Leandra Leal

Pages of Life

Nanda must rethink her plansof studying in Amsterdam when she discovers she is pregnant. After losing the support of her boyfriend Léo, the young girl decides to return home, where she suffers a serious accident and dies.However, Helena, her doctor, is able to save her new-born twins: Francisco and Clara. Unfortunately, Clara suffers from Downs Syndrome. Helena feels a strong emotional tie to Clara and adopts her.Years later, the twins’father Léo, a young and wealthy businessman, returns to the scene, wanting to gain custody of the children.However, Helena and Alex fight to the end to retain guardianship of the twins, whom they have raised with such love.

Release Date2006-07-10

Charactersd Sabrina Marcondes

Episode Count203

Vote Count15

The Thorn and the Rose

A spoiled feminist, daughter of a rich father, even though she doesn't admit it, falls in love with a rustic farmer whom she marries.

Release Date2000-06-26

Charactersd Bianca Batista

Episode Count221

Vote Count21

Empire

Heartbreak forever changed the fate of the young and humble José Alfredo. Years later, he became the Lord Alfredo, a successful owner of a jewelry empire and a man obsessed with power. Temperamental and cunning, he tries to balance his turbulent marriage, an extramarital love affair, and the dispute between his children over succession in his business. One day, however, the unexpected appearance of a possible daughter, of whom he was unaware, causes upheaval in his life and takes his familial conflicts to a whole new level.

Release Date2014-07-21

Charactersd Cristina dos Anjos Bastos Medeiros Ferreira

Episode Count203

Vote Count18

Sparkling Girls

"Sparkling Girls" centers around three young and beautiful, hard-working housekeepers who reach stardom instantly when an online video clip of them singing, surprisingly becomes a hit. Their success provokes the wrath of a glamorously gaudy and outspoken famous singer who will do anything to ruin the girls' friendship and career. With humor, romance, over the top characters, and bright, glittery stage performances set to catchy tunes, "Sparkling Girls" delivers all of the expected delights and shows that dreams really do come true.

Release Date2012-04-16

Charactersd Maria do Rosário Monteiro (Rosário)

Episode Count143

Vote Count18

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 Date2000-12-26

Charactersd Margarida

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Her Own Destiny

A story about people who succeed in life thanks to nothing but their own efforts. Maria do Carmo is the main character of the telenovela; a mother of five who struggle to be successful in life, but whose most important will be recovering the love of her daughter who was kidnapped when she was just months old.

Release Date2004-06-28

Charactersd Maria Cláudia Tedesco (Claudinha)

Episode Count221

Vote Count23

Passione

An ambitious young woman with a traumatizing past targets an Italian man, the distant son of a wealthy Brazilian family.

Release Date2010-05-17

Charactersd Agostina Mattoli Rondelli

Episode Count209

Vote Count19

Above Justice

In this realistic and touching series told in an innovative format, seemingly independent plots intertwine to show how justice can sometimes be a personal matter.

Release Date2016-08-22

Charactersd Kellen

Episode Count48

Vote Count28

We're Together

A sensitive drama located in São Paulo, Brazil, about a young doctor who gets involved with two men and a homeless community at the same time.

Release Date2011-06-03

Charactersd Carmen

Vote Count12

Justiça 2

Release Date2024-04-11

Charactersd Kellen

Episode Count28

Vote Count3

A Muralha

A hundred years after Europeans set foot in the New World, Brazil still remains largely unexplored. The Conquest recounts the saga of the earliest adventurers who wandered through these unknown lands. Jesuit priests, adventurers seeking gold, slaves and indigenous tribes were entangled in unceasing battles, at a time when laws were made by the sharp edge of a sword.

Release Date2000-01-04

Charactersd Beatriz Ataíde

Episode Count51

Vote Count9

Explode Coração

Gypsy traditions set the stage for Explode Coração, which highlighted a new subject at the time: love relationships via the internet. Dara is a young gypsy woman who is proud of her origins, but refuses to be stuck with traditions. She lets her rebellious soul speak louder and breaks a tradition of her people: she refuses to marry Igor, the promised groom. The news falls like a bomb to her parents, Jairo and Lola, and is great for Yanka, her younger sister, in love with the boy. But Igor only has eyes for Dara and fights for that love. Indifferent to the consequences of his decision, Dara meets, in a computer conversation, the businessman Júlio Falcão, who moves her heart. Julio is the man who loves to make money and seduce women. He lives a marriage of appearances with Vera. Separated by the world, people as different as Júlio and Dara cross and fight against all for a love that has old traditions, and Igor and Vera as the biggest obstacles.

Release Date1995-11-06

Charactersd Yanka Sbano

Episode Count155

Vote Count4

Aruanas

Three friends leading a nonprofit organisation investigate environmental crimes in the Amazon involving a major mining company.

Release Date2019-06-28

Charactersd Luiza

Episode Count20

Vote Count14

A Indomada

A Indomada is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired by Globo February 17 to October 11, 1997. Authored by Aguinaldo Silva and Ricardo Linares, with the collaboration of Maria Elisa Berredo, Mark Silver and Nadotti Nelson and directed by Marcos Paulo Roberto Naar and Luiz Henrique Reis, had the general direction and core Marcos Paulo. Featured actors Adriana Esteves, José Mayer, Eva Wilma and Ary Fontoura leading roles in the plot.

Release Date1997-02-17

Charactersd Lúcia Helena de Mendonça e Albuquerque (1ª fase)

Episode Count7

Vote Count8

Zuzu Angel

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.

Release Date2006-08-04

Charactersd Sônia

Vote Count64

Alemão 2

The Alemão community in Rio de Janeiro is known for its high crime rate. Once again, a team faces drug trafficking to try to carry out the proposals inside the complex.

Release Date2022-03-31

Charactersd Freitas

Vote Count25

Stone Circle

Stone Circle takes place in São Paulo in 1958, and tells the story of a love triangle between Natércio (Daniel Dantas), Laura (Ana Paula Arósio) and Daniel (Marcello Antony). Laura is married to Natércio and has two daughters with him: Bruna (Anna Sophia Folch) and Otávia (Ariela Massotti). Emotionally unstable, sensitive, fragile and delicate, she has frequent crises and is treated by Dr. Daniel, because who ends up falling in love. This leads to jealousy in the husband, who, despite loving his wife very much, is controlling and ambitious. Laura has a daughter with doctor Daniel, Virginia (Tammy Di Calafiori), who is raised by her mother with the lawyer. The Silva Prado mansion, where Natércio and Laura live, is located in the upper-middle-class Jardim Europa neighborhood and is looked after by the housekeeper Frau Herta (Ana Beatriz Nogueira), who is secretly in love with her boss and tries to destroy everything she does well. to Laura.

Release Date2008-05-05

Charactersd Elza Lemos Carmelo (Elzinha)

Episode Count131

Vote Count3

Saramandaia

Release Date2013-06-24

Charactersd Zélia

Episode Count56

Vote Count7

The Trace We Leave Behind

A young physician coordinating the transfer of patients between state-run hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro struggles with a mystery: a patient goes missing one night and completely disappears from the system. As the doctor attempts to find out the truth, he slowly loses his sense of reality.

Release Date2017-05-18

Charactersd Leila

Vote Count41

El Revenge

Two friends hit the road to Buenos Aires aboard an orange Opala 72, with a mission: be with as many women as possible. This is all a plan to wash the honor of "Caco", a man who found his girlfriend in bed with an Argentine.

Release Date2017-03-16

Charactersd Julia

Vote Count19

The Life Ahead

Set at the turn of the year 2000, the series follows a group of friends at the end of their teenage years. Everything becomes even more dramatic when Beta dies, at the age of 17, on the night of their high school graduation.

Release Date2023-06-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Thereza Assunção

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

As Brasileiras

After the breakthrough success of 'The Cariocas', the spin-off 'The Brazilians - The Women' embraces all the diversity of Brazil and its women. Powerful, fragile, funny, protective, beautiful, talented, insightful, and especially unique; they all have a certain charm. No matter what their birthplace, age, lifestyle or preference, these remarkable women have one thing in common: they are Brazilian. Brilliantly witty and entertaining, every independent episode provides an exclusive look at the life experiences of the women who inspire everyone.

Release Date2012-02-02

Charactersd Rosa Maria

Episode Count22

Vote Count7

Betinho: No Fio da Navalha

After eight years of a political exile imposed by the Brazilian military dictatorship, sociologist Herbert de Souza returns to his homeland. Alongside democracy activists, he faces the arrival of AIDS and puts the devastating impact of hunger under the spotlight. Overcoming his fragile health and personal tragedy, he creates the largest social awareness campaign in Brazilian history.

Release Date2023-12-01

Charactersd Irles Carvalho

Episode Count8

Vote Count3

Carnival Is Over

Regina and Valerio are a happy couple seeking a way out of their criminal family business, but their efforts only push them deeper into the pit they hoped to escape.

Release Date2025-08-14

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Charactersd Regina

Vote Count7

Teen Confessions

Release Date1994-08-22

Charactersd Mariana

Episode Count46

Vote Count6

Camila Jam

Camila is in her mid-twenties and her life has been thrown into chaos ever since her boyfriend threw her out of their apartment during a bitter argument. Camila's ambition is to become a writer, and she posts regularly on her blog, entitled "Camila Jam." However, Camila wants to take her work into a different direction, and she throws herself head first into life in search of inspiration. As Camila struggles with alcohol, unsettled emotions and relationships with abusive men, it becomes increasingly obvious that her skills as a writer aren't all she needs to sort out if she wants to truly understand her life and her career.

Release Date2007-09-30

Charactersd Camila

Vote Count24

Cena Secreta

Release Date2011-01-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count1

Um Só Coração

The story takes place between the 1920s and 1950s in Greater São Paulo. Going through historical moments, such as the Week of Modern Art, the Revolution of 1924, the economic crisis of 1929 and the Vargas Era, there is the story of Yolanda Penteado, a young woman from a traditional family of São Paulo's high society, who arouses admirations to go through. She had never been easily involved with any other admirer until she meets Martim, a young medical student who catches her eye. However, he was an advocate of the anarchist movement, causing disapproval of Yolanda's mother, Guiomar, but the two will fight to get together, even with the disapproval of the family.

Release Date2004-01-06

Charactersd Úrsula Schmidt da Silva (Ucha)

Episode Count53

Vote Count5

Coração Acelerado

Agrado Garcia, a talented singer and songwriter, struggles to achieve a successful career. João Raul becomes a big country music star and uses his social media to search for the "girl from his past."

Release Date2026-01-12

Charactersd Zilá Garcia Sampaio Amaral

Episode Count12

Pecado Capital

Release Date1998-10-05

Charactersd Clarelis Batista

Episode Count7

Vote Count1

For Lota

In the 1950s, in Rio de Janeiro, Lota Macedo Soares married the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. A few years later, Carlos Lacerda, a friend of Lota's, became governor of Guanabara and invited her to create a park where a 7-kilometer landfill had been built. Flamengo Park would become the second largest urban park in the world.

Release Date2024-06-27

Charactersd Lota Macedo Soares (voice)

Vote Count3

The Book of Delights

The film brings Clarice Lispector’s novel Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres to the current days. In the plot, Lóri is a lonely and melancholic woman. She divides her time between her duties as a school teacher and her relationships, which are always fast and shallow. By chance, she meets Ulisses, an acknowledged Philosophy professor, who is self centered and provocative. Although he knows nothing about women, Lóri learns with him how to love and to face her own loneliness.

Release Date2022-06-10

Charactersd Mulher do maiô vermelho

Vote Count9

Bingo: The King of the Mornings

1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.

Release Date2017-08-24

Charactersd Lúcia

Vote Count402

A Wolf at the Door

Love turns to hate and panic breeds suspicion as two parents deal with the kidnapping of their child.

Release Date2013-10-03

Charactersd Rosa

Vote Count206

Pastores da Noite

The Night Shepherds universe is inhabited by prostitutes, priests, rogues, saint's parents and street vendors. For a very Brazilian people who fight every day for survival and only rely on the solidarity spirit and friendship of each other. The seductive Cabo Martim, the romantic Curió, the noble Massu, the artful Foot of Wind and the Jesuit master live their adventures in four independent episodes, which are completed in their poetry and the strength of each story.

Release Date2002-11-26

Charactersd Otália

Episode Count4

The Man Who Copied

A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money.

Release Date2003-06-13

Charactersd Sílvia

Vote Count366

Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária

Edgard works as a subordinate in the company of millionaire Werneck and is in love with Ritinha, a simple woman who works as a teacher to support her mother and her three sisters. One day, Peixoto, Werneck's son-in-law, makes him a proposal to marry Maria, the boss's daughter. The reason is that Maria was abused and now is being forced to marry by her family. Edgard hesitates first but accepts the offer. From then on he enters into a great doubt: should he deposit the check and marry Maria or stay with Ritinha, his great love?

Release Date2013-05-24

Charactersd Ritinha

Vote Count20

Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

Release Date2004-06-11

Charactersd Bebel Gilberto

Vote Count242

Boca

Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where various nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs can be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused for the murder of his father, who was violently stabbed over 40 times with a razor. Hiroito was not charged, however two months after the death of his father, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo and became one of the most dangerous criminals of the region.

Release Date2010-10-03

Charactersd Silvia

Vote Count26

Chatô, The King of Brazil

The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.

Release Date2015-11-19

Charactersd Lola

Vote Count25

Mato Sem Cachorro

The day a man almost runs-over a puppy, he meets the love of his life. The couple and their dog live the dream, until she wants out.

Release Date2013-10-04

Charactersd Zoé

Vote Count60

The Oyster and the Wind

A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world outside her home is by a boat with four sailors that pays a visit to the island in order to take them supplies. Daniel, who not only protects her from her dad's strictness but also teaches her how to be literate, is her source of tenderness. Her dad thinks she should be away from the world - though she wishes she could spend a few days in town. Then one day, as she has her first period and becomes a woman, she starts feeling sexuality through the blowing wind, which she talks to.

Release Date1997-10-17

Charactersd Marcela

Vote Count17

Decamerão: A Comédia do Sexo

Release Date2009-07-31

Charactersd Isabel

Episode Count4

The End of an Age

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life.

Release Date2014-09-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd

Vote Count4

If Nothing Else Works Out

In 2006, a journalist in financial problems, a woman who dresses as a man and a troubled taxi driver become friends, and gradually, an awkward, strong emotional bond emerges among them, especially when they decide to play a confidence game.

Release Date2008-08-08

Charactersd Georgina

Vote Count9

The Harmonica's Howl

A young couple, Pedro and Antônia, have their relationship weakening after meeting Luana. Romance, seduction, fear and anguish from the future are established in this story of liquid love.

Release Date2013-01-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Luana

Vote Count20

Traveller

Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards, leaving a poetic feeling in the air, which is always deadly to the ones who stay. Mrs. Ana de Lara, the proud rich widow, and Missy, still a child, whose beauty and innocence are like the Tiê-Sangue, a red bird, are the travelers victims. There is also Master Juca do Vale, a criminal, whose passion turns him incredibly human, in this story of love, death, forgiveness and resurrection.

Release Date1998-11-01

Charactersd Sinhá

Vote Count7

Days of Nietzsche in Turin

A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.

Release Date2002-03-31

Charactersd Isolde Von Bülow

Vote Count18

Rio Belongs to Us

After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there’s nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that here seems threatening and almost enchanting.

Release Date2013-01-26

Charactersd Marina

Vote Count9

Love Film Festival

Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.

Release Date2014-10-05

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Charactersd Luzia

Vote Count4

Sunstroke

In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia – a distorted mirror-image of the Soviet utopia – located in the heart of the Brazilian desert.

Release Date2010-03-26

Charactersd Liuba

Vote Count4

Que História é Essa, Porchat?

Release Date2019-08-06

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count8

Ambitious Women

In Ambitious Women, all levels of ambition are revealed in a plot full of greed, revenge and struggle for power, through the conflicts of three strong women with very different personalities.

Release Date2015-03-16

Charactersd Self

Episode Count3

Vote Count11

October

A view of Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections, held in October of that year. The polarizing Election led to the rise of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro

Release Date2019-10-18

Charactersd Self

Divine Divas

Eight iconic performers of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists go on stage to celebrate their 50th career jubilee. The film depicts the human, personal dimension behind these icons, deconstructing gender stereotypes.

Release Date2016-10-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Self

Vote Count19

Nada a Fazer

Follows the transformation in the mother-daughter relationship of Brazilian actresses Angela and Leandra Leal while confined during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Release Date2025-10-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

I Owe You a Letter About Brazil

César Benjamin was arrested in August 1971 during student protests against the Brazilian military dictatorship. Although he was a juvenile, he was tried as an adult and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Thanks to the ardent campaigning of his mother Iramaya, working closely together with the Swedish branch of Amnesty International, he was released five years later.

Release Date2019-11-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Aquele Abraço

They came by bike, on foot, by bus, in trailers... They crossed deserts, crossed the continent, slept on the streets, in hotels and in the favelas. Armed with their cameras, thousands of travelers traveled around Rio de Janeiro without spending much money and experienced the World Cup as a big party. Constructed entirely from images taken by the tourists themselves, the short film shows the Rio de Janeiro they discovered and the adventures of experiencing the other side of the World Cup.

Release Date2014-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Eden

Rio de Janeiro, 2012. 30 year-old Karine, 8 months pregnant, loses her husband in a senseless murder. She and her brother almost die, but are saved by Pastor Naldo, an evangelical pastor from the Church of Eden. Karine carries within her the conflict of salvation via the church or via the birth of her child.

Release Date2012-10-05

Vote Count3

Antarctic

A brutal crime shocks an isolated Brazilian research station in Antarctica, transforming the enviroment filled with scientists and military personnel into a veritable pressure cooker. The men at the station become suspects, and a female deputy commander takes on the mission of investigating what happened and, with the support of the women at the base, faces silence and violence in her search for justice.

Nico

Okonomiyaki

A young aspiring priest who lives in a rural location decides to go to the city of São Paulo in search of his missing sister. At the same time, a young man who recently moved from the suburbs to the center of São Paulo is struggling with the separation from his last boyfriend. They both meet at Agnes's coffee shop, where they start working. The boss becomes a kind of new mother for both of them.

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!

Release Date2023-01-30

Vote Count4