Carlos Gregório

O Auto da Boa Mentira

In four stories inspired by humorous tales by Ariano Suassuna, each created based on phrases by the poet from Paraíba, we meet Helder, Fabiano, Pierce and Lorena, living different situations where, ironically, the lie is always the protagonist.

Release Date:2021-04-29

Character:Profeta ("Vidente")

Vote Count:9

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.

Release Date:2021-04-10

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Beyond the Horizon

Release Date:2013-11-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:155

Vote Count:5

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

The Life We Lead

This moving telenovela tells the story of an unconditional love that overcomes life’s unexpected turnarounds. Ana is a promising tennis player who counts on best friend and sister Manuela for support. After a terrible car accident, Ana goes into a deep coma and only emerges from it five years later. Now, she must struggle to recover the life that went on without her and that she no longer recognizes as her own.

Release Date:2011-09-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:137

Vote Count:12

Aparecida - O Milagre

Marcos Resende is a cold and crisis man command MetalNobre company. Mark lost his faith in God when her father, Antonio, died in the construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida. He had asked the day before to Our Lady Aparecida cleats for him to play in a team and his father would buy them. Mark is separated from wife and Sonia have feuds with son Lucas, in addition to keeping a bad emotional relationship with Beatriz, an official of the company and his mother, Julia. After a misunderstanding, Lucas suffers a serious motorcycle accident. Then Mark revive its history and living with his father. And when he turns to Julia, she reveals the mysterious grace of his family.

Release Date:2010-12-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:10

A Vida Alheia

Release Date:2010-04-08

Character:Júlio

Episode Count:20

If I Were You 2

Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.

Release Date:2009-02-01

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Vote Count:233

If I Were You

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.

Release Date:2006-01-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:371

Alma Gêmea

A young woman is fated to relive the love of an earlier life. Separated by time, young Serena and botanist Rafael surmount all obstacles as they live a love that is stronger than fate itself. These challenges include the lovely but ambitious Cristina, who is obsessed by the rich botanist and driven nearly mad by her attempts to shatter their great love. A romantic comedy set in the 1940s, Soul Mate underscores the importance of love, family values and the ties of affection with a light touch and plenty of humor.

Release Date:2005-06-20

Character:Senhor Rodriguez

Episode Count:227

Vote Count:18

Loop

Release Date:2002-11-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:1

Poeta de Sete Faces

Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work.

Release Date:2002-10-31

Character:O Poeta Drummond

Xuxa and the Elves

Kira is a botanist with magical abilities, though the origins of her powers remain unknown to her. Her life takes an unexpected turn when her friend Nanda discovers an elf named Damiz trapped in her room. They soon learn that Damiz is the prince of the elves and has been captured by Gorgon, a greedy executive who seeks to purchase the house where Nanda’s family lives. In order to help defeat Gorgon, Kira decides to venture into the world of the elves, where she uncovers hidden secrets about her past.

Release Date:2001-12-14

Character:Otávio

Vote Count:49

Duas Vezes com Helena

The affectionate relationship between mentor Alberto and his favorite pupil Polydoro is disturbed by Alberto's marriage to Helena, with life-changing and long-lasting consequences for all of them.

Release Date:2001-01-01

Vote Count:1

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 Date:2000-12-26

Character:Zequinha

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Woman on Top

Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.

Release Date:2000-09-22

Character:Melvin

Vote Count:238

Tônica Dominante

Three days in the life of a young clarinetist (Fernando Alves Pinto), who is in love with a violinist (Vera Zimmerman), but can't get her attention. In the first day he feels alone and frail; in the second day what was supposed to be pleasant becomes a nightmare; in the third day he finally achieves fulfillment through music and helps a pianist (Vera Holtz) who is rehearsing for a concert. These three days correspond to a three movement sonata - the director (Lina Chamie) is a musician, so she imprinted a musical structure to her movie, with few dialogs and poetic images. It's a movie for music lovers. Written by CeciliaWolf

Release Date:2000-05-31

Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei

A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de reis. The movie shows his life from poverty to riches and back to poverty again, as is common in Brazil, rich people die poor.

Release Date:1999-10-15

Character:Conde Bonifácio

Vote Count:8

Força de um Desejo

Força de um Desejo is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Globo TV and was shown in the schedule of 18 hours between May 10, 1999 and January 29, 2000, in 226 chapters. It was written by Gilberto Braga and as collaborators with Alcides Nogueira Marques, Lilian Garcia, Eliane Garcia, Philip Miguez and Mark Silver and directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho, Carlos Araújo, Fabricio Mamberti and João Camargo, with production of the core Marcos Paulo. Featured Malu Mader, Fábio Assunção, Cláudia Abreu, Marcelo Serrado, Selton Mello, Nathália Timberg, Lavínia Vlasak, Isabel Fillardis and Denise Del Vecchio in leading roles.

Release Date:1999-05-10

Character:Lineu Barcelos

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:7

Love and Co.

Godofredo suffers a terrible blow when he comes back home earlier than usual and finds his wife in the arms of his partner. He sends his wife away to a coast town and dares his rival to a duel. But he begins to miss his wife and the company of his friend.

Release Date:1998-10-30

Character:Nunes

Vote Count:4

Dedicatórias

Release Date:1998-08-08

Hilda Furacão

After stirring society by leaving her groom at the alter and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "Hilda the Hurricane", in the 50's Brazil. She could do fine if it wasn't for Malthus, a young novice said to be a saint, for whom she falls in love. However, the boy is kept under the strict, severe doctrine of Father Nelson, a conservative priest intolerant even to every minor sin. Things start getting harder when Roberto, Malthus' old friend and a communist reporter (the actual author of the story), tries to interview Hilda and disclosure the real reasons behind her radical change of mind. In the meantime, the middle-classes are terrified by the "leftist threat" in Brazilian politics.

Release Date:1998-05-27

Character:Alencastro

Episode Count:32

Vote Count:15

Amar...

Release Date:1997-07-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Raimundo

O Fim do Mundo

Release Date:1996-05-06

Character:Michel Renault

Episode Count:35

Vote Count:3

A Vida Como Ela É...

Adaptations of 40 short stories of brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues, written between 1951 and 1961. The stories were considered scandalous at the time as Rodrigues used immoral characters and black humor to satirize the hypocrisy and repression in people's daily lives.

Release Date:1996-03-31

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

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 Date:1995-04-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:200

Vote Count:30

A Maldição do Sanpaku

Gafanhoto is a smuggler who tries to take a hit by stealing a valuable stone. He awakens the fury of the old boss of the gang, and ends up involving in the plot a former colleague, Poeta and his girlfriend Cris, a beautiful woman who brings in the eyes the mark of the tragedy.

Release Date:1991-05-21

Character:Sivuca

Vote Count:8

A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão

Release Date:1990-12-12

Character:Ubiratan Hernandez

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:2

Rainha da Sucata

Release Date:1990-04-02

Character:João Maia

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

Doida Demais

Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes with her new lover, a pilot.

Release Date:1989-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Character:Álvaro

Vote Count:4

Vale Tudo

Fátima Accioly is a young, callous woman who wants to be rich and successful at any price. After selling her family's house in the country, she heads to Rio and gets to know dress man César who is unscrupulous himself. Meanwhile, her mother Raquel stays behind without home and money, but finally tries to find her daughter in the big city. Both women come in contact with the rich Roitman family which changes their lives forever.

Release Date:1988-05-16

Character:Gerson

Episode Count:204

Vote Count:20

Por Dúvida das Vias

A Journalism intern makes her first report in a public office, getting lost in the bureaucratic intricacies.

Release Date:1988-01-01

O Natal da Grande Família

Release Date:1987-12-23

O País dos Tenentes

With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup.

Release Date:1987-05-25

Character:Sérgio

Vote Count:1

Eternamente Pagu

Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic activist. An important figure of the Brazilian Modernism, Pagu was also a militant for the Brazilian Communist Party after she married writer Oswald de Andrade. She broke up with Andrade and, as a journalist was arrested by the Dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. After she left prison, she abandoned Communism in favor of Trotskyist Socialism, married Geraldo Ferraz, and started a career as theatre director.

Release Date:1987-05-12

Character:Médico

Vote Count:4

After Eight... Forever

Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.

Release Date:1987-03-11

Vote Count:2

Tudo ou Nada

Release Date:1986-09-15

Character:Josmar

Episode Count:1

The Man in the Black Cape

Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.

Release Date:1986-03-31

Character:Silas Gonçalves

Vote Count:7

Baixo Gávea

Clara directs the rehearsals of a theatrical play about Fernando Pessoa while constantly seeking the right man and the love of his life. One of the actresses is the lesbian Ana, who interprets the poet Mário de Sá Carneiro. She is Clara's friend and confidant with whom she shares an apartment. Clara does not perceive Ana's love for her, that always helps her to recover from the disappointments. Unlike the character Sá Carneiro, poet of decadentism, nostalgia, metaphysics and vague, Ana is the pragmatic side of Clara, who often brings a disillusioned vision as if it were Fernando Pessoa himself, who may be associated with concepts of the poet's heteronyms.

Release Date:1986-01-01

Character:Rui / Fernando Pessoa

Vote Count:5

Grande Sertão: Veredas

A cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces.

Release Date:1985-11-18

Character:José Simplício

Episode Count:25

Rei do Rio

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

Release Date:1985-06-11

Character:Dr. Rui

Vote Count:2

Um Sonho a Mais

Release Date:1985-02-04

Character:Dr. Mateus

Episode Count:155

Marquesa de Santos

Release Date:1984-08-21

Character:Boaventura Delfim Pereira, Barão de Sorocaba

Vote Count:1

São Bernardo

Release Date:1984-06-11

Para Viver Um Grande Amor

Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich girl falls in love with a poor composer. Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica", by Vinícius de Moraes and Carlos Lyra.

Release Date:1984-04-30

Character:Homem sincero porém radical

Vote Count:3

Bar Esperanza

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

Release Date:1983-05-19

Character:Camelo

Vote Count:10

The Dream's Not Over

The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a context of a country that was on the final years of a dictatorship back in the 1980s.

Release Date:1982-08-06

Vote Count:4

Elas por Elas

Release Date:1982-05-10

Character:João Cássio (Juca)

Episode Count:173

Vote Count:3

The Brazilwood Man

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.

Release Date:1982-02-22

Character:Menotti del Picchia

Vote Count:9

The King of the Candle

Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.

Release Date:1982-01-01

Character:Totó Fruta do Conde

Vote Count:5

Memórias do Medo

With Brasilia as a setting, the film tries to recreate the political environment in Brazil when civilians were able to found new political parties, after 10 years of strict military rules. In the midst of a nationwide crisis, a group of politicians found an opposition party to the military regime, triggering violent denunciation against multinationals operating in the country. The explorer of the Seesaw deposit, United Mining, an American multinational that is being accused of several irregularities, sees in the internal struggle that divides the opposition party its only chance to silence the nationalist campaign that denounces it. Thus, a game is developed that ends up leading the characters to a tragic plot of corruption and fear.

Release Date:1981-09-21

Vote Count:2

Baila Comigo

Release Date:1981-03-16

Character:Sandro Moreira

Episode Count:165

Vote Count:2

Family Album

Follows the decadence of an incestuous oligarch family in a rural Brazilian household through the years during the early 20th century.

Release Date:1981-03-05

Character:Edmundo

Vote Count:2

Engraçadinha

After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.

Release Date:1981-01-01

Vote Count:14

Plumas & Paetês

Release Date:1980-09-08

Character:Dr. Amaral

Episode Count:60

Os Gigantes

Release Date:1979-08-20

Character:Padre Justino

Episode Count:2

Pecado Rasgado

Release Date:1978-09-04

Character:Taio

Episode Count:22

A Volta do Filho Pródigo

Unemployed, penniless in the big city and after accidentally stealing and killing his landlady, Antonio flees Rio de Janeiro towards Northeast of Brazil to find his mother. On the way he meets a beautiful woman and a pair of criminals.

Release Date:1978-06-16

Summer Showers

70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.

Release Date:1978-04-24

Character:Paulinho

Vote Count:9

Nina

Release Date:1977-06-27

Character:Nélio

Episode Count:145

Saramandaia

Saramandaia is a Brazilian telenovela originally written by Dias Gomes in 1976. It's considered remarkable because of the Magic Realism (used by the author to subtly criticize the Military Regime of the time) and had 160 chapters. The story centers on the name change that the city undergoes, promoted by the younger citizens and reviled by the older ones. It also focuses on the lives of the city's quirky residents.

Release Date:1976-05-03

Character:Delegado Petronílio Peixoto

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

A Extorsão

Release Date:1975-11-06

Conjugal Warfare

Many stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other, still live together under the same roof.

Release Date:1975-05-01

Character:Nelsinho

Vote Count:9

The Conspirators

The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.

Release Date:1972-01-05

Character:Álvares Maciel

Vote Count:14

Prata Palomares

While waiting for directions, two revolutionaries hide in a church, where they meet a woman who wants to have a son with one of them.

Release Date:1972-01-01

Character:Comrade

Vote Count:6