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- DirectorHector BabencoStarsEnrique DiazWagner MouraCaio BlatStories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.
- DirectorMurilo SallesStarsPaulo JoséMarieta SeveroJosé de AbreuPaulo is a rich lawyer who has a happy and comfortable family life, with his kid and very loyal to his wife. But when he finds out that the woman is cheating on him with his business partner and best friend, he decides to execute a perfect plan that involves murdering both and easily getting away with murder. However, Paulo's plans are about to be ruined due to some unpredictable factors involving powerful people, plenty of money, the kidnap of his son and a tenacious inspector following his steps.
- DirectorGuel ArraesStarsMatheus NachtergaeleSelton MelloRogério CardosoFollows the lives of 2 poor Brazilians and their schemes to get money and the consequences of their actions.
- DirectorMarcel CamusStarsBreno MelloMarpessa DawnLourdes de OliveiraA retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorBraz ChediakStarsLucélia SantosJosé WilkerVera FischerA rich man wants to pay one of his employees a lot of money to marry his daughter, who has been raped by five men. But something in the girl's story isn't quite right.
- StarsMatheus NachtergaeleSelton MelloVirginia CavendishThe adventures of friends João Grilo, a poor man a liar, and Chicó, the most cowardly of men. Both struggle for daily bread in the Northeast of Brazil and crossing for several episodes fooling all of the small village of Taperoá, in the backlands of Paraiba. Adaptation of the work of Ariano Suassuna.
- DirectorNeville de AlmeidaStarsAntônio FagundesAna Maria MagalhãesLima DuarteNoronha, a low-class civil servant and his wife Gorda have four elder daughters. Silene, the youngest, is expelled from boarding school for killing a cat and newborns.
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsToni GarridoPatrícia FrançaMurilo BenícioIn a dangerous but human Rio's slum, rises the love affair betwen Orfeu and Eurídice, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival.
- DirectorArnaldo JaborStarsPaulo PortoDarlene GlóriaElza GomesRich, spoiled youngman encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.
- DirectorJosé Alvarenga Jr.StarsLília CabralJosé MayerReynaldo GianecchiniIn Rio de Janeiro, the forty-something year old, Mercedes, goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life - from a child who lost her mother. Over three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces her husband, Gustavo, and has love affairs with Theo and other young men, always supported by her best friend Monica.
- DirectorBraz ChediakStarsLucélia SantosRubens CorreiaDina Sfat
- DirectorPaulo ThiagoStarsNorma BengellLucélia SantosMaria Zilda BethlemIn Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse Madalena. Gertrudes misses and daydreams her former love and has a motherhood relationship with Lúcia; Madalena has a promiscuous life, having one night stand with the most different men every day and her behavior is criticized by Gertreudes; and Lúcia is dreamer that manipulates Gertrudes and expects that the handyman Alfredo becomes her prince charming. Their conflictive relationship ends when Madalena discloses their inner feelings and secrets to each other.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsTarcísio MeiraNey LatorracaLídia BrondiWhen a pedestrian is hit by a bus, simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the body in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. The opportunist scum photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, they accuse Arandir of homosexuality. Further, they say that the victim was his lover and Arandir killed him out of jealousy. Meanwhile, his father-in-law Aprígio who does not like him goes to the suburban village to tell his daughters, Arandir's beloved wife Selminha and her sister Dália, that Arandir is at the police station. The next morning, when the newspapers are distributed, Arandir is in the headline and later is humiliated in his work and in the village where his family lives. While Amado and Cunha manipulate the event and witnesses, common bigoted people believe that Arandir is gay and a killer, with tragic consequences.
- DirectorOlivier PerroyStarsCynira ArrudaXandó BatistaLídia CostaEfigênia is a rich old lady who chose death instead of old age. In her will she gives all she has to a single person: singer Divonzir Dolarte, her true and only love, with whom she'd never had any intercourse. Nevertheless, in order to inherit the money, he must satisfy some conditions of the deceased.
- DirectorMiguel Faria Jr.StarsDjavanPatricia PillarMaria AlvesBased on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica" (Poor Rich Girl), by Vinícius de Moraes and Carlos Lyra, it tells the story of people from slums occupying an empty town and establishing a new society there. At the same time, a rich girl falls in love with a shanty-town guy.
- DirectorRomain LesageStarsArreliaNorma BlumDon Rossé CavacaIt tells the story of a girl being abducted by the evil pirate with a wooden leg.
- DirectorFernando De BarrosStarsDercy GonçalvesOdete LaraMarina FreireMs. Violante Miranda is a bordello owner who raises a small girl as her own granddaughter. When she gets a little older, she is sent to study in Europe, and when she returns, she becomes a socialite, rejecting her previous milieu and her "grandmother".
- DirectorWalter AvanciniStarsTânia AlvesAidil AraújoAguinaldo BatistaThe saga of Severino, a poor guy living in the back country of Northeast Brazil, leaving for the big city of Recife, in search of a better life.
- DirectorJece ValadãoStarsRodolfo ArenaRaul da MataJorge Dória
- DirectorEuripides RamosStarsDercy GonçalvesOdete LaraOswaldo LoureiroCivil servant finds about a group of mill owners who are defrauding some Government taxes. They try to buy him offering a considerable sum, hoping he would lay off the investigation, but he resists.
- DirectorWalter Lima Jr.StarsRubens CorreiaIvan de AlbuquerqueRoberto BonfimAdaptation of José Vicente's play "O Assalto" (The Theft). Bank clerk and a janitor meet at work in the middle of the night, when the first decides to rob the bank's safe.