Paulo Gracindo

Eldorado, a fictitious country in Latin America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power... (imdb)

Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell. (imdb)

Rio de Janeiro police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he tracts a serial killer of taxi-drivers, he also seeks his estranged daughter, Sandra, who he had thrown out of the family home when she adopted a promiscuous teenage lifestyle...(imdb)

The paraplegic Boris (Paulo Gracindo) stays at home with the beautiful young woman Cacau (Luciana Vendramini), while his wife Ivette (Fernanda Montenegro) goes to the movie theater. When Cadú (Marcos Palmeira), the boyfriend of Cacau, unexpectedly arrives in the apartment, a night of sex, sadism and violence happens. When Ivette returns, the fantasies of a sick mind are disclosed in a surprising end. (imdb)

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.

Woman who is obsessed with death wants a first-class burial for herself, and even buys a luxury coffin beforehand. (imdb)

The tensions experienced by three different people during the military dictatorship in Brazil: a politician, a revolutionary and a common citizen. (imdb)

Based freely on the Brazilian novel Macunaíma. Two Macunaímas leave their constellation in the sky and arrive in Brazil in the 80's in search of their creator, Mário de Andrade.

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations. (imdb)

Miguel Horta, a young opposition politician, decides switch of party to infiltrate the government by thinking that only within the power could do something for the public cause. One day receives the visit from a ward heeler saying that scabs are trying to overthrow the board of the union, because a bill which he authored. Despite appeals from Clara, his wife, Miguel goes to the union, where workers are in a general meeting.

Country couple go to Rio de Janeiro during the Carnival. They don't like the party, but two other couples, their friends, enjoy the festivity. One of the women places a strange bet on their husbands' unfaithfulness. They arrange an invitation for them, to a big party, which they secretly accept, forging false excuses. Meanwhile, they also attend to the party, in masquerade. And are courted by them. (imdb)

Moreira lives in a pension, works in a firm and is engaged to Angelina for 12 years. One day he meets Roberto, an old friend, who advises him to try something better. Moreira prefers the right, albeit modest. Angelina irritated with the long engagement weapon violent fight and Moreira gets married. After the honeymoon the couple will live in the back of a widow's house in Jacarepaguá. A few years later he meets Roberto again. This time Angelina also insists on improvement.

A young woman suddenly decides to end her own life. But before putting the plan into practice, she stays in a luxury hotel, pretending to be a baroness.

Set in São Paulo, the plot of Rainha da Sucata portrays the universe of the new rich and the decadent elite of São Paulo, opposing two female characters, the emerging Maria do Carmo Pereira and the bankrupt socialite Laurinha Figueroa. (imdb)

Sucupira's mayor, a corrupt politician full of tricks, has the inauguration of the local cemetery as his administration's priority, but is met with opposition led by the police chief and a newspaper journalist, in a deathless city. (imdb)