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- After producing a successful underground snuff movie in which the lead actress is raped and killed, Brazilian Miguel returns to São Paulo pretending to be American director Michael Tracey and convinces his partner Bob Channing to cast and hire a crew to produce another movie. With attractive salaries, they hire the broken cinema technician Edson Lima and his assistant Juarez. Together, they cast stripper/hooker Lia de Souza; decadent former actress Taty Ibanez; aspiring actress Glória Verdi; Miss São Paulo contestant Maria Rosa; and an actor interned in a mental institution, Sérgio Bandeira. The group moves to the small town of Limeira believing they will secretly shoot porn. When Bob falls in love with Lia, he tries to convince Michael to forget the snuff and avoid her death. But Michael is reluctant to give up his project.
- Sandra is a rich widow who wants to know the beach house her late husband has left her. She goes there with her lover Odilon, an unscrupulous young man whose studies she's supporting. Helping her with the red tape is dr. Carvalho, a very conservative and old-fashioned lawyer. In her way to the house, she meets a couple of hippies, looking for a place to stay. She hires them as temporary housekeepers. Living nearby is a crazy prophet, who shows his genitals to anybody who comes close. During their stay in the house, all these characters clash, in unusual and funny ways, including some disgusting tourists, three young women on vacation, the police, prostitutes, a reporter for a communist magazine, and many others.
- The story of a famous Brazilian criminal, called The Red Light Bandit because he always used a red flashlight to break in the houses during the night. Working alone, he also used to rape his female victims.
- Psychiatrist experiments LSD on 4 volunteers, to investigate Coffin Joe's influence over them. Each patient presents a different reaction, involving sex, perversion and sadism.
- Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.
- Helena and Renato are a couple who leave behind the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house, far from all their previous complications when the wife started to suffer with strange visions. But their problems are from over when all the electronic objects of the new house seem to have a life of their own, scaring the woman and making her look more insane each day goes by. Her husband and neighbors don't believe her stories of being attacked by such objects but a mystery about the death of the previous owner might explain the truth behind the strange occurrences at this residence.
- Ana, a fake journalist and professional assassin, is assigned by the far right organization she works for, for a daring mission on the Isle of Prazeres. Using former journalist Sérgio as guide, she must be able to enter the site and eliminate two subversive refugees: the Reichian theoretician William, who shares his wife, Lucia with Sergio and the anarchist Nilo who lives with two sisters, Brigite and Monique in a tent at the seaside. In direct contact with the hedonism of the paradisiac stronghold of renegades, the hit-woman discovers, with difficulty, the revolutionary function of pleasure.
- Tale of three stories. 'Rainha do Fliper' (Pinball's Queen) In the outskirts of São Paulo, Reginéia is the pinball's queen, exploited by her pimp Giba. Out of the blue, her former boyfriend Tenório (a.k.a. Tezinho) comes to the arcade place seeking out Reginéia. She gets close to Tenório and has an argument with the jealous Giba. But Reginéia soon finds how insecure and mediocre Tenório is. 'Uma Aula de Sanfona' (One Class of Accordion) Bank clerk Nanci and her friend Cristina have come from Ribeirão Preto and share an apartment in São Paulo. Nanci has an argument with her lover Valdemar, and goes to her room blaming her upset on the accordian lessons that her neighbor, Durval Pereira, is giving on the floor above. When their electric shower stops working Cristina asks Durval if he can fix it. Meanwhile, Valdemar comes to the apartment and Nanci decides to use her neighbor to make her boyfriend jealous. Nanci teases Durval and they have sex. Nanci becomes infatuated with Durval but when she pays him an unexpected visit she finds that he is not teaching accordion, but he is actually a pedophile. 'Belinha, a Virgem' (Belinha, the Virgin) In São Paulo, the wedding day of the virgin, Belinha is rapidly approaching,. But the wedding is against the will of her fiancé's mother. Belinha is not intimate before the wedding with her fiancé. What he does not know is that she is actually an amoral call girl who exploits old men, while she remains virgin. When her future mother-in-law asks the parochial priest to check whether Belinha is virgin or not, the girl uses her sculptural body to resolve the situation.
- After seven years, Cláudio and Elisa's marriage is in danger. Some friends take Cláudio to a sex-shop, where he buys a rubber tongue, a little device that can save their relationship.
- Stark naked man comes out from the sea and begins to walk the streets, interfering in daily episodes, always in search of justice. He names himself Finis Hominis (The End of Man, in latin), and soon becomes sort of a modern Messiah, capable of performing miracles. An adulterous woman and a cheated husband are among his most faithful followers, as well as a group of hippies.
- Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.
- Simple-minded young woman becomes a successful prostitute.
- Two friends release a book called "Western Feeling". During the launch party, they meet people that remember them of several episodes from their youth.
- The film consists of two stories: the first one takes place in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and the second one, of a more political character, takes place during the 1964 Coup in Brazil.
- In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn movie. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the military dictatorship of the country. 30 years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.
- A writer moves to an isolated beach house to write a new book, and gradually gets involved with his odd new neighbors.
- A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.
- Mulheres de cortiço do bairro do Bexiga se tornam prostitutas, induzidas por uma mulata e um picareta.
- Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer.
- The life and work of Brazilian film director and writer Luís Sérgio Person is presented in this fascinating documentary/tribute written and directed by his daughter Marina Person. She interviews actors, family members and friends who worked with him.