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Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.
Roberto is a successful businessman. Persecuted by the police, he will have a dilemma: give a secret or keep on running.
A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
A woman has to choose between being a prostitute or posing nude for a painter, in order to finance an expensive surgery for her son, his only chance to survive.
A professional photographer specialized in nude pictures dreams of respectability and the beautiful college student next window.
According to an Amazonian indigenous legend, a certain insect, Anophelis sexualis, has aphrodisiac properties: one who is bitten by it will surely die if it does not have sex within two hours. Knowing this news, Hans Muller, a scientist, moves to the habitat of the insect and collects several specimens for research in his laboratory in the city of Ilha Bela, on the coast of São Paulo. There, besides the local administration and the population, there are several tourists. By an accident, the insects flee and attack the world.
A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.
Countryman Onofre is convinced by his cousin to live in Rio de Janeiro together with him so he can enjoy the delights of summer in Rio.
Two friends discuss their love adventures, and the emptiness ensuing each new conquest.
Follows the relationship between two couples: An unemployed professor, Fernando, sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita, and sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperient Lilita.
'Joelma 23rd Floor' faithfully reconstructs the story of young Lucimar, one of the 170 fatal victims of the Joelma Building fire, which occurred in São Paulo, on the morning of February 1, 1974.
In the portuary zone of Santos, São Paulo, a prostitute teams up with an unemployed stevedore while looking for a better life.
Three short stories about sex and sexual perversion.
André is the powerful owner of an illegal casino and popular gambling ("Jogo de Bicho") on the streets. His gang is in war against the gang of Fiore that is trying to steal the gambling establishments of André. When the prostitute Margot sees her old friend and ex-con Sarja working as a waiter in the casino where she tricks clients, she invites him to stay with her in her apartment. When André, who is gay, sees the handsome Sarja, he falls in love with his employee that becomes his protégée. Meanwhile, Sarja and Margot plot to steal the high stakes on St George's Day and they invite André's henchman Lobão and two gangsters to participate in the heist. Meanwhile Fiore also plots to steal André's money with his gang.
An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of squares on the middle of neighborhoods Ipanema and Leblon. There, people of different social classes interact together - workers who live in the Cruzada de São Sebastião building and the local bourgeois class who live in fancy condos. There, the rich and the poor unite in the same spirit.
Hermes watches a rapist getting killed. Trying to reinvent society, Hermes makes up a plan.
