Rubens Ewald Filho

CineMagia: The Story of São Paulo's Video Stores

Before the streaming era, the video stores were the key for the beginning of home video experience in Brazil. The documentary narrates the history of São Paulo's mom-and-pop video stores from its appearance to the vanishing of this platform. Owners, employees, customers and critics talk about the experience of renting a movie.

Release Date2017-11-09

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Vote Count16

When The Marquees' Lights Go Out

Through archive footage and testimonials from former filmgoers, this documentary presents the story of the historical movie theaters located on the avenues of São João and Ipiranga and its surroundings, in São Paulo's city centre. Known as the Cinelândia Paulistana, this area lived its heyday in the 1950s, when there were more than 15 cinemas in full operation.

Release Date2018-11-13

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The First Time of Brazilian Cinema

In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. Thirty years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.

Release Date2013-05-01

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Vote Count2

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Release Date2020-10-22

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Vote Count1

Telerromance

Release Date1981-07-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count60

Gina

Gina attracts attention and envy. Years later, her life is shaken by the return of an old love and she discovers some schemes orchestrated by her best friend.

Release Date1978-06-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count89

Vote Count2

Éramos Seis

Release Date1977-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count180

Vote Count2

Um Homem Muito Especial

Release Date1980-01-28

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Episode Count178

Vote Count1

Éramos Seis

Éramos Seis is a Brazilian period drama telenovela produced by SBT and originally broadcast from May 9 to December 5, 1994. Based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Maria José Dupré, it was adapted by Sílvio de Abreu and Rubens Ewald Filho, with direction by Henrique Martins and Del Rangel and general direction by Nilton Travesso. The telenovela stars Irene Ravache, Othon Bastos, Jandir Ferrari, Tarcísio Filho, Luciana Braga, and Leonardo Brício. Set in São Paulo between the 1920s and 1940s, the story follows Dona Lola, a devoted wife and mother who struggles to keep her family together despite financial hardship and personal tragedy. As her four children—Carlos, Alfredo, Isabel, and Julinho—grow into adulthood, each follows a different path shaped by love, ambition, and loss. Through decades of sacrifice and resilience, Lola witnesses the joys and sorrows of family life while enduring profound changes that ultimately leave her to reflect on a lifetime of devotion.

Release Date1994-05-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count180

Vote Count2

Once We Were Six

The plot tells the history and daily life of the Lemos Family between the 1920s and 1940s. Júlio works in a fabric store and has the ambition of getting rich to offer his family a good life. His wife, Lola, does everything she can to keep her family together, because she believes that this way they can move on.

Release Date2019-09-30

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Episode Count155

Vote Count11

A Árvore dos Sexos

Bondomil, a quiet little town, becomes famous because in its main square there's a tree with strange fruits, with the format of the male sex organ, supposed to be an aphrodisiac for women. Soon the population grows wild, and tourists gather around it.

Release Date1977-06-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

A Casa das Tentações

Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.

Release Date1977-09-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1

O Nome Dela é Gal

A four-part biography on the life of the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, from her humble beginning singing in the streets of Salvador, where she became friends with many artists who would be other great names in Brazilian music in the following decades to her 50th career anniversary in 2015.

Release Date2017-06-11

DepartmentProduction

JobOther

Episode Count4

Vote Count4

Dracula, a Love Story

Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments because the network that financed it went under.

Release Date1980-01-28

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Vote Count3

Elas São do Baralho

Release Date1977-12-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Love Strange Love

A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.

Release Date1982-01-11

Vote Count71

Independence or Death!

The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.

Release Date1972-09-02

Vote Count10

Boca Marginal

Release Date2008-12-02

Manual para Atropelar Cachorro

A simple and handy manual to take the boredom under the narration of a sick mind, crazy in any big city. Mojo, a lonely young fanatic about movies and American culture, has dreams that will never come true. After spending his days holed up in a building, he decides to vent his repressed impulses by running over mutton dogs.

Release Date2005-01-01

As Gatinhas

Release Date1970-10-25

Vote Count1