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
Direction Aldo Francia
Cast Marcelo Romo · Tennyson Ferrada · Leonardo Perucci · Roberto Navarrete
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
Direction Tatiana Gaviola
Cast Claudia Di Girolamo · Willy Semler · Liliana García · Francisco Reyes
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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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Memories of the Desert
2014 · Movie · 98 min. · Brazil
Direction Jorge Durán
Cast Roxana Campos · Daniel de Oliveira · Rogério Fróes · María Izquierdo
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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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