the present depicts a bloody clash and reveals sexual identities, and the future exposes Riobaldo’s deal with the devil.
Release Date:2024-06-06
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:7
Paula and Marcos have just split up after 20 years together. He is editor-in-chief of a news program and she is a television presenter. They have differing opinions, but remain friends and work partners. But despite this, the relationship of respect between them does not prevent them from having different views on how they should conduct the edition of the best moments of the debate that the TV will show - and that can interfere in the choice of hundreds of thousands of undecided voters.
Release Date:2022-08-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4
Release Date:2022-07-04
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Kelson is a young worker who uses his motorcycle to escape the police and win Neide's love. He buys a new motorcycle from swindler Fernando, without knowing that it belonged to a dangerous drug dealer, who got out of prison and now wants it back.
Release Date:2022-05-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:6
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 Date:2021-04-29
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:9
Release Date:2019-11-28
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:26
A portrays of the period in which Brazilian humor had fewer limits (1986-2003), free from military dictatorship.
Release Date:2018-11-09
Character:Self
Sao Paulo, Brazil. Isabel, a 25-year-old girl, is kidnapped. The first ATM the criminals try to withdraw money from is broken. It's almost 10:00pm. The kidnappers realize they will not be able to get to the next one on time. What was meant to be an express kidnapping becomes an all-night imprisonment.
Release Date:2018-10-19
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:40
40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.
Release Date:2018-10-15
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:13
A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.
Release Date:2018-06-21
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:13
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 Date:2017-06-24
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:3
Over a tense day in the emergency hospital, we follow the surgeon's work Evandro and staff in three cases that require risk surgery: a drug dealer, a military police officer and a rich family child, all injured during a shootout in a slum next to the hospital.
Release Date:2016-11-17
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:32
Set in the 1950s, the plot follows the fictional creation of the first Brazilian TV station.
Release Date:2016-09-27
Department:Crew
Job:Creator
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:2
A married couple lives peacefully with two children until the husband starts getting violent.
Release Date:2016-01-25
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:4
After going through a failed heist, 5 friends, apparently back to their normal lives, are involved in an opportunity to pull off another one.
Release Date:2016-01-07
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:50
Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second largest private bank in Brazil. One day, Elias meets a mysterious woman who claims to be able to predict his future and says he will become vice president that day and the next day, he will become president of the Bank. The wheel of fortune is bound activated and a series of murders is committed by Elias and his wife Clara, leaving a trail of blood on his way to power and making them executioners and victims of their own destinies.
Release Date:2015-11-12
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:10
Photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town.
Release Date:2015-07-13
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:8
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
Release Date:2015-06-04
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:734
Release Date:2015-05-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
During Carnival at the historic site of Pelourinho, we follow the lives of tenants in a run-down rental house who try to survive using creativity, irony, humor and music. This is an adaptation of the TV show, not the 2007 movie which inspired the TV show.
Release Date:2015-01-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:8
The arrival of the Chinese merchants to Saara - the largest commercial center in Rio de Janeiro - before dominated by the Arabs and Jews. The film revolves around Francis, a saleswomen for the Casa São Jorge, a knickknack store that belongs to the Arab, Mr. Nazir. She does everything to help her boss not to loose his clients to the competition, Casa do Dragão, that belongs to the Chinese Chao. With her coworker Andressa and her rascal boyfriend Carlos Eduardo, Francis tries to find out why the Chinese merchandise is so much cheaper then Mr. Nazir's
Release Date:2014-10-30
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:4
After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judith, for who he soon falls in love. The problem is that she does not have long to live and they know it. This shall not prevent the emergence of a great romance in the clinic.
Release Date:2014-05-30
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:40
Successful at work, Fernanda is an example of women of the third millennium, free to make their choices and independent. Yet in her personal life she finds herself struggling to find a husband. Like other women of her generation, Fernanda put her personal life on hold to devote herself to her career and now suddenly feels her love life situation has become an emergency. Being single at 39 is quite different from being single at 29, after all "the fertile egg has an expiration date"!
Release Date:2014-05-02
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:165
Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. At 85 years old, she pushes the limits of her age and does everything she can for her family and friends. Sweet Mother illustrates the everyday life of the elderly with clarity and levity, and shows that youth actually starts at 80. In the role that earned her the 2013 International Emmy® Awards for Best Actress, Fernanda Montenegro adds another success to her list of characters, which includes an Oscar nomination for the film Central Station.
Release Date:2014-01-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:14
Vote Count:2
Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.
Release Date:2012-10-26
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:94
Morning talk show.
Release Date:2012-06-25
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:4
Release Date:2012-03-13
Department:Production
Job:Production Director
Episode Count:44
Vote Count:1
In Rio de Janeiro in 1963, the story of several characters is intertwined in the midst of the political scenario of the time. One of them is Troy, a CIA agent residing in Brazil who plans a trap for the President.
Release Date:2012-02-17
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:7
Pedro sees his life crumble as he is abandoned by his wife, Marina. His emotional crisis is secretly witnessed by Victoria, a neighbor who has always been in love with him. Shy, she hears everything that goes on in the apartment next door through the kitchen wall, but has no courage to declare her love for Pedro.
Release Date:2011-05-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:5
Release Date:2011-01-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:1
Based on the homonymous work of Dias Gomes , The Well Beloved tells the story of the mayor Paraguassu Odorico, whose primary goal in his administration in the city of Sucupira is the inauguration of a cemetery. One side is supported by the sisters Cajazeiras. On the other, he has to fight against strong opposition led by Vladmir, owner of rag city. For lack of a corpse, the mayor can never accomplish his goal. Not even the arrival of Ernesto - a dying man who does not die - and hiring Zeca Diabo, a bandit killer, provide him with the realization of his dream. Odorico gun situations for someone to die, but the first body to be buried in Sucupira may be the mayor himself, that the hunter becomes the hunted and goes from villain to martyr.
Release Date:2010-07-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:39
After thirteen years of engagement, the boring sex life of Rui and Vani is limited to one intercourse every other week. They decide to seek excitement with a threesome and they decide to invite Vani's cousin Silvinha to participate late night, but an accident interrupts their game. Rui and Vani unsuccessfully spend the night searching for for companion of a bisexual woman.
Release Date:2009-08-28
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:68
During a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Peter and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction.
Release Date:2008-11-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:22
Release Date:2008-10-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:10
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
Release Date:2008-01-04
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:262
After being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his father-in-law, Zé Araújo becomes the mythical Ojuara, an unconventional hero devoted to debauchery.
Release Date:2007-09-28
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:87
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Release Date:2007-08-31
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:281
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
Release Date:2007-07-20
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:99
Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they succumb to their grim realities...until they discover that out of struggle comes strength, and out of strength, the courage to continue on.
Release Date:2007-02-09
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:14
For forty years, the public functionary and family man Lineu and his beloved wife Nenê celebrate their first date going to the same ball where Lineu borrowed the jacket his competitor Carlinhos. In the present days, Lineu feels uncomfortable when his colleague Pacheco dies and goes to the doctor for health examination. When the result of his tomography arrives, his doctor says that he had seen some blur in his lungs and with that report he would give the correct diagnosis. Lineu steals the document afraid of having a tumor, but he believes he will die sooner. Meanwhile, Nenê meets Carlinhos in the supermarket where he is the manager and invites him to have dinner with her family. Lineu hides his concerns to Nenê, and his attitudes in the dinner misguide Nenê, and she believes Lineu has a lover and does not love him anymore
Release Date:2007-01-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:75
Dr. Botelho Pinto is an idealistic lawyer with a fixed idea: to put an end to Tabajara Organizations once and for all. Before the judge of the First Family Court: First the Mother, Then the Daughter, Botelho accuses the business empire of testing on its favela client Lindauro das Dores a medicine with an unexpected side effect: it awakens in dogs in heat an uncontrollable sexual appetite for the patient.
Release Date:2006-09-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:7
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 Date:2006-03-24
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:14
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 Date:2005-10-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:41
Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory.
Release Date:2004-12-12
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:162
The film shows the day when Rui and Vani first met. It was at their wedding (with other partners). Vani was going to marry Sérgio, and Rui would marry Marta in the same church, following Vani's marriage. While waiting for the ceremony, they begin to talk. Complications ensue.
Release Date:2003-10-24
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:140
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Moira, Anete and Caio are employees of a public office who do nothing in the office, which has lost some government attention over the years. Until a new boss arrives, Tales, with his intern Leda, and makes the old employees suffer with new and many jobs to do.
Release Date:2004-11-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:10
Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.
Release Date:2003-08-22
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:385
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 Date:2002-11-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
The series is based on the award-winning Brazilian film City of God, which itself was nominated for Oscars in four categories, including Best Director for Fernando Meireles. Based on the story of two friends, Laranjinha and Acerola, who live adventurous and dangerous lives in a Rio de Janeiro slum, 'City of Men' brings into sharp relief the condition of children and adolescents in these areas, realistically yet with a dose of humor.
Release Date:2002-10-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:30
Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last.
Release Date:2001-11-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:112
Rui and Vani, are a couple facing normal discussions, problems and situations such as infidelity and convivency problems, but they solve it with great humor.
Release Date:2001-06-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:71
Vote Count:32
The daily lives of a typical Brazilian middle-class family, that are always very close and tries, in their way, to survive the financial and relationship difficulties.
Release Date:2001-03-29
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:485
Vote Count:35
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 Date:2000-12-26
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:63
Vote Count:1
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 Date:2000-09-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1132
The legend of Caramuru, a Portuguese man that finds a paradise in Brazil, after stranded by a shipwreck, but has his heart tested when the chance to return to his country comes.
Release Date:2000-04-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:1
Release Date:2000-01-01
Ramiro is a 40-year-old lawyer and university professor who returns to Brazil after eight years of exile in France as a result of the military dictatorship. Recently separated from Dora, he meets Elisa, the youngest daughter of a couple of friends of his parents, who will turn his life upside down.
Release Date:1999-12-15
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:2
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 Date:1999-01-05
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:74
Release Date:1994-12-29
Department:Crew
Job:Director of Communications
Episode Count:1
Release Date:1994-08-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:22
Vote Count:1
The story, set in the 19th century, portrays the hypocritical bourgeoisie of the time. The eccentric Dr. Simão Bacamarte is a doctor who will develop his theories about the treatment of madness, knowledge acquired during his stay in Europe. The city is left at the mercy of this man who decides, at his own risk, to judge who were the madmen in the city and who were the sane...
Release Date:1993-07-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
TV Pirata was a weekly Brazilian comedy show aired on Rede Globo between 1988 and 1990, being re-aired monthly in 1992. Some of the writers later went on to form the comedy troupe Casseta & Planeta. The show was first aired in April 1988 to fill a gap on Rede Globo's Tuesday night prime time line-up and its comedy was inspired by sketch comedy shows such as Saturday Night Live and Monty Python's Flying Circus with a no-nonsense approach to Brazilian comedy; however, it mixed a new style of comedy with elements of Brazilian culture such as football, politics, pop culture, telenovelas, economics and celebrities. No well-known figure or member of any economical or social class was spared from the show's cutting edge humor. The premise of the show was a TV studio being invaded by pirates who took over the programming department and put a tape on the air with some "unusual" programming. Another new element to Brazilian audiences was the performers, who weren't the usual comedic actors, but dramatic actors doing more comedic roles.
Release Date:1988-04-05
Department:Crew
Job:Creator
Episode Count:34
Vote Count:5
A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts.
Release Date:1986-12-11
Character:Party Guest
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1985-05-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:40
Vote Count:6
Release Date:1984-07-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:167
Release Date:1983-06-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:185
Vote Count:6
Release Date:1982-10-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:137
Release Date:1982-03-29
Department:Directing
Job:Co-Director
Episode Count:1
Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.
Release Date:1982-01-01
Department:Editing
Job:Editor
Vote Count:5
Release Date:1981-10-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:167
When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality.
Release Date:1981-06-01
Department:Camera
Job:Second Assistant Camera
Vote Count:28