Roberto Palmari

Drama set in São Paulo, Brazil, in the 1930s. A journalist tries to fight against oligarchies of the time, whose main resource was coffee plantation. (imdb)

Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão", owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três Virgens" three spinsters are influenced by the behaviour of their teenager niece, whom they are lodging. In "O Arremate" a colonist turns his virgin daughter in to a landowner, to have his debts forgiven. And in "Vereda Tropical", a man becomes sexually obsessed by a watermelon, to the point of having sexual intercourse with it. (imdb)

Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais, Totônio is a symbol of the golden age of state farms: old and accustomed to having all his wills obeyed. However, after moving to his son's home because of his wife's death and the resulting loneliness, he realizes that he has lost his job as a boss and is struggling to regain his prestige by moving to a brothel. (imdb)