Screenplay: Jorge Durán

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jorge Durán. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Pixote

1981 · Movie · 127 min. · Brazil

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Fernando Ramos da Silva · Jorge Juliao · Gilberto Moura · Edilson Lino

Plot Before he became the darling of the American art house circuit with such films as "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Ironweed" and "At Play in the Fields of the Lord,"...

7.2

653 votes

7.2

653 votes

Enough Praying

1972 · Movie · 87 min. · Chile

7.0

86 votes

7.0

86 votes

Forbidden to Forbid

2006 · Movie · 103 min. · Brazil

Direction Jorge Durán

Cast Caio Blat · Maria Flor · Alexandre Rodrigues · Raquel Pedras

Plot Proibido proibir is the story of Leon, a sociology undergraduate, his girlfriend Leticia, an architecture student who falls in love with Paulo, a medicine student and Leon's best friend and...

6.6

166 votes

6.6

166 votes

Something in the Air

2002 · Movie · 92 min. · Brazil

Direction Helvécio Ratton

Cast Alexandre Moreno · Adolfo Moura · Babu Santana · Benjamim Abras

Plot Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give voice to the outcasts' complaints.

6.4

792 votes

6.4

792 votes

Who Killed Pixote?

1996 · Movie · 116 min. · Brazil

Direction José Joffily

Cast Cassiano Carneiro · Luciana Rigueira · Joana Fomm · Tuca Andrada

Plot Based on the true story of Fernando Ramos da Silva, actor of Hector Babenco's Pixote, la ley del más débil.

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Gaijin, a Brazilian Odyssey

1980 · Movie · 112 min. · Brazil

Direction Tizuka Yamasaki

Cast Kyoko Tsukamoto · Antonio Fagundes · Jiro Kawarazaki · Gianfrancesco Guarnieri

Plot Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.

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My Last Man

1996 · Movie · 90 min. · Chile

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O Rei do Rio

1985 · Movie · 107 min. · Brazil

Direction Fábio Barreto

Cast Nuno Leal Maia · Amparo Grisales · Nelson Xavier · Milton Gonçalves

Plot Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

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How Angels Are Born

1996 · Movie · 100 min. · Brazil

Direction Murilo Salles

Cast Priscila Assum · Silvio Guindane · André Mattos · Ryan Massey

Plot The too often tragically ignored street children of Rio de Janeiro figure prominently in this thriller that begins in a hillside slum where 13-year-old Branquinha brags to a German television...

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Doida Demais

1989 · Movie · 105 min. · Brazil

Direction Sergio Rezende

Cast Vera Fischer · José Wilker · Paulo Betti · Ítalo Rossi

Plot Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes to the State of Bahia backcountry...

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Underground Game

2005 · Movie · 109 min. · Brazil

Direction Roberto Gervitz

Cast Felipe Camargo · Maria Luísa Mendonça · Júlia Lemmertz · Daniela Escobar

Plot To find the woman of his life, man makes a game up: he enters a subway train wagon, picks a woman he likes and waits to see whether she's going...

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Lúcio Flávio, o Passageiro da Agonia

1977 · Movie · 118 min. · Brazil

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Reginaldo Faria · Ana Maria Magalhães · Milton Gonçalves · Paulo César Peréio

Plot Story of Brazilian bank-robber Lúcio Flávio, who fascinated some people in Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s for his bold robberies and spectacular escapes, and also because he was thought...

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Last Call

1999 · Movie · 92 min. · Chile

Direction Christine Lucas

Cast Bastián Bodenhöfer · Elizabeth Berkley · Elizabeth Rossa · Garret Dillahunt

Plot Three apartments in an old converted loft building set up the stage for three bizarre love triangles.

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