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Noa Bressane

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Biography

Director Noa Bressane was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1978. Daughter of filmmaker Júlio Bressane, she worked with the filmmaker on several films. In O mandarim (1995), a biography of singer Mário Reis starring Fernando Eiras and with the director's very personal perspective, she is part of the cast as an actress. She also acts as an actress in Miramar (1997), a film about the formation of a young filmmaker starring João Rebello. Still with her father, Noa Bressane works as an assistant director on São Jerônimo (1998), a film about the desert monk in the 4th century who translates the Old Testament into Latin and later becomes a saint. São Jerônimo received awards for Best Director, Best Actor – for Everaldo Pontes, as São Jerônimo, and Best Cinematography at the Brasília Festival in 1999. Noa Bressane also works in television as an assistant director and co-director on series, soap operas and miniseries such as: Sítio do pica pau amarelo (2001), Um só coração (2004), A diarista (2007), Dicas de um sedutor (2008), Passione (2010), O astro (2011), Gabriela (2012). Her debut as a feature film director was Belair (2009), which she directed alongside Bruno Safadi. Belair is a documentary about the cinematographic universe of filmmakers Júlio Bressane and Rogério Sganzerla and the films they produced and directed in 1970 through their production company, Belair - such as Barão Olavo, o horrid, by Bressane, and Copacabana mon amour, by Sganzerla.

Known For

A Diarista
7.5

It shows the life and problems of Marinete, a cleaning lady with a short temper. She always ends up depending on her friends, who are distracted by any stupid thing and leave her to solve things on her own.

A Diarista

2004
Crazy About You
6.8

The story begins with the ambiguous relationship between friends Viola and Luma, who seem predestined to literally enter each other's lives. Born on the same day, in very different situations, they meet years later, united by coincidences that go beyond their birthday. From humble origins, Viola moves with her boyfriend Mavi to Angra dos Reis, where Luma lives a luxurious life and dates Rudá, who ends up meeting Viola by chance. Thus begins the duo's journey, which goes from a passion for recipes to an obsession with the same man, from the immediate connection to the point of starting to live their friend’s reality, 10 years later. A journey divided between complicity and rivalry, which includes them in a love quadrangle and is impacted by a series of circumstances, twists and surprises, such as the secret surrounding a murder.

Crazy About You

2024
Three Graces
7.9

Gerluce became pregnant as a teenager and, just like her mother, Lígia, she raised her child alone. Now, Gerluce watches her daughter Joélly become the third generation of the family to go through the same situation. Besides the impact that teenage pregnancy brings to the whole family, the three Marias das Graças must deal with Lígia’s worsening health.

Three Graces

2025
Passione
6.8

An ambitious young woman with a traumatizing past targets an Italian man, the distant son of a wealthy Brazilian family.

Passione

2010
Total Dreamer
7.8

This modern fairy tale tells the story of a homeless girl who dreams of helping out her family and finds her big chance of turning her life around in a fashion modeling contest - but the way to winning it and becoming a star will be a lot harder than she originally envisioned. A captivating romantic comedy about overcoming obstacles, Total Dreamer wins its audience’s heart right from the first episode.

Total Dreamer

2015
Sítio do Picapau Amarelo
7.4

The series exhibited several stories based on folklore and mythology , with characters such as Cuca, Saci Pererê and Iara from Brazilian folklore and then later with several characters from fairytales, fables, literature and greek mythology. The residents of Sítio, Emília, Narizinho, Pedrinho, Dona Benta and Tia Nastacia live several adventures with a lot of the mystery and dangers that haunt the remote town of Arraial do Tucanos.

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo

2001
The Big Catch
5.7

In this romantic police comedy, after a luxury hotel is robbed by four of its employees, the lives of all people involved are turned upside down. With different motivations, they will do all they can not to be discovered, bringing all sorts of conflicts into the hotel. The confusion escalates when the detective trying to solve the case falls in love with one of the robbers, unaware he is one.

The Big Catch

2017
A Mother's Love
6.8

Lurdes is a mother of five who tirelessly seeks for Domenico, a child of hers who was sold by his own father 26 years ago; Thelma is an overprotective mother who finds out she has a terminal illness, and must race against time to make her dreams come true and prepare her son for a life without her presence; Vitória is a successful lawyer who sees the end of her marriage after countless failed attempts to have a baby and decides for adoption, but finds out she is pregnant during the process. In "A Mother's Love", the lives of these women are intertwined while they recognize themselves in the unconditional love provided by motherhood.

A Mother's Love

2019
Gabriela
7.6

Naïve and provocative Gabriela is a raggedy migrant worker who arrives in town to mesmerize all with her playful and simple, yet raw sensuality. Set in 1925, the story unravels in Ilhéus, a quiet northeastern coastal city thriving with cocoa crops and aspirations for progress, even though the traditional ways still rule.

Gabriela

2012
Rock Story
7.1

Gui is a former rock star who struggles to reinvent himself in his professional and personal lives after another artist steals his fame and his wife. Imperfect, careless, but with a giant heart, he will be tested by fate while having the opportunity to change his life by finding out about a teenage son and facing a new and unexpected love affair. But in order to change his own story, he will have to make the right choices he did not make in the past.

Rock Story

2016
Pantanal
6.3

After the mysterious disappearance of his father, Joventino, the cowboy José Leôncio becomes a wealthy farm owner in Pantanal. Over twenty years have passed and, bitter-hearted because of his father vanishing and the escape of his wife to Rio de Janeiro with his baby, José Leôncio has the chance to make amends with the boy, now a young man raised in the big city with very different values and habits than his own.

Pantanal

2022
The Illusionist
6.8

The illusionist is mysterious, captivating and mesmerizes all those around him. But is he really a swindler or a man with extraordinary powers? This fascinating telenovela tells the story of seductive Herculano Quintanilha, who exerts significant influence over his great love Amanda, the Hayalla family and his friends. These and other enigmas can be found in The Illusionist, a telenovela where seduction is the great secret.

The Illusionist

2011
Blood Red: Under the Moonlight
6.0

Luna, a girl searching for a cure for her curse of transforming into a maned wolf every full moon, is the daughter of Carol, who began secret genetic research funded by a pharmaceutical group to find a solution to her daughter's problem, the result of a relationship with a werewolf during her days as a Biology student at university.

Blood Red: Under the Moonlight

2025
Bambuluá
N/A

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Bambuluá

2000
Reencarne
5.0

In this supernatural thriller, the dark mysteries of the quest for immortality take over the scorching rural roads of the Goiás countryside.

Reencarne

2025
Where My Heart Is
6.4

Amanda faces her own private war, faced with an intimate and destructive relationship with drugs, constant family pressure and the fragility of her marriage with Miguel.

Where My Heart Is

2021
Dicas de um Sedutor
7.0

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Dicas de um Sedutor

2008
Sermões
6.3

Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.

Sermões

1989
Days of Nietzsche in Turin
5.5

A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.

Days of Nietzsche in Turin

2002
The Mandarin
4.8

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 singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.

The Mandarin

1995