Fernando Meirelles Trailers
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Fernando Ferreira Meirelles (Brazilian Portuguese:[feʁˈnɐ̃du mejˈɾɛlis]; born 9 November 1955) is a Brazilian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for co-directing the film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films, which received international critical acclaim. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for his work in the film. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2005 for The Constant Gardener, which garnered the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rachel Weisz. He also directed the 2008 adaptation of José Saramago's novel Blindness and the 2011 film 360. In 2019, Meirelles directed The Two Popes for Netflix.
In television, Meirelles directed and produced the HBO original series Joint Venture in Brazil. In 2024, he led the directing work for the crime series Sugar and the historical miniseries The Sympathizer.
Most Popular Fernando Meirelles Trailers
Total trailers found: 63
07 September 2017
For the first time ever, experience the work of a nation as it host the world and puts on a show like never before.
30 August 2002
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths.
10 January 2006
The Constant Gardener featurette.
10 July 1998
In this new adventure, Maluquinho is spending the holidays at the home of his grandfather Tônico (Stênio Garcia), an inventor who lives in a small community in the interior of Minas Gerais.
16 March 2017
Two friends hit the road to Buenos Aires aboard an orange Opala 72, with a mission: be with as many women as possible.
31 March 2016
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
05 August 2016
With fireworks forming the word “Rio” in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of “The Girl from Ipanema,” Rio de Janiero welcomed the world to the first Olympic Games in South America with a serious message underlying the celebration: Let’s take care of our planet.
21 October 2019
Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality.
31 August 2005
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems.
12 September 2022
With executive production by Fernando Meirelles and direction by Fred Luz, actors Alexandre Rodrigues and Edson Oliveira are Buscapé and Barbantinho, two friends who meet again in today's City of God: bigger, more diverse and connected.
01 June 1983
An experimental documentary following the busy life of an office worker in São Paulo, Marly, and how he manages to have a personal life beyond that.
01 January 2010
This short film portrays the last hours of a young man before assuming homosexuality. He struggles to tell his father that he is gay, but gets inspired from a conversation with friends.
14 May 2008
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
27 November 2019
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict.
09 October 2014
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
11 September 2021
The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.
01 December 2016
Roberto is in the edge to become a father for the first time. He was already dreaming of the years yet to come, wondering how his son would be.
17 December 2015
A unique visual journey through galaxies, deep into the subatomic world of elementary particles, and into the center of the sun.
22 October 2020
An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight against increasing drought, desertification and climate change.
12 September 2014
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe.
31 August 2007
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
17 March 2026
Inspired by the illegal universe of the Brazilian animal lottery, a fearless young man must win a deadly race to save his sister in a dystopian future where each animal in the game is now represented by a runner vying for a prize.
25 July 2012
A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous with a prostitute.
22 October 2021
An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.
22 January 2008
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic.
16 June 2016
The Story of longtime UFC Featherweight champion and the struggles facing him on the road to the top.
01 January 2003
Documentary on the preparation of actors for "City of God".
24 January 2010
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit.
17 August 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.
29 January 2021
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
16 July 1998
A film about weddings, professions, children, travel plans and a train that separates it all.
21 January 2011
The story of Stress & Relax: a businessman who thinks only of money and a film director who lives for insisting that this invest in their projects.
06 April 2012
Three brothers embark on a journey that begins with a kinship with Brazil's indigenous tribes, to their creation of South America's largest national park.
26 September 2006
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
01 June 1986
Reunion of four reportages made by production company "Olhar Eletrônico" between 1983 and 1986, in which an irreverent reporter, Ernesto Varela, a creation of actor/director Marcelo Tas, tackles some hot topics, such as money evasion in Brazil, gold-digging at Serra Pelada, the homeless in São Paulo and a love story spoof.
31 July 2009
A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.
21 October 2021
Trinchas and his gang of graffiti taggers risk their lives climbing tall buildings to sign their names up there.
27 November 2019
After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy.
21 September 2018
After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.
20 January 2022
On an unusual day, a series of coincidences lead Eduardo to meet Monica at a party. A curiosity is aroused between the two and, despite not being alike, they fall madly in love.
10 October 2017
The story of Júlio Santana, a professional killer who was responsible for almost 500 hundred murders in Brazil.
23 September 2021
In The Meaning of Life we will take part on a journey throughout the world to question our existence through the inquiries of a young Brazilian, with a rare hereditary disease with no cure.
18 October 2010
A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río.
25 March 2011
Marcelo leaves his family and moves to Mato Grosso do Sul, where he learns how to fly airplanes by himself watching the pilots.
21 May 2007
In 1998, a small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's upcoming visit for the business opportunities that it will provide.
19 October 2017
Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy's mother.
25 January 2001
Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling.
07 May 2010
Follows the struggles of a small theatre company attempting to adapt a Shakespeare play.
01 June 1983
A poetic vision of the city Brasília.
22 June 2023
Samuca is only 17 years old and discovers that his girlfriend Alicia is pregnant. The news comes to light at a not very favorable moment in Samuca's life, just when he thought everything was going very well.
28 December 2000
Two young boys, Laranjinha and Acerola, living in Cidade de Deus, one of the most violent neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, need some money to go to a concert.
31 August 2014
The Water Law is a Brazilian documentary that explains the relationship between the new Forest Code and the Brazilian water crisis.
09 February 2007
Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence.
07 June 2007
Enio is a middle-aged man who lives in solitude after a failed relationship. Pedro, 30, dates Teresa, who is moving to her home.
01 September 2017
A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James.
14 July 2005
A making-of directed by Bodanzky himself, the documentary discusses the language of the film Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica 30 years after it was made, gathering interviews with the authors, actors, critics and the filmmakers themselves.
01 February 2004
A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo.
01 January 2010
The documentary “Comercial” brings a portrait of Brazilian advertising, from the perspective of the production of advertising films, told through the eyes of scene directors, creatives and clients; from those who lived the golden age of advertising in Brazil, to the professionals of the new generation; talking about the challenges, changes, the future of advertising films in Brazil and new language trends.
