Fernanda Torres

Tributo: Fernanda Montenegro

Fernanda Montenegro opens the doors of her home and recalls remarkable stories, from more modest productions to the Oscar ceremony, in the company of her daughter, actress Fernanda Torres.

Release Date:2024-10-16

Character:Self

I'm Still Here

In the early 1970s, the military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family - Rubens, Eunice, and their five children - live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.

Release Date:2024-09-19

Character:Eunice Paiva

Vote Count:330

The End

‘The End’ chronicles the passing of time in friendships and romances. The story is told through the memories of five friends who have partaken of the pleasures of youth in Rio de Janeiro, from the glamorous 1960s to the colorful 1980s. The five get together at the funeral of the most beloved of them, in the early 1990s. Adapted from the best-selling novel by award-winning actress and writer Fernanda Torres. The author herself has adapted the novel for television, diving into profound issues, such as aging and death. Always with Torres’ own celebrated brand of elegant, witty humor. The cast features a number of award-winning, household Brazilian actors.

Release Date:2023-10-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Celeste

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:7

The Others

Two neighboring couples are shocked after their teenage children's fight, with absurd consequences. What could be a common misunderstanding grows and reveals the limits and influence of parents in raising children. A modern series about where lack of dialogue can lead people to.

Release Date:2023-05-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:23

Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat

The special brings the continuation of the plot starring Gilda and Lúcia in the series 'Amor e Sorte'. After a period of forced coexistence due to social isolation, they face a new reality.

Release Date:2020-12-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Lúcia

Vote Count:4

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.

Release Date:2020-11-26

Character:Banquet Attendee

Vote Count:15

Slaps & Kisses: The Great Reunion

In the special episode of Tapas & Beijos, titled "The Great Reunion", Sueli and Fátima come together five years after the series ended. They navigate new challenges and humorous situations, showcasing their characteristic friendship and irreverent humor. The episode serves as a nostalgic farewell, celebrating the best moments of their chaotic lives while addressing relatable issues.

Release Date:2020-10-31

Character:Fátima

Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement

The multiple screen installation and photographic series A Marvellous Entanglement (2019) traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic buildings, offering a meditation on the work and legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer (1914–1992).

Release Date:2020-09-23

Vote Count:1

Amor e Sorte

‘Amor e Sorte’ is a four-episode independent series that brings together stories about relationships and transformation in times of social isolation.

Release Date:2020-09-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Lúcia

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:5

Diário de um Confinado

Staying at home has become a form of survival in times of pandemic and the days seem to repeat itself. Now Murilo tries not to go crazy by touching life from the inside of the house.

Release Date:2020-06-26

Character:Leonor

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:4

All the Women in the World

In this contemporary romantic comedy about love in all its forms, All the Women in the World tells the story of Paulo, a bohemian dreamer that lives his relationships intensively, falling deeply for all the women he meets. Never able to forget Maria Alice, his greatest love, he counts on the advice of his two best friends to face the emotions of his accomplishments and breakups.

Release Date:2020-04-25

Character:Estela

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:10

O Juízo

Augusto moves with his family to an abandoned farm, inherited from his grandfather, hoping to put his life back on track. The property, however, carries the karma of the betrayal of the slave Couraça who seeks revenge against Augusto's family.

Release Date:2019-12-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

Endless June - Brazil’s New Political Culture

An overview of Brazil's riots of June 2013, which were the beginning of a great political change that would take the country in the following years.

Release Date:2019-10-22

Character:Narrator

Vote Count:2

Fire in the Forest

The film shows the daily life of indigenous village Piyulaga, home of Waurá tribe --an ethnicity of 560 people who live at Xingu Park in Mato Grosso, Brazil. It also reveals how the indigenous community keeps its traditional culture while incorporating habits and technologies from the “white”.

Release Date:2019-10-17

Character:Narradora

Que História é Essa, Porchat?

Release Date:2019-08-06

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:7

Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone

Release Date:2017-11-18

Vote Count:5

The Magnificent 8

On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du Moscovis have lunch at one of their houses. The occasion gives way to an incredibly sincere debate on the art of acting, the profession and, above all, the doubts about love and life.

Release Date:2017-10-09

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

Filhos da Pátria

Release Date:2017-09-19

Character:Maria Teresa Bulhosa

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:1

Under Pressure

Inside a chaotic emergency room in Rio de Janeiro, a team of doctors are torn between their internal personal conflicts, the difficulties of the profession and the surprising dramas behind each patient‘s history, in a heroic attempt to save lives...See more

Release Date:2017-07-25

Character:Dra. Renata

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:15

Conversa com Bial

Journalist Pedro Bial discusses the most important current news in Brazil and in the rest of the world.

Release Date:2017-05-03

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.

Release Date:2017-03-31

Character:Self

Minha Estupidez

In each episode, Fernanda Torres conducts an interview with an intellectual whom she admires and presents a fiction skit about an intriguing text - those that makes one feel stupid.

Release Date:2016-11-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Episode Count:5

Party Crashers

"Party Crashers" chronicles the amusing encounter between Marco Polo (Marcelo Adnet), a Copacabana trickster, and Beto (Eduardo Sterblitch), a shy and insecure man, on the New Year's Eve in Rio. Together they crash parties and create a lot of confusion in search of the beautiful Laura.

Release Date:2012-11-30

Department:Writing

Job:Other

Vote Count:87

Tapas & Beijos

The daily life of two friends, Sueli and Fátima, whom despite being independent and single women, always feel smothered.

Release Date:2011-04-05

Character:Fátima

Episode Count:169

Vote Count:12

Consideração do Poema

Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Torres, Marilia Pera, Antonio Cicero and others.

Release Date:2011-03-03

Vote Count:1

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

Character:Cris

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:8

Os Normais 2

After thirteen years of engagement, the boring sex life of Rui and Vani is limited to one intercourse every other week. They decide to seek excitement with a threesome and they decide to invite Vani's cousin Silvinha to participate late night, but an accident interrupts their game. Rui and Vani unsuccessfully spend the night searching for for companion of a bisexual woman.

Release Date:2009-08-28

Character:Vani

Vote Count:68

The Invisible Woman

A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!

Release Date:2009-06-05

Character:Lúcia

Vote Count:253

Domingos

A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.

Release Date:2009-01-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

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

Playing

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

Release Date:2007-11-09

Vote Count:53

Basic Sanitation, the Movie

When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.

Release Date:2007-07-20

Character:Marina

Vote Count:99

The House of Sand

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

Release Date:2005-05-13

Character:Áurea (1910-1919) / Maria (1942)

Vote Count:49

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:Writing

Job:Story

Character:Isaura (jovem)

Vote Count:24

Os Normais: O Filme

The film shows the day when Rui and Vani first met. It was at their wedding (with other partners). Vani was going to marry Sérgio, and Rui would marry Marta in the same church, following Vani's marriage. While waiting for the ceremony, they begin to talk. Complications ensue.

Release Date:2003-10-24

Character:Vani

Vote Count:140

Os Normais

Rui and Vani, are a couple facing normal discussions, problems and situations such as infidelity and convivency problems, but they solve it with great humor.

Release Date:2001-06-01

Character:Vanilce Alencar (Vani)

Episode Count:71

Vote Count:32

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:Jaci

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Luna Caliente

Ramiro is a 40-year-old lawyer and university professor who returns to Brazil after eight years of exile in France as a result of the military dictatorship. Recently separated from Dora, he meets Elisa, the youngest daughter of a couple of friends of his parents, who will turn his life upside down.

Release Date:1999-12-15

Character:Dora

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:2

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 Date:1999-04-30

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Character:Iara / Marilene

Vote Count:8

Betrayal

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 Date:1999-02-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Irene

Vote Count:6

Midnight

On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.

Release Date:1998-08-12

Character:Maria

Vote Count:9

Miramar

Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life.

Release Date:1997-11-19

Vote Count:3

Four Days in September

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.

Release Date:1997-10-01

Character:Maria

Vote Count:117

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Release Date:1997-01-01

Character:Self

Foreign Land

During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring.

Release Date:1996-09-04

Character:Alex

Vote Count:49

The Jew

The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.

Release Date:1996-01-16

Character:Brites

Vote Count:3

A Comédia da Vida Privada

Release Date:1994-08-03

Episode Count:22

Vote Count:1

Savage Capitalism

Elisa is a journalist who becomes romantically involved with Hugo, a director of the company Jota Mineração, when she receives an order to write a story about the company. However, the relationship between the two begins to destabilize when the company that Hugo runs begins to extract gold from indigenous lands.

Release Date:1994-02-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Elisa Medeiros

Vote Count:4

The Flash and Crash Days

“Flash” is a post-industrial play with a touch of stochastic Freudian genealogy that has been to all the royal theaters and opera houses - then back to trashy punk clubs and now churches...

Release Date:1991-11-09

Vote Count:1

One Man’s War

Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.

Release Date:1991-04-20

Character:Dolly

Vote Count:4

Kiss 2348/72

Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the hardships of the labor lawsuit he filed against the company.

Release Date:1990-10-01

Character:Claudete

Vote Count:6

Kuarup

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.

Release Date:1989-06-02

Character:Francisca

Vote Count:9

Fogo e Paixão

The story of citizens from different parts of the world who come together to participate in a project to visit a Latin American city, however its location is not revealed.

Release Date:1989-04-29

Character:mulher comendo uma maçã

Vote Count:2

Your Neighbour's Wife

Two lovers meet again in strange circumstances, when she is a recent widow not particularly grieving, and he is a divorcée mourning his daughter. They reunite, only to break again - this time for good.

Release Date:1988-12-01

Character:Isabel

Vote Count:6

Hide and Seek

A couple, locked up in a secluded house on a rainy night, decide to play hide and seek. She hides. He seeks. The house becomes a huge box of surprises, and terrible sights hide behind every door..

Release Date:1988-01-01

Character:Magda

That Damned Meat

Nhô Quim has only one dream in his life: to eat red meat. He meets Carula, a young woman anxious to get married, who promises him that in their wedding her father will kill him an ox. But, before that, Nhô Quim must pass a series of tests.

Release Date:1987-10-01

Character:Carula

Vote Count:16

Sonho Sem Fim

The story of one of Brazilian cinema's pioneers, Eduardo Abelim, from the start of his career, in Rio de Janeiro, until his filming of the 1930 Revolution. To promote his films, Abelim would even perform car stunts, give classes on the occult and offer guidance on mystical matters.

Release Date:1986-12-11

Vote Count:3

Love Me Forever or Never

Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship.

Release Date:1986-04-17

Character:Her

Vote Count:20

Selva de Pedra

Release Date:1986-02-24

Character:Simone Marques / Rosana Reis

Episode Count:155

Vote Count:4

Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta

In Nilópolis, Eliane, a 15-year-old girl, who is the daughter of a lower-middle-class couple, falls in love with Otávio, a 33-year-old divorcee. Upon learning of the relationship, Eliane's parents forbid her to meet her lover.

Release Date:1985-11-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Vote Count:7

Madame Cartô

Release Date:1985-01-01

Character:Voz

Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática

A couple of filmmakers facing difficulties to make a film in the midst of an economic crisis, affecting the relationship between them.

Release Date:1984-12-19

Vote Count:1

Eu Prometo

Release Date:1983-09-19

Character:Daisy

Episode Count:110

Innocence

In the 19th century, a country girl is seduced by a young doctor who's staying at her house for a few days, caring for her, and tries to hide the forbidden romance from her father, who disapproves of the relationship.

Release Date:1983-09-16

Character:Inocência

Vote Count:8

Parabéns pra Você

Release Date:1983-02-16

Character:Irene

Episode Count:13

Brilhante

Release Date:1981-09-28

Character:Marília Newmann Carvalho

Episode Count:1

Baila Comigo

Release Date:1981-03-16

Character:Fauna França

Episode Count:165

Vote Count:2