Daniel Filho

Executive Order

In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.

Release Date:2022-04-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:109

Venice

Reencountering the only man she ever loved is Gringa’s dream. She is the owner of a brothel in the interior of Brazil and even though she is blind and very sick, she insists on fulfilling her last wish: to go to Venice to apologize to the lover she abandoned decades ago. To take her to the Italian city, Tonho, Rita and the other girls who work for Gringa come up with a fantastic plan with help from a circus troupe.

Release Date:2021-06-17

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:5

The Silence of The Rain

When executive Ricardo is found shot dead in the seat of his car without suspicion, Inspector Espinosa and police officer Daia are in charge of the case and soon begin to investigate the people closest to the victim. But when everyone involved in the case mysteriously disappears, the situation takes on unexpected proportions.

Release Date:2020-10-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:16

Golden Mouth

After his death, infamous Rio de Janeiro mob boss Golden Mouth (named after his all-golden teeth) gets multiple accounts of his life told to the press by his former lover.

Release Date:2019-12-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Newspaper Clerk

Vote Count:5

Sai de Baixo: O Filme

Based on the classic Brazilian television series that conquered audiences during Sunday night prime time on TV Globo, with improv that happens like in scenes of a play. The feature film’s structure maintains the members of a middle-class family from São Paulo, their maid, and the building’s doorman. It’s the return of iconic characters like Caco Antibes, Magda and Ribamar, and also new characters.

Release Date:2019-02-21

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:59

Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites

A portrays of the period in which Brazilian humor had fewer limits (1986-2003), free from military dictatorship.

Release Date:2018-11-09

Character:Self

What are you Laughing At? Humour and Dictatorship

Even with all the brutality in the Brazilian dictatorial period, many artists presented themselves as a resistance, using their talent and creativity as a way to trick the censorship.

Release Date:2018-11-09

Character:Self

It's a Fairy!

Geraldine is a fairy who lost their wings by using unconventional methods in their missions. Her last chance to retrieve them will be the mission "Julia".

Release Date:2016-10-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:146

The Devil's Scarab

A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to investigate what is happening and is helped by the experienced but forgetful Inspector Pimentel.

Release Date:2016-04-14

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:38

Till Luck Do Us: Part 3

After waking from a coma, Tino learns his future in-laws have given him a high-powered financial job, for which he is woefully unqualified.

Release Date:2015-12-31

Character:Elias Barelli

Vote Count:168

Smile, You're on Camera

Based on 'Death of a Man in the Balkans (2012)', an original feature film of Miroslav Momcilovic, 'Sorria, Você Está Sendo Filmado' ('Smile, You're Being Filmed') tells the story of a suicide, in only one shot of 80 minutes, from the perspective of a web cam which only the suicidal knew was on, giving the viewer the feeling of watching everything from his window. "From the screenplay to the shooting, we are doing a kind of reality cinema," sets this movie director Daniel Filho.

Release Date:2015-05-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

A Man Amidst Bees

Bruno is a young film editor who has just broke up his marriage with Regina, and returned living in his mother's house. Drowned in deep sorrow, something very weird happens in his life: people around him are gradually disappearing. But only for him. Some kind of blindness.

Release Date:2015-04-30

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:118

Teen's Confessions

Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.

Release Date:2014-01-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:77

I Have No Idea What I’m Doing With My Life

Clara doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, until one day she meets Guilherme who helps her to find her own path.

Release Date:2013-12-20

Character:Vô

Vote Count:26

Brazilian Western

When João goes to Brazil in search of a better life, he meets punk music enthusiast Maria and falls in love with her. But his involvement in the local drug trade makes him the target of a vicious drug lord.

Release Date:2013-05-31

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:185

Chico Xavier

A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.

Release Date:2010-04-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:90

Bróder

Three childhood friends plan meeting for a day in order to reassert their friendships and fight for their differences. One of them is involved with crime, one is a famous football player and the other struggles to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.

Release Date:2010-02-17

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:21

Peacetime

Rio de Janeiro, April 18, 1945. Brazil's foreign policy aligns closely with that of the United States and opens a brief period of democratic rule after the end of World War 2. For years, hundreds of people were arrested and tortured by the Vargas regime. But with the external pressure, several political prisoners gain freedom.

Release Date:2009-08-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Doutor Penna

Vote Count:11

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:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:233

Last Stop 174

Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of 12th June 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.

Release Date:2008-10-24

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:179

Golden Oldies

Four friends who only think about enjoying life, with big parties, women and drinks, are surprised by an eviction. In need of money, the group is forced to think about what they hate most: working! Confusion arises when everyone looks for an easy way to get money, with minimum effort. The days pass and the hilarious confusion only increases!

Release Date:2008-09-19

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Vote Count:24

The Man Who Bottled Clouds

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.

Release Date:2008-07-28

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Character:Self

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 Date:2008-07-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:80

The Ballroom

An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and desire is an antidote to grumpy old men and women everywhere.

Release Date:2007-11-25

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Vote Count:11

The Sign of the City

Teca, a late-night radio show host, uses her astrological skills to help listeners who call in for advice. But her own life feels empty and lonely. One day she makes the acquaintance of her handsome new neighbour, Gil, only to find out he is married.

Release Date:2007-09-29

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:12

Primo Basílio

Luísa is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luísa was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basílio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luísa will discover the price of her infidelity.

Release Date:2007-08-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:14

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 Date:2007-06-07

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:10

Lots of Ice and a Little Bit of Water

Roberta and Suzana are two sisters, both in their thirties, of totally different beauty and life styles, united by a common goal: to take revenge on their grandmother, a mean old woman who, in the past, turned the little girls' lives into hell, with her strict educational concepts. Since they were very young, the two sisters plan to kidnap the grandmother and now is the long awaited moment. Before Roberta and Suzana leave to the beach house, the setting of their grandmother's terrorist practices, Roberta, while waiting for Suzana at a restaurant, meets Renato, an extremely proper guy who ends up involved in this unexpected adventure. The two sisters' departure leaves Suzana's husband, Alberto, bewildered and he ends up being also part of a parallel mad adventure.

Release Date:2006-10-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:15

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 Date:2006-08-04

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Vote Count:58

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:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Homem no Banheiro

Vote Count:371

Didi, the Treasure Raider

Didi works as a butler at Pedro's father's house. While browsing an old photograph album, he and 10-year-old Pedro find an ancient map with the route to a treasure. They decide to search for it. But the treasure carries a curse cast by the three thieves who had stolen it first, during WW2.

Release Date:2006-01-06

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:25

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 Date:2005-08-19

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:399

Tainá 2 - A New Amazon Adventure

The young warrior indian Tainá must now battle against biopirates, and is joined by a new boy from the big city and an indian little girl who wants to follow her steps as a protector of the jungle.

Release Date:2004-12-12

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:18

Owner of the Story

A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.

Release Date:2004-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:25

Redeemer

Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.

Release Date:2004-09-10

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:24

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 Date:2004-06-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:236

Sexo, Amor e Traição

The story of two couples who are neighbors and the marital problems caused by the unexpected arrival of two important personages of their past. The first couple, Carlos and Ana, live on the seventh floor of a building. Ana feels she's entitled to more love than her husband is willing to give. Suddenly, an old friend, Tomás, reappears after many years away and stays at their house. Andréa and Miguel live in the building across the street and are also going through a marriage crisis. In a party, they meet Cláudia, Miguel's first girlfriend, and she has no place to stay. Naturally, she's invited to sleep at their place. The presence of the two newcomers will cause many changes in their relationships.

Release Date:2004-01-02

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:24

Carandiru

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.

Release Date:2003-03-21

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:551

Darling Stranger

On Alberto's birthday, his daughter Zezé gets engaged. But the party turns sour when he decides to expose his pain and regrets.

Release Date:2002-10-06

Character:Alberto

Vote Count:4

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 Date:2002-08-30

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:7515

Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil

Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last.

Release Date:2001-11-09

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:112

The Inheritance

Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than an apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles, the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, and expectations. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.

Release Date:2001-06-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:44

A Dog's Will

The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.

Release Date:2000-09-15

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:1132

O Trapalhão e a Luz Azul

David, a rock singer, and Didi, his assistant, are transported to a distant world. They must help princess Allim to face the evil Vizir, who wants to become king by marrying her.

Release Date:1999-12-17

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:22

Zoando na TV

Angel works in a wedding dress store. Ulisses, her boyfriend, works as personal trainer. They are swallowed for the television and, to leave, need to discover how to use the Ulisses' ring.

Release Date:1999-02-11

Department:Crew

Job:Production Artist

Vote Count:26

Simão, o Fantasma Trapalhão

Two jumbled and coward drivers join a rich family that moves to an ancient castle inhabited by a resented, but friendly ghost.

Release Date:1998-12-25

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:72

Delicado

Release Date:1996-08-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Body

Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer.

Release Date:1991-07-12

Vote Count:1

Dina Sfat na União Soviética - Perestroika

Release Date:1988-10-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Story of Fausta

Fausta, a domestic worker who lives in a slum with her husband João, a drunk and abuser. At work, she has to endure the demands of her boss, and at home, her husband breaks his leg and cheats on her with the neighbor Coizinha. One day, Fausta meets Zé da Placa, and despite the age difference between them, they begin to develop a deep affection for each other, building a beautiful friendship.

Release Date:1988-05-15

Character:João

Vote Count:7

Subway to the Stars

In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He embarks upon a quest through the wild streets of Rio to find her. Along the way he meets an assortment of odd urban underworld characters.

Release Date:1987-06-02

Vote Count:7

Mirror of Flesh

A mirror bought in an auction changes the life of an executive and his wife. They become sexually aroused under the influence of the strange object, which belonged to a bordello in the past. Soon the friends who come to pay a visit also become affected by it.

Release Date:1984-11-21

Character:Jairo Almeida

Vote Count:7

Quilombo

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a safe harbor for other outcasts of the world, including Indians and Jews. Ganga Zumba (Toni Tornado) becomes president of Quilombo, the first freely elected leader in the Western Hemisphere. Naturally, the ruling Portuguese want to subjugate Zumba and his followers, but the Quilombians are ready for their would-be oppressors. The end of this Brave New World is not pleasant, but the followers of Zumba and his ideals take to the hills, where they honor his memory to this day. Writer/director Carlos Diegues takes every available opportunity to compare the rise and fall of Quilombo with the state of affairs in modern-day Brazil.

Release Date:1984-06-03

Character:Fernão Carrilho

Vote Count:14

O Cangaceiro Trapalhão

Severino do Quixadá (Renato Aragão), a humble northeastern shepherd of goats, rescues Captain Virgulano or simply Captain (Nelson Xavier) and his band of cangaceiros of an ambush armed by the lieutenant Zé Bezerra (Jose Dumont), its eternal persecutor. Captain escapes taking with him the mysterious box that he removed from the interior of the assaulted train in the city of Cajarana. Seeking to escape the shooting, Severino ends up finding himself in the cangaceiros' camp, along with the mishap friends Mussum and Zacarias who, taking advantage of the confusion, fled the chain.

Release Date:1983-08-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:28

Bar Esperanza

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

Release Date:1983-05-19

Character:Armando

Vote Count:10

The Kiss

When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality.

Release Date:1981-06-01

Character:Amado Pinheiro

Vote Count:28

Rita Lee Jones

The brazilian star Rita Lee makes an exclusive concert to be part of the TV special "Grandes Nomes".

Release Date:1980-11-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Elis Regina Carvalho Costa

After the great success of the Rio season of her show Saudades do Brasil, Elis Regina made this special with Globo. In a circus-inspired stage, she sings Alô, Alô, Marciano by Rita Lee and Roberto de Carvalho; O Bêbado e a Equilibrista by João Bosco and Aldir Blanc; and O Que Foi Feito (de Vera) by Milton Nascimento and Fernando Brant, amongst others.

Release Date:1980-10-03

Department:Art

Job:Creative Director

Character:Self

Paulinho da Viola - Série Grandes Nomes TV Globo

The program brings a career resume of the Samba's master Paulinho da Viola playing classics of MPB like "Sinal Fechado"(Closed Signal), "Nervos de Aço" (Nerves of Steel), "Pecado Capital", "Foi um rio que passou em minha vida" (It was a river that passed in My Life), "Cantando para não chorar" (Singing for not cry) and many others.

Release Date:1980-02-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Mulher 80

Mulher 80 emerged as a result of the success of 'Malu Mulher' (1979), a miniseries starring Regina Duarte, which addressed the female situation in Brazilian society at that time. The main focus of the special was the female presence in music, honouring the singers and songwriters of MPB with musical numbers and testimonials.

Release Date:1979-10-19

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

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:Geraldinho

Vote Count:9

O Casal

Release Date:1975-05-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Roleta Russa

Raul, a playboy, marries Sheila and hire Nina, a photographer, to take erotic snapshots of his wife. Nina acquires an interest on Sheila, and through a maid, investigates the couple's intimate life.

Release Date:1972-11-20

Character:Raul

Dybbuk: The Demon

Hannan is a brilliant Talmudic scholar who is constantly searching for something that not even he knows exactly what it is, living in the anguish of constant existential crises. He delves into the mystical arts of Kabbalah, seeking answers to his questions, in addition to traveling to countless places.

Release Date:1972-07-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

As Quatro Chaves Mágicas

Sad with her grandfather's death, Maria goes on vacation with her friend João on board a jeep. After being threatened by three thieves and helped by a Japanese traveler who opens their eyes to the mysteries of love, a pair gets lost in the forest and ends up at the home of a strange woman, who turns out to be a powerful witch Astarte. Realizing the danger they are in, Maria asks for help from the forest beings who teach her the secrets of the four magic keys: earth, air, fire and water. With these teachings, Maria leaves for the final confrontation against Astarte.

Release Date:1971-07-03

Character:Paulo, o irmão

A Cama ao Alcance de Todos

Release Date:1969-12-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Pobre Príncipe Encantado

Wanderley, a young and dreamy Army parachutist, arrives in Teresópolis, a resort mountain town, to enjoy his holidays with his father, a housekeeper for a rich family. Wandering around the woods, he meets Débora, an extremely good-looking girl, but doesn't reveal his true identity, saying only he was a Prince Charming in search of a Sleeping Beauty.

Release Date:1969-01-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

O Impossível Acontece

Anthology comedy made by the director of "The Given Word" among other directors.

Release Date:1969-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Juventude e Ternura

The young singer Beth is torn between love for the honest pianist Guy; and the powerful smuggler Estênio, who sponsors his promising career.

Release Date:1968-03-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Golden Mouth

After a powerful outlaw dies, a reporter interviews his lover and gets three different stories about the legendary man.

Release Date:1963-05-03

Character:Leleco

Vote Count:4

The Unscrupulous Ones

Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they will blackmail an uncle of Vavá by taking compromising photos of his lover, Leda.

Release Date:1962-03-24

Character:Vavá

Vote Count:23

Mulheres & Milhões

Three men who never met each other are hired by a mysterious client to carry out a daring bank robbery.

Release Date:1961-10-11

Eu Sou o Tal

Winner of a Theater talent contest, in which he was the only one to enroll, Belizário da Silva leaves his hometown, and tries to make it in Rio de Janeiro.

Release Date:1959-01-01

La Bréa

Documentary about Brazilian actress Sandra Bréa.

Character:Himself - Interviewee

Cheer to Life

Jéssica (Thati Lopes) is a simple young woman, dedicated to her job at an antique shop in Rio de Janeiro, but she feels her life lacks purpose. Everything changes when she finds a mysterious locket identical to an item she inherited from her late mother. Driven by the desire to understand the connection between the locket and her family history, Jéssica teams up with Gabriel (Rodrigo Simas), a distant relative who appears unexpectedly.

Release Date:2025-01-30

Character:Seu Ulisses

A Fúria

Third part of Ruy Guerra's trilogy initiated in "Os Fuzis" (1964) and "A Queda" (1978).

Release Date:2024-12-06

Tributo - Boni

Release Date:2024-11-30

Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico”

Release Date:2024-10-03

Just Another Christmas

After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year.

Release Date:2020-12-03

Character:Seu Pedro

Vote Count:420

Duas de Mim

Suellen (Thalita Carauta) is a cook who works hard to keep her little son, her younger sister and her mother alone. One day, your dreams come true: she splits in two. Her copy, identical physically, has different personality, being much more extroverted and courageous. The idea would be to divide the tasks with the other one, but soon Suellen realizes that the look-alike has plans of its own, and decides to betray the original.

Release Date:2017-09-28

Character:Daniel Filho

Vote Count:37

O Amuleto

Moçambique beach in Florianópolis, have a lot of unsolved murders cases. One day, Diana, Alex, Paulinho and Marcinha went to a party in the forest. In the next day, three teenagers are found death. Diana is the only survivor, but she doesn't remember what happen. The only thing that will help to solve the case is the videos recorded with their cell phones.

Release Date:2015-05-28

Character:Herminio

Vote Count:4

Muita Calma Nessa Hora 2

When Mari produces a music festival in Rio de Janeiro, she invites friends Tita, Aninha and Estrella to join her for another wild adventure.

Release Date:2014-04-04

Character:Pai de Tita

Vote Count:50

Federal Bank Heist

"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.

Release Date:2011-07-22

Character:Advogado

Vote Count:136

As Cariocas

"The Cariocas", a series in ten stand-alone episodes, tells the story of ten modern-day women against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro and its stunning urban landscapes. Our protagonists are uninhibited, adulterous, vindictive, suicidal, envious, brides, betrayed, deluded. Women with distinct beauty and quaint peculiarities, each one has a particular way of life.

Release Date:2010-10-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:8

Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado

The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts from films and videos in which he acted.

Release Date:2009-11-19

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

As Mulheres no Cinema Brasileiro

Release Date:2008-05-04

Character:Ele mesmo

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 Date:2008-01-22

Character:Self

Vote Count:19

Vila Madalena

Release Date:1999-11-08

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:155

Suave Veneno

Release Date:1999-01-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:209

Vote Count:6

O Auto da Compadecida

The (mis)adventures of João Grilo and Chicó in Brazil's Northeastern region. The four-chapter miniseries original version of O Auto da Compadecida.

Release Date:1999-01-05

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:74

Mulher

The whole story develops from the doctor Martha, who has worked for 40 years, always at the same clinic in Rio de Janeiro. She knows Cris and realizes that she has found a successor. Then begins the friendship of the two, who try to practice their profession with the utmost ethics, despite the owner of the clinic, who is always trying to say, save.

Release Date:1998-04-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:62

A Justiceira

Diana is woman who lost her child for her Husband. A evil man behind a series of crime operations. Searching for her son, Diana is hired for a underground organization to fight crimes all over Brazil. Now, Diana has the meanings to locate her former husband and search for her son.

Release Date:1997-04-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Salomão Garcia

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:2

Tieta of Agreste

After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.

Release Date:1996-08-30

Character:Corretor

Vote Count:22

Sai de Baixo

It follows the lives of the members of a dysfunctional family, their maid and the doorman of the apartment building in which they lived.

Release Date:1996-03-31

Department:Crew

Job:Supervisor of Production Resources

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:21

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:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:40

Vote Count:5

Teen Confessions

Release Date:1994-08-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:22

Vote Count:5

O Primo Basílio

Arriving in Lisbon from London, Basílio falls in love with his cousin Luísa, but he must go to Brazil, promising he will eventually marry her. As time goes by, he sends her a letter ending the relationship and she marries Jorge, an engineer. One of Jorge's rich aunts dies, leaving him a small fortune and her former maid Juliana. Juliana gets hold of love letters between Luísa and Basílio and starts to blackmail her employer.

Release Date:1988-08-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:3

Vianinha

Release Date:1987-09-14

Vote Count:1

Tanga (Deu no New York Times?)

The dictator of a small Caribbean island receives the New York Times daily, sent by a nephew. Through the newspaper, he gets in touch with the world. Guerrilla groups try to neutralize this information system.

Release Date:1987-01-01

Vote Count:2

Malu Mulher

Malu Mulher was a TV series broadcast by Rede Globo from May 24, 1979 to December 22, 1980, written and directed by Daniel Filho. The theme song, Começar de novo, was a great hit in the voice of one of Brazil's greatest popular female singer, Simone.

Release Date:1979-05-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:43

Ciranda, Cirandinha

Release Date:1978-04-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vida, Vida

In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town.

Release Date:1977-01-01

Character:Almeida

Ana, a Libertina

Release Date:1975-09-01

O Descarte

After Cláudia, haunted by her husband’s death on a car crash, starts a romance with another man, she starts receiving threatening letters.

Release Date:1973-05-23

Character:Bruno (voz)

Selva de Pedra

Release Date:1972-04-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:243

Vote Count:1

The Heirs

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.

Release Date:1970-09-15

Character:Um Americano

Vote Count:6

Irmãos Coragem

The fight for freedom and against oppression is the central theme of this soap opera that tells the story of the Coragem brothers: João, Jerônimo and Duda, in the city of Coroado.

Release Date:1970-06-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:328

Vote Count:1

Esse Rio que Eu Amo

Release Date:1962-07-09

Tem Boi na Linha

Release Date:1957-02-03

Fuzileiro do Amor

Release Date:1956-04-24

Vote Count:3

Resta Um

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 Date:2012-02-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:22

Vote Count:5

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 Date:2011-07-12

Character:Salomão Hayalla

Episode Count:64

Vote Count:9

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 Date:2006-07-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:13

Carga Pesada

Release Date:2003-04-29

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:10

Rainha da Sucata

Release Date:1990-04-02

Character:Renato Maia

Episode Count:179

Vote Count:5

O Sexo dos Anjos

Release Date:1989-09-25

Character:Teófilo Muniz

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:2

Que Rei Sou Eu?

Release Date:1989-02-13

Character:Bergeron Bouchet / André Barral

Episode Count:185

Vote Count:9

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:Rubinho

Episode Count:204

Vote Count:20

Chico & Caetano

Release Date:1986-04-25

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Episode Count:9

Armação Ilimitada

Release Date:1985-05-17

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:6

Parabéns pra Você

Release Date:1983-02-16

Character:Mendonça

Episode Count:13

Brilhante

Release Date:1981-09-28

Department:Directing

Job:Series Director

Episode Count:1

O Bem-Amado

Release Date:1980-04-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:92

Grandes Nomes

Release Date:1980-03-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

O Astro

Release Date:1977-12-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:185

Vote Count:2

Espelho Mágico

Release Date:1977-06-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:João Gabriel

Episode Count:1

Duas Vidas

Release Date:1976-12-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:157

O Casarão

Release Date:1976-07-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:159

Vote Count:1

Pecado Capital

Carlão is a taxi driver who experiences a drama of conscience after fleeing bank robbers leave a suitcase with stolen money in his car: he doesn't know whether to hand it over to the police, running the risk of being accused of being an accomplice in the robbery, or whether to use the money to solve his problems.

Release Date:1975-11-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:167

Vote Count:3

Cuca Legal

Release Date:1975-01-27

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:119

O Rebu

Release Date:1974-11-04

Department:Production

Job:Supervising Producer

Episode Count:112

Vote Count:1

Corrida do Ouro

Release Date:1974-07-01

Department:Production

Job:Supervising Producer

Episode Count:178

Vote Count:1

Os Ossos do Barão

Release Date:1973-10-08

Department:Production

Job:Supervising Producer

Episode Count:127

O Bem-Amado

O Bem-Amado is a Brazilian telenovela that first aired on Rede Globo in 1973. It is based on a play by Dias Gomes called Odorico, o Bem-Amado ou Os Mistérios do Amor e da Morte, written in 1962. It was the first Brazilian color telenovela. It was shot in Rio de Janeiro. Broadcast by Rede Globo between January 22 and October 3, 1973.

Release Date:1973-01-22

Department:Production

Job:Supervising Producer

Episode Count:178

Vote Count:5

O Bofe

Release Date:1972-07-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:135

Bandeira 2

Release Date:1971-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

O Homem Que Deve Morrer

Release Date:1971-06-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Minha Doce Namorada

Release Date:1971-04-19

Department:Production

Job:Supervising Producer

Character:Carlos

Episode Count:242

O Cafona

Release Date:1971-03-22

Department:Directing

Job:Co-Director

Episode Count:153

Véu de Noiva

Release Date:1969-11-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

A Cabana do Pai Tomás

Release Date:1969-07-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Rosa Rebelde

Release Date:1969-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Passo dos Ventos

Release Date:1968-06-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

A Gata de Vison

Release Date:1968-06-26

Department:Production

Job:Supervising Producer

Episode Count:167

Sangue e Areia

Release Date:1967-12-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1