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Jorge Furtado

Jorge Furtado

In the formation of partially self-taught, he studied medicine, psychology, biology, journalism and fine arts, and did not complete any of the courses. He began his professional career in the early 1980's, the Educational TV of rio grande do sul, where he was a reporter, presenter, editor, writer, and producer. In 1982, he was one of the founders of the weekly "Quizumba", which mixed fiction and documentary in a language that's quite daring for television to the public of the time.

From 1984 to 1986, he was the director of the Museum of Social Communication in Porto Alegre, brazil. During this same period, José Pedro, Goulart, and Ana Luiza Azevedo, who created the company in Light of the Productions, with which he made his first two short films, and produced by the theater. Since 1986 he has worked in advertising, having directed dozens of commercials for television until the 1990s.

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Movies Made By Jorge Furtado (51)

Virgínia e Adelaide (2025)

Adelaide and Virgínia met in 1937, a year after the German arrived in Brazil, fleeing the Nazi persecution of the Jews, where she came with her husband and two daughters. Together, they founded and popularized psychoanalysis in Brazil, breaking down barri ...

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The Rogue's Trial (2024)

After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city. ...

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Great Sertão (2024)

In the concrete jungles of lawless futuristic Brazil, enemies spout slam poetry in duels as their movements remind us of parkour. The adrenaline rush breaks into three timelines: the past introduces teenager Riobaldo and handsome Diadorim, the present depi ...

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A Happy Family (2024)

In a happy family perfectly protected in a gated community, a mother is harshly accused of hurting her twin daughters and newborn baby. However, the truth behind the high walls may reveal unexpected cruelty. ...

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Meu Nome é Gal (2023)

Film about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that helped shape Brazil's greatest singer. ...

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Toll (2023)

Suellen is a toll booth attendant who starts using her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches from people driving to the coast. But only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop. ...

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O Debate (2022)

Paula and Marcos have just split up after 20 years together. He is editor-in-chief of a news program and she is a television presenter. They have differing opinions, but remain friends and work partners. But despite this, the relationship of respect betwee ...

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Vai Dar Nada (2022)

Kelson is a young worker who uses his motorcycle to escape the police and win Neide's love. He buys a new motorcycle from swindler Fernando, without knowing that it belonged to a dangerous drug dealer, who got out of prison and now wants it back. ...

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Gilda, Lúcia and The Goat (2020)

The special brings the continuation of the plot starring Gilda and Lúcia in the series 'Amor e Sorte'. After a period of forced coexistence due to social isolation, they face a new reality. ...

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Cretinália (2020)

Short film by Jorge Furtado, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine. ...

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Through Ernesto's Eyes (2019)

Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl. ...

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Rend Your Heart (2018)

40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son. ...

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Quem É Primavera das Neves (2017)

The starting point is an unlikely name, Primavera das Neves, a translator of Lewis Carroll, Daniel Defoe and Julio Verne, who disappeared without a trace in the 1960s. Could it be a pseudonym? The search for a name found an extraordinary woman and a life d ...

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True Beauty (2015)

A photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town. ...

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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Ó Paí, Ó - O Filme (2015)

During Carnival at the historic site of Pelourinho, we follow the lives of tenants in a run-down rental house who try to survive using creativity, irony, humor and music. This is an adaptation of the TV show, not the 2007 movie which inspired the TV show. ...

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Good Luck (2014)

After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judith, for who he soon falls in love. The problem is that she does not have long to live and they know it. This shall not prevent the emergenc ...

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The Staple of News (2014)

Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play "The Staple of News" provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and ...

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Sweet Mother (2012)

Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she ...

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Até a Vista (2012)

Young filmmaker is looking for a story for his first feature film. In an attempt to obtain the copyright for a novel, the young man accepts the author's unusual proposal and together they set off in search of an old love of the writer. ...

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Velázquez e a Teoria Quântica da Gravidade (2011)

Young scientist thinks he has found the quantum theory of gravity based on Velázquez's painting "The Girls". ...

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Before the World Ends (2010)

The countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. Daniel has a ...

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Romance (2008)

During a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Pedro and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction. ...

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Basic Sanitation, the Movie (2007)

When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank. ...

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Rummikub (2007)

To whom does the poison belongs? to the young lovers? or to their parents, whom in old hands "behold rusted hatred"? ...

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O Coronel e o Lobisomem (2005)

Colonel Furtado struggles to keep his lands, the Sobradinho Farm, and win the heart of his cousin Esmeraldina. In the process, he fights big beasts, experiences the taste of a bohemian life in town, fends usurers and thieves off, and uses all his cunning t ...

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My Uncle Killed a Guy (2004)

Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory. ...

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Benjamim (2003)

Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the woman he loved was hiding with her guerilla lover. As a result, the two were killed. One day, he casually meet ...

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Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003)

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets i ...

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The Man Who Copied (2003)

A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money. ...

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Two Summers (2002)

A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. ...

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Dona Cristina Perdeu a Memória (2002)

Antônio, an 8-year-old boy, discovers that his neighbor Cristina, 80, tells different stories about her life, the names of her relatives and the saints of the day. And Mrs. Cristina believes that Antônio can help her recover her lost memory. ...

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Caramuru: Brazil Reinvented (2001)

Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love trian ...

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Tolerância (2000)

Julius is a photographer working as a men's magazine photo retoucher. His wife, Marcia, is a criminal lawyer who defends Teodoro, a squatter accused of murder. For years they had a quiet wedlock. However, Marcia gets involved with her client, and as reveng ...

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The Sandwich (2000)

A couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich. ...

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3 Minutes (1999)

Three minutes. The time to leave a message. To pass the baton and run 1600 meters. To cook an egg. The time to make a decision that can change your life. ...

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Ângelo Anda Sumido (1997)

Two friends try to get to a restaurant for dinner and get lost in the labyrinth of bars, walls and fences in a city. ...

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Felicidade É... (1995)

Four directors tell stories related to the concept of happiness. ...

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A Matadeira (1994)

Canudos was a small village in northeastern Brazil, founded by the messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and massacred by a powerful army until the death of the last of its 30,000 inhabitants, on October 5, 1897. The film tells the story of the Canudos mas ...

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O Alienista (1993)

The story, set in the 19th century, portrays the hypocritical bourgeoisie of the time. The eccentric Dr. Simão Bacamarte is a doctor who will develop his theories about the treatment of madness, knowledge acquired during his stay in Europe. The city is le ...

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This Is Not Your Life (1991)

Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people. ...

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Dona Silvia não gostava de música (1991)

Journalist investigation shows on TV the reason of a public server's death she did not like music. ...

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O Vampiro de Novo Hamburgo (1991)

Mockumentary on a German moviemaker and an old vampire film in Southern Brazil. ...

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Isle of Flowers (1989)

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn't end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, ...

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Barbosa (1988)

Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup, a man went back in time to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams and ended goalkeeper Barbosa's career. ...

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The Day Dorival Faced the Guard (1986)

Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison. ...

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Temporal (1984)

In the same house, on the same night, two groups meet. One, made up of very serious gentlemen, members of a religious-monarchist order. The other, a bunch of crazy people in animal costumes, at a party with sex and rock'n'roll. When the storm starts and th ...

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Movies Starring Jorge Furtado (9)

Cretinália (2020)

Short film by Jorge Furtado, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine. ...

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Quem É Primavera das Neves (2017)

The starting point is an unlikely name, Primavera das Neves, a translator of Lewis Carroll, Daniel Defoe and Julio Verne, who disappeared without a trace in the 1960s. Could it be a pseudonym? The search for a name found an extraordinary woman and a life d ...

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The Screenwriter (2012)

32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished ...

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Ilha das Flores: Depois Que A Sessão Acabou (2011)

Twenty-two years later, the locals of Ilha dos Marinheiros (were "Ilha das Flores" has been shot) give their point of view and explain the negative repercussions of the movie on their lives. ...

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Critic (2008)

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and ...

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Inacreditável: A Batalha dos Aflitos (2006)

Documentário que narra a trajetória do time de futebol gaúcho Grêmio em 2005, considerado um dos anos mais difíceis para o clube. Com depoimentos de torcedores - ilustres e desconhecidos -, jogadores e comissão técnica, a produção também conta co ...

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A Linguagem do Cinema (2001)

A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Paulo Caldas, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, David Neves, Julio Bressane, Ana Carolina and Carlos Reichenbach. ...

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