José Alvarenga Jr. (Director)
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Works
Young Hearts
Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.
Release Date1995-04-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count228
Vote Count31
Mulher
The whole story develops from the doctor Martha, who has worked for 40 years, always at the same clinic in Rio de Janeiro. She knows Cris and realizes that she has found a successor. Then begins the friendship of the two, who try to practice their profession with the utmost ethics, despite the owner of the clinic, who is always trying to say, save.
Release Date1998-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count62
Vote Count1
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 Date2009-04-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count30
Vote Count3
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 Date2014-04-11
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count4
A Diarista
It shows the life and problems of Marinete, a cleaning lady with a short temper. She always ends up depending on her friends, who are distracted by any stupid thing and leave her to solve things on her own.
Release Date2004-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count120
Vote Count13
A Justiceira
Diana is woman who lost her child for her Husband. A evil man behind a series of crime operations. Searching for her son, Diana is hired for a underground organization to fight crimes all over Brazil. Now, Diana has the meanings to locate her former husband and search for her son.
Release Date1997-04-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count2
Serra Pelada: A Saga do Ouro
Release Date2014-01-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Minha Nada Mole Vida
Release Date2006-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count23
Vote Count1
A Mulher da Sua Vida
Release Date2013-12-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count2
Os Aspones
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 Date2004-11-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count10
Supermax
Release Date2017-04-04
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Series Creator
Episode Count12
Vote Count6
Maldivas
Liz, a girl from Goiás moves to a capital in Rio de Janeiro to re-encounter her mother, who ends up dying in a mysterious fire. Trying to escape investigator Denilson, she will move among the residents of the Maldivadas condominium.
Release Date2022-06-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count28
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 Date2016-09-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count12
Divã
Release Date2011-04-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Os Amadores
Release Date2005-12-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Os Normais
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 Date2001-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count71
Vote Count32
Separation?!
The adventures of a couple, Karin and Agnaldo, who discovers an hour for one that does not know why still together after so many years. But for some reason, they can not leave behind the life together. With relationship to the brink of collapse, the separation is spreading. The professional life of the couple is "contaminated". Elementary school teacher, Karin takes its crisis to work. Agnaldo, who is employed by an insurance broker also gets out anywhere. The two no longer make the most unceremoniously and always generate the most climão in front of anyone. The head of Karin, Cinira who has been married three times, is also a kind of sentimental counselor. Even more problematic, instead of helping, therefore contributes to total chaos. Friends also can not escape the "spirit" of the impending separation. Gilda and Delgado are in love, but the romance of the two hardly overshadows the couple's scandals.
Release Date2010-04-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count24
Macho Man
Release Date2011-04-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count21
Vote Count2
O Dentista Mascarado
Release Date2013-04-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
10 Segundos para Vencer
Release Date2019-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count3
Como Aproveitar o Fim do Mundo
When the Mayans predicted the end of times, almost two thousand years ago, they didn't care because they had yet so much time to enjoy. But the times have changed. And as the apocalyptic day comes, December 21st 2012, Katia embraces the prophecy and lives her life as the world is going to end. The character wants to enjoy the end of the world to do everything she ever wanted in life, but she never got to, including revenges, sexual and romantic fantasies. In her attempt of doing everything on her list of to-do's, she ends up meeting Ernani. And, together, they both try to live their lives as there's no tomorrow.
Release Date2012-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count3
Whatever, Whenever
An unattainable prize, the hidden truth, an attraction for someone already committed. Even the most difficult wishes can be fulfilled with just one call to the company Whatever, Whenever, which provides whatever you want, whenever you want. The price is low, but the cost is high: helping with another customer's order - no questions asked, whatever it may be.
Release Date2024-03-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
Ó Paí, Ó 2
Experience Roque's routine years after the first movie. Joana's tenement is still full of parties, gossip and confusion. The neighborhood prepares for the Iemanjá party, while dealing with the controversies of the neighbors.
Release Date2023-11-23
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count19
Good Manners
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.
Release Date2017-08-04
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count229
My Mom Is a Character 2
Dona Hermínia is back, but now rich and famous since she is the host of her own successful TV show. However, the overprotective character will have to deal with her children's departures, as Marcelina and Juliano decide to move out. In counterpart, she will welcome, as a visitor, her sister Lúcia Helena, who's been living in New York.
Release Date2016-12-22
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count511
So Normal 2: The Craziest Night Ever
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 Date2009-08-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count69
Divine Love
In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.
Release Date2019-06-27
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count77
Intimate Strangers
A woman moves back, from São Paulo to her hometown Rio de Janeiro, to support her husband's job. On their new residence, she forms an unlikely bond with her young neighbor based on their past memories, sadness and loneliness.
Release Date2018-11-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count18
Antes Que Eu Me Esqueça
At 80, Polidoro decides to demolish the stability of his comfortable life as a retired judge and become owner of a strip club.
Release Date2017-08-04
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count20
Macabre
In the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the trial of the press, police and local society is fundamentally racist, and begins to have doubts about the conviction of one of them. Based on a true story, the film is a work of fiction about the famous case of the "Necrophil Brothers."
Release Date2019-10-18
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count31
S.O.S.: Women to the Sea 2
Afraid her husband will fall back with his ex girlfriend after they're assigned to work together, Adriana and her sister set sail to the U.S. to go after him to stop this from happening.
Release Date2015-11-05
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count111
The Battle
21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the students and professors of the Left-wing Student Movement, in the Philosophy Faculty building of USP.
Release Date2025-03-27
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count2
MMA - A Fathers Fight
When Max, a former MMA world champion about to retire, discovers he has an 8-year-old autistic son, his life is turned upside down. Now, as he trains for one last opportunity to regain his world champion title, Max must deal with his new family and his father, from whom he has long been estranged.
Release Date2025-01-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
High Expectations
Décio is a winning horse trainer who works at the Rio de Janeiro’s Jockey Club, where Lena runs an indebted coffee shop that she inherited. Worried about her financial situation and having to take care of her younger brother who is in a wheelchair, Lena never smiles. In love, Décio must overcome his shyness to get close to her, especially with him being only 1.20m tall. He will do anything to get Lena's attention, including becoming a comedian, just so he can see Lena smile.
Release Date2017-10-05
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count6
Os Normais: O Filme
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 Date2003-10-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count143
Os Trapalhões e a Árvore da Juventude
Didi, Dedé, Mussum (Mussum) and Zacarias are forest rangers that they work in the Amazon rain forest where they fight the action of smugglers with the aid of Juliana, a beautiful engineer. There are many funny scenes where they find the mythical source of the fountain of youth which they drink, becoming again children.
Release Date1991-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count37
A Princesa Xuxa e os Trapalhões
The diabolical Ratam (Paul Reis) takes over the planet Antar, after the death of the emperor, and orders that all children be enslaved. Always kept within the palace, Princess Xeron (Xuxa) believes that the people of her kingdom are happy. Meanwhile, outside, the princes Mussaim (Mussum) Dedeon (Dede Santana) and Zacaling (Zacarias) join the Nameless Knight (Renato Aragão), so that together they can defeat Ratam.
Release Date1989-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count73
Soundtrack
The Soundtrack of a life. Cris ( Selton Mello) , a young artist still trying to find his place on the tough world of arts, gets from Brazilian Government special permit to stay a month in an isolated international research station surrounded by nothing but ice. His goal is to prepare an exhibition mixing music and photography. Cris will go against his own defined concepts and values, as he spends time with other researchers discovering PLANET EARTH on an never seen perspective. This shock will result on this young artist 's evolution changing his life forever.
Release Date2017-07-06
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count15
Os Heróis Trapalhões: Uma Aventura na Selva
Didi, Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias are sent in a rescue mission to the daughter of the Army's minister.
Release Date1988-06-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count29
O Mistério de Robin Hood
A kind wanderer living around a circus, who also happens to work as a modern Robin Hood, must solve the mystery behind the kidnapping of a lost little girl he meets.
Release Date1990-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count30
Pluft: O Fantasminha
A little kid-ghost called Pluft lives with his ghost-mother and ghost-uncle, in a remote house in a desert island. He doesn't even believe people real exist. His world will be thrown upside down, when an evil pirate (Perna de Pau) disembark on the island, after kidnapping the little girl Maribel (daughter of a famous captain), in search of Captain's hidden treasure. Three friendly sailors will help to free the girl. Based on a very well known Brazilian children's play.
Release Date2022-07-21
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count3
Trap.com
Exposed by his girlfriend through a video on the Internet, Bruno tries to revive his reputation, but all he can do is get into a series of traps (Cilada, in Portuguese). Cilada.com is a comedy about love and betrayal that shows the power of the Internet to transform small intimacies and slips in fame and constraints globalized.
Release Date2011-07-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count144
In Therapy
In Rio de Janeiro, the forty and something years old Mercedes (Lília Cabral) goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life since she was a girl and lost her mother. Along the three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces from her husband Gustavo (José Mayer) and has love affairs with the younger Theo (Reynaldo Gianecchini)
Release Date2009-04-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count47
Crô em Família
Already famous, at the top of his career, owner of his own school of etiquette, Crô sees himself alone and without a family. Lonely and vulnerable, he ends up living at the whim of supposed family, Orlando, Marinalva, Luane and Nando, whose intentions are far from the best. With the inseparable Geni, Magda and Jurema by his side, Crô will embark on an adventure to find his true family while constantly avoiding the venom of the top columnist Carlota Valdez.
Release Date2018-09-06
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count24
A Lista
Laurita, a retired woman from Copacabana, is forced to establish contact with a neighbor, Amanda. The meeting between the two awakens a whirlwind of feelings, memories and discoveries that will mark their lives forever.
Release Date2025-02-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Patient
The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.
Release Date2018-09-13
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count16
Cano Serrado
A history of vendetta and redemption occurs in the vicinity of a road, when the trajectory of a young policeman from the Capital intersects with a sergeant.
Release Date2018-11-10
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count3
10 Seconds to Win
The history of the famous Brazilian bantam and featherweight world champion Eder Jofre, who tries to deal with his personal life and the obligations of a world class athlete, with the mentoring of his trainer and father Kid Jofre.
Release Date2018-08-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count21
Zoando na TV
Angel works in a wedding dress store. Ulisses, her boyfriend, works as personal trainer. They are swallowed for the television and, to leave, need to discover how to use the Ulisses' ring.
Release Date1999-02-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
O Casamento dos Trapalhões
A misogynist and shabby farmer, brother of other three goofy hillbillies leaves to the big city searching for a wife and wins the heart of a hot tempered woman.
Release Date1988-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count36
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Força-Tarefa - O Filme
Release Date2015-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Meio Expediente
After missing out on his co-workers winning lottery pool, the lonely Jairo embarks on an extraordinary Christmas adventure as a helper to none other than Santa Claus himself.
Release Date2017-12-04
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count1