Jotta Barroso

The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.

In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.

Gregor Nastase, just arrived from Transylvania, comes to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, to meet Vladmir Vladislav, a young sculptor who is Count Dracula's direct descendant. He tells him he must capture four women for a sacrifice, according to his uncle's wishes. At first, the sculptor doesn't pay him much attention, but changes his mind when Gregor materializes the Count on an oil painting.

Father and son are members of a decadent circus. Tired of being constantly criticized by the owner of the circus, Trombada, the ventriloquist, makes a joke about his boss, and the two fight. The clown Marreco hits their boss on the head. Now the two have to run from the police while living an adventure.

A rich heiress arrives in Belo Horizonte from Buenos Aires to receive her fortune. After visiting her late mother's grave and picking up a rose there, she begins to receive constant phone calls from an unknown caller demanding the flower back.

In Petrópolis, sex maniac Severino Barba de Bode flees the forensic asylum, leaving the city in an uproar.

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Orphanage Santa Cecília teeters on the brink of bankruptcy as a real-estate firm plans to raze it and its surrounding forest. Three girls receive a magical gift of song from a mysterious old woman, on the condition they never kiss a boy, to earn money and save the home. With reporter Raul and social worker Gretchen’s help, their rising fame threatens the developer’s scheme. In a last-ditch effort, the developer’s son kidnaps them, but unexpected feelings for one girl force him to reconsider.

A doctor teaches new methods to relieve tension through sex.

The film depicts the arrival of immigrants in the city of Espírito Santo following the history of Carlos, an Italian who struggles for his place against Hermann Gunter, a German colonist who rules the region.

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.

As the owner of a very famous bordello in Rio de Janeiro gets buried, an old scoundrel remembers his own past among the bohemian circles of the city.

Ferdinando, a bank employee who came from the north and prospered, buys a car and starts to frequent the south zone of Rio de Janeiro. He meets Lucia, with whom he falls in love, to the point of selling his own car to pay the girl's bill, who says she is very rich and lives in a mansion, but it's all a farce.

Otavio has to find and marry Madame Bettina's daughter if he wants to inherit her fortune.

The life of hairdresser Aurora Boreal is marked by many unfortunate episodes. His mother works with illegal gambling and, to escape this fate, he sends female manicurists to important businessmen's houses. These workers, in order to help Aurora, end up doing much more than just their customers' nails.

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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Two fishermen Dogfish names Zé Cação and Lula discover the result of a theft of a dangerous gang of smugglers and go immediately to be persecuted by them. In pursuit of the bandits is also the federal agent Carlos, passionate young Diana, of which the fishermen meet and become friends. The action takes place on board the Fishermen, however, when the weather warms there comes the pirate Long John Silver, who is looking for a fabulous map of a treasure that was hidden on a nearby island. The map, now divided into two parts, it becomes cause for persecution, with plenty of good humor and adrenaline, which changed hands throughout the film and leading everyone to the island where the treasure was buried.

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When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her influence in order to get ambiguous deeds done.

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A young couple uses creativity to escape the rules of the girl's father, a conservative Italian, and her grandmother. Even under the patriarch's watch, the roguish boyfriend manages to fulfill his desires.

Dr. Ferrão, a famous psychoanalyst, uses his daily column on a newspaper to atract women to his practice.

Monica, a naive schoolgirl from a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, meets Virginia, a former neighbor, now living in Copacabana. Influenced by her, she decides to take on a double life: in the morning she is the suburban girl, in the afternoon she attends a brothel in the South Zone. One day she meets Flávio, a friend and eventual lover of Virginia. Flávio falls in love with the purity of Monica and wants to drive away her friends, for considering Virginia a bad company for her beloved.

The troubles of a separated couple, the adventures of a bookseller in the home of a lascivious woman, and the confusion of a businessman from São Paulo.

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The lawyer Roberto leaves his career and his fiancée behind to chase the criminals who killed his entire family in a brutal massacre.

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Womanizing dentist takes his wife for a vacation in Petrópolis, Brazil. In their hotel, a woman dressed in white visits the room of a different man each night, causing trouble.

An anthology of comedic sexual relations.

A young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy who has a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him.

A young woman and her lover draw an unsuspecting lawyer into their plan to kill her rich uncle and stay with his fortune.

A retired civil servant decides to return to his hometown to reencounter his first and only love.

The Syndicate of Brazilian Thieves tries to steal the world's greatest diamond, owned by the international star Iraya, who comes to spend the carnival in Rio. Interpol kicks in.

Bruno is a physician whose license had been revoked, due to some ethical problems in the past. He gathers some criminals to kidnap the children of two powerful bankers. While the police faces contradictory evidence and clues, Bruno starts killing the other criminals, to keep the ransom for himself.

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

A wife dissatisfied with her husband's vagrancy asks her father, who lives in Paraíba, for help. He then sends two henchmen to Rio to make his daughter a widow, but she reconciles with her husband and needs to prevent the tragedy. Based on the play by João Bethencourt.

The young singer Beth is torn between love for the honest pianist Guy; and the powerful smuggler Estênio, who sponsors his promising career.