Sabrina Greve

Directing

Sabrina Greve

Limeira, São Paulo, Brazil

Sabrina Greve is a Brazilian director and screenwriter. She created, wrote, and directed the series Tramas Cruzadas for Globoplay (2026), and wrote and directed the feature film O Porão da Rua do Grito (The Basement of Scream Street), which screened at the São Paulo International Film Festival, Fantaspoa, and Macabro, among other festivals. She also directed the feature As Aparências Enganam, produced by Coração da Selva alongside Luciano Patrick, and directed three episodes of the HBO Max series Além do Guarda-Roupa, where she also worked as lead cast coach. Her earlier directing credits include the TV film Irina (TV Cultura) and the short film Fucking Different São Paulo, selected for the Panorama section of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. Greve holds a master's degree in Audiovisual Media and Processes from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a degree in Film from FAAP. Before turning to directing, she built a thirty-year career as an actress, trained under Antunes Filho at the Centro de Pesquisa Teatral, and received 17 best actress awards at national and international festivals. She made her film acting debut in 2000, in Uma Vida em Segredo (A Hidden Life), directed by Suzana Amaral.

Acting credits

Carandiru poster
7.6

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

Carandiru

2003

Clarisse or Something About Us poster
4.4

The dry quarry and a forest that still beats. A very sick father reviews the daughter. Resentments are brought to the table. The memory of the dead awakened by blood, objects, shadows and dreams affects Clarisse at this scenario of beauty and agony. Husband and business are expecting she in the city for a cathartic outcome.

Clarisse or Something About Us

2015

Almost Winter poster
NR

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Almost Winter

2026

No artwork available
6.0

At age 15, Debora shares with Hamlet the angst and doubts of her adolescence.

Tudo o Que é Sólido Pode Derreter

2005

Nina poster
5.7

After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.

Nina

2004

Underground Game poster
6.3

To find the woman of his life, man makes a game up: he enters a subway train wagon, picks a woman he likes and waits to see whether she's going to take the same course and connections as he. If she is, he tries to make contact.

Underground Game

2005

Olga poster
7.1

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.

Olga

2004

All the Colors of the Night poster
NR

Iris lives alone in a spacious apartment by the sea. The green horizon seems to distance it from the city in comfortable isolation. At nightfall, the place hosts known and unknown in a frantic party flow. Iris is the main attraction. But on a hungover morning, she finds a corpse in the living room. As in the distorted reflection of a crooked mirror, Iris feels repeating steps of her childhood friend, Tiara, a medical student who had run over a guy at the exit of a nightclub. After the incident, Tiara plunges into a spiral of self-pity, sentimental emptying and violence. The case is well known in town and Iris does not want to become another ghost in this dark repertoire of stories. In All the colors of the night, reality works as a dimension of imagination, memory and madness.

All the Colors of the Night

2015

Obra poster
5.8

A young architect embarking upon his first major project is unexpectedly brought face to face with dark secrets from his ancestral past.

Obra

2014

Tinnitus poster
5.0

Marina Lenk is an experienced synchronized diver. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.

Tinnitus

2023

The Basement of Scream Street poster
NR

In this horror fable inspired by Hansel and Gretel, orphaned siblings Jonas and Rebecca live in an old mansion with their frail grandmother and a mysterious child hidden in the basement. Rebecca tries to change her life, but Jonas resists, haunted by the ghosts of the house.

The Basement of Scream Street

2025

Wherever You Are poster
NR

Open City Radio broadcasts the "Wherever You Are" program on a weekly basis, where people try to communicate with missing relatives and friends. Behind the scenes of the program several life stories cross and become.

Wherever You Are

2018

Coffee Stains poster
4.8

A photographer travels to São Paulo for his first solo exhibition and decides to stay in his now married, ex-girlfriend’s house.

Coffee Stains

2014

A Hidden Life poster
5.6

Biela, a humble young woman, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her bourgeois cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.

A Hidden Life

2001

When I Was Alive poster
5.5

After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house.

When I Was Alive

2014

To Sleep Quietly poster
NR

Luis is an 8 year old boy. Dora, his nanny, passed away a few weeks ago. When Dora reappears hidden in Luis's closet, the boy must make great efforts to quench the nanny's hunger.

To Sleep Quietly

2011

Seja O Que Deus Quiser! poster
8.0

After getting involved with an MTV VJ, a musician ends up being accused of setting up a robbery against her. To clear his name, he goes to São Paulo, but gets involved in situations that distance him from his peaceful life.

Seja O Que Deus Quiser!

2002

Doppelgänger poster
5.3

Silvia is a young teacher at an elementary school. One day, her class is interrupted when the students notice her double walking on the other side of the street. Silvia tries to ignore the apparition, but this strange event begins to permeate her daily life and transform her pesonality.

Doppelgänger

2012

Behind the camera