Breno Silveira (Director)
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Works
DOM
A father who never stopped fighting against drugs. A son who never stopped using them. Two sides of the same coin. Victor is a cop who has fought all his life to curb cocaine trafficking. His son is a drug addict who has become one of the most wanted burglars in Rio de Janeiro. Will a father’s love be enough to save his son’s life?
Release Date2021-06-04
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Episode Count8
Vote Count111
João & Antônio
A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Release Date1992-12-29
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
One Against All
The story of Cadu, a public defender who sees his life change after being mistaken for a drug dealer.
Release Date2016-06-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count32
Vote Count12
Vitória
Nina is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neighborhood. Amidst conflicts with her neighbors, she decides to film the movement of drug traffickers from her window, hoping to assist the police. After months of recording suspicious activities, her initiative attracts the attention of a journalist, who approaches Nina and offers to support her in her mission.
Release Date2025-03-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count57
Bufo & Spallanzani
Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.
Release Date2001-08-31
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count10
Treason
This film shows three episodes: "The First Sin" portrays the relationship of a man and married woman; in "Devilish", the desire between a young woman and her brother-in-law is shown; and in the episode "Cachorro!", a man sees his wife with her lover.
Release Date1999-02-26
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count6
Twins
Identical twins Iara and Marilena like to play games and deceive men by pretending to be each other. But when they fall in love with the same man, a rivalry with devastating and horrifying consequences begins.
Release Date1999-04-30
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count10
The Seamstress
In the 1930s, two sisters separated by destiny face prejudice and sexism: one from the big city's high society, the other from a group of renegades in the back country. Emilia is romantic and marries a rich young man who is full of secrets. Luiza, of a wilder nature, falls in love with an outlaw who provokes mixed feelings in her. In this feminine and intimate epic, the sisters know they only have each other and both will surprisingly leave their marks in the world.
Release Date2017-12-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count5
Two Sons of Francisco
The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
Release Date2005-08-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count413
The Man of the Year
Maiquél has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This seemingly innocuous event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which he goes from nobody to hero to outlaw — all in 24 hours.
Release Date2003-08-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count83
Me, You, Them
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Release Date2000-08-17
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Vote Count42
Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia), the artists involved decided to get together again for limited concerts in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in December 2002. The film documents the group's live performances, rehearsals and interviews.
Release Date2003-01-01
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Vote Count1
Once Upon a Time in Rio
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How...
Release Date2008-07-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count82
Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996. Gil recalls his artistic trajectory, recalls striking facts and reveals some intimacies. Completely filmed on film, it includes great successes of the artist like Madalena, Cores Vivas, Vamos Fugir, Procissão and Expresso 2222.
Release Date2002-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
The Scavengers
In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by scavenging the immense urban garbage dumps searching for whatever they can find to sell as well as whatever they can find to eat.
Release Date1993-01-01
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Vote Count2
The Seamstress
In the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both of them will assert themselves in their own and surprising way.
Release Date2017-10-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count43
Gonzaga: From Father to Son
Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.
Release Date2012-10-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count98
1 Contra Todos: O Filme 2
Two years after leaving prison, Cadu sets out to fight corruption and pursue a political career, but dangerous ties to the past haunt him.
Release Date2017-04-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
1 Contra Todos - O Filme
Cadu, an honest lawyer from the countryside of São Paulo, is about to become a father for the second time. However, his life is completely transformed when he falls into a trap and the police find a ton of marijuana in his house. Outraged by the injustice, he begins to act like the head of a drug cartel, exactly what they accused him of, in front of the criminals and murderers in the prison.
Release Date2016-09-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil
The Spanish Infanta Carlota Joaquina is promised to D. João VI at the age of 10. Forced to leave for Portugal, Carlota suffers a great disappointment when she meets her promised prince. With the death of D. José, Carlota Joaquina and D. João VI inherit the Portuguese crown. However, frightened by the French Revolution and the approach of Napoleon's army, they decide to flee to their colony: Brazil.
Release Date1995-01-06
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Vote Count39
Along the Way
To escape past traumas, a truck driver João decides to leave his hometown behind and travel cross the country. Alone and lonely he drives all over Brazil until João discovers hiding in his truck a motherless boy looking for his father. Reluctantly, João agrees to take the boy to the nearest town and, during the trip, he finally finds the courage to face his past.
Release Date2012-08-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
1 Contra Todos: O Filme 3
Release Date2018-04-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
A Mulher do Meu Amigo
Thales, a successful businessman, is in crisis with his profession. He is married to the rich and spoiled Renata, and works with her father, the powerful businessman Augusto. One day, while on vacations at the home of his friends Rui and Pamela, Thales decides that will stop working. This unusual decision affects the lives of everyone around him.
Release Date2008-11-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count16
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
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count21
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.
Release Date1998-12-31
DepartmentCamera
JobAdditional Camera
Paralamas em Close Up
"A journey within the brazilian rock history, having as guide the band Paralams do Sucesso. Interviews with Jorge Ben Jor, Evandro Mesquita, Roberto Frejat, Kid Abelha, Roger, Arnaldo Antunes and others."
Release Date1998-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Days of Truce
Rio 2016 official film, "Days of Truce" is an original portrait of the Brazilian experience in hosting the Games and a powerful manifesto that explores how the Olympic values are relevant in our modern society.
Release Date2017-11-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Casseta & Planeta: A Taça do Mundo é Nossa!
A satire about the dictatorship period in Brazil, in which communist militants try to steal the soccer World Cup Trophy from the players Pelé and Carlos Alberto Torres.
Release Date2003-11-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count17
Marisa Monte: Barulhinho Bom - Uma Viagem Musical
Release Date1997-12-09
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Amyr Klink - Mar sem Fim
Release Date2002-05-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Santa Marta: Duas Semanas no Morro
The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of police violence.
Release Date1987-12-31
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Vote Count3