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Marcos Bernstein

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Biography

Born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1970, Bernstein is a screenwriter and director. With João Emanuel Carneiro, he wrote Central Station (1998), movie directed by Walter Salles, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival and screened at the 42nd Mostra. He also wrote Oriundi (1999, 23rd Mostra), Zuzu Angel (2006), Chico Xavier (2010) and Brazilian Western (2013), among other films. As a director, he made the features The Other Side of the Street (2004) and My Sweet Orange Tree (2012).

Known For

Pride and Passion
7.4

At the beginning of the 20th century, a mother dreams of marrying her five daughters to eligible bachelors but marriage is not a priority in Elisabeta Benedito's life. More than finding true love, the strong-willed dreamer and her sisters want to live according to their own choices and to do so they must go against traditional rules and customs. Inspired by Jane Austen's works, this romantic comedy retells classic novels from the point of view of modern and empowered women.

Pride and Passion

2018
Beyond the Horizon
6.5

Three young people decide to search for missing friends and relatives. When they find a community in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, they face great adventures.

Beyond the Horizon

2013
The Life We Lead
8.3

This moving telenovela tells the story of an unconditional love that overcomes life’s unexpected turnarounds. Ana is a promising tennis player who counts on best friend and sister Manuela for support. After a terrible car accident, Ana goes into a deep coma and only emerges from it five years later. Now, she must struggle to recover the life that went on without her and that she no longer recognizes as her own.

The Life We Lead

2011
Central Station
8.1

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Central Station

1998
Miracle Hands
7.9

A young medical doctor discovers some paranormal abilities. He can operate people with the assistance of the spirits of dead people.

Miracle Hands

2010
Barefoot on Red Soil
N/A

Since he arrived in Sao Felix do Araguaia, in Brazil, the Catalan bishop Pere Casaldàliga fights for the disadvantaged and the indigenous peoples. Casaldàliga must confront the landowners of the region and rethink the role of the Catholic Church.

Barefoot on Red Soil

2014
Zuzu Angel
6.9

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 Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.

Zuzu Angel

2006
My Sweet Orange Tree
7.4

Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which is in his backyard. Until one day he meets Portuga, a man who begins to help him and soon becomes his best friend.

My Sweet Orange Tree

2012
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
9.0

Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

1998
The Xango from Baker Street
6.4

Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve the case.

The Xango from Baker Street

2001
Little Secret
6.2

Little Secret is a film with three interlocked stories all connected by a single secret that converge to reveal the tragic yet beautiful lives of three families and how hope, dreams and destiny can unite people from very different parts of the world.

Little Secret

2016
Chico Xavier
7.1

A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.

Chico Xavier

2010
Brazilian Western
6.3

When João goes to Brazil in search of a better life, he meets punk music enthusiast Maria and falls in love with her. But his involvement in the local drug trade makes him the target of a vicious drug lord.

Brazilian Western

2013
Meteoro
6.0

Based on a true story about a road crew that raced to build the road between Brasilia and Fortaleza and the unexpected events that unfold make this film funny, engaging, and a true gem.

Meteoro

2007
Foreign Land
7.2

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.

Foreign Land

1996
Bufo & Spallanzani
5.0

Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.

Bufo & Spallanzani

2001
Chico Xavier
7.0

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Chico Xavier

2011
The Other Side of the Street
6.6

Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of events that will force her to take stock of her life.

The Other Side of the Street

2004
The Screenwriter
8.0

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 film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.

The Screenwriter

2012
Suspension Points
6.8

André is a young doctor who, after spending a year working in Africa, discovers that he has been exchanging letters not with his long-time girlfriend, but with someone very close to her.

Suspension Points

2022