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- Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três Virgens" (The Three Virgins) three spinsters are influenced by the behaviour of their teenager niece, whom they are lodging. In "O Arremate" (The Purchase) a colonist turns his virgin daughter in to a landowner, to have his debts forgiven. And, finally, in "Vereda Tropical" (Tropical Trail), a man becomes sexually obsessed by a watermelon, to the point of having sexual intercourse with it. The stories are based on prize-winner short stories, from a Status Magazine contest.
- Woman living in São Paulo goes to Gramado, South of Brazil, to visit a friend of hers. Together, they meet an odd woman who engages in strange experiences in parapsychology. From then on, bizarre events are bound to happen.
- Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.
- Tadeu, a poor lad from the Northeast of Brazil, comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. His good looks and education win him the favor of rich people. In his spare time, he becomes the favorite among lonely and rich ladies. Soon he gets involved in trouble.
- Santiago arrives in Montevideo to resolve some inheritance-related disputes; on the way to Punta del Este, he gives a ride to Juliette, a young Belgian who is looking for a boyfriend from the past.
- In the 1930s, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a young woman promised to marry a colonel's son decides to run away with the man she loves.
- Comedy in two segments. In "Roy, o Gargalhador Profissional" ("Roy, the Professional Cackler"), a man gets a job as member of a claque, in a TV Show. In "O Ibrahim do Subúrbio" ("The Ibrahim from the Suburb"), a poor Brazilian tailor dreams of taking part in the high life. His greatest wish is to have his name mentioned on a social column written by journalist Ibrahim Sued. When his daughter marries, he throws a luxury party, spending all his money, hoping it'll be mentioned by his idol.
- Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais, Totônio is a symbol of the golden age of state farms: old and accustomed to having all his wills obeyed. However, after moving to his son's home because of his wife's death and the resulting loneliness, he realizes that he has lost his job as a boss and is struggling to regain his prestige by moving to a brothel.
- Drama set in São Paulo, Brazil, in the 1930s. A journalist tries to fight against oligarchies of the time, whose main resource was coffee plantation.
- Why "Vozes do Medo" (Voices of Fear)? A movie in the form of a magazine, about constrainment, negation, impossibility, apathy. There is no story, only facts which might constitute a story, represented using the most diverse forms of cinema language. An special issue about FEAR. Why this subject? The concerns about freedom, freedom which can not be translated only by mysticism, adventure, pornography, symbolism, and laugh, but only by the whole. How to tell and summarize the plot of "Vozes do Medo"? Face to face to reality. 12 itens, 12 directors, where there a merge is made between cinema-verite and fiction, cartoons and fantastic realism, and an infinity of other tendencies and manifestations of the free speech. A survey about Brazil during the 70s. An experiment about freedom.