Fernando Meirelles

Cidade de Deus: Oficina dos Atores

Documentary on the preparation of actors for "City of God".

Release Date2003-01-01

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Vote Count1

7 lições que se aprendem com as crianças, os loucos e os ladrões

documentary about the theft by students of the Flávio de Carvalho's Monument to Garcia Lorca

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The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show that was produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

Release Date1978-01-14

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Episode Count1

Vote Count7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Release Date2015-08-02

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Episode Count1

Vote Count17

Critic

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Release Date2008-01-22

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Vote Count19

O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois

Release Date2011-07-27

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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

The Constant Gardener featurette.

Release Date2006-01-10

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Vote Count2

VIVA - The opening Ceremony Documentary of Rio 2016

For the first time ever, experience the work of a nation as it host the world and puts on a show like never before.

Release Date2017-09-07

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Vote Count1

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Sugar

An enigmatic private detective struggles with personal demons as he investigates the disappearance of a Hollywood producer's beloved granddaughter.

Release Date2024-04-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count228

The Illusionist

The illusionist is mysterious, captivating and mesmerizes all those around him. But is he really a swindler or a man with extraordinary powers? This fascinating telenovela tells the story of seductive Herculano Quintanilha, who exerts significant influence over his great love Amanda, the Hayalla family and his friends. These and other enigmas can be found in The Illusionist, a telenovela where seduction is the great secret.

Release Date2011-07-12

DepartmentArt

JobProduction Design

Episode Count64

Vote Count10

The Sympathizer

Near the end of the Vietnam War, a spy who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to gather intelligence and report back to the Viet Cong.

Release Date2024-04-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count103

City of God: The Fight Rages On

Twenty years after City of God, Buscapé recounts how conflicts between police, traffickers, and militias impacted the community.

Release Date2024-08-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count65

Amor com Amor Se Paga

Release Date1984-03-19

DepartmentArt

JobSet Designer

Episode Count155

Vote Count2

Happily Ever After?

When the mysterious call girl Danny Bond comes on the scene, a crime of passion changes forever the lives of all involved. Who will the victim be? And the villain? After all, in a story so full of secrets and infidelity, who can get away with it to live happily ever after?

Release Date2015-01-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count8

City of Men

The series is based on the award-winning Brazilian film City of God, which itself was nominated for Oscars in four categories, including Best Director for Fernando Meireles. Based on the story of two friends, Laranjinha and Acerola, who live adventurous and dangerous lives in a Rio de Janeiro slum, 'City of Men' brings into sharp relief the condition of children and adolescents in these areas, realistically yet with a dose of humor.

Release Date2002-10-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count31

Rá-Tim-Bum

Release Date1990-09-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count36

Vote Count5

City of God

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Release Date2002-08-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7696

Sound & Fury

The lives of a Shakespearian theater troupe and their struggles to stage a production of 'Hamlet'.

Release Date2009-07-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count6

The Wise Ones

A mini-series of four episodes which has 4 different stories in each episode. Focused on 3rd age, the series shows how it was and how is the life of the elderly. The series teaches that we should not judge anyone by appearances.

Release Date2015-04-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Joint Venture

Set in a fictional modern-day Sao Paulo, where marijuana has been legalized, this series follows 29-year-old Biriba, a drug dealer who decides to give up his criminal life and enter the legal drug sales industry. Unfortunately for Biriba, going straight is more difficult than he could have imagined.

Release Date2019-08-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count23

A Comédia da Vida Privada

Release Date1994-08-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Children of the Church Steps

A group of young friends survive life on the streets, finding in each other hope and resilience to dream of different futures — until tragedy unfolds.

Release Date2024-10-30

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Vote Count10

Antonia

Release Date2006-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

Xingu: A Saga dos Irmãos Villas-Boas

Release Date2012-04-06

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

The Two Popes

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

Release Date2019-11-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2976

Pssica

Three characters lives become intertwined when they meet on the Atlantic side of the Amazon — Janalice, a victim of human trafficking; Preá, who must make peace with his fate as the leader of a local criminal organization known as the "water rats"; and Mariangel, who is seeking to avenge the deaths of her family. All three of them must try to break the curse, or "pssica," that they believe has been cast on them.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count1

The Constant Gardener

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

Release Date2005-08-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1564

Blindness

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Release Date2008-05-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1298

Trash

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.

Release Date2014-10-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count624

360

A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous with a prostitute. The businessman's wife prepares to call it quits with her younger lover. A Brazilian student breaks up with her boyfriend in London. A recovering alcoholic travels to Phoenix in search of his missing daughter. A paroled sex offender struggles to stay composed when propositioned in a Denver airport. A widower's religious devotion is put to a difficult test.

Release Date2012-07-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count287

7 Prisoners

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.

Release Date2021-10-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count355

Zoom

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.

Release Date2015-09-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count105

City of Men

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

Release Date2007-08-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count284

Rio, I Love You

The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.

Release Date2014-09-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count45

Marighella

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

Release Date2021-01-29

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count127

Adrift

A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.

Release Date2009-07-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count73

Eduardo and Monica

On an unusual day, a series of coincidences lead Eduardo to meet Monica at a party. A curiosity is aroused between the two and, despite not being alike, they fall madly in love. In 1980s Brasília, their love needs to mature and learn to overcome differences.

Release Date2022-01-20

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count79

Loop

After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy. He lets himself be consumed by his own obsession until after years of isolation, he finds the solution. Daniel then gives up his future and returns to the past. However, he is not the same man.

Release Date2019-11-27

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count10

Waste Land

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

Release Date2010-01-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count118

Urubus

Trinchas and his gang of graffiti taggers risk their lives climbing tall buildings to sign their names up there. When he falls for Valéria - an art graduate student -, they shake the international art scene.

Release Date2021-10-21

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count7

VIPs

Marcelo leaves his family and moves to Mato Grosso do Sul, where he learns how to fly airplanes by himself watching the pilots. One day, he responds the call of a drug dealer and uses his boss' plane to help the man to transport his cargo. He is hired by the drug lord to work transporting drugs in his airplanes. When he is arrested by the Federal Police, he does not rat his gang and the leader of the cartel gives a large amount of money as a bonus and asks him to leave the gang since he is known by the police. Marcelo uses the money to promote a party in the Carnival of Recife pretending to be the son of the owner of the Gol (a Brazilian air flight company). He lures the high-society, including the television presenter Amaury Jr. Marcelo is arrested again and is sent to prison. During a rebellion, he uses his leadership to present the claims of the prisoners and help to control the situation.

Release Date2011-03-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count110

The Pope's Toilet

In 1998, a small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's upcoming visit for the business opportunities that it will provide. While most of the residents plan to sell food at the parade, a smuggler family man decides to build a pay toilet.

Release Date2007-05-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count46

Here Comes the Flood

An unconventional heist movie about three people locked in a deadly game of cons and double crosses.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

O Filho Eterno

Roberto is in the edge to become a father for the first time. He was already dreaming of the years yet to come, wondering how his son would be. While trying to figure out how to act like a father he must also face and endure a tough reality - to be a Down syndrome child's dad. Insecure and ashamed of the situation he will have to confront and overcome it.

Release Date2016-12-01

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count19

José & Pilar

A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for completing his masterpiece "The Elephant's Journey", and how their love quietly sustains them throughout.

Release Date2010-10-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count27

Sócrates

After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.

Release Date2018-09-21

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count35

Liquid Truth

Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy's mother. Other parents and colleagues are only too eager to condemn him.

Release Date2017-10-19

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count68

492: A Man Called Death

The story of Júlio Santana, a professional killer who was responsible for almost 500 hundred murders in Brazil.

Release Date2017-10-10

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count51

Xingu

In the '40s, three brothers decide to live a great adventure and enlisting in the Roncador-Xingu Expedition, which has a mission to tame the Central Brazil. The Villas Boas brothers: Orlando, 27, Claudius, 25, and Leonardo, 23, engage in a fantastic and incredible saga. Soon start to lead the expedition that opens new paths 1,500 km, navigates over 1,000 miles of unspoilt rivers, opens 19 airfields for airplanes Army, gives rise to the creation of 43 towns and 14 make contact with wild Indian tribes, unknown, as the Xavante, courageous and feared warriors, no casualties on both sides. This adventure allows the Villas Boas brothers the creation of the Xingu National Park, the first major Amerindian reservation in Brazil, the size of Belgium, transforming them into true contemporary heroes.

Release Date2012-04-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count54

Maids

Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling. Quitéria is naive, a gull for thieves. Cida has a husband and also a lover. While each woman gets what she wishes for (more or less), it doesn't always make things better.

Release Date2001-01-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

The Great Green Wall

An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight against increasing drought, desertification and climate change.

Release Date2020-10-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count8

The Water Law

The Water Law is a Brazilian documentary that explains the relationship between the new Forest Code and the Brazilian water crisis.

Release Date2014-08-31

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count5

Stronger Than The World

The Story of longtime UFC Featherweight champion and the struggles facing him on the road to the top.

Release Date2016-06-16

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count123

Ousmane

The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.

Release Date2021-09-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

The Nutty Boy 2

In this new adventure, Maluquinho is spending the holidays at the home of his grandfather Tônico (Stênio Garcia), an inventor who lives in a small community in the interior of Minas Gerais. His friends Junim (Samuel Brandão), Lucio (Cauã Bernard Souza), Bocão (João Romeu Filho) and Nina (Fernanda Guimarães) are coming to the city to help Maluquinho organize the circus for the centenary of the city. On this trip, they meet Tatá-Mirim, a small flame that ends up making the city believe that they are being invaded by the Capeta. So they end up living many adventures.

Release Date1998-07-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count24

Buscapé

With executive production by Fernando Meirelles and direction by Fred Luz, actors Alexandre Rodrigues and Edson Oliveira are Buscapé and Barbantinho, two friends who meet again in today's City of God: bigger, more diverse and connected.

Release Date2022-09-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Antônia

Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they succumb to their grim realities...until they discover that out of struggle comes strength, and out of strength, the courage to continue on.

Release Date2007-02-09

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Vote Count14

Not by Chance

Enio is a middle-aged man who lives in solitude after a failed relationship. Pedro, 30, dates Teresa, who is moving to her home. He inherited a carpentry from his father and a taste for the pool. When a traffic accident crosses the parallel trajectories of the two, the imponderable imposes itself and the uncontrol begins.

Release Date2007-06-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

Animal Race

Inspired by the illegal universe of the Brazilian animal lottery, a fearless young man must win a deadly race to save his sister in a dystopian future where each animal in the game is now represented by a runner vying for a prize.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

E No Meio Passa Um Trem

A film about weddings, professions, children, travel plans and a train that separates it all.

Release Date1998-07-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World

With fireworks forming the word “Rio” in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of “The Girl from Ipanema,” Rio de Janiero welcomed the world to the first Olympic Games in South America with a serious message underlying the celebration: Let’s take care of our planet.

Release Date2016-08-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Slam

Samuca is only 17 years old and discovers that his girlfriend Alicia is pregnant. The news comes to light at a not very favorable moment in Samuca's life, just when he thought everything was going very well. For having committed the same "slam" as his mother Melina, having a son at the same age as she had him, Samuca feels pressured. Themes such as teenage pregnancy and questions about life gain visibility and are unfolded throughout the plot.

Release Date2023-06-22

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count2

Marly Normal

An experimental documentary following the busy life of an office worker in São Paulo, Marly, and how he manages to have a personal life beyond that.

Release Date1983-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count19

Up Against Them All

A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.

Release Date2004-02-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

Exodus: Where I Come from Is Disappearing

Observational documentary about people as refugees and asylum seekers in many geographical locations such as Germany, Brazil, Western Sahara, Myanmar, Cuba, South Sudan.

Release Date2016-10-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Last of the Tribe

William Phelan — a washed-out Chicago cop turned corporate gun-for-hire — who finds himself in a wildly unfamiliar landscape, his assignment the murder of the last surviving member of an uncontacted Indigenous tribe.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Sound & Fury: Film

Follows the struggles of a small theatre company attempting to adapt a Shakespeare play.

Release Date2010-05-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Punk em São Paulo: Garotos do Subúrbio

In 1983, director Fernando Meirelles read an article in the newspaper about the punks circulating in downtown São Paulo. Half suspicious, he went to see what it was all about. The result is Boys From The Suburbs, his first "most worked"Film.

Release Date1983-06-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Palace II

Two young boys, Laranjinha and Acerola, living in Cidade de Deus, one of the most violent neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, need some money to go to a concert. The "easiest" (and most dangerous) way to get it is working for some drug-dealers.

Release Date2000-12-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Amanhecer

This short film portrays the last hours of a young man before assuming homosexuality. He struggles to tell his father that he is gay, but gets inspired from a conversation with friends.

Release Date2010-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Fera na Selva

A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James.

Release Date2017-09-01

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count1

The Meaning of Life

In The Meaning of Life we will take part on a journey throughout the world to question our existence through the inquiries of a young Brazilian, with a rare hereditary disease with no cure.

Release Date2021-09-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Cosmos

A unique visual journey through galaxies, deep into the subatomic world of elementary particles, and into the center of the sun. Witness the formation of the Earth and the beginning of life and the birth of thought. Shown exclusively at the Museu do Amanhã in Rio de Janeiro.

Release Date2015-12-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

cidade dos homens Palace II

Release Date2000-12-28

DepartmentVisual Effects

JobRoto Supervisor

Brasília

A poetic vision of the city Brasília.

Release Date1983-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Untitled Elza Soares Biopic

A biopic about star Elza Soares, considered one of the greatest samba singers ever and a symbol of the struggle against racism and women discrimination in Brazil.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Olhar Eletrônico

Reunion of four reportages made by production company "Olhar Eletrônico" between 1983 and 1986, in which an irreverent reporter, Ernesto Varela, a creation of actor/director Marcelo Tas, tackles some hot topics, such as money evasion in Brazil, gold-digging at Serra Pelada, the homeless in São Paulo and a love story spoof.

Release Date1986-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Brasil Animado

The story of Stress & Relax: a businessman who thinks only of money and a film director who lives for insisting that this invest in their projects. This time, the "project" is to look for the oldest tree in Brazil. Stress is excited about the possibility of making money with this rarity. The problem is that they do not know exactly where it is. Stress and Relax out in search of the "Big Jequitibá Rose" with no map, no compass and clueless.

Release Date2011-01-21

Vote Count6

Passages: Travelling in and out of Film through Brazilian Geography

Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality.

Release Date2019-10-21

Comercial

The documentary “Comercial” brings a portrait of Brazilian advertising, from the perspective of the production of advertising films, told through the eyes of scene directors, creatives and clients; from those who lived the golden age of advertising in Brazil, to the professionals of the new generation; talking about the challenges, changes, the future of advertising films in Brazil and new language trends.

Release Date2010-01-01

Era Uma Vez Iracema

Release Date2005-07-14