Luciano Quirino

The death of the matriarch on Christmas eve provokes a crisis that makes the family review attitudes and give a new meaning to the date.

A phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian military dictatorship.

Palermo, Sicilia, 1980. Tommaso Buscetta, miembro de la mafia siciliana, decide mudarse a Brasil con su familia huyendo de la guerra constante entre los diferentes clanes de la organización criminal. Pero cuando, después de vivir varias desgracias, se ve obligado a regresar a Italia, toma una decisión audaz que cambiará para siempre su vida y el destino de la Cosa Nostra.

Morena joins her transsexual friends for another night of routine and struggle for survival. But when she comes across a new client, she returns to her past in a violent and harrowing way.

Arthur Bispo do Rosario's past is practically unknown. It is only known that he was black, a sailor and a boxer. In 1938 he was admitted to Colônia Juliano Moreira after a mystical delusion.

Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.

Joana has the same dream as all young Brazilian girls in the 80s: she wants to be a Paquita, a dancer on Xuxa's TV show. Her family is wealthy, and will support her. However, there is a problem; she is black and Xuxa never had a black Paquita on her team.

Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children, the eldest of whom is doing his military service, and a mother who works as a maid in her house. None of the three siblings pay much attention to their mother, and they treat their grandmother with lack of respect. Alice's life in the female working world contrasts strongly with the powerful masculine presence in her home. Although she's a good girl, the chance to betray uncovers other betrayals she didn't know existed.

La película está basada en las experiencias del doctor Drauzio Varella en la prisión estatal Carandiru, en São Paulo, Brasil, durante sus trabajos de prevención del SIDA. En la prisión se encontró con cientos de convictos bajo condiciones infrahumanas hasta el punto culminante de 1992 cuando una revuelta provocó el asesinato de 111 hombres.