Movies: Mauro Alice

Ana, a young psychology student, is hired as a nanny for two children in Petrópolis, Brazil. Left alone with the children and the groundskeeper, she begins to receive threatening phone calls during the night, entering a spiral of panic with tragic co...

A woman asks her boyfriend for his mother's heart as a proof of love. Another, a kleptomaniac, has an affair with a TV professional. And a young man becomes a sex symbol after an advertising campaign....

Four deserters from Paraguay War hide in an old drunkard's country seat. The latter has two daughters who are unhappy with their recluse lives....

In the Brazilian countryside, poor sharecroppers join a messianic group led by Joaquim, who believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Gaining power over the peasants, he begins to persecute those who do not pay absolute obeisance....

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Jeca Tatu is a lazy, simple-minded guy who has his property threatened by the greed of a landowner....

Shady and beautiful art dealer involves her former lover and an art expert in a scheme to deceive a rich collector. Exposed, she escapes with her new lover, a pilot....

Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from some of her friends....

Arlindo works delivering the clothes that his wife washes. During a working day, he finds a customer's cat, who offers a reward to whoever returns it. To deliver the animal, he ends up going through a lot of confusion....

Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother....

Taxi driver gets in a jam when he receives a lot of money as inheritance from a distant family member when in fact, the money came from a bank robbery....

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A woman, who believes she has a curse, sees an engineer die in an accident while building a bridge. Considering two men who were courting her responsible for the tragedy, she decides to take revenge on both. Brazilian version of Brontë's Wuthering He...

A singer is in love with the wife of a rich banker. Both men have the same analyst who allow them to swap souls....

Helena, a criminal's daughter, was raised in a boarding school. When the priest who was her teacher is killed by a group of outlaws, Helena and her female friends assemble in a strange gang of female bandits, wandering Northeast Brazil and forcing th...

Simple and popular hillbilly Jeca is forced to get involved in politics, when the leaders of the region, competing to be elected mayor of the town, try to get his support....

Embarking on a whimsical adventure, Monica and her friends take center stage in four captivating tales. The first, "O Plano Infalível," showcases Jimmy Five's latest scheme to defeat Monica and her indomitable bunny companion. In "Um Amor de Ratinho,...

Old and conservative industrialist goes to São Paulo to visit his children, who are locally in charge of his business. When he finds out they're having more fun than work, at first he is shocked, but gradually starts to join in....

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An executive inherits a mine and decides to visit it with his wife, with the help of an airplane pilot who knows the whole area. The group gets in trouble with the miners, and the situation escalates when they have to make a forced landing in the for...