Betty Gofman

An ambitious woman who, for love, abandons Law School and ends up in the criminal world. A policewoman who dreams about becominga MMA championwhile fighting organized crime. A young dreamer torn between finding true love and her search for freedom. Written by International Emmy Award winner Gloria Perez, "Edge of Desire" presents three strong-willed women that have one thing in common: the tenacity to fight for what they want.

A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.

The daughter of a traditional, rich Indian family falls in love for a Dalit, and "untouchable" man.

Felipe Barreto, a renowned plastic surgeon, makes a wager and gets involved with his employee's fiancée; from that moment on, the lives of those involved were never the same.

Fashion designer Andréa Vargas finds out the hard way she is adopted. The relationship with her sister Júlia had always been difficult, since childhood, and the antagonism grew when Júlia came between Andréa and her first true love, Diogo. But the worst is still to come: her first assistant in her atelier, Selma, is having an affair with her husband Bruno.

Candinho and his faithful companion, Policarpo, are back for new adventures in the big city. However, the disappearance of his son brings new suffering to him, who continues to believe that "everything bad that happens in life is for the better!".

Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.

After having her life course changed by a fake image and losing her childhood sweetheart to greed and power, Brisa, a strong woman, will struggle to rebuild her journey, raise her son, rediscover true love, and discover the truth about her origin.

An industrialist is forced to marry his daughter Rosalia to a banker to save himself from bankruptcy. But Rosalia is in love with Adriano, unaware that he is the banker's son.

Children of arch-enemy families in the city of Ouro Negro and separated as teenagers, Miguel and Letícia meet again 30 years later, without knowing who the other is.

Laila is a Syrian victim of a bombing who agrees to marry a powerful sheikh in exchange for money to save her little brother's life. However, plans change due to the tragic death of the child. Laila and her family flee to start a new life in distant lands. Abandoned and enraged, the sheikh sends Jamil, his right-hand man, in search of the bride, but could not imagine he would fail to obey his command and fall madly in love with her. This forbidden love will be tested when the sheikh's daughter decides to take revenge after her father's mysterious death. From Emmy winners Thelma Guedes and Duca Rachid, ‘Orphans of a Nation’ tells a beautiful love story in the current context of refugees from around the world.

Enemies since childhood, André Spina and Ariclenes Martins became Jacques Leclair and Victor Valentim and now compete for the spotlight in the fashion world.

In the imaginary king of Avilan, the bastard prince Jean Pierre leads a popular group against councilors who will invade Rainha Valentine's palace and take away the power.

Tancinha is a charming fruit seller known for her hot temper who gets torn between an explosive relationship with passionate truck driver Apolo, her neighbour and childhood sweetheart, and an irresistible attraction for Beto, a lady-killer who will not take no for an answer. The girl ends up being caught up in a family feud over the disappearance of her father whom she believed to be dead. Tancinha will leave a path of turmoil along her way to unveil this mystery.

'Ti-Ti-Ti' presents a humorous plot, set in São Paulo, whose central theme is the professional, familial, and romantic rivalry between André Spina and Ariclenes Martins, or Ari, as he is known to those closest to him. The two were childhood friends and always fought a lot, engaging in tireless disputes over the same girlfriends.

Set in the fictional city of Maramores, the plot centers on the character of Lívia, whose destiny begins to be shaped in the 12th century when the vampire Boris falls madly in love with her and decides to win her over at any cost, regardless of time or place. In medieval times, Lívia is Princess Cecília, Beto is Count Rogério, and Boris is Duke Boris. The present-day story begins with the introduction of Lívia's story, her husband Beto, and their children, Zeca, Tetê, and Juninho. The family's happiness will be destroyed, just as in Lívia and Beto's past lives (Princess Cecília and Count Rogério), by the reappearance of the vampire Boris. He wants to reclaim Zeca, who is not actually Lívia and Beto's son, but his son with a mistress. As soon as he was born, while still in the maternity ward, Boris placed Zeca in the place of Lívia's true son.

Two couples have their destinies intertwined after their happiness is unexpectedly interrupted. This is the starting point of the telenovela, which shares the same name as the São Paulo neighborhood where the story takes place. Solano Xavier is a man of humble origins who never had the chance to obtain a formal education. Unemployed for months, he celebrates with his wife Eugênia the fact that he has landed a temporary job as a truck driver. She reciprocates the good news by telling him she is pregnant. Solano, however, falls victim to a trap: unknowingly, he is transporting contraband goods on one of his trips. Detained by the police, he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to 17 years in prison. Throughout the telenovela, Solano discovers that Arthur is the main person responsible for the scheme that led to his imprisonment.

Laerte’s obsessive jealousy brings his relationship with Helena to an end on their wedding day. Twenty years later, he meets Luiza, the daughter of his long lost love. The two fall in love and stir up dormant feelings that profoundly affect Helena’s marriage and her relationship with her daughter. Defying everyone, Laerte and Luiza decide to follow their love to the highest bounds, leaving a trail of conflicts and pain along the way.

Juscelino Kubitschek was born in Diamantina. Rising from a humble childhood to become a respected physician, he married Sarah and began the journey that would lead him to the presidency of Brazil.

A moving tale of courage and resilience in the struggle for freedom – this is the role that life has cast for headstrong Morena in Brave Woman. Raised in a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, this tough and humble woman will spare no effort to protect her family and gain her independence.

The story takes place between the 1920s and 1950s in Greater São Paulo. Going through historical moments, such as the Week of Modern Art, the Revolution of 1924, the economic crisis of 1929 and the Vargas Era, there is the story of Yolanda Penteado, a young woman from a traditional family of São Paulo's high society, who arouses admirations to go through. She had never been easily involved with any other admirer until she meets Martim, a young medical student who catches her eye. However, he was an advocate of the anarchist movement, causing disapproval of Yolanda's mother, Guiomar, but the two will fight to get together, even with the disapproval of the family.

A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.

A talent scout brings a young singer to São Paulo, intent on introducing her to a renowned conductor. As they wait for the day of the audition, they stay in a hotel room where, between coffee and cigarettes, the scout foresees the singer’s future in the cigarette pack warnings as if they were tarot cards. During all this waiting, his true intentions will be revealed.

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.

In the small town of Taperoá João Grilo and confusion Chicó live setting, addressing a sacristan and a humble baker. Everyone lives under the excesses of the bishop, the priest and the major. Until an attack on the city, all die at the hands of the bandit Severino and must stand trial in the sky, which puts everyone before God and the Virgin Mary.

The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, during a lunar eclipse, Pia is murdered. Her death plunges Gil into a world of shadows. He leaves the town by the river and does not return to the house he shared with Pia until two years later. There, Pia is present in the flood of memories that keep coming back to him, and also lives on deep in his heart. This love, the comfort it brings him, and the girl Elsa lead him out of the darkness and back into the light, back to life. And he will meet Pia's murderer. 'Eclipse' is a love story set against the background of a crime: compelling, poetic, and delicately told.

A group of friends in Sao Paulo see each other regularly in different venues of this huge metropolis, and act as their own de-facto family. They are similar in many ways, all upper middle class professionals between 28 and 32 years of age, and very conscious of their psyche and lives. The diversity within the group however, is also remarkable. It's made up about half men and half women. The men are the most diverse, ranging from your average guy looking for love to an Afro-Brazilian womanizing rich playboy, to a conflicted homosexual, heir to a business empire. It is the friendship (Amizade) and bond between these people that the film exposes, and at the same time it explores the different personalities of this apparently homogeneous, but actually psychologically diverse group of Sao Paulo yuppies. They stick together "'til friendship should ever separate them"

When major drug-dealer Boca de Ouro dies, a reporter interviews his ex-lover, now married with children and living in a poorhouse, to try to understand more about his complex personality. The problem is that the woman tells him three different versions of Boca's life, according to her own mood and ambiguous feelings towards her dead lover.

Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induced by her personal Brazilian maid, Amélia, to make a performance in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, she is forced to stand the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.

After diving into a shallow lake, a college student becomes tetraplegic. In his wheel chair, he remembers the important facts of his life as an adolescent.

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.

Henrique can't get over his breakup from Gabriela and, even a year later, he's so devastated that he can't get excited about anything or anyone else. To put an end to his suffering, he decides to take his own life, but as he doesn't have the courage, he hires a company of hitmen who have just one rule: Once signed and paid for, there is no turning back. However, after signing the contract, Henrique and Gabriela cross paths by chance and she discovers that she wants to get back together. Desperate to find out who will be his executioner, Henrique becomes involved in a path full of tense and miraculous situations in order to save himself and finally be with the woman he loves.