Dercy Gonçalves

A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness. (imdb)

Januário is a crook who sells inexistent tombs on Caju Cemetery and pretends to be a relative of Juscelino Kubitschek's, then president of Brazil. (imdb)

Ms. Violante Miranda is a bordello owner who raises a small girl as her own granddaughter. When she gets a little older, she is sent to study in Europe, and when she returns, she becomes a socialite, rejecting her previous milieu and her "grandmother". (imdb)

Alligator raiser from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, travels to his nephew's, and takes the maid Etelvina for his nephew's wife.

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.

The rainwater, rivers and the sea covering the Rio de Janeiro, leaving out only the peak of the mountains where are the slums. Dionysius, mercenary and Navy diver goes under the sea seeking a sunken treasure: food.

Based on the play by Mario Bortolotto, the story starts with the death of the patriarch of a family of lower middle-class São Paulo. He starts to watch the reactions of children to their death and the collapse of the fragile family structure.

Popular brazilian comedy about the Borgias

Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One day she meets young author Paulo and falls for him; but he is in love and engaged to ballerina Vilma, and misunderstandings abound. (imdb)

A widow in trouble

Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him. (imdb)

Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from some of her friends. (imdb)

Minervina used to work in the house of a baron in Minas Gerais. Now she comes to Rio de Janeiro to work for Melita, who is one of the descendents of the baron. The trouble begins when Dr. Pereira falls in love with Minervina. (MKO)

Two rival families, Leonardo and Tiburcio, schedule a weekend on the island of Paqueta. The war between the two families rages on the island, especially when a roast chicken falls into the sand.

In a country town, a rich girl, Patricia, cutting another engagement, fearing new chest blow. Your maid, Ernestina, decides to accompany her to Rio de Janeiro to "cure" her of her fears.