Rafael Spínola (Director)

Little is known about Rafael Spínola, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Park Slope

Maybe that's what they like, a little bit of melodrama.

Release Date2022-07-16

Charactersd João

Rulers of Fortune

A young man aspires to rise through the ranks of Rio's gambling underworld — unaware of the dangerous game of betrayal, lust and blood that awaits him.

Release Date2025-10-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count28

Senna

Fascinated by cars since childhood, Brazilian racer Ayrton Senna became a sports legend — until tragedy struck, changing Formula 1 forever.

Release Date2024-11-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count221

Renegaded Archangel

Mikhael is a sergeant in charge of BOPE, always on dangerous missions in Rio de Janeiro. But after getting involved in a controversial operation that culminated to a slaughter, he is transferred to a police unit at the state countryside.

Release Date2020-02-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count30

Vote Count23

The Division

In the 90s, Rio de Janeiro was shaken by a wave of kidnappings. Security forces call controversial agents to help save the city from thugs and also from the police itself.

Release Date2020-01-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count37

Cenas de um Crime

Release Date2025-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count8

Vote Count3

Divided Youth

After her best friend Ícaro is found dead, aspiring rapper Malu sets out to unravel the truth behind his mysterious passing.

Release Date2024-04-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count7

Vote Count6

Elected

Fefê, a digital influencer who decides to run for governor of Rio de Janeiro as a joke, ends up winning the election.

Release Date2022-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count2

Et il n'a plus rien dit

Retelling the story of my father’s death is an attempt to fill a space full of gaps, to perceive life in inanimate things, to embody a disembodied figure, to populate an irreplaceable place, to speak the unspeakable.

Release Date2022-03-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Romance Policial: Espinosa

Romance Policial: Espinosa

Release Date2015-10-15

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Adriano Imperador

Release Date2022-07-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count3

The Siege

Ana is surrounded. In the apartment below, the ghosts of the past and on the terrace, the ghosts of the future.

Release Date2020-12-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Janela

As Zulma heard the first noise, Mariano had been digging through a pyle of records, there was this one Beethoven sonata he hadn't yet heard that summer.

Release Date2016-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Um Peixe Para Dois

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Gigantic

When you go back home and see that it all seemed much bigger.

Release Date2014-11-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Our Heritage

On a family video, the image and memory of a grandfather.

Release Date2013-06-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Mentira

Love in a report from the East German secret police.

Release Date2019-12-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Buraco Negro

Release Date2023-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Bicho Azul

Every love story is a ghost story.

Release Date2022-01-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay