Zezé Polessa

Minha Família Perfeita (2022)

Fred is a successful publicist who is embarrassed to introduce his girlfriends to his eccentric Italian family. He meets Denise, the woman of his dreams, but she only accepts being proposed after meeting her family. Backed against the wall, Fred makes a da ...

O Auto da Boa Mentira (2021)

In four stories inspired by humorous tales by Ariano Suassuna, each created based on phrases by the poet from Paraíba, we meet Helder, Fabiano, Pierce and Lorena, living different situations where, ironically, the lie is always the protagonist. ...

Juntos a Magia Acontece (2019)

The death of the matriarch on Christmas eve provokes a crisis that makes the family review attitudes and give a new meaning to the date. ...

Couples Counseling (2016)

A seasoned couples therapist comes to realize she might need help with her own marriage after meeting a new pair of young clients. ...

Love Stories (2016)

Eduardo discovers he has a split personality: a buttoned-up São Paulo executive and beach-loving weekend playboy in Rio de Janeiro called Duca. Unconsciously, he becomes entangled with a woman although he's already engaged to another. ...

Chatô, The King of Brazil (2015)

The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'. ...

Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme (2015)

Adaptation of the series shown in 1992. A sequence of crimes in the same style intrigue: a man walks with a woman on the beach; she dresses as a bride and is brutally strangled in the middle of the act of love. To prove the authorship of the crimes is the ...

Irmã Dulce (2014)

Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the "Good Angel of Bahia", also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and canonized by the Catholic Church. Contemplating from the 1940s to the 1980s, the film shows how the Catholic nun faced an in ...

The Well Beloved One (2010)

Elected major of the small city of Sucupira, after unfortunate situation, Odorico must open the city cemitery and face acusations of being corrupt, to end his term on good terms with the people. ...

Lost and Found (2007)

A retired cop becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a prostitute. ...

Money on the Side (2007)

Fishy businessman deposits some money in his secretary's (and lover) account. But a typing mistake sends the money to an honest woman's account, whose husband had just been fired. ...

Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am (2005)

In 1908, Titoe leaves her home country of Japan to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years, but life has other plans for her. ...

História de Amor (2005)

Manual para Atropelar Cachorro (2005)

A simple and handy manual to take the boredom under the narration of a sick mind, crazy in any big city. Mojo, a lonely young fanatic about movies and American culture, has dreams that will never come true. After spending his days holed up in a building, h ...

As Alegres Comadres (2003)

Scoundrel João Fausto, a former Portuguese officer, arrives in Tiradentes,in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Using his status of former Imperial Court member, he tries to become lover of both ms. Lima and ms. Rocha, with the intention of taking their m ...

Bufo & Spallanzani (2001)

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 years late ...

Dedicatórias (1998)

Doces Poderes (1997)

A journalist is placed upon the management of a large broadcasting company to the capital of Brazil at the time of local elections. She must now face ideological and ethical questions, brought back by a left-wing former boyfriend and her own colleagues. At ...

The Story of Fausta (1988)

An unhappily married cleaning woman in the slums of Rio entices all the money and gifts she can out of an elderly widower. ...

After Eight... Forever (1987)

Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs. ...