Sérgio Oliveira

Writing

Sérgio Oliveira

Born 1960-03-03 · Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil

Sérgio Oliveira (1960–2026) was a prominent Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer from Pernambuco, recognized as a key figure in contemporary Brazilian cinema. Born in Caruaru, he developed a career defined by aesthetic experimentation and a deep connection to Northeastern roots, often collaborating with director Renata Pinheiro through their production company, Aroma Filmes. His most notable works include the documentary Estradeiros (2011), which won Best Film from the Brazilian Film Critics Association (Abracine), and the fiction feature Açúcar (2017). As a screenwriter and producer, he was instrumental in award-winning films such as Amor, Plástico e Barulho (2013) and King Car (Carro Rei, 2021), which won the top prize at the Gramado Film Festival. Oliveira passed away in Rio de Janeiro at age 65 due to complications from hemorrhagic dengue, leaving behind a legacy of cultural innovation and resistance in the national audiovisual scene.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Praça  Walt Disney poster
5.8

A quasi-musical approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world, this documentary describes at the same time a place, a city and a country. The real place, a neighborhood in Recife, encompasses all of the Brazilian way of life, highlighting a reality that is before us but often goes unnoticed

Praça Walt Disney

2011

Praça  Walt Disney poster
5.8

A quasi-musical approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world, this documentary describes at the same time a place, a city and a country. The real place, a neighborhood in Recife, encompasses all of the Brazilian way of life, highlighting a reality that is before us but often goes unnoticed

Praça Walt Disney

2011

Faço de Mim O Que Quero poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Faço de Mim O Que Quero

2009

King Car poster
5.9

Uno has a fantastic gift: he can talk and listen to cars since he was a child. After a new law prohibiting the use of aged cars puts his father's taxi company in danger, he takes a decision to recover an old family car into a “new one”, and its name is King Car – a car that speaks, listen, and even fall in love. A car that has plans for everyone.

King Car

2022

King Car poster
5.9

Uno has a fantastic gift: he can talk and listen to cars since he was a child. After a new law prohibiting the use of aged cars puts his father's taxi company in danger, he takes a decision to recover an old family car into a “new one”, and its name is King Car – a car that speaks, listen, and even fall in love. A car that has plans for everyone.

King Car

2022

Porcos Corpos poster
NR

When humans become animals and animals become humans.

Porcos Corpos

2003

Porcos Corpos poster
NR

When humans become animals and animals become humans.

Porcos Corpos

2003

Porcos Corpos poster
NR

When humans become animals and animals become humans.

Porcos Corpos

2003

Amazônia Oktoberfesta poster
NR

A Brazilian development project, initiated during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, encouraged the “exploration” of northern Brazil by settlers from Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. Based on a German-inspired festival held in Sinop, Mato Grosso, where an anonymous, fictional, and suspicious character wanders through forests and plantations, the narrative offers a free-form account of an immigration process that caused, and continues to cause, cultural, environmental, and political changes in a region once inhabited by diverse Indigenous peoples.

Amazônia Oktoberfesta

2025

Amazônia Oktoberfesta poster
NR

A Brazilian development project, initiated during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, encouraged the “exploration” of northern Brazil by settlers from Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. Based on a German-inspired festival held in Sinop, Mato Grosso, where an anonymous, fictional, and suspicious character wanders through forests and plantations, the narrative offers a free-form account of an immigration process that caused, and continues to cause, cultural, environmental, and political changes in a region once inhabited by diverse Indigenous peoples.

Amazônia Oktoberfesta

2025

Amazônia Oktoberfesta poster
NR

A Brazilian development project, initiated during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, encouraged the “exploration” of northern Brazil by settlers from Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. Based on a German-inspired festival held in Sinop, Mato Grosso, where an anonymous, fictional, and suspicious character wanders through forests and plantations, the narrative offers a free-form account of an immigration process that caused, and continues to cause, cultural, environmental, and political changes in a region once inhabited by diverse Indigenous peoples.

Amazônia Oktoberfesta

2025

SuperBarroco poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

SuperBarroco

2008

Love, Plastic and Noise poster
5.9

Following in the footsteps of her idol and bandmate Jaqueline, Shelly intends to become a great singer of Brega. She enters show business in search of fame and fortune but, inserted in a world where everything is disposable, including love and human relationships, she will encounter great difficulties to achieve fame.

Love, Plastic and Noise

2013

Love, Plastic and Noise poster
5.9

Following in the footsteps of her idol and bandmate Jaqueline, Shelly intends to become a great singer of Brega. She enters show business in search of fame and fortune but, inserted in a world where everything is disposable, including love and human relationships, she will encounter great difficulties to achieve fame.

Love, Plastic and Noise

2013

Dry Movie poster
6.7

Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.

Dry Movie

2005

Schenberguianas poster
NR

The freedom of free thought in a visual discourse that blends art with science, biography with transcendence, and geography with destiny. Inspired by the legacy of physicist Mario Schenberg.

Schenberguianas

2007

Schenberguianas poster
NR

The freedom of free thought in a visual discourse that blends art with science, biography with transcendence, and geography with destiny. Inspired by the legacy of physicist Mario Schenberg.

Schenberguianas

2007

Schenberguianas poster
NR

The freedom of free thought in a visual discourse that blends art with science, biography with transcendence, and geography with destiny. Inspired by the legacy of physicist Mario Schenberg.

Schenberguianas

2007

Nação Mulambo poster
NR

A suburban neighborhood in Recife (Peixinhos) shows that freedom has a past, present, and future.

Nação Mulambo

2007

Nação Mulambo poster
NR

A suburban neighborhood in Recife (Peixinhos) shows that freedom has a past, present, and future.

Nação Mulambo

2007

Wanderers poster
NR

Road movie through Peru, Buenos Aires, São Tomé das Letras, Recife and São Paulo, but with no defined destination. It records the lifestyle of those who live free in the world, nomads in the sub-continent of Latin America.

Wanderers

2011

Açúcar poster
4.8

Bethânia returns to her land, where the family’s old sugar mill was built, the Wanderley Mill. Between photographs, fantastic creatures, bills to pay and workers claiming their rights to the land, Bethânia faces herself in a present where both the past and the future look menacing.

Açúcar

2017

Açúcar poster
4.8

Bethânia returns to her land, where the family’s old sugar mill was built, the Wanderley Mill. Between photographs, fantastic creatures, bills to pay and workers claiming their rights to the land, Bethânia faces herself in a present where both the past and the future look menacing.

Açúcar

2017

Blue Blood poster
5.6

When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.

Blue Blood

2014