Liana Duval

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Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.

Three tales of the erotic: Two young ladies experiment with lesbianism, a handsome and wealthy socialite makes a beautiful woman patiently wait to make love to him, and a gorgeous, but controlling and dominating blind woman makes a hunky stud her sexual hostage in her swanky mansion home.

Ariella, a lonely young woman, feels like a stranger in her own house. Ariella is discovering her sexuality and her arrogant mother Helena, her father Rodrigo and her brothers Clécio and Alfonso do not give any love or affection to her. One day Ariella discovers the secret of her despair and plots to take her revenge.

An unemployed radio worker obsessed with suicide meets a rich brat.

After meeting a beguiling woman in a movie theater, a realtor becomes embroiled in a mysterious plot involving murder, double identities and movies.

After a heavy rain storm, several vehicles get stuck on a muddy road. Soon hunger and fatigue change people's manners, making them behave in a very noncivilized way.

Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a trans man who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with young librarian Clara.

In "Solo de Violino", bank clerk and aspirant violinist Rodrigo is a serial killer. When his next door neighbor reveals that she is in love with his music and Rodrigo, he has difficulties in controlling his killing impulses. In "A Guerra da Malvina", four female thieves break in the house of the porn star David Cardoso to rob money and jewelry, but they end having sex with the actor.

Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.

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Follows the relationship between two couples: An unemployed professor, Fernando, sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita, and sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperient Lilita.

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On Jo's birthday, her mother, and later, her father, discover that she is not a virgin anymore - she is taking pills. The birthday party turns into a complete mess, since Jo's mother can not hold herself and accuses her daughter in front of all guests of not being a child that everyone thought she still was. Jo rebels and leaves the house, and discovers that her boyfriend listened to everything and did not help her. She decides to leave him, and to start her life again. As a woman, now.

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Armando, a single high-school teacher living a steady life, sees his world crumbles when he falls in love with Laura, the ex-girlfriend of one of his favorite students.

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In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the work of two young priests.

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Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upset the magazine's owner, a rich and powerful woman.

Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.

Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role.

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On a farm in rural Brazil in the 18th century, a new overseer arrives. He falls in love with one of the enslaved women, Mestiça, beloved by all the men. When a pair of silver earrings disappears from the farm and the overseer orders the leader of the enslaved women arrested, Mestiça decides to take revenge.

'Joelma 23rd Floor' faithfully reconstructs the story of young Lucimar, one of the 170 fatal victims of the Joelma Building fire, which occurred in São Paulo, on the morning of February 1, 1974.

Eugênio falls in love for Margarida, a poor girl who lives in his parents' farm. In order to avoid their love affair, the parents send him to a Catholic Seminary to be a priest. Just before his ordination, he meets Margarida again, and their old feelings for each other are triggered once more.

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A woman asks her boyfriend for his mother's heart as a proof of love. Another, a kleptomaniac, has an affair with a TV professional. And a young man becomes a sex symbol after an advertising campaign.

Recently turned into a widow, Alice goes to the country to think about her life. There, she's courted by Luis Carlos but falls in love with Marta. However, Jumbo, a horse, also arouses strange and erotic feelings in her mind.

Juliano is a millionaire who leads a boring life amidst the facilities that money provides him. One day, he decides to change his routine and associates with a mad scientist, Professor Kunz, who invents a magic potion, a drug that releases the other side of the personality of those who consume it. Juliano becomes a guinea pig and tries the potion, transforming into the beautiful Juliana (Vera Fischer). However, the effects of the new drug will cause many confusions between the millionaire and the crazy professor, creating complicated situations for both of them.

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A curious story: it rains whenever a couple of lovers meet. Against the weather forecast, it rains all over the city. And as the love grows, the stronger becomes the rain. Found by a television crew, they receive the title of "Rain Lovers", and their dates become public spectacles.

Helena and Renato are a couple who leave the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house and help Helena recover from her nervous breakdowns. But before long, she begins to suffer from increasingly disturbing hallucinations, and the household appliances seem to come to life.

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Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time.

When a dying man receives a kiss from a bereaved man who tries to save him, the man is jailed as a homosexual. He is released from jail, but his life has been ruined by the incident -- and the man eventually is killed by his own father-in-law. The kiss that resulted in the eventual persecution and death of the man is never shown in this plodding, downbeat drama.

To avoid gossips about his life, a rich man hires a butcher to play his wife's lover. But the two fall in love causing more troubles than expected.

A ruthless loan shark doesn't realize the evil that he has done to his own family: his son is waist-deep in resentment, and his daughter- married to an unsuccessful lawyer - ends up prostituting herself.

Two men love the same woman and make a death pact, but fate surprises all three (and the public).

The story takes place in a boarding house, on the verge of bankruptcy, where the most different characters parade: a solitary woman, a womanizer singer, a musical group, an unemployed doctor, a football player and a radio singer, and where everyone gets involved to pay the mortgage that threatened the pension.

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Minutes before the start of an important football match between Corinthians and the Uruguayan team of Carrasco, the main player of the São Paulo team, Baltazar ends up cut because of a serious appendicitis crisis. In place of the Corinthians top scorer, reserve Julinho is selected.

Isidoro, a poor guy, suddenly becomes a millionaire, and gets into the most bizarre situations.

Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão.