Américo Taricano

An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his...

Young Daniel is dying to lose his virginity, but his love life is completely messed up. His father, seeing this, invites a cousin from São...

Gato is an experienced thief who breaks into a doctor's house with two cronies for a complicated plan: "sell" the guy's Mercedes to several buyers,...

André is the powerful owner of an illegal casino and popular gambling ("Jogo de Bicho") on the streets. His gang is in war against the gang of...

Famous crime story writer puzzles police investigator when all the women he gets involved with get murdered.

Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar...

An employee of a glass factory suffers with his wife's contempt and starts to develop homicidal delusions about her. One night, he meets a singer...

Barbara Leen owns a coffee export company based in Rio de Janeiro. The company has long since been infiltrated by smugglers, without Barbara knowing...

Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering...