Screenplay: José Joffily

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


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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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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A Symphony for a Common Man

2022 · Documentary · 84 min. · Brazil

Direction José Joffily

Cast José Maurício Bustani · Lula da Silva · Fernando Henrique Cardoso · Janine Bustani

Plot As head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Brazilian diplomat José Bustani became an obstacle in America's march to war with Iraq. Ousted from his position, he...

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Alô Tetéia (S)

1978 · Movie · 10 min. · Brazil

Direction José Joffily

Cast Paulo Barbosa · Louise Cardoso · Hugo Carvana · Gilda Guilhon

Plot In a good-humored way, the film narrates the adventures - or misfortunes - of a typical girl from the south of Rio de Janeiro who decides to go to the...

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Soldado Estrangeiro

2019 · Documentary · 86 min. · Brazil

Direction José Joffily · Pedro Rossi

Plot Brazil doesn't live under any declared war but many of its young men chose to fight abroad. The film will follow the lives of Brazilians that are engaged in other...

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Terra para Rose

1987 · Documentary · 84 min. · Brazil

Direction Tetê Moraes

Plot Documentary about the oppression of a group of a thousand families who invaded Anoni Farm, a farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1985, and their...

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