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- Man raised in a brothel tries to earn his living as a pimp, but gets in trouble when his girlfriend cheats him with an older man.
- A psychiatrist lends her country house to a patient, expecting she would repose. But she meets a neurotic former lover, and the psychiatrist gets so involved in the couple's problems that she ends up getting dependent of them.
- A tireless and incorrigible seducer looks for - and seems to find - the woman of his life.
- Dani is a boy who is reaching puberty and his father is worried because he is not interested in the opposite sex. All his attitudes make his father distrust his masculinity.
- In a small city of Brazil, a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho, but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking and he takes all of her money to gamble. After Vadinho dies, Flor marries Tedoror, the owner of a drugstore. Flor is happy with her new husband but misses the love life with her previous husband. When one day the ghost of Vadhino comes back to pursue her.
- Helena and Renato are a couple who leave behind the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house, far from all their previous complications when the wife started to suffer with strange visions. But their problems are from over when all the electronic objects of the new house seem to have a life of their own, scaring the woman and making her look more insane each day goes by. Her husband and neighbors don't believe her stories of being attacked by such objects but a mystery about the death of the previous owner might explain the truth behind the strange occurrences at this residence.
- A series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle involved.
- Toquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together with his widow mother and a younger sister. Although he is poor, he is also ambitious, and wants to change his life. He spends all his time on the beach, at Arpoador, Ipanema, where he dreams to become a famous surfer. Besides, he usually finds Patricia there, a rich and liberated young woman, whom he likes a lot. To impress Patricia and satisfy some of her wishes, he lets himself be seduced by André, a gay guy who, in return for his sexual favors, promises him a trip to Hawaii for a surf championship.
- A writer moves to an isolated beach house to write a new book, and gradually gets involved with his odd new neighbors.
- Mariel is a lifeguard concerned with the welfare of people. One day he rescues a suicide at sea and falls in love with his daughter, Margarida Maria, a drug addicted prostitute. The enormous violence Rio de Janeiro goes through and influences Mariel's decision to be a policeman. He gets featured and is called to be security of politicians. Carioca violence is on the rise and Delegate Goulart creates the death squad, of which he becomes the leader, to exterminate members of organized crime. Lucio Flavio is a criminal who draws the attention of the media for the large number of murders attributed to him. To Mariel's surprise, Deputy Goulart is also part of the gang. Even so, he is not intimidated, kills the leader of the gang and continue chasing Lucius Flavius. The death squad declares war on the gang of stolen cars. As a result of his investigations, Mariel becomes dangerous to the police. He is arrested but manages to escape. He starts to live in hiding. Margarida Maria is admitted to a hospice and dies of cocaine overdose. Mariel is again arrested but continues to threaten Lucio Flavio, also detained by police. Both are in different prisons. The war continues between the prisons.
- Unhappy with her marriage, woman looks for sexual satisfaction by any means.
- An architect remembers his past as a teacher when he helped a young female student. She was tortured by a policeman, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, in the '60s, and died as consequence. When his daughter is kidnapped, ironic circumstances force him to appeal to the same policeman.
- Story about people who experience situations beyond accepted moral patterns. Among them, a girl who engages in prostitution, despite having a serious relationship, and gets involved with her boyfriend's father. We also see an intellectual type guy who is unable to control his sexual impulses.
- Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four elder daughters. The fifth and youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.
- The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.
- Giselle seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her. Then, she has affairs with her father's stepson, and with the farm housekeeper.
- 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.
- São Paulo police mistakenly thinks a folk poet and singer is the same man who had stabbed his boss.
- Beto (David Cardoso) is expelled from the lands where he works, when the landlord finds him in bed with his daughter. He moves to the great city of São Paulo and, without having a former profession and not able to find a job, he becomes a prostitute, having sex with gays. After meeting and falling in love for a journalist, he tries to have a regular life, but his past haunts him.
- One car failure and a long bus ride to nowhere lead to a small Brazilian country town where two groups of guys and girls meet. This coincidences change the courses of their lives as they soon mingle and passion arises among them.
- A woman walks out on her abusive, cheating husband, then begins an affair with a dangerously possessive lesbian.
- André is the powerful owner of an illegal casino and popular gambling ("Jogo de Bicho") on the streets. His gang is in war against the gang of Fiore that is trying to steal the gambling establishments of André. When the prostitute Margot sees her old friend and ex-con Sarja working as a waiter in the casino where she tricks clients, she invites him to stay with her in her apartment. When André, who is gay, sees the handsome Sarja, he falls in love with his employee that becomes his protégée. Meanwhile, Sarja and Margot plot to steal the high stakes on St George's Day and they invite André's henchman Lobão and two gangsters to participate in the heist. Meanwhile Fiore also plots to steal André's money with his gang.
- Engraçadinha is a sexy teenager, with whom every man wants to get involved, except her cousin Sílvio, the only man she loves. On Sílvio's engagement day, she seduces him at the party and becomes pregnant. But her father, Dr. Arnaldo, tells her a horrible secret, saying that her child cannot be born. A tragedy ensues.
- The lonely Jeruza lives in a simple isolated house by the seaside with the siblings Cassandra and Ulisses and the family survives by selling handicrafts for a local store. Her husband, Santiago, is a sailor who has been missing for many years. When the stranger Roque arrives at Jeruza's house late afternoon, he tells her that Santiago was murdered in a bar fight. Jeruza lodges Roque to spend the night and they have a one night stand. He then seduces Cassandra, who loses her virginity with him and he convinces Ulisses to have an incestuous relationship with his sister. Jeruza realizes that Roque, who has a dreadful secret, is a destructive being that is threatening her family.
- Fausto and Gilda have been married for years and love each other deeply. But Gilda dies, leaving Fausto alone with their 8-year-old daughter and her governess. Shaken, he retreats to his country house, only visited by his female doctor. He starts being plagued every night by wet dreams, visions, and hallucinations of women and his wife, who insistently asks him to join her.
- A prostitute gets pregnant by a wealthy businessman. Identical twins are born: one is raised by his father and the other by the mother.
- Zionists hire a hitman to kill a war criminal nazi who's exiled in a Latin American country, protected by the local dictator.
- Romantic adventures of a group of Rio de Janeiro teenagers and surfers.
- Innocent girl starts working as a secretary in an office. Soon she finds out a hole in the wall through which she can see the action in the next apartment, where a prostitute meets her bizarre clients.
- Young woman has many love affairs, after killing her husband.
- In 1937, in São Paulo, 12-year-old Hugo comes from Santa Catarina. His grandmother is returning him to his mother, Anna, who is now with Osmar, the most influential politician in the state.
- (1) "Solo de Violino" ("Violin Solo") In São Paulo, the bank clerk Rodrigo is an aspirant violinist with deep psychological problems. He is also a serial-killer of prostitutes and lives with his unpleasant and dominating mother Débora. When Rodrigo was a child, he witnessed the abusive and humiliating treatment of his mother to his father, a professional violinist who played in cheap bars. When Rodrigo meets his next door neighbor on a bus, she reveals that she is in love with his music and him. But Rodrigo has difficulties in controlling his killing impulses. (2) "A Guerra da Malvina" ("The Malvina War") Four female thieves led by Malvina break in the house of the porn star David Cardoso to rob money and jewelry, but they end having sex with the actor.
- Two actresses and politician traveling and staying in the same hotel, but each has a distinct purpose.
- Heleno and Cláudia reverse the roles traditionally reserved for men and women in marriage. He dedicates himself to domestic chores, feels like a sexual object, and in the club defends the rights of men. On the other hand, she is a unscrupulous executive who cannot see a boy without thinking of a new adventure. Their lives are shaken by the adultery of Claudia with Heleno's friend Almir, who prostitutes himself to raise his son after his wife leaves.
- Three university students and their professor are researching parapsychology and occult science in an old castle and invokes the spirit of Marquis de Sade.
- The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade.
- In São Paulo, Vanessa who is normally spoiled rotten, is neglected and rejected by her mother, practically raised alone by Pedro, her butler and driver and the maid, Dalva who are a married couple. She has disturbing daydreams and sexual fantasies, but doesn't let Arlindo, a teenager that flirts with her get close to her. Her best friend, Denise is a promiscuous girl that has intercourse with different men. When she discloses her problem to Denise, Denise gives her the address of her psychotherapist Dr. Artur. The unethical shrink pushes Vanessa to the edge, bringing memories of a severe trauma of her childhood. Then the disturbed Dr. Artur induces the girls to commit suicide.
- In 1925, Nacib (Marcello Mastroianni) is the owner of a bar in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. He meets Gabriela (Sonia Braga) and hires her on as a cook. They soon enter a passionate relationship, fueled by his strong attraction to her sensual nature. However, he soon grows annoyed by the attention she receives. Under his best friend Tonico's (Cantafora) advice, he proposes to her, thinking it will stop the attention. After they're married, he warns her to dress and behave more modestly so they will be seen as more respectable, but she can't help but stray and he is forced to annul their marriage when he finds her in bed with none other than Tonico. Later, as both Nacib and the town begin to undergo a transformation, Nacib and Gabriela resume their relationship. The town's political ways modernize slightly and Gabriela returns as Nacib's mistress.
- The romance between a surfer and a beach girl.
- Playboy from São Paulo decides to marry, but all his ex-girlfriends go to the ceremony to protest.
- TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighborhood.
- True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his disguise, he gets involved with high society, and with industrialists who were financing repression to the groups he stood for.
- Luiz, a sociologist, had his political rights suppressed, during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also, his wife Ruth had been tortured and killed. So he decides to hide in his niece Natércia and her husband Felipe's country house for a while. Natércia invites the intellectual Marcela and her boyfriend broker Ricardo for a weekend together. Luiz's world is upset and the existential problems of all get entangled, with unexpected results.
- Young woman leaves Minas Gerais State, Brazil, to try to be a singer in Rio de Janeiro.
- A love story about an honest businessman in dire straits.