Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can trust her subjects, however fabulous? When she sets up a stoolie to take the fall for her boy, a plot against Her Majesty arises!

Three young men from the beach neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro lead a carefree life, in spite of having no money. After meeting Denise, who presently turns out to be Dênis (a man), they start to learn some tricks and their lives begin to change.

On the eve of her wedding, Glorinha finds herself looking back at her life and confronting the injustices, sexual perversions, adultery and crimes that are hidden under the happy bourgeoise facade.

In São Paulo, a businessman wants to rehabilitate street children, called "trombinhas", through a social project. After being discouraged by the police, he seeks help from the coach of the Santos Futebol Clube youth team.

Zezé is an eight-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother and suffers the drama of not having known his father. Amanda, Zezé's mother, is a beautiful but disillusioned young woman. She tells her son that his father is constantly traveling, trying to hide her own pain. Father's Day arrives and, at school, the teacher is preparing a party. Zezé, humiliated in front of his classmates, promises that he will bring his father on the day of the celebration. Zezé begs his grandmother to show him at least one photograph of his father. The old woman mistakenly gives him a photo of the singer Tony Marques, her daughter's former boyfriend. Zezé sets off to find her supposed father and ends up getting disastrously involved in the singer's life.

A statuette bought in an antique shop in Tokyo may lead to the discovery of a great treasure.

A documentary short on the 1978 Carnaval celebration in Rio de Janeiro, covering many aspects of the celebration's popular culture.

A mechanic who wants to become a race car pilot has his great opportunity when he has to take the place of another pilot who had suffered an accident.

In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.

The relationship among three friendly couples turns upside down when two of the men get a job on TV. Their girlfriends leave them, looking for more action in their lives.

Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls.

While making a movie in Rio de Janeiro, the singer Roberto Carlos is kidnapped by an international gang that wants to make money with his songs in a computer, together with Pierre, the villain of the movie, and sent to New York.

A long time public servant is told by an angel that he will die at midnight of the following day.

After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He is drunk and end up having a fight and leaving home.

Five friends decide to enjoy Mardi Gras without their wives, leaving them home. But one of the wives doesn't accept this arrangement and tries to get even.

Two young men in search of adventure meet Iracema, a bride who's been left waiting at the church. They give her a ride on their jeep, until they find the most strange family: a couple with seven girls and a son. According to popular tradition, a man born after seven girls is bound to become a werewolf.

Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.

Old couple are being evicted and turn to their five children for help. Since no one can accommodate the two of them, the children decide to separate the couple.

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.