Alexandre Borges

Se a Vida Começasse Agora (2025)

Poemaria (2024)

Inspired by Eduardo Coutinho's films, debutant director Davi Kinski proposes the documentary Poemaria, assembled from conversations with 24 personalities. The subject: poetry. ...

O Sol Por Elas (2024)

Tempos de Barbárie – Ato I: Terapia de Vingança (2023)

During an attempted robbery, the daughter of the lawyer Carla's is shot and in serious condition. With no answers, Carla tries to move on with her life by seeking help from support groups. Unable to accept his daughter's fate and the lack of solutions on t ...

The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife (2022)

José Pedro de Freitas, better known as Zé Arigó, was a simple man who lived with his wife Arlete in Congonhas, Minas Gerais. During the 1950s, a time when Spiritism was not as well known and respected in the country, Arigó became a symbol of hope throu ...

Happily Married (2015)

Heitor is a bachelor who shoots fancy weddings for a living, but gets in trouble when he meets Penélope, a woman desperate to stop her lover's wedding. ...

Meus Dois Amores (2015)

Manuel is a crafty cowboy and swindler who lives to serve his two great loves – his fiancée Das Dô, and his mule Beija-fulô – and his business of selling unsound horses to suckers. The killer Targino arrives in town looking for a horse. Thinking tha ...

Para Sempre Teu, Caio F. (2014)

Inspired by the book of the same name by Paula Dip, this is a biography of the Brazilian writer Caio Fernando Abreu. With a mixture of languages inherent to Caio F.'s work - cinema, theater, music and literature -, the narrative line is conducted through t ...

Getulio (2014)

The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The crisis began with the attempted assassination of journalist and politician Carlos Lacerda in August 5, 1954, at r ...

Cala a Boca e Me Beija (2013)

Plastic City (2009)

Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods operation that brings in both money and influence. But their empire is crumbling, as corrupt politicians a ...

Bela Noite Para Voar (2009)

A day in the life of Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, in a troubled period of his term, while he maintains a secret love affair. ...

Adagio sostenuto (2008)

The film tells the love story between Anna and José, while at the same time approaches the intersections of urban violence and artistic creation, nature and civilization, war and peace, life and death, abandon and union, showing that in the end of our pat ...

Rua Javari (2007)

Orlando, a fanatical Juventus fan, wants to indoctrinate his son anyway, as his fanaticism for the small club in Mooca is a family heritage of 3 generations. However, under the influence of friends, the son is tempted to support another club. ...

Balada Das Duas Mocinhas De Botafogo (2006)

Two sisters try to find meaning in their empty lives through sexual experiences and adventures in the nightlife of Rio de Janeiro. Abandoned by their father, who left their family, and raised by their absent mother, the two sisters rely on each other and s ...

Zuzu Angel (2006)

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de ...

Gatão de Meia Idade (2006)

Forty-year-old Cláudio is always looking for a romantic relationship. His routine changes when he has to take care of his 12-year-old daughter: women no longer look at him and the conquest tactics have no effect. ...

Nanoilusão (2005)

He observes his reality with astonishment. She multiplies herself in images. An admirable event happens. ...

Pato com Laranja (2004)

Acquária (2003)

The planet Earth is devastated by the lack of water. Desert and arid, left this place few living beings , who had to adapt to the new bioma.2 Isolated in small communities , living separated... ...

Nelson Gonçalves (2002)

Fiction/documentary about great Brazilian singer Nelson Gonçalves, where interviews about him are mixed with dramatization of episodes in his life. The film tell us about Nelson's childhood, the time when he tried his luck as a professional boxer, his car ...

The Three Marias (2002)

A mother, with her three daughters, exacts revenge on her former fiancé for killing her husband and sons. ...

The Trespasser (2002)

Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company. ...

Bossa Nova (2000)

After a chance encounter on the elevator, the lives of Mary Ann, a widowed English teacher, and Pedro, a recently divorced man, intersect against the hot backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. ...

Deus Jr. (2000)

A Fit of Rage (1999)

The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in ...

Até Que a Vida nos Separe (1999)

A group of friends in Sao Paulo see each other regularly in different venues of this huge metropolis, and act as their own de-facto family. They are similar in many ways, all upper middle class professionals between 28 and 32 years of age, and very conscio ...

Treason (1999)

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. ...

Love and Co. (1998)

Godofredo suffers a terrible blow when he comes back home earlier than usual and finds his wife in the arms of his partner. He sends his wife away to a coast town and dares his rival to a duel. But he begins to miss his wife and the company of his friend. ...

Mil e Uma (1996)

Alice faces a lot of trouble to make a film about artist Marcel Duchamp. She randomly chooses musician Antônio for the main part, and ends up having an affair with him. ...

Foreign Land (1996)

During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring. ...

Glaura (1995)

A musical about a woman who hates music. ...

The Trespasser (2002)

Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company. ...