José Augusto Loureiro

To avoid losing her family home, a talented visual artist deceives an entire town with an accidentally concocted hoax, leading her to create unusual situations to maintain the lie.

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Torquato, a widowed taxi driver with no money to make ends meet, struggles to bring some joy to his young daughter, expressing his frustrations and perseverance through songs.

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A father is capable of anything to help his child when love knows no bounds.

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A critique and analysis of the period of the military dictatorship in Brazil. The film shows another side of the reality of that time, creating real and complex characters, often forgotten by time.

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Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.

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The real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.

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In 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.

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