Nelson Rodrigues

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 Date1962-06-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count6

Fragmentos de Dois Escritores

Release Date1969-05-05

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count1

Zimba

The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of generations of Brazilian actors. The polyphonic montage builds on vast unpublished material, covering half a century of performances, teletheaters and interviews by Zimba, as he was known – before and after fleeing Poland, on the eve of the invasion of Warsaw – and recreates fragments of Wedding Dress , a play by Nelson Rodrigues which the Polish-Brazilian director won a revolutionary montage in 1943.

Release Date2021-04-14

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count1

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 Date2019-07-04

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count1

Otto: De Trás p/ Diante

The life story of journalist and writer Otto Lara Resende. Paulo Mendes Campos, a personal friend of Otto, provides intimate insights into the artist's life. The documentary's central theme is the interview published in 1975 in Manchete magazine, celebrating his centennial.

Release Date2022-10-06

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

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 Date1976-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

Boca de Ouro

When major drug-dealer Boca de Ouro dies, a reporter interviews his ex-lover, now married with children and living in a poorhouse, to try to understand more about his complex personality. The problem is that the woman tells him three different versions of Boca's life, according to her own mood and ambiguous feelings towards her dead lover.

Release Date1990-04-04

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count1

Cute But Ordinary

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 Date1981-03-12

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count23

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 Date2019-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count6

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 Date1965-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count2

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

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count3

Vote Count3

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 Date1981-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count14

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 Date1981-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count31

Vestido de Noiva

Release Date1974-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count2

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 Date2006-11-10

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count2

All Nudity Shall Be Punished

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

Release Date1973-05-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count17

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 Date1996-03-31

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count40

Vote Count7

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 Date1978-04-17

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count43

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 Date1983-10-31

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count10

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 Date1964-07-06

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

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 Date1965-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count31

Somos Dois

Release Date1950-12-06

DepartmentWriting

JobDialogue

Boca de Ouro

Boca de Ouro was born in a back room of a dance hall, and his first crib was a bathroom sink where his mother left him. The boy grows up and becomes a feared and respected bookie—an almost mythological figure in the community where he lives. Fascinated by the story of the recently deceased criminal, journalist Caveirinha seeks out the criminal's ex-lover, D. Guigui, to gather material for an article. Her accounts of Boca reflect her emotional state.

Release Date1999-12-19

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

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 Date1952-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

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 Date2018-12-06

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count19

Twins

Identical twins Iara and Marilena like to play games and deceive men by pretending to be each other. But when they fall in love with the same man, a rivalry with devastating and horrifying consequences begins.

Release Date1999-04-30

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Vote Count9

Senhora dos Afogados

Release Date1985-07-18

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Golden Mouth

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

Release Date1963-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count4

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 Date2016-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count4

Os Filhos de Nelson

Release Date2000-11-29

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

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 Date1995-04-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count18

Vote Count4

Noiva da Morte

Release Date2025-07-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

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 Date1992-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count1

Agonia

Carolina is a fragile young woman with heart problems, always surrounded by excessive family care and with a peculiar obsession with death. Her fiancé, André, is the opposite: healthy and has always been skeptical of his beloved's conversations about death. One day, they will both have to confront Carolina's obsession.

Release Date2025-07-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

O Homem Proibido

Release Date1982-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count146

Vote Count1

Family Album

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

Release Date1981-03-05

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count2

O Mundo Alegre de Helô

Release Date1967-02-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

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 Date1966-05-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Linhas Cruzadas

Release Date2021-01-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

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 Date2013-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count18

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 Date1999-02-26

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count6

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 Date1980-04-17

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count25

Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária

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

Release Date1963-01-06

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count3

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 Date2015-11-12

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count10

Meu Destino É Pecar

Release Date1984-05-21

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Mulheres & Milhões

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

Release Date1961-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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 Date1971-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Máscara da Traição

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

Release Date1969-08-29

Vote Count6

24 Horas no Rio

Release Date1970-06-29

Nelson: Por Ele Mesmo

Release Date2017-09-03

Episode Count6