Marçal Aquino (Writing)

Carcereiros: O Filme

Release Date:2019-11-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:26

Licença Poética

Marçal Aquino, one of the most important contemporary writers in Brazil, talks about how literature liberated him. Felipe, an almost ordinary reader, says that he reads to free himself. The meeting between the two reveals that the wall that apparently separates them is much less thick than being could imagine.

Release Date:2019-09-27

Character:Himself

Persona non grata

José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.

Release Date:2019-07-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:43

Tungstênio

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:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:13

Carcereiros

Release Date:2017-09-04

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:6

Supermax

Release Date:2017-04-04

Department:Writing

Job:Original Series Creator

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:6

Pitanga

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.

Release Date:2016-09-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Supermax

Twelve people are confined together in an abandoned maximum security prison in the middle of the Amazon forest, and end up having to fight for their lives against unknown creatures and supernatural odds.

Release Date:2016-09-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:11

Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Força-Tarefa - O Filme

Release Date:2015-01-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Tainted

After three years locked up for a crime he didn’t commit, former police officer André Câmara is back on the streets working as a bounty hunter and determined to prove his innocence. Gripping, south American sizzler charting the action from the mean streets of Brazil to the bedrooms of the law enforcers.

Release Date:2014-04-11

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:4

País do Desejo

Roberta is a renowned classical pianist battling a chronic kidney disease. However, an unexpected encounter with Father José will forever change her life.

Release Date:2012-01-26

Department:Writing

Job:Co-Writer

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

I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips

In a remote part of the Amazon, a traveling photographer has an intense affair with a preacher's wife, but secrets from her past threaten to ruin them both.

Release Date:2011-10-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:15

Cabeça a Prêmio

The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent times, they've watched as the system that protected them for so many years slowly disintegrates. Mirão Menezes lives at the mercy of the drug-trafficking industry, the ever-encroaching authorities, and the constant and violent power struggle with his brother Abílio. Mirão's daughter Elaine becomes involved with her father's pilot, finds herself pregnant and decides to flee with him after her Uncle Abílio bribes them. Brito, the hitman sent to find the couple and finish them off, is ironically also victim of a love story.

Release Date:2010-08-20

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

Força-Tarefa

Força-Tarefa is a Brazilian television series directed by José Alvarenga Jr. and Mário Márcio Bandarra and written by Fernando Bonassi Marçal Aquino. The series aired two season since April 16, 2009 on Rede Globo.

Release Date:2009-04-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:30

Vote Count:3

Stray Dog

In Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspirant actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.

Release Date:2007-05-11

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:15

Drained

A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.

Release Date:2006-09-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:138

Delicate Crime

Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.

Release Date:2005-09-30

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:15

Nina

After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.

Release Date:2004-01-28

Department:Writing

Job:Co-Writer

Vote Count:24

The Trespasser

Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.

Release Date:2001-11-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:52

Friendly Fire

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.

Release Date:1998-10-15

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:14

Belly Up

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.

Release Date:1997-09-10

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:7