Nelson Falcão Rodrigues (Recife, August 23, 1912 – Rio de Janeiro, December 21, 1980) was a writer, journalist, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and chronicler of Brazilian customs and football. He is considered Brazil's most influential playwright. His plays usually dealt with topics considered taboo by Brazilian society, such as sexuality, virginity and incest, denouncing the hypocrisy of family life in the middle and upper classes.
Release Date1969-05-05
Charactersd Himself
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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 Count7
Release Date1976-04-26
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
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 The polyphonic montage builds on vast unpublished material, covering half a century of performances, teletheaters and interviews by Zimba, as he was known – before and after fleeing Poland, on the eve of the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
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
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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
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 Count6
Set in Rio de Janeiro, the main plot follows the romantic adventures of four young people: Sônia, Joyce, Paulo, and Carlos. The youngest, Joyce, was raised by her aunt and uncle, Flávia and Dario Rodrigues, following her mother's death and her father's disappearance. Dario and Flávia are Sônia's parents, and they raised both girls as sisters. The story becomes even more complicated with the arrival of Carlos, a young man of humble origins who falls for Joyce the moment he meets her. Joyce, however, does not reciprocate his advances and spurns his interest. Increasingly in love with Paulo, she even pretends to be blind after an accident—solely to remain close to the doctor—and proves willing to do whatever it takes to keep Sônia out of her way.
Release Date1982-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count146
Vote Count3
Release Date2021-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
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 Count9
Release Date1950-12-06
DepartmentWriting
JobDialogue
Vote Count1
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 Count28
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
Vote Count1
Raised in a conservative home, Engraçadinha challenges taboos and forbidden passions over two decades. Between desires, guilt and secrets, she lives intensely her loves and her sins.
Release Date1995-04-25
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count18
Vote Count7
The miniseries tells the story of Leninha, who marries Paulo due to a financial agreement made by her father, Dílson. Her life changes when she meets her brother-in-law, Mauricio, during a trip to her husband's farm in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. The two fall in love and become lovers. Leninha then begins to experience a great conflict: social and moral rules impose on her the behavior of a good wife, faithful and companion, but her desire for Maurício speaks louder. Consuelo, mother of Paulo and Maurício, realizes what is happening and begins to antagonize her daughter-in-law. Upon discovering the betrayal, Paulo starts to hate his brother. At the end of the plot, Leninha decides to stay with her husband, and the couple happily announces that they will have a child. Mauricio despairs, but later recovers in Regina's arms.
Release Date1984-05-21
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
Release Date1967-02-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
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 Count49
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
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 Count4
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 Count17
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 Count2
Three stories of infidelity unfold: a man falls for a married woman, a young girl draws the gaze of her sister’s fiancé, and a husband takes his unfaithful wife hostage after discovering her affair with his best friend.
Release Date1999-02-26
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count8
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
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 Count21
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
Release Date2025-07-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four eldest daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back from boarding school after killing 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 Count27
Release Date2000-11-29
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
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 Count2
"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 Count12
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 Count38
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 Count12
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
JobTheatre Play
Vote Count19
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 Count5
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 Count2
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 Count4
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 Count20
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 Count34
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 Count7
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 Count2
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 Count12
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 Count5
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
Vote Count1
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 Count7
Release Date1985-07-18
DepartmentWriting
JobTheatre Play
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 Count2
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 Count4
Release Date1974-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count2
Release Date2017-09-03
Episode Count6
Release Date1970-06-29
Vote Count1
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 Count7
