Carlos Reichenbach

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time. (imdb)

A freewheeling story of an introverted Sao Paolo intellectual, Torres, who's obsessed with death and his long-standing, more outgoing, moneyed sidekick, Xavier. (Yahoo! Movies)

There's the continent ruled by a repressive government and there's an island (the island of forbidden pleasures) where political activists of the continent take refuge on running away from the continent's police. This island is their last stand - there they live in a way not possible in the continent - free love, no possessions, brotherhood... (IMDB)

In Sao Paulo, the betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After his girlfriend's consequent suicide, his illegitimate son, a 17 year old, is kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. To protect the operation, the Senator chooses a former mistress in her late 50s, to take care of the boy during his secret captivity... (imdb)

Aurélia, a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, is seeing Fábio Tavares, who gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group. (imdb)

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons. (imdb)

The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems. (imdb)

Luiz Antônio, a sociologist, had his political rights suppressed, during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also, his wife Ruth had been tortured and killed. So he decides to hide in his niece Natércia and her husband Felipe's country house for a while. But she invites the intellectual Marcela and broker Ricardo for a weekend together. Luiz's world is upset and the existential problems of all get entangled, with unexpected results. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Sandra is a rich widow who wants to know the beach house her late husband has left her. She goes there with her lover Odilon, an unscrupulous young man whose studies she's supporting. In her way to the house, she meets a couple of hippies, looking for a place to stay. During their stay in the house, all these characters clash, in unusual and funny ways, including some disgusting tourists, three young women on vacation, the police, prostitutes, a reporter for a communist magazine and many others (imdb)

Maria, a countrywoman, leaves for São Paulo, where she becomes an industrialist's lover and meets all kind of people but, dissatisfied, she returns to the country to meet her family again. (imdb)

Brazilian portmanteau

In a holiday camp, couples live situations of sex and love, in three segments: Alice, Angélica and Ana.

The meeting between a catholic thinker and the "father" of zen-budism.

Documentary that uses irony to approach the most fashionable São Paulo street in the 60s: the Rua Augusta (Augusta St.), with its classic personages and most frequented places.

Unemployed professor, Fernando is sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita. One day they go out to an afternoon picnic with a couple of friends, sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperient Lilita. Luís Carlos seduces Lilita and gets her pregnant. After telling the girl to get an illegal abortionhe asks Fernando to take care of the situation (letterboxd).

A documentary on Brazilian musician Mario Gennari and the bond between his music's sonority and the public space of the streets of São Paulo.

One of the first Brazilian movies to conjecture about contraculture and its reflexes on the behaviour of a generation. A tribute to the late poet and friend Orlando Parolini.

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.