Marcos Palmeira

The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil... (imdb)

During a night of Rio's Carnival, a woman lives through an existential crisis.

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's "Dom Casmurro". Bento marries an actress, and soon afterwards she gets pregnant. He begins to suspect the child isn't his, but his best friend's. (imdb)

The paraplegic Boris (Paulo Gracindo) stays at home with the beautiful young woman Cacau (Luciana Vendramini), while his wife Ivette (Fernanda Montenegro) goes to the movie theater. When Cadú (Marcos Palmeira), the boyfriend of Cacau, unexpectedly arrives in the apartment, a night of sex, sadism and violence happens. When Ivette returns, the fantasies of a sick mind are disclosed in a surprising end. (imdb)

This movie shows a face of Brazil that doesn't have to do with samba, carnival, or favelas. It's about the northeastern culture, music and myths, which have almost nothing to do with the rest of the country (except for the language, and even that changes a lot).

Good-looking middle-class boy, arrested because of a minor offense (a fight in a bar), is put in a fetid small cell with six dangerous and poor criminals, and ends up being brutally raped. (imdb)

Biography of the actress Leila Diniz, which irreverent way of life incited controversials in Brasil during the decades of 1960 and 1970. Leila, that suffered pursuits in brazilian military dictatorship period, was symbol of women liberation in the country, as well godness of the tropicalism moviment.

Terrorist takes his son out from the boarding school, and puts him temporarily in a friend's luxury and empty apartment in Copacabana beach. The son knows very little about his father, and the latter cannot really explain his activities to his son, fearing for his security. So the young man stands alone in the huge apartment, waiting for the infrequent meetings with his father, without really knowing what's going on. (imdb)

Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead.

Two women, from opposite worlds, Louise and her maid Luzia, both share a passion for music and finding the perfect man. What can happen during a luncheon where the tastes of both women coincide and clash, while in the presence of two desirable men? (imdb)

A shy journalist asks a womanizer friend for advice on how to seduce women. The lessons work so well that the "teacher" decides to write a book on the subject: The Single Man Manual.

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations. (imdb)

The real first comedy about love.

Movie director in his forties and in existencial crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing she's the daughter of the woman he's having a relationship with. (imdb)

Great-grandmother, grandmother, mother and daughter share a luxurious home that can no longer keep, and the proximity of the slum, also unable to sell or rent. Now the UPP occupied the favela, and potential buyers come to see the house. During the visit begins a shootout, leaving everyone trapped. Faced with the threat of life, little sins are revealed and take shape tragicomic situations involving visitors and residents of the slums and the asphalt.

A young rock singer meets his childhood heroine, a famous singer who is now wallowing in alcohol and sex. (imdb)

As André, during the childhood and teenage years living with his anarchist and communist grandparents, he managed to survive the hard years of the military regime, finding comfort in the company of a drug addict street boy and one girl that comes to live with his family. With the loss of his grandparents, he becomes Dedé Mamata and a new reality full of perspectives comes on his way. (imdb)

Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she works as a maid. The elderly but randy Zé, who carries advertising signs at the train station, buys her perfume and invites her to spend Sundays with him. She accepts. After João injures his foot, stops work, drinks more, and wallows in self pity, Fausta sees Zé as her way out, if he'll help her buy the land (imdb)

Short stories about unexpected (and very tragic) things that can happen in relationships/marriages. (imdb)

Guests interact with each other in bathrooms during a New Year's Eve party.

Mandrake is a Rio de Janeiro criminal attorney specializing in blackmail and extortion cases, particularly ones involving high-society elites who call on him when their secret lives in the city's sordid underbelly get them in trouble. He moves effortlessly between two starkly contrasting universes: a sophisticated one of money and privilege (also of corruption and hypocrisy); and the corrupt and dishonest subculture of blackmail artists and opportunists

Larissa competed for the Rio Military Police in search of the ideal of "protecting the citizen".

Fernanda lives happily with her husband and child. However, when the marriage begins to wear, it is up to her best friend to support her.