Jorge Furtado

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 Date:2024-12-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writers' Assistant

Vote Count:48

Virgínia e Adelaide

Adelaide and Virgínia met in 1937, a year after the German arrived in Brazil, fleeing the Nazi persecution of the Jews, where she came with her husband and two daughters. Together, they founded and popularized psychoanalysis in Brazil, breaking down barriers and prejudices. They were doctor and patient for 5 years, colleagues for more than 30 years, great friends their entire lives.

Release Date:2024-08-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Great Sertão

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

A Happy Family

In a happy family perfectly protected in a gated community, a mother is harshly accused of hurting her twin daughters and newborn baby. However, the truth behind the high walls may reveal unexpected cruelty.

Release Date:2024-04-04

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:20

Meu Nome é Gal

Film about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that helped shape Brazil's greatest singer.

Release Date:2023-10-12

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:27

Toll

Suellen is a toll booth attendant who starts using her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches from people driving to the coast. But only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop.

Release Date:2023-09-08

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:9

O Debate

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

Vai Dar Nada

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

Cretinália

Short film by Jorge Furtado, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine.

Release Date:2020-09-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Self

Real Beleza

Photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town.

Release Date:2015-07-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Ó Paí, Ó - O Filme

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 Staple of News

Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play “The Staple of News” provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and focus of their subjects, the resistance of the media in accepting itself as a political agent, the inevitability of interpretation as there are no hard facts in nature, and above all the search for an always complex balance between credibility and the public’s growing demand for news.

Release Date:2014-04-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Sweet Mother

Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she uses her many years of experience to solve problems in the best way possible.

Release Date:2012-12-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:16

Até a Vista

Young filmmaker is looking for a story for his first feature film. In an attempt to obtain the copyright for a novel, the young man accepts the author's unusual proposal and together they set off in search of an old love of the writer.

Release Date:2012-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Homens de Bem

Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.

Release Date:2011-12-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Velázquez e a Teoria Quântica da Gravidade

Young scientist thinks he has found the quantum theory of gravity based on Velázquez's painting "The Girls".

Release Date:2011-07-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Romance

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:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:22

Basic Sanitation, the Movie

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:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:99

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 Date:2005-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:41

My Uncle Killed a Guy

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:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:162

Oscar Boz

Release Date:2004-01-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Benjamim

Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the woman he loved was hiding with her guerilla lover. As a result, the two were killed. One day, he casually meets a woman who looks very much like his former love, and this fact changes his life. Could she be the daughter of his great love? Or her reincarnation?

Release Date:2003-10-21

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:9

Lisbela and the Prisoner

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:Screenplay

Vote Count:385

The Man Who Copied

André, 19, lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and works as a photocopier operator. He likes to see his neighbor Sílvia with a pair of binoculars. She works selling clothes. Becoming attracted to her, he tries to get nearer, and goes to her shop to buy something, but finds out that he can't afford it. So he puts the photocopier to other uses, and begins to envisage fishy schemes to earn some money.

Release Date:2003-06-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:344

Two Summers

A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. They meet up again the following summer

Release Date:2002-12-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil

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:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:112

Tolerância

Julius is a photographer working as a men's magazine photo retoucher. His wife, Marcia, is a criminal lawyer who defends Teodoro, a squatter accused of murder. For years they had a quiet wedlock. However, Marcia gets involved with her client, and as revenge, Julius sleeps with Ana Maria, a friend of their daughter Guida. From this episode on, their lives are no longer the same.

Release Date:2000-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:16

The Sandwich

A couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich.

Release Date:2000-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

3 Minutes

Three minutes. The time to leave a message. Passing the baton and run 1600 meters. To cook an egg. The time to make a decision that can change your life.

Release Date:1999-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Ângelo Anda Sumido

Two friends try to get to a restaurant for dinner and get lost in the labyrinth of bars, walls and fences in a city.

Release Date:1997-01-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Estrada

Release Date:1995-01-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

A Matadeira

Release Date:1994-01-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Veja Bem

Release Date:1994-01-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

O Alienista

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

This Is Not Your Life

Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.

Release Date:1991-01-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

O Vampiro de Novo Hamburgo

Mockumentary on a German moviemaker and an old vampire film in Southern Brazil.

Release Date:1991-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Isle of Flowers

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

Release Date:1989-09-06

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:212

Barbosa

Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup, a man went back in time to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams and ended goalkeeper Barbosa's career.

Release Date:1988-06-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

The Day Dorival Faced the Guards

Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison.

Release Date:1986-04-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:19

Temporal

In the same house, on the same night, two groups meet. One, made up of very serious gentlemen, members of a religious-monarchist order. The other, a bunch of crazy people in animal costumes, at a party with sex and rock’n’roll. When the storm starts and the lights go out, anything can happen.

Release Date:1984-04-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Pearl Motel

A romantic comedy about the algorithms of pleasure.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Família em Construção

Release Date:2025-02-15

Department:Production

Job:Consulting Producer

Grande Sertão

Release Date:2025-01-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:1

Tô Nessa

Release Date:2024-10-13

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

dr4g0n

Release Date:2024-07-18

Department:Writing

Job:Story Supervisor

Episode Count:8

Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil

Release Date:2020-10-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Amor e Sorte

‘Amor e Sorte’ is a four-episode independent series that brings together stories about relationships and transformation in times of social isolation.

Release Date:2020-09-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:5

All the Women in the World

In this contemporary romantic comedy about love in all its forms, All the Women in the World tells the story of Paulo, a bohemian dreamer that lives his relationships intensively, falling deeply for all the women he meets. Never able to forget Maria Alice, his greatest love, he counts on the advice of his two best friends to face the emotions of his accomplishments and breakups.

Release Date:2020-04-25

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:10

Through Ernesto's Eyes

Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl.

Release Date:2019-10-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:3

Rend Your Heart

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:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:13

Under Pressure

Inside a chaotic emergency room in Rio de Janeiro, a team of doctors are torn between their internal personal conflicts, the difficulties of the profession and the surprising dramas behind each patient‘s history, in a heroic attempt to save lives...See more

Release Date:2017-07-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:57

Vote Count:15

Quem É Primavera das Neves

Release Date:2017-04-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Ele mesmo

Vote Count:2

Nothing Remains the Same

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

Release Date:2016-09-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:2

Mister Brau

Follows the unconventional lives of a Brazilian pop artist who got out of the streets to reach stardom and his manager-wife-choreographer.

Release Date:2015-09-22

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:3

Good Luck

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:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:40

Sweet Mother

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:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:14

Vote Count:2

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

Ilha das Flores: Depois Que A Sessão Acabou

Twenty-two years later, the locals of Ilha dos Marinheiros (were "Ilha das Flores" has been shot) give their point of view and explain the negative repercussions of the movie on their lives.

Release Date:2011-12-15

Character:Self (archive footage)

The Invisible Woman

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:8

Vote Count:5

Before the World Ends

The countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. Daniel has a crush on his girlfriend Mim, who has just broken up with him but is still his friend, and his best friend, Lucas, is one of the best students in São Lucas High-School. Daniel is the son of Elaine and the photographer Daniel, who left Elaine when she was pregnant and moved alone to Thailand. Daniel is raised by Elaine and his stepfather Antônio, and shares a house with his half-sister, Maria Clara. One day, Daniel receives a letter from his biological father, who has malaria, and he is reluctant to open the envelope.

Release Date:2010-08-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

Decamerão: A Comédia do Sexo

Release Date:2009-07-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Ó Paí, Ó: A Série

Release Date:2008-10-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Critic

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Release Date:2008-01-22

Character:Self

Vote Count:19

Rummikub

To whom does the poison belongs? to the young lovers? or to their parents, whom in old hands "behold rusted hatred"?

Release Date:2007-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Antonia

Release Date:2006-11-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:1

Inacreditável: A Batalha dos Aflitos

Release Date:2006-08-25

Character:Himself

Vote Count:6

Fraternidade

Release Date:2004-06-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

City of Men

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:6

Vote Count:30

Dona Cristina Perdeu a Memória

Antônio, an 8-year-old boy, discovers that his neighbor Cristina, 80, tells different stories about her life, the names of her relatives and the saints of the day. And Mrs. Cristina believes that Antônio can help her recover her lost memory.

Release Date:2002-08-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

A Linguagem do Cinema

Release Date:2001-03-15

Vote Count:1

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 Date:2000-12-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:63

Vote Count:1

A Invenção do Brasil

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:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Luna Caliente

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:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:2

Felicidade É...

Four directors tell stories related to the concept of happiness.

Release Date:1995-09-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Dona Silvia não gostava de música

Journalist investigation shows on TV the reason of a public server's death she did not like music.

Release Date:1991-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Fábrica de Sonhos

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

As Últimas Videolocadoras de Porto Alegre

A Comédia da Vida Privada

Release Date:1994-08-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:22

Vote Count:1

Memorial de Maria Moura

Adapted from the homonymous work by Rachel de Queiroz, it presents the saga of a woman against female submission in nineteenth-century patriarchal society.

Release Date:1994-05-17

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:4

Agosto

The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar at the beginning of August. In the midst of the Vargas government crisis, the murder case is taken by police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man who is not well regarded by his co-workers, as the place is totally turned over to corruption.

Release Date:1993-08-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:3

Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?

Release Date:1991-07-11

Bajo presión

Department:Writing

Job:Original Series Creator

Episode Count:1