Nelson Rodrigues

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:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:5

Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos

This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.

Release Date:2019-07-04

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:1

The Asphalt Kiss

When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is spotted by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a tabloid reporter.

Release Date:2018-12-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:18

Nelson: Por Ele Mesmo

Release Date:2017-09-03

Episode Count:6

The Serpent

Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin. Dissatisfied, she wants to dissolve the marriage and thinks about suicide. To prevent her sister’s suicide, Guida offers her own husband, Paulo, for one night.

Release Date:2016-10-06

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:4

No One Loves Anyone For More Than Two Years

"No one loves anyone for more than two years" is an adaptation of Nelson Rodrigues' work about five couples that live in Brazil in the early 60's, who are seen by the society as conventional people, but whose intimate lives turn out to be morally questionable.

Release Date:2015-11-12

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:8

Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária

Edgard works as a subordinate in the company of millionaire Werneck and is in love with Ritinha, a simple woman who works as a teacher to support her mother and her three sisters. One day, Peixoto, Werneck's son-in-law, makes him a proposal to marry Maria, the boss's daughter. The reason is that Maria was abused and now is being forced to marry by her family. Edgard hesitates first but accepts the offer. From then on he enters into a great doubt: should he deposit the check and marry Maria or stay with Ritinha, his great love?

Release Date:2013-05-24

Department:Writing

Job:Theatre Play

Vote Count:18

Vestido de Noiva

While in the hospital, after being run over, Alaíde thinks about her life, specially after the moment she'd found the diary of Madame Clessy, in the house where her family had moved in, which was a former bordello.

Release Date:2006-11-10

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:2

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

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:1

Os Filhos de Nelson

Release Date:2000-11-29

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Boca de Ouro

Release Date:1999-12-19

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

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:Writing

Job:Short Story

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:Original Story

Vote Count:6

A Vida Como Ela É...

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

Release Date:1996-03-31

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Episode Count:40

Vote Count:5

Engraçadinha... Seus Amores e Seus Pecados

18 years old Engraçadinha starts a secret love affair with her cousin Sílvio, who's engaged to her best friend Letícia, who is secretly in love with Cutie Pie. Twenty years later, Cutie Pie is a deeply religious married woman who's afraid her teenage daughters might end up making the same mistakes she did in the past.

Release Date:1995-04-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:18

Vote Count:3

A Serpente

Two sisters are newly married; Guida to Paulo and Lígia to Décio. They spend their honeymoon in the apartment, a gift from the father of the brides. They will live there. Just a wall separating the intimacy of the two couples. Guida and Paulo are very happy. But on the other side of the wall; Ligia and Decius were never able to consummate their marriage. Decius is impotent and Ligia decides to commit suicide. To avoid the tragedy Guida, asks her own husband Paul to sleep with her sister for one night to help her losing her virginity. But when they continue to see each other, Guida gets jealous.

Release Date:1992-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Theatre Play

Vote Count:1

Boca de Ouro

Release Date:1990-04-04

Department:Writing

Job:Theatre Play

Vote Count:1

Senhora dos Afogados

Release Date:1985-07-18

Department:Writing

Job:Theatre Play

Meu Destino É Pecar

Release Date:1984-05-21

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres

Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as result. Her friend Nair takes her to a high-class bordello, where she wants to work. When uncle Raul, who raised her, discovers her prostitution, he decides to finally tell her all the truth about her parents' story.

Release Date:1983-10-31

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:9

O Homem Proibido

Release Date:1982-03-02

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Episode Count:146

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

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:28

Bonitinha mas Ordinária

The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.

Release Date:1981-03-12

Department:Writing

Job:Theatre Play

Vote Count:23

Family Album

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

Release Date:1981-03-05

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:2

Engraçadinha

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

Release Date:1981-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:14

The Seven Kittens

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.

Release Date:1980-04-17

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:25

Lady on the Bus

Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro.

Release Date:1978-04-17

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:40

The Wedding

On the eve of her wedding, Glorinha finds herself looking back at her life and confronting the injustices, sexual perversions, adultery and crimes that are hidden under the happy bourgeoise facade.

Release Date:1976-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:5

Vestido de Noiva

Release Date:1974-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

All Nudity Shall Be Punished

A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her. He can't decide between attraction and repulsion.

Release Date:1973-05-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:15

Como Ganhar na Loteria Sem Perder a Esportiva

A comedy about the happiness of several people who won the number 12 of Sports Lottery, thinking they are the only winner. Among them, one priest seduced by the devil disguised as a sacristan, one taxi driver who is planning to buy an entire fleet of cars, and prostitutes who leave their brothel, only to return again later.

Release Date:1971-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

24 Horas no Rio

Release Date:1970-06-29

Máscara da Traição

Couple of lovers want to steal the income of a popular soccer game, at Maracanã Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro.

Release Date:1969-08-29

Vote Count:5

Fragmentos de Dois Escritores

Release Date:1969-05-05

Character:Himself

Vote Count:1

O Mundo Alegre de Helô

Release Date:1967-02-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Engraçadinha Depois dos Trinta

After marrying everyday man Zózimo, Engraçadinha, who had been through intense sexual experiences as a teenager, settles to live a quiet and normal life. As the years go by, her teenage daughter's behaviour seems to call back Engraçadinha's own teenage days.

Release Date:1966-05-24

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

The Deceased

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.

Release Date:1965-09-22

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:28

The Kiss

When a dying man receives a kiss from a bereaved man who tries to save him, the man is jailed as a homosexual. He is released from jail, but his life has been ruined by the incident -- and the man eventually is killed by his own father-in-law. The kiss that resulted in the eventual persecution and death of the man is never shown in this plodding, downbeat drama.

Release Date:1965-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:1

Lollipop

While still a child, Lollipop falls in love with her orphaned cousin Silvio, who has been raised as a member of the family by her father, Dr. Arnaldo, a highly respected government official. Years pass, and to Lollipop's dismay, Silvio becomes engaged to her cousin Leticia. During the engagement party, the enraged Lollipop seduces Silvio, and sometime later, she reveals to Leticia that she is pregnant as a result of the encounter.

Release Date:1964-07-06

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:1

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

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:4

Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária

A young man must choose between two women. The one brings him the money, but the other he loves.

Release Date:1963-01-06

Department:Writing

Job:Theatre Play

Vote Count:3

O Rei Pelé

The story of Pelé, from his birth to his rise as one of the most prominent players in both Brazilian and worldwide soccer.

Release Date:1962-06-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Himself

Vote Count:6

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

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Meu Destino é Pecar

The story of Leninha, a young Brazilian woman whose life become a turbulent tragedy in the midst of trades involving lust and power.

Release Date:1952-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Somos Dois

Release Date:1950-12-06

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue