Movies: José Mayer

Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten year...

Elisa is a journalist who becomes romantically involved with Hugo, a director of the company Jota Mineração, when she receives an order to write a story about the company. However, the relationship between the two begins to destabilize when the compa...

In Rio de Janeiro, the forty and something years old Mercedes (Lília Cabral) goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life since she was a girl and lost her mother. Along the three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces from...

Luís celebrates his golden wedding anniversary with his wife Alice. After the party, when the couple recalls some of the moments they built, he reveals a secret: he had a great passion in the past....

Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife Marta is the family breadwinner. Things escalate in the relationship when the man starts to feel underval...

A rich and lonely old man leaves his old mansion in Ouro Preto to his nephew, who moves into it with his wife. But soon enough the house begins to acquire a will of its own, while the man’s personality undergoes a radical transformation, assimilating...

Creative documentary on multi-faceted Brazilian musician Radames Gnattali...

During the military dictatorship, a political militant takes his son out of the boarding school, and puts him temporarily in a friend's luxury and empty apartment in Copacabana beach. The son knows very little about his father, and the latter cannot ...

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Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. For more than a decade, Daniel nurtures a feeling of revenge for his ex-wife, which gains strength when the...

After meeting a beguiling woman in a movie theater, a realtor becomes embroiled in a mysterious plot involving murder, double identities and movies....

Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people....

Adapted from the series aired in 2001. Looking for inspiration during the holidays, Nando sees Anita as the ideal character for his novel. She lives in a townhouse where a passionate crime happened in the past. Intense, Anita seduces Nando and awaken...

A rich heiress arrives in Belo Horizonte from Buenos Aires to receive her fortune. After visiting her late mother's grave and picking up a rose there, she begins to receive constant phone calls from an unknown caller demanding the flower back....

Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from death. The payment is to carry a heavy cross from the interior of Bahia to a church in Salvador. When you reach the...

A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James....

The real-life story of Zeneida, a girl who moves to a farm with her mother and finds herself having an unusual connection with a forest spirit....

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Alice faces a lot of trouble to make a film about artist Marcel Duchamp. She randomly chooses musician Antônio for the main part, and ends up having an affair with him....

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