João Baldasserini

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Crashing Into the Future

The Sabino Machado family, their slaves and entourage spend years frozen in the ocean after a shipwreck in 1886. They wake up gradually, one by one, and must learn to deal with the technology and the human idiosyncrasies of the present times. Among cultural and temporal shocks, "the frozen ones" encounter improbable friendships, romances and greedy people, while fighting prejudices that not even time was able to eradicate.

All About Family

Five half-siblings – Venus, Andromeda, Jupiter, Electra, and Plutao – share the same father, Pedro. Separated by their respective mothers after Pedro's death, the quintet have had few social and intimate interactions since. Years later, now adults, they reunite when their millionaire grandmother disappears on a cruise and is presumed dead. To earn their inheritance, they will have to live and work together for a year in an attempt to bring the family business back to its peak. If they don't succeed, the inheritance will go to their cousin, Hans, who will do anything to get the money from his aunt.

The Big Catch

In this romantic police comedy, after a luxury hotel is robbed by four of its employees, the lives of all people involved are turned upside down. With different motivations, they will do all they can not to be discovered, bringing all sorts of conflicts into the hotel. The confusion escalates when the detective trying to solve the case falls in love with one of the robbers, unaware he is one.

Lady Night

The Childhood of Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet are kids that belong to different worlds, rival groups, and enemy families, but they like each other and can’t help the feeling. To stay together, they have to solve mysteries from the past and face those who they love the most to bring back harmony.

Modern Times

The story revolves around Leal, an executive who built the largest smart building in the city. The soap opera discusses the relationship between man and technology.

Burning Hearts

Tancinha is a charming fruit seller known for her hot temper who gets torn between an explosive relationship with passionate truck driver Apolo, her neighbour and childhood sweetheart, and an irresistible attraction for Beto, a lady-killer who will not take no for an answer. The girl ends up being caught up in a family feud over the disappearance of her father whom she believed to be dead. Tancinha will leave a path of turmoil along her way to unveil this mystery.

Run For Your Lives

In this romantic comedy, life links together the fate of three completely different women, after witnessing the murder of a judge during a hurricane in Cancun. To stay safe, Kyra, Alexia and Luna have to give up their lives and start over with new identities on a witness protection program. Packed with romance and new experiences, the struggle for survival will make them question their dreams and loves they had until that point.

The Illusionist

The illusionist is mysterious, captivating and mesmerizes all those around him. But is he really a swindler or a man with extraordinary powers? This fascinating telenovela tells the story of seductive Herculano Quintanilha, who exerts significant influence over his great love Amanda, the Hayalla family and his friends. These and other enigmas can be found in The Illusionist, a telenovela where seduction is the great secret.

Passionais

In each episode, a story unfolds about how a couple's passion turned sour, as love succumbed to jealousy, hate and even crime.

Happily Ever After?

When the mysterious call girl Danny Bond comes on the scene, a crime of passion changes forever the lives of all involved. Who will the victim be? And the villain? After all, in a story so full of secrets and infidelity, who can get away with it to live happily ever after?

Matches

Lyrics

In the short end of pregnancy, a samba singer sees herself shared between two men that believes to be the father of her baby. Duelling men: a militiaman, a hacker and Shirley, a cross-dresser, best friend of the singer, who really plays the role of head on that family. Dreams, love, jealousy, life and death. Like in our songs.

Na Quebrada

In the ghettos of the greatest metropolis in Brazil, a midst flying bullets, love and any number of hurdles, young people's stories mingle and collide in the search for dreams and choices. Inspired by true stories, the feature film 'Broken Town' reveals the struggle faced and the choices made by teenagers who have always been surrounded by weapons, crime, and hardship.