José Louzeiro (Writer)

Corpo Santo

Release Date1987-03-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Episode Count161

Vote Count1

Sambando nas Brasas, Morô?

The adventures of Pedro, a musician who is trying his luck in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950's. He leaves his hometown Belo Horizonte to share a lodging with his brother Carlos in Rio. During one of his gigs, he meets Arlete, a singer in a vocal group and fall in love.

Release Date2007-09-04

Charactersd Self

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 Count1

Vote Count2

Olho por Olho

Release Date1988-08-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count119

Vote Count1

Gente Fina

Release Date1990-03-12

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count138

Pixote

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

Release Date1980-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count221

Noite

Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of police officers about the barbaric murder of a socialite. Without recognizing himself in the documents he carries in his pocket, he wanders through the underworlds of the city in search of an answer.

Release Date1985-07-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Lucio Flavio

The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad.

Release Date1977-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count34

Outlaw Love

Police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he looks for a serial killer, he also searches for his estranged daughter, Sandra, whom he kicked out of the house. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho, befriends Sandra, now an exotic dancer and prostitute living and working in the seamy underside of late 1970s Rio.

Release Date1979-03-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

Who Killed Pixote?

The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, he got involved with crime.

Release Date1996-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobBook

Vote Count11

Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia

Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without food or clothing to relieve overcrowding in prison. Once discovered it became a major scandal in the 70s.

Release Date1986-05-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Man in the Black Cape

Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.

Release Date1986-03-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Fruit of Love

Blum and Elza conduct Scientific and anthropological researches in a desert island, where they use as subjects a old fisherman, the house keeper and a prostitute from the country. But the affection grows between the three of them, and this feelings are capable of compromising the whole research.

Release Date1981-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Amor Maldito

Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a man, a journalist.

Release Date1984-08-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7

Parceiros da Aventura

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars.

Release Date1979-06-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Os Amores da Pantera

During an orgy of millionaires, a woman is mysteriously kidnapped and killed. The crime causes quite a stir in local society, as the investigations points to a very known addicted playboy. Although it's never said, the film is vaguely based on a real case happened in 1975, when socialite Ângela Diniz was killed by her lover Doca Street, in Búzios, Brazil.

Release Date1977-09-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Claudia Case

Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress Márcia Rodrigues's sister, was found in the seashore. After Police investigation, it was found she had been murdered on a party by a rich industrialist's son and his socialite hairdresser buddy, after much sex, alcohol and drugs, specially Mandrax (methaqualone). She'd probably resisted being raped and the killers threw away the body in the water. One of the guys tried to escape flying to Switzerland.

Release Date1979-08-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

O Escolhido de Iemanjá

Release Date1978-06-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Estranhas Relações

Release Date1983-12-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

O Sequestro

A robber breaks into a house in the Santa Teresa district of Rio de Janeiro and kidnaps the family's youngest son. Based on a true kidnapping that happened in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, whose victim, Carlinhos, has never been found to this day.

Release Date1981-11-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

A Locomotiva

The Locomotiva reveals a philosophy that inspired the life and work of the most controversial manager of Brazilian football. Eurico Miranda attracts hatred and passion from Vasco fans and all football lovers.

Release Date2009-04-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

O Marajá

Release Date1993-07-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Journey to the Roof of the Mouth

Nilo Barrão steals a car from the telephone company and robs the mansion of Mara, the wife of an industrialist on vacation. A nymphomaniac, she demands that Nilo rapes her, but he only partially satisfies her wishes, as he prefers to plan physical violence against Paula, a transvestite who lives in the same house, with Mara's help. The arrival of a nearsighted enumerator interrupts, for a moment, the sadomasochistic game. Teresinha, Mara's adoptive niece, upon returning from school, is de-virginized, with her consent, by Nilo. Paula, suddenly transformed into a sorceress, decides to take revenge.

Release Date1981-03-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter