Screenplay: Nelson Rodrigues

Direction León Hirszman

Cast Fernanda Montenegro · Paulo Gracindo · Ivan Cândido · Nelson Xavier

Plot A woman who is obsessed with death wants a first-class burial for herself, and even buys a luxury coffin beforehand.

Direction Bruno Barreto

Cast Tarcísio Meira · Ney Latorraca · Lídia Brondi · Christiane Torloni

Plot When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. The opportunist scum photographer...

Direction Arnaldo Jabor

Cast Paulo Porto · Darlene Glória · Elza Gomes · Paulo César Peréio

Plot 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.

Direction Neville de Almeida

Cast Sônia Braga · Nuno Leal Maia · Jorge Dória · Paulo César Peréio

Plot 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....

Direction Murilo Benício

Cast Lázaro Ramos · Fernanda Montenegro · Débora Falabella · Augusto Madeira

Plot Based on the homonymous play written by Nelson Rodrigues. When witnessing a hit by a car, Arandir, a newly married bank clerk, tries to help the victim, but the man,...

Direction Braz Chediak

Cast Lucélia Santos · José Wilker · Vera Fischer · Carlos Kroeber

Plot A 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...

Direction Daniel Filho

Cast Marcos Palmeira · Malu Mader · Lorena Comparato · Thiago Rodrigues

Plot "Boca de Ouro" (Golden Mouth) tells the story of a feared and respected mob boss, an almost mythological figure of Madureira (a neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro...

Direction Carlos Hugo Christensen

Cast Eduardo Abbas · Luiz Afonso · Mario Alimari · Celeste Arantes

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Jece Valadão · Odete Lara · Daniel Filho · Maria Lúcia Monteiro

Plot 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...

Direction Arnaldo Jabor

Cast Adriana Prieto · Paulo Porto · Camila Amado · Nelson Dantas

Direction Andrucha Waddington

Cast Fernanda Torres · Evandro Mesquita · Francisco Cuoco · Fernanda Montenegro

Plot The story is set in the early 80s in a middle-class neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro: identical twin sisters Iara and Marilena (Fernanda Torres) live playing tricks on men, pretending...

Direction Neville de Almeida

Cast Antonio Fagundes · Ana Maria Magalhães · Lima Duarte · Ary Fontoura

Plot Noronha, who works at the Chamber of Deputies as an office boy, lives in the Grajaú with his wife, Gorda and their five unmarried daughters, Aurora, Hilda, Debora, Arlete and...