Seu Jorge

Acting

Seu Jorge

Born

1970-06-08 (56)

Place of birth

Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Known for

Acting

Credits

74 titles

Seu Jorge (born June 8, 1970) is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter and actor. Born Jorge Mário da Silva, he was raised in a favela in the city of Belford Roxo in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro state. He is considered by his fans a renewer of Brazilian pop samba. Seu Jorge cites samba school, and American soul singer Stevie Wonder as major musical influences. Seu Jorge has gained exposure through his work as an actor and soundtrack composer. He appeared in the critically acclaimed film City of God as Mané Galinha, and then played Pelé Dos Santos in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, for which he provided much of the soundtrack in the form of Portuguese l…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 17 titles

Beast Race poster
6.9

In future Rio de Janeiro, a young leader of the resistance must enter a deadly parkour-inspired competition in order to save his sister's life.

Beast Race

2026

Asteroid City poster
6.5

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

Asteroid City

2023

Noah's Ark poster
7.0

A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark: Vini, a charismatic poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist. When the rains come, only one male and one female of each species is allowed on Noah's Ark. With the help of an ingenious cockroach and fate's good luck, Vini and Tito sneak their way onto the Ark and together avert a showdown among the ships carnivores and plant eaters. All the while, the animals perform a series of classic songs inspired by world renowned poet, Vinicius de Moraes. Can these talented stowaways use music to break the tension and help these cooped up creatures survive the 40 days and 40 nights together?

Noah's Ark

2024

State of Fear poster
5.8

As São Paulo erupts in an unprecedented wave of violence, a lawyer with underworld ties must strike a deal with the police to rescue her kidnapped niece.

State of Fear

2026

Executive Order poster
6.9

In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.

Executive Order

2022

Marighella poster
7.6

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.

Marighella

2021

Abe poster
6.8

A 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn tries to unite his half-Israeli and half-Palestinian family through cooking.

Abe

2020

Narciso poster
6.0

Narciso is a Black orphan living with siblings Carmem and Joaquim. Just before his birthday, he is returned by a couple who decided not to adopt him. To cheer him up, Alexandre, another child living in the foster home, gives him a magical basketball. If Narciso makes three baskets, a genie will appear to grant him his greatest wish.

Narciso

2026

The Best Mother in the World poster
7.1

To escape her abusive husband, garbage collector Gal packs her two young children, Rihanna and Benin, onto the top of her cart and heads across São Paulo to her cousin’s house. As she struggles to avoid the dangers of the streets along the way, she convinces the children that they are on a big and exciting adventure. When they arrive at her cousin’s house, they are warmly welcomed and fed. However, what initially seems like a safe haven soon turns out to be a trap. Gal realises that not only her own safety is at risk, but also the future of her children.

The Best Mother in the World

2025

Novela em Sinfonia poster
NR

To mark the network's 60th anniversary, TV Globo, in partnership with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, celebrates the soundtracks of TV Globo's telenovelas.

Novela em Sinfonia

2025

Alma Negra, do Quilombo ao Baile poster
10.0

A deep dive into Afro-Brazilian culture, exploring the trajectory of soul music in Brazil from the late 1960s to its peak at "black balls" in the following decades. Through the lens of intellectuals such as Beatriz Nascimento, Lélia Gonzalez, and Edneia Gonçalves, the documentary recovers and celebrates the importance of these parties as spaces of resistance and affirmation of Black identity in Brazil, connecting Quilombola traditions to contemporary urban culture.

Alma Negra, do Quilombo ao Baile

2026

Blue Carbon poster
6.2

Blue Carbon - Nature's Superpower is a documentary that uses music and science to portray perhaps the best weapon in the fight against climate change.

Blue Carbon

2024

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade poster
NR

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European invasion of the continent, police violence, the genocide of the black people, the massacre of indigenous peoples, religious violence, the criminalization of funk music, structural racism in art and education, the importance of quota policy and the need urgent historical repair as a commitment by the Brazilian state to the black people.

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

2020

How to Be a Carioca poster
NR

Rio de Janeiro is a city that attracts people from all over the world. Francisco is a native of Rio who does his best to explain the customs and lifestyle of the Carioca population to foreigners who feel lost in the big city.

How to Be a Carioca

2023

Pixinguinha, an Affectionate Man poster
7.0

The life of legendary Brazilian musician Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, better known as Pixinguinha.

Pixinguinha, an Affectionate Man

2021

The Life Aquatic: A Tribute to David Bowie by Seu Jorge poster
NR

Ten years after the passing of David Bowie, Brazilian artist Seu Jorge revisits the repertoire that shaped a defining chapter of his career. His Portuguese interpretations were first created for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, directed by Wes Anderson, sparking a deep artistic connection with Bowie's work. After years of touring worldwide — and a final performance without a live audience during the 2020 pandemic — he returns to these songs in a special coastal live stream in São Paulo. Now, an edited version of that performance stands as a tribute to Bowie's enduring legacy.

The Life Aquatic: A Tribute to David Bowie by Seu Jorge

2026

Irmãos - Seu Jorge & Alexandre Pires poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Irmãos - Seu Jorge & Alexandre Pires

2020

2010s · 20 titles

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within poster
7.8

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

2010

Pelé: Birth of a Legend poster
7.3

The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

Pelé: Birth of a Legend

2016

City of God: 10 Years Later poster
6.9

City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?

City of God: 10 Years Later

2013

Paradise Lost poster
7.3

Marked by losses and mismatches, José's eccentric family seek to be happy while locked in Paraíso Perdido, a nightclub that has stopped in time, where they sing popular romantic music.

Paradise Lost

2018

Dexter & Convidados poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dexter & Convidados

2014

Hey, Did You Score? poster
5.8

Three male friends navigate different stages of romantic relationships: One is starting to date; another fears infidelity; the third is divorcing.

Hey, Did You Score?

2012

Show Globo 50 Anos poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Show Globo 50 Anos

2015

London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music poster
6.9

The closing ceremony of the games of the XXXth Olympiad.

London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music

2012

Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1 poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1

2010

Com a Palavra, Arnaldo Antunes poster
8.0

From his origins as a poet to his success as a singer and composer, Arnaldo Antunes revisits the most remarkable moments of his career.

Com a Palavra, Arnaldo Antunes

2018

Kings & Rats poster
4.0

In Rio de Janeiro in 1963, the story of several characters is intertwined in the midst of the political scenario of the time. One of them is Troy, a CIA agent residing in Brazil who plans a trap for the President.

Kings & Rats

2012

Multishow ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo no Madison Square Garden poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Multishow ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo no Madison Square Garden

2010

Badi poster
9.5

The personal trajectory and the international career of the singer, guitarist, and composer Badi Assad.

Badi

2019

Sandy: Manuscrito - Ao Vivo poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Sandy: Manuscrito - Ao Vivo

2011

Seu Jorge: Músicas para Churrasco, Vol. 01 poster
4.8

After the huge success of the album "Músicas Para Churrasco, Vol. 1", Seu Jorge records a DVD concert live in Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro.

Seu Jorge: Músicas para Churrasco, Vol. 01

2012

No artwork available
NR

A one-take affair that follows Jorge as he weaves through a cliff-side mansion in the Hollywood Hills – showcases three cover songs from the album (Roy Ayers’ “Everybody Loves The Sunshine,” Martinho da Vila and João de Aquino’s “Cirandar” and Kraftwerk’s “The Model”) and features the members of Almaz (Lucio Maia and Pupillo from stalwart Brazilian band Nação Zumbi), producer Mario C and keyboardist Money Mark.

The Model: Marcello in Limbo

2010

No artwork available
NR

This film – loosely based around Almaz’s cover of Kraftwerk’s “The Model” – captures Jorge as he delves into his subconscious to examine the figure of a recurring dream: a woman – a model – who taunts and arouses; comforts and scares; perplexes and completes him.

The Model: Oshun and the Dream

2010

Soundtrack poster
6.1

The Soundtrack of a life. Cris ( Selton Mello) , a young artist still trying to find his place on the tough world of arts, gets from Brazilian Government special permit to stay a month in an isolated international research station surrounded by nothing but ice. His goal is to prepare an exhibition mixing music and photography. Cris will go against his own defined concepts and values, as he spends time with other researchers discovering PLANET EARTH on an never seen perspective. This shock will result on this young artist 's evolution changing his life forever.

Soundtrack

2017

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zeca Apresenta: O Quintal do Pagodinho – Ao vivo

2012

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Seu Jorge: Musicas Para Churrasco Vol1

2011

2000s · 21 titles

City of God poster
8.4

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

City of God

2002

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou poster
7.1

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

2004

The Escapist poster
6.2

Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.

The Escapist

2008

Tarantino's Mind poster
7.1

Two friends at a bar talking about theories involving Quentin Tarantino's movies.

Tarantino's Mind

2006

Carmo, Hit the Road poster
4.4

Marco is a lonely handicapped Spanish smuggler, driving through Brazil to sell out his cheap goods. When two bandits assault him and steal his load, he is miraculously saved by Carmo, a beautiful local girl who would rather die than spend another day in the hellhole where she lives. Carmo and Marco will start a lawless, reckless journey, and an intense romance through a breathtaking South American border landscape.

Carmo, Hit the Road

2008

Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal poster
6.4

Documentary created by Matthew Gray Gubler during, and about, his time on the set of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal

2005

Moro no Brasil poster
8.0

Mika Kaurismaki's documentary Moro No Brasil features performances by a variety of Brazilian musical artists, intertwined with interviews of every day Brazilians in order to give the viewer a portrait of Brazilian culture. The film includes performances by Silberio Pessoa, Darue Malungo, and Antonio Nobrega. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Moro no Brasil

2002

The House of Sand poster
6.7

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

The House of Sand

2005

On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' poster
6.2

Director Wes Anderson and The Life Aquatic crew discuss the effort that went into crafting the world of Steve Zissou. Join us as we dive deep into the costumes, set design, and visual effects of this wild action adventure film.

On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'

2005

Ana & Jorge poster
8.5

Recorded Live in Sao Paulo in August 2005. "Unimultiplicidade" New Song by Tom Ze and Ana Carolina, "The Blower's Doughter" and "Closer".

Ana & Jorge

2005

This Is an Adventure poster
6.8

During production on the film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", documentary filmmakers followed the cast and crew of a film which depicts other documentary filmmakers who follow animal life. In this film, we get a first hand look at the sets and come very close to many of the cast and crew members at work, especially Bill Murray and Wes Anderson.

This Is an Adventure

2005

Looking for Black Orpheus poster
9.0

Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today.

Looking for Black Orpheus

2005

A Vermelha Luz do Bandido poster
NR

Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit".

A Vermelha Luz do Bandido

2009

Sleepwalkers poster
6.7

A bike messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man and an office worker make their way through an evening in New York City. A collection of eight large-scale moving images projected on the walls of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Sleepwalkers

2007

Elipsis poster
5.6

Parallel and fragmented stories are linked by the relationship between the famous actor and his friend Sebastian Castillo Galo Vidal, a frustrated fashion designer. The roles are reversed as a result of decisions made each of them. Sebastian's life is now in chaos, while the Galo is a success. Their lives are again when Sebastian goes to Gaul for help and the two embark on a journey that will put their friendship and their lives at stake.

Elipsis

2006

Ana Carolina - Estampado poster
5.2

O DVD intitulado Estampado da cantora e compositora Ana Carolina traz grandes sucessos e músicas inéditas na voz desse ícone da música brasileira. Você pode conferir faixas novas como "Escurinho", "Gente Humilde" e "Oração de São Francisco de Assis", além da interpretação da canção "Corsário" acompanhada pelo violão de João Bosco. O disco ainda conta com participações especiais de Chico Buarque, Chico César e Maria Bethânia. Imperdível!

Ana Carolina - Estampado

2003

Beyond Ipanema poster
NR

This documentary from filmmaker Guto Barra takes you beyond the 1960s bossa nova hit "The Girl from Ipanema" to explore how samba, Brazilectro and other Brazilian music styles have long captivated audiences and influenced musicians around the world. Mixing archival footage, fresh performances and interviews with leaders in the global music scene, Barra examines why Brazil's music consistently transcends boundaries of time and musical taste.

Beyond Ipanema

2009

Seu Jorge - MTV Apresenta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Seu Jorge - MTV Apresenta

2004

Seu Jorge - América Brasil poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Seu Jorge - América Brasil

2007

Bebeto: Pra Balancar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bebeto: Pra Balancar

2006

Cidade do Samba poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cidade do Samba

2007

Series credits

The South Bank Show poster
5.6

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

The South Bank Show

1978

Later... with Jools Holland poster
5.9

Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland.

Later... with Jools Holland

1992

Que História é Essa, Porchat? poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Que História é Essa, Porchat?

2019

Kulturplatz poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kulturplatz

2004

How To Be a Carioca poster
7.8

An American writer has to learn the quirks of Rio de Janeiro’s people after moving to the Brazilian city.

How To Be a Carioca

2023

Brotherhood poster
8.0

An honest lawyer reaches a moral crossroads after the cops force her to inform on her incarcerated brother, the leader of a rising criminal faction.

Brotherhood

2019

Altas Horas poster
8.0

Serginho Groisman hosts weekly debates on relevant topics, featuring the participation of the audience, artists, and personalities from various fields.

Altas Horas

2000

Os Normais poster
7.8

A "normal" couple are living a "normal" life together, but they have many complaints about themselves and each other.

Os Normais

2001

Vamos Tocar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vamos Tocar

2016

September Mornings poster
7.1

The journey of Cassandra, who starts to see things get on track in her life with a place of her own for the first time, a boyfriend who she loves, Ivaldo, a job as a courier in downtown São Paulo, and fulfilling her dream of being a cover artist of Vanusa, a famous Brazilian singer from the 70s. Her life takes an unexpected turn, however, when her ex, Leide, shows up with Gersinho and claims he is Cassandra’s son.

September Mornings

2021

Milton e o Clube da Esquina poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Milton e o Clube da Esquina

2020

Anderson Spider Silva poster
8.1

How many barriers does a champion have to overcome to become the black icon of his generation? Anderson Spider Silva's journey through victories and defeats, in and out of the ring.

Anderson Spider Silva

2023

Grêmio Recreativo MTV Arnaldo Antunes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Grêmio Recreativo MTV Arnaldo Antunes

2011

Marighella poster
8.4

Determined to fight the military regime, Marighella leaves his son behind to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy of the dictatorship.

Marighella

2023