Screenplay: Júlio Bressane

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


The Herb of the Rat

2008 · Movie · 80 min. · Brazil

6.6

31 votes

6.6

31 votes

Cleópatra

2007 · Movie · 116 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Josi Antello · Miguel Falabella · Taumaturgo Ferreira · Bruno Garcia

Plot Julio Bressane turns his sensual, color-filled set pieces to "Cleopatra," a highly stylized look at the Queen of the Nile that plays like an avant-garde opera, with arias replaced by...

6.5

49 votes

6.5

49 votes

Sentimental Education

2013 · Movie · 84 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Josi Antello · Bernardo Marinho · Débora Olivieri

Plot Júlio Bressane sets up a lively fresco about a grammar and filmic sensibility that, in spite of its anachronistic feel, are absolutely revealing of how Cinema distinguishes itself from other...

6.4

50 votes

6.4

50 votes

Taboo

1982 · Movie · 95 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Caetano Veloso · Colé Santana · José Lewgoy · Norma Bengell

Plot The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade.

6.3

23 votes

6.3

23 votes

Beduino

2016 · Movie · 75 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Alessandra Negrini · Fernando Eiras

Plot A curious couple, whose existence takes place where art arises along a singular metaphysical desire. They search for it through repeated and varied representations, in a setting of light where...

6.3

33 votes

6.3

33 votes

Garoto

2015 · Movie · 76 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Josi Antello · Marjorie Estiano · Gabriel Leone

Plot Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan, Garoto follows a young couple who find themselves in an enchanted place where they experience an amorous and spiritual adventure....

5.9

26 votes

5.9

26 votes

Seduction of the Flesh

2018 · Movie · 70 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Mariana Lima

Plot A delicate and tenacious writer, widowed three years ago, engages in frequent conversations with a parrot. However, she’s always observed by a large portion of raw meat.

5.8

27 votes

5.8

27 votes

Days of Nietzche in Turin

2001 · Movie · 85 min. · Brazil

5.8

90 votes

5.8

90 votes

A Love Movie

2003 · Movie · 91 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Bel García · Josi Antello · Fernando Eiras

Plot Three friends, Hilda, Matilda and Gaspar, meet in a rundown downtown apartment during a weekend to chat, drink and experience pleasure.

5.6

28 votes

5.6

28 votes

O Rei do Baralho

1973 · Movie · 81 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Grande Otélo · Marta Anderson · Wilson Grey · Fininho

Plot Sexy blonde meets a man who calls himself "the king of the pack". He had been told about this relationship by a fortuneteller.

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Brás Cubas

1985 · Movie · 92 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Luiz Fernando Guimarães · Karen Acioly · Regina Casé · Hélio Ary

Plot Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's Posthumous Memories"). A dead man tells about his love life and adventures, specially his...

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Sermons - The Story of Antonio Vieira

1989 · Movie · 78 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Antonio Abujamra · Karen Acioly · Othon Bastos · Neville de Almeida

Plot History of father Antônio Vieira, born in Portugal, in 1608, and who died in Salvador, Brasil, in 1697. Considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers, master in Rhetoric, he was...

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The Angel Was Born

1969 · Movie · 90 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Norma Bengell · Hugo Carvana · Neville de Almeida · Maria Gladys

Plot Urtiga and Santamaria are two mean, sadistic and cold blood killers. Santamaria claims that he has seen an angel, and is very mystic. They escape from the police siege in...

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Agonia

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Grande Otélo · Joel Barcellos · Maria Gladys · Wilson Grey

Plot She is a fortune teller, he is a killer on the run. He gives her a ride and an tragic love affair begins.

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Viola Chinesa

1977 · Documentary · min. · Brazil

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A Família do Barulho

1970 · Movie · 75 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Maria Gladys · Wilson Grey · Helena Ignez · Grande Otélo

Plot A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gays, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro. When the slut threatens...

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The Mandarin

1995 · Movie · 97 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Fernando Eiras · Giulia Gam · Gal Costa · Gilberto Gil

Plot The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of...

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Rua Aperana 52

2012 · Documentary · 80 min. · Brazil

Direction Júlio Bressane

Cast Fernando Eiras · Giulia Gam · Drica Moraes · Maria Gladys

Plot In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of...

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A Fada do Oriente

1971 · Movie · 80 min. · Brazil

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