Nuno Leal Maia

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations.

Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro.

Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.

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A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.

In the 1980s, a journalist sets out to find the whereabouts of a famous singer/actress who disappeared decades earlier. During his search, he goes across several states in what ultimately becomes not only a search for a missing person but a journey of self-discovery.

Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful fashion designer.

Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another woman, causes a lot of humiliating situations to him.

A senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power structure resents this disturbance and can fall apart, specially since there's a witness.

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro he won a scholarship to study in Paris. In Paris Polidoro receives a letter in which Alberto announces that he married Helena. Polidoro returns to Brazil in 1945, when there was a strong political agitation against the New State. Alberto invites Polidoro to spend a few days at his home in Campos do Jordão. After reaching the site he is told by Helena that Alberto was forced to travel urgently. She insists he should stay there until the return of her husband and, while waiting, she seduces him. Then, after several days of intense passion, she orders Polidoro to go away and never see her again.

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

Jurema, of humble origins, was raised on a large farm together with Vítor Correia and Carlos Valadares, whose father was the farmer. The three of them were very close and spent their childhood together. Only in adolescence began the rivalry between Carlos and Vítor, because of Jurema.

The story revolves around the conflicts within Silvana and Oliva's family—her mother and paternal grandfather—who are fighting for custody of Zeca after the child's father dies.

After getting lost on a sea excursion, Jô Penteado and Fábio Coutinho develop mutual feelings during the two months they spend stranded on a deserted island.

In São Francisco das Formigas, women led by Léo challenge the power of Mayor Juca Tigre to emancipate the village and achieve economic and social autonomy.