Luiz Fernando Carvalho (Director)
Little is known about Luiz Fernando Carvalho, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
To the Left of the Father
In 1940s São Paulo, Pedro’s tasked to retrieve his estranged brother André. André’s departure stems from a domineering father, an overly affectionate mother, and Pedro’s jealousy over the father’s favoritism. Further complicating matters is André’s unconventional relationship with their sister, Ana.
Release Date2001-10-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd André - Narrator (voice)
Vote Count41
Quaderna
The documentary is a dive into this universe that Ariano Suassuna built with his Art (work) and his Life. His novels and characters. Your utopias. Your Quaderna, as the driving force behind this mix. Theater performances. Poems. Show classes. Popular culture. The cordel. The rabeca. Brazil and its stones. The Armorial Movement. Their readings and representations. Based on unpublished interviews with artists and friends (family), as well as Ariano himself and a tour of his home, the documentary recreates his universe.
Release Date2007-01-01
Charactersd Self
Tieta
Inspired on Jorge Amado's romance "Tieta do Agreste", the plot is set on the fictional city of Santana do Agreste, at Brazil's northwest, and has as main theme Tieta's life turnarounds. Twenty-five years after being chased out of town by her father Zé Esteves, she returns to her home town seeking revenge against everyone who mistreated her and laugh at her face in the past.
Release Date1989-08-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count197
Vote Count15
Velho Chico
Release Date2016-03-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count172
Vote Count9
Pedra Sobre Pedra
Pedra Sobre Pedra is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Rede Globo from January 6 to July 31, 1992, with 178 episodes.
Release Date1992-01-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count179
Vote Count6
Meu Pedacinho de Chão
Release Date2014-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count96
Vote Count10
Esperança
The story of two young Italian lovers of different, rival families who are separated after he moves to Brazil and falls for another woman, while she is forced to marry a fascist.
Release Date2002-06-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count209
Vote Count4
Os Maias
Pedro da Maia, meets a beautiful woman called Maria Monforte with whom he gets married despite his father's objection. The marriage produces a son, Carlos Eduardo, and a daughter. Some time later, Maria Monforte falls in love with Tancredo and runs away to Italy with him, taking her daughter along. When Pedro finds out, he goes with his son to his father's house where he commits suicide. Carlos stays at his grandfather's house and is educated by him. Carlos, becomes a doctor and opens his own office. Later he meets a gorgeous woman, Maria Eduarda. The two fall in love and have dozens of nights together. Eventually Carlos finds out later that Maria lied to him about her past and he starts fearing the worst. In the end, Carlos finds out that Maria is his sister. He informs her that they are siblings and that they cannot live like this anymore. Carlos, to forget his tragedies, goes for a trip around the world.
Release Date2001-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count42
Vote Count13
Riacho Doce
Release Date1990-07-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count40
Vote Count7
Caso Especial
Release Date1971-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Hoje é Dia de Maria
Maria is an orphan girl who suffers from her stepmother's wickedness. She then decides to escape in search of the fringes of the sea and takes a long walk through Brazilian folk tales. On her journey, she meets several fantastic characters.
Release Date2005-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count7
IndependênciaS
Release Date2022-09-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count16
Vote Count2
Grande Sertão: Veredas
A cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces.
Release Date1985-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count25
Vote Count1
Renascer
Jose Inocencio had innocence only as part of his name, but only those who new him well could notice this. But nobody knew him. He was a storyteller, and he was always the main character in the stories he told. He managed not only to create stories about himself, he managed to create a legend. The story of this powerful cacao farmer; Maria Santa, the beloved wife who died; and their four children is the main theme of 'Renascer'.
Release Date1993-03-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count216
Vote Count8
Irmãos Coragem
Dias Gomes and Marcílio Moraes' version of the soap opera of the same name by Janete Clair shown in 1970, Irmãos Coragem features as central characters João, Jerônimo and Duda, three brothers who threaten the dominance of the powerful farmer Pedro Barros, the highest authority in the fictional Coroado, in the interior of Minas Gerais, where the story is set.
Release Date1995-01-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count154
Vote Count1
Capitu
A melancholy Dom Casmurro, who writes a book to tell his vision of his own story and also to restore, in old age, the moments lived in adolescence alongside the great love of his life, Capitu, a girl who seduced him with her "hangover eyes".
Release Date2008-12-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count4
Dois Irmãos
Between the 1920s and 1980s, the plot narrates the trajectory of a Lebanese family focusing on the conflicted relationship of the twin brothers Omar and Yaqub.
Release Date2017-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count5
A Pedra do Reino
Release Date2007-06-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
The King of The Cattle
In the struggle for land a vicious feud erupts between two men, who commit their families to a war without truce. Over two generations they are moved by love and by hatred in this epic saga of love for the land.
Release Date1996-06-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count209
Vote Count24
Suburbia
Conceição is a poor girl that left Minas Gerais in search for a new life, away from the coal ovens. She runs away on a cargo train to Rio de Janeiro, where later she takes shelter with a loving family in Rio's suburbs. She falls in love with Cleiton, a hard working and rebel young man, who grew up without a father and lives between good and evil. Conceição becomes a brazilian funk star, but she doesn't loose her pure nature, reassuring her integrity before the obstacles of life. These common people face a recurring dilemma to all of us: How to maintain your notion of justice, ethics and morals, in times of violence, inequity and decadence of values?
Release Date2012-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Gente Fina
Release Date1990-03-12
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count138
Carmem
Release Date1987-10-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count192
Vote Count1
Vida Nova
Release Date1988-11-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count100
Vote Count2
Helena
Release Date1987-05-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count162
Vote Count1
Afinal, o que Querem as Mulheres?
Release Date2010-11-11
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
A Espera
Release Date1985-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Hoje é Dia de Maria - O Filme
Maria is a gifted girl, who faces a hard life in the fields. She is happy when her father decides to remarry, thinking that he will rejoice again. However, to the girl's despair, her stepmother is bad and starts to mistreat her. Maria still has to face the devil's tricks. Adaptation of the miniseries shown in 2004.
Release Date2015-06-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Passion According to G.H.
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door on it. But the sight of the dying insect provokes a mystical crisis.
Release Date2024-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Alexandre e Outros Heróis
Inspired by an novel by Graciliano Ramos, Alexandre e Outros Heróis is a beautiful way to celebrate his 60th year of death. The story of a man, his life and his death in the Brazil's backwoods.
Release Date2013-12-18
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Os Homens Querem Paz
Release Date1991-04-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Que Teus Olhos Sejam Atendidos
Documentary on the research for the production of the film Lavoura Arcaica (2001), based on the novel of the same name by Raduan Nassar. Two filmmakers take a trip with an uncertain destination through the mountains of Lebanon, Syria and southern Spain.
Release Date1998-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter