Adriano Stuart

Algemas de Ouro

Dead Gods

In 1889, a conflict arose between the decadent and ruined rural aristocracy following the liberation of slaves and a new class of wealthy individuals, comprised of entrepreneurs emerging from the republican industrial class, interested in free labor. In the city of Ouro Negro, in the interior of São Paulo state, the conservative, aristocratic, and monarchist Almeida Santos family, which traditionally dominated the region, began to lose ground to the Lobo Ferraz family, representing the nascent progressive and republican bourgeoisie.

JK

Juscelino Kubitschek was born in Diamantina. Rising from a humble childhood to become a respected physician, he married Sarah and began the journey that would lead him to the presidency of Brazil.

Editora Mayo, Bom Dia

Os Miseráveis

The story begins during the French Revolution, at the end of the 18th century. Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread to feed his younger sister and ends up imprisoned for it. Released many years later, he tries to start his life anew and redeem himself. He becomes a rich man, but always lives in the shadow of his "criminal" past. While trying to escape the pursuit of Inspector Javert, Jean meets the poor girl Cosette. Treated as a slave, he takes her into his home to raise her as his daughter.

Pingo de Gente

O Príncipe

After 20 years of exile in Paris, Gustavo returns to his native city São Paulo. Back home, he encounters a place which no longer exists. His old friends and family members have changed, almost beyond recognition. He tries to recapture the past, and make some sense of his life, that of his friends and family, and the present state of his native country.

Chão Bruto

Embodiment of Evil

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.

Meu Japão Brasileiro

Fofuca is a farmer who faces the exploitation of an entrepreneur in a Japanese-Brazilian community. He joins the Japanese immigrants, who found a cooperative where they fight for their rights.

Party

A harmonicist, a pool player, and his old assistant get invited as entertainers at a fancy dinner party but have to wait in the lobby for what seems like forever. They witness all sorts of absurdities as the party goes on and guests loosen up.

Girls from ABC

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.

Oliver Twist

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labour in Victorian England.

The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe

Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the story for his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force.

Cada um Dá o Que Tem

Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.