Our story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born full grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family/followers on ...
A group of scoundrels want to make it by planning hoaxes.
Young man participates in TV contests to help the girl he loves using the money he expects to win.
A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gays, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro. When the slut threatens the other two to ...
Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.
The adventures of a man of many women and jobs.
Sexy blonde meets a man who calls himself "the king of the pack". He had been told about this relationship by a fortuneteller.
Elevator is abducted in order to force a cardinal who was in it to marry a couple in Brazil.
Robinson Crusoe spoof, with touches of Peter Pan. Shipwreck victim lands on a desert island, finds a friendly native and has to fight pirates whose leader is Captain Hook himself.
She is a fortune teller, he is a killer on the run. He gives her a ride and an tragic love affair begins.
A fictional account of Orson Welles' real passage to Brazil where he was supposed to film a cultural film called "It's All True", to present a positive image of Brazilian people and the ...
Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.
When major drug-dealer Boca de Ouro dies, a reporter interviews his ex-lover, now married, with children, and living in a poor house, to try to understand more about his complex personality...