Directing
João Moreira Salles
- Titles
- 33movies1TV show
- Career
Active from 1987 to 2025, with up to 2 main titles a year.
- Directed
- 15titles as director
- Average score
75/100
- Highest rated
Santiago81/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 3 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Contemporary Realism8.0average 5.2
- Melancholy7.0average 4.7
- Coming of Age5.0average 2.9
- Pathos7.0average 5.2
- Wholesome5.0average 3.3
- Social Commentary5.7average 4.9
- Catharsis5.7average 5.1
- Psychological6.0average 5.6
Rarely in their work
- Adrenaline1.7, average 5.1
- Violence1.0, average 4.3
- Mystery1.0, average 4.1
- Tension3.0, average 6.1
Main genres
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Walter CarvalhoCinematographerPoema Sujo, Santiago, Futebol, News from a Personal War, Adão ou Somos Todos Filhos da Terra
Eduardo EscorelEditorSantiago, Atos: A campanha pública de Lula, In the Intense Now, My Foreign Land
Walter SallesDirectorChina, o Império do Centro, Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy, Adão ou Somos Todos Filhos da Terra
Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaActorIntermissions, My Foreign Land
Chico BuarqueActorChico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy, Jorge Amado
Gilberto GilActorChico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy, Jorge Amado
Kátia LundDirectorNews from a Personal War, Adão ou Somos Todos Filhos da Terra- FFlávio NunesEditorNews from a Personal War, Jorge Amado
Vicente KubruslyEditorFutebol, Jorge Amado- AArthur FontesWriterChina, o Império do Centro, Futebol
- JJoana VenturaEditorFutebol, Santa Cruz
- LLaís LifschitzEditorIn the Intense Now, My Foreign Land
Movies and TV shows
312020s
4 titles · average score 70
Creatures of the Mind (2025)
Producer
My Foreign Land (2025)
Director, Editor
New World (2024)
Associate Producer
70
Narcissus Off Duty (2020)
Producer
2010s
7 titles · average score 74
63
In the Intense Now (2017)
as Narrador
84
Last Conversations (2015)
Executive Producer
76
Songs (2011)
Executive Producer
72
A Night in 67 (2010)
Executive Producer
A Família Braz: Dois Tempos (2010)
Executive Producer
Poema Sujo (2010)
Director
2000s
11 titles · average score 76
Moscow (2009)
Executive Producer
81
Santiago (2007)
Director, Screenplay
84
Playing (2007)
Executive Producer
61
The End and the Beginning (2006)
Executive Producer
78
Intermissions (2004)
Director
72
Metalworkers (2004)
Executive Producer
73
Nelson Freire (2003)
Writer, Director
Viva Sapato! (2003)
Key Hair Stylist
Santa Cruz (2000)
Director
1990s
6 titles · average score 80
80
News from a Personal War (1999)
Writer, Director
Futebol (1998)
Director
Jorge Amado (1996)
Director, Writer
Ana Cristina Cesar (1990)
Director
