Nelson Rodrigues

When powerful outlaw "Boca de Ouro" dies, a reporter interviews his former lover Guigui, to try to outline his personality. But the woman offers him three different versions of the facts, following the changes of her own personal feelings towards the man. (imdb)

Carlos and Solange, childhood sweethearts, marry after a chaste courtship. On their wedding night, Solange refuses to make love to him. First he pleads, then in anger he rapes her. She says she adores him, but, even after months of marriage, can't endure his touch... (imdb)

Adaptation to the screen of three amoral tales of Nelson Rodrigues

In this intense and claustrophobic Brazilian drama with darkly satiric overtones, a self-made rich man is riven by conflicts and guilt as his daughter (for whom he has an incestuous lust) prepares to marry a man whom he secretly knows is a homosexual. His own affairs are far from simple, and he suffers from guilt about some fatally shoddy housing he once built. (All Movie Guide)

Rich, spoiled youngman encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion. (imdb)

Engraçadinha is a sexy teenager, with whom every man wants to get involved, except her cousin Sílvio, the only man she loves. On Sílvio's engagement day, she seduces him at the party and becomes pregnant. But her father, Dr. Arnaldo, tells her a horrible secret, saying that her child cannot be born. A tragedy ensues. (imdb)

In Rio de Janeiro, in the 80s, twin sisters Iara and Marilena (Fernanda Torres) fell in love with the same man.

Noronha (Lima Duarte) is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda (Thelma Reston) and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene (Cristina Aché), is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events. (imdb)

Woman who is obsessed with death wants a first-class burial for herself, and even buys a luxury coffin beforehand. (imdb)

Young and humble worker, Edgar unexpectedly receives a proposal: in exchange for much money, he must marry the beautiful daughter of the boss. The guy must then decide whether to accept the facility placed before him by fate or invest in his neighbor Rita, for whom he is clearly passionate. (imdb)

In 1942, in Rio de Janeiro, the twenty-five years old Alaíde is run over while crossing Carioca Street. She arrives in coma in the hospital, and while being submitted to an emergency surgery, she recalls her life since her family moved to a former brothel, mixing hallucination, reality and memory. (imdb)

TV adaptation to the screen of the books of Nelson Rodrigues, about a woman and her many seductions.

After marriage with Zosimus, Dirty Little Secret lives a modest and coy. But the impulsive behavior of her daughter seems to repeat the impulses that the mother had abandoned in adolescence, after the tragedy caused by Silvio relationship with his cousin.

After being run down by a car, a man asks a passer-by for a last kiss before dying. The other man, full of pity for him, obliges his wish. Soon it becomes the talk of the town, and perverted society starts implying that the two men were lovers, affecting his life and his marriage. (imdb)

Architect sees his own life crumble when, after being run down, a dying man asks for a last wish: a French kiss. He obliges out of compassion, but people don't understand his gesture, and soon he becomes the talk of the town (imdb)

In his anthological play, Pretty, But Sluty, the renowned Brazilian writer, Nelson Rodrigues, works with the idea of temptation that has chased man since the beginning of time... (imdb)

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