Rubens Ewald Filho (Creator)

Fragmentos

Release Date:2024-01-22

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Episode Count:6

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Release Date:2020-10-22

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

When The Marquees' Lights Go Out

With archive footage and testimonials from former filmgoers, a story of movie theaters that were located on the avenues of São João and Ipiranga and its surroundings, in São Paulo's city centre. Known as Cinelândia Paulistana, this area lived its heyday in the 1950s, reaching more than 15 cinemas in full operation.

Release Date:2018-11-13

Character:Himself (archive footage)

CineMagia: The Story of São Paulo's Video Stores

Before the streaming era, the video stores were the key for the beginning of home video experience in Brazil. The documentary narrates the history of São Paulo's mom-and-pop video stores from its appearance to the vanishing of this platform. Owners, employees, customers and critics talk about the experience of renting a movie.

Release Date:2017-11-09

Character:Himself

Vote Count:16

O Nome Dela é Gal

A four-part biography on the life of the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, from her humble beginning singing in the streets of Salvador, where she became friends with many artists who would be other great names in Brazilian music in the following decades to her 50th career anniversary in 2015.

Release Date:2017-06-11

Department:Production

Job:Other

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:3

The First Time of Brazilian Cinema

In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. Thirty years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.

Release Date:2013-05-01

Character:Himself

Vote Count:1

Boca Marginal

Release Date:2008-12-02

Manual para Atropelar Cachorro

A simple and handy manual to take the boredom under the narration of a sick mind, crazy in any big city. Mojo, a lonely young fanatic about movies and American culture, has dreams that will never come true. After spending his days holed up in a building, he decides to vent his repressed impulses by running over mutton dogs.

Release Date:2005-01-01

Éramos Seis

Release Date:1994-05-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:180

Love Strange Love

A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.

Release Date:1982-01-11

Vote Count:58

Dracula, a Love Story

Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments because the network that financed it went under.

Release Date:1980-01-28

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Um Homem Muito Especial

Release Date:1980-01-28

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Episode Count:178

Gina

Release Date:1978-06-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:89

Elas São do Baralho

Release Date:1977-12-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

A Casa das Tentações

Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.

Release Date:1977-09-29

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

A Árvore dos Sexos

Bondomil, a quiet little town, becomes famous because in its main square there's a tree with strange fruits, with the format of the male sex organ, supposed to be an aphrodisiac for women. Soon the population grows wild, and tourists gather around it.

Release Date:1977-06-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Éramos Seis

Release Date:1977-06-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:180

Independência ou Morte

The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.

Release Date:1972-09-02

Vote Count:8

As Gatinhas

Release Date:1970-10-25