Tonico Pereira

Adaptation to the screen of three amoral tales of Nelson Rodrigues

At midnight of December 31st of 1999, the destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the fireworks fall over Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach and the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone... (imdb)

A small community of descendants of Italian immigrants in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul resorts to making a video to try to solve the problems of basic sanitation that plague their village. (imdb)

The principal character in Helvécio Ratton's delightful film has been adapted from a book and comic created by the Brazilian cartoonist Ziraldo, and tells the tale of a happy-go-lucky 10-year-old child growing up in a city in the 60s. (imdb)

Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last. (imdb)

Four women filmmakers examine sexuality in this anthology. Segment 1 is entitled "Let's Talk About Sex" and is the story of an aspiring actress whose day job is as a phone-sex operator. Segment 2 is called "Taboo Palor" and tells the story of two lesbians. Segment 3 is "Wonton Soup." Here an Australian-Chinese man tries to rekindle his affair with a Chinese woman by returning to their roots. (IMDB)

The film shows as Lineu and Nenê if they had gotten passionate in a ball. Many years later, already married, Lineu it discovers that it must give attention on account to its style of life of a health problem. However, its new attitudes cause general confusions. To get worse, Carlinhos, with who Lineu disputed the love of Nenê in youth, is in return.

A star medical examiner is called to Brasília, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young congressional aide's dead body. But his scientific rigor soon leads him to details of a multi-layered political scandal. (imdb)

Ana (Letícia Sabatella) and Pedro (Wagner Moura) healthy two young actors that itself become passionate during the theatrical assembly of Tristão and Isolda. At the same time that recreate the history of this mythic couple that is in the origin of all of the romantic couples, they are going to uncover for itself own a new form of be related. (yahoo)

Colonel Furtado struggles to keep his lands, the Sobradinho Farm, and win the heart of his cousin Esmeraldina. In the process, he fights big beasts, experiences the taste of a bohemian life in town, fends usurers and thieves off, and uses all his cunning to get rid of haunting entities. His rival is the man he was brought up with, Pernambuco Nogueira, a werewolf. (imdb)

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)

In Brasilia, a storyteller every day entertains the customers of a bar with his narratives. But one of them, he is reluctant to take until the end: the murder of two girls that had the only witness a blind guy, who fumbled the face of one of the killers.

In 1970, the crimes of Esquadrão da Morte by refinement of violence sparked a wave of reactions across the country. This is the story of Mateus Romeiro, the most famous of the officers who joined the group of Homens de Aço, one of the factions which divided the squad.

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)

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and turned over to the oversexed owner of a banana plantation. (imdb)

An American photographer in Rio de Janeiro becomes involved in the world of "knife culture" when he sets out to find the killer of one of his models. (imdb)

An adaptation of a play by Dias Gomes

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.

In Fortaleza, Brazil, a bunch of guys commits one of the most daring thefts in the history. Based on real facts...

Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband. (imdb)

During the military dictatorship, Dr. Athos Moreira Brazil is a coroner, cold and lonely doctor who provides services to the organs of political repression, forging reports natural for victims of torture regima death. He falls for Tana Divino, sensual, mystical and loving, who works at a nightclub, voicing famous singers.

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)

Moments before turning 90 years of age, Alberto remembers his life, lived in Copacabana, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a comedy about old age nowadays, with Copacabana as a background. (imdb)

João works as a parking valet, is separated from Ana and turned to an absent father to Quinho. Unlucky in love and family, he wants to reverse this scenario and promises for the former that will pass one of those days with his son. For this, he decides to "borrow" the car of a loyal customer parking which works with Ednelson. The problem is that the simple escape turned into a complicated adventure.

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)

Sitcom about wacky Brazilian family.

Paulo Gale is a black Brazilian man, a typical "day-by-day survivor", always doing his best to bring some happiness in his life, and by happiness he means money. When finding himself a dead end, he discovers the opportunity to become a football manager by leading some boy from the neighborhood to becoming the new Neymar of international soccer. Going through the suburbs of Rio, he finds Glanderson, a young boy with an enormous talent for soccer given the absence of two toes in his right foot. Wi

A group of actors and actresses rehearse play virtually and look for solutions to get around the fact that they cannot meet. Confined at home, they use their own family members on stage. The piece chosen is ÁLBUM DE FAMÍLIA, by Nelson Rodrigues, an attempt to debate the idea of a traditional Brazilian family.

It begins in 1983 in Salvador city, with the attack against José, an ex-member of a left-wing political group. Meanwhile, his nephew Adonias is worried about an assignment his teacher has given him. Consequently, Adonias has to deal with his family's suffering, conflicts at school, and the anguish of having to write his school essay.