Mário Lago

Eldorado, a fictitious country in Latin America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power... (imdb)

While writing his new book a writer changes his life when he kills a hotshot and joins a guerilla force. (imdb)

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair soon turns into an unbridled passion.

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV. (imdb)

Miguel Horta, a young opposition politician, decides switch of party to infiltrate the government by thinking that only within the power could do something for the public cause. One day receives the visit from a ward heeler saying that scabs are trying to overthrow the board of the union, because a bill which he authored. Despite appeals from Clara, his wife, Miguel goes to the union, where workers are in a general meeting.

After stirring society by leaving her groom at the alter and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "Hilda the Hurricane", in the 50's Brazil. She could do fine if it wasn't for Malthus, a young novice said to be a saint, for whom she falls in love. However, the boy is kept under the strict, severe doctrine of Father Nelson, a conservative priest intolerant even to every minor sin. (imdb)

The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of the businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar, at the beginning of August. During the Vargas government crisis, the case is taken by the police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man, who is not well regarded by colleagues, since the place is totally surrendered to corruption. (imdb.com)

Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls. (imdb)