José Mayer

Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub. (imdb)

Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises. (imdb)

Real estate broker and former boxer enters an old cinema in the decadent downtown São Paulo and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much alike the leading lady of the film. He gets involved with her and her problems and in no time is being accused of a crime. (imdb)

A woman with a stabilized life decides to go to an analyst, just by curiosity. It's the beginning of a journey of self-discovery.

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)

After the death of her father in Argentina, Elza returns to Brazil to see her remaining family. When visiting her mother's grave, she steals a flower off an unknown grave and put it in her mother's. After that, she begins to receive strange phone calls, from an unknown voice that claims: "Give back my flower!". She becomes terrified and obsessed with the stranger's voice, and starts believing that it's the spirit of the deceased. (imdb)

Claus lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. Born in a small town, went to capital, he worked in a bakery, married. It is an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.

The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of the businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar, at the beginning of August. During the Vargas government crisis, the case is taken by the police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man, who is not well regarded by colleagues, since the place is totally surrendered to corruption. (imdb.com)

This is a comedy; a double satire of Brazilian soap operas and at the same time, about "savage capitalism" in 1990's Brazil where the Amazon jungle is exploited, while killing Indians and appropriating the land of its few surviving owners

Young man inherits small fortune from his old uncle, on condition he lives in the old man's house for a time. Soon the uncle's spirit begins to manifest itself through the nephew's personality, requiring the presence of an exorcist. (imdb)

Short stories about unexpected (and very tragic) things that can happen in relationships/marriages. (imdb)

The real-life story of Zeneida, a girl who moves to a farm with her mother and finds herself having an unusual connection with a forest spirit.

A man's journey from his humble origins to his life as a millionaire patriarch. his dedicated first daughter, and the unscrupulous efforts of a woman who is obsessed with him. (imdb)

A middle-aged and troublesome writer finds inspiration for his newest novel in a lonely, mysterious and seductive young woman. (imdb)

The unconditional love a mother has for her daughter, even after they fall in love with the same man. (imdb)

A retired fashion model falls for a divorced older man and his family is doubtful of their relationship. (imdb)