Liana Duval

The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema (1987)

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

Vera (1986)

Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer who committed suicide at the age of 20, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a transman who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with young librarian Clara. ...

Movie Dementia (1986)

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowle ...

Um Casal de 3 (1984)

Nasce uma Mulher (1983)

On Jo's birthday, her mother, and later, her father, discover that she is not a virgin anymore - she is taking pills. The birthday party turns into a complete mess, since Jo's mother can not hold herself and accuses her daughter in front of all guests of n ...

Tchau, Amor (1983)

An unemployed radio worker obsessed with suicide meets a rich brat. ...

Tudo na Cama (1983)

The Night of the Terrace 2 (1982)

In "Solo de Violino", bank clerk and aspirant violinist Rodrigo is a serial killer. When his next door neighbor reveals that she is in love with his music and Rodrigo, he has difficulties in controlling his killing impulses. In "A Guerra da Malvina", four ...

O Vale dos Amantes (1982)

Love, Prostitute Word (1982)

Follows the relationship between two couples: An unemployed professor, Fernando, sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita, and sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperient Lilita. ...

Sete Dias de Agonia (1982)

After a heavy rain storm, several vehicles get stuck on a muddy road. Soon hunger and fatigue change people's manners, making them behave in a very noncivilized way. ...

Act of Violence (1981)

Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out. ...

Porno! (1981)

Three tales of the erotic: Two young ladies experiment with lesbianism, a handsome and wealthy socialite makes a beautiful woman patiently wait to make love to him, and a gorgeous, but controlling and dominating blind woman makes a hunky stud her sexual ho ...

Império das Taras (1980)

Ariella (1980)

Ariella, a lonely young woman, feels like a stranger in her own house. Ariella is discovering her sexuality and her arrogant mother Helena, her father Rodrigo and her brothers Clécio and Alfonso do not give any love or affection to her. One day Ariella di ...

Joelma 23rd Floor (1979)

'Joelma 23rd Floor' faithfully reconstructs the story of young Lucimar, one of the 170 fatal victims of the Joelma Building fire, which occurred in São Paulo, on the morning of February 1, 1974. ...

Dani - Um Cachorro Muito Vivo (1979)

Rain Lovers (1979)

A curious story: it rains whenever a couple of lovers meet. Against the weather forecast, it rains all over the city. And as the love grows, the stronger becomes the rain. Found by a television crew, they receive the title of "Rain Lovers", and their dates ...

Woman, Woman (1979)

Recently turned into a widow, Alice goes to the country to think about her life. There, she's courted by Luis Carlos but falls in love with Marta. However, Jumbo, a horse, also arouses strange and erotic feelings in her mind. ...

For a Woman's Body (1979)

O Milagre - O Poder da Fé (1979)

O Outro Lado do Crime (1979)

Mágoa de Boiadeiro (1978)

A Casa das Tentações (1977)

Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício. ...

Excitation (1977)

Helena and Renato are a couple who leave behind the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house and help Helena recover from her nervous crises. But soon she begins to suffer from increasingly worrying hallucinations, and the house's mystery appliance ...

O Seminarista (1977)

Eugênio falls in love for Margarida, a poor girl who lives in his parents' farm. In order to avoid their love affair, the parents send him to a Catholic Seminary to be a priest. Just before his ordination, he meets Margarida again, and their old feelings ...

Macho e Fêmea (1974)

Juliano is a millionaire who leads a boring life amidst the facilities that money provides him. One day, he decides to change his routine and associates with a mad scientist, Professor Kunz, who invents a magic potion, a drug that releases the other side o ...

Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável (1974)

On a farm in rural Brazil in the 18th century, a new overseer arrives. He falls in love with one of the enslaved women, Mestiça, beloved by all the men. When a pair of silver earrings disappears from the farm and the overseer orders the leader of the ensl ...

Pensionato de Mulheres (1974)

The Delights of Life (1974)

Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role. ...

Anjo Loiro (1973)

Armando, a single high-school teacher living a steady life, sees his world crumbles when he falls in love with Laura, the ex-girlfriend of one of his favorite students. ...

Pedro and Pablo (1973)

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the work of two young priests. ...

Fora das Grades (1971)

O Pornógrafo (1970)

Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upset the ...

Em Cada Coração um Punhal (1970)

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. ...

Transplante de Mãe (1970)

Crônica da Cidade Amada (1965)

Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time. ...

The Kiss (1965)

When a dying man receives a kiss from a bereaved man who tries to save him, the man is jailed as a homosexual. He is released from jail, but his life has been ruined by the incident -- and the man eventually is killed by his own father-in-law. The kiss tha ...

Só Naquela Base (1960)

O Pão Que o Diabo Amassou (1957)

A ruthless loan shark doesn't realize the evil that he has done to his own family: his son is waist-deep in resentment, and his daughter- married to an unsuccessful lawyer - ends up prostituting herself. ...

Hoje o Galo Sou Eu! (1957)

A Pensão de D. Estela (1956)

The story takes place in a boarding house, on the verge of bankruptcy, where the most different characters parade: a solitary woman, a womanizer singer, a musical group, an unemployed doctor, a football player and a radio singer, and where everyone gets in ...

Floradas na Serra (1954)

Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão. ...

O Craque (1953)

Minutes before the start of an important football match between Corinthians and the Uruguayan team of Carrasco, the main player of the São Paulo team, Baltazar ends up cut because of a serious appendicitis crisis. In place of the Corinthians top scorer, r ...

Uma Vida Para Dois (1953)

Two men love the same woman and make a death pact, but fate surprises all three (and the public). ...

João Gangorra (1952)

To avoid gossips about his life, a rich man hires a butcher to play his wife's lover. But the two fall in love causing more troubles than expected. ...

Nadando em Dinheiro (1952)

Isidoro, a poor guy, suddenly becomes a millionaire, and gets into the most bizarre situations. ...