Carlos Gerbase

Chico, Andrew, Luciano, and Cristina are four friends who spend their lives crossing paths again and again—through school, college, travels, jobs, and conflicts—until they eventually part ways for good. An episode of the tv show Comédia da Vida Privada.

Julius is a photographer working as a men's magazine photo retoucher. His wife, Marcia, is a criminal lawyer who defends Teodoro, a squatter accused of murder. For years they had a quiet wedlock. However, Marcia gets involved with her client, and as revenge, Julius sleeps with Ana Maria, a friend of their daughter Guida. From this episode on, their lives are no longer the same.

Two teenagers, Vera Lúcia and Beto, run through the forest, full of expectation, enthusiasm and fear. She seductively invites him to swim in the river. Beto has to choose between going into the water and staying with Vera Lúcia. Many years later, Roberto spends the day at the foot of a waterfall with his wife, and confronts the results of his choices.

In the 1970s, in the midst of political repression and the ideology of the "Brazilian miracle", a group of teenagers live their daily concerns: the future, nights full of dancing, dating fights, conflicts with their parents. For three days they live their green years, a little more than a dream.

Between a desperate love, the kind that ends up with the dishes on the floor, and a romantic passion, the kind that seems like it will never end, a supermarket goer has a temporary affair with the girl at the checkout.

At 24, our hero is a trained journalist but has a much simpler job. His flat full of discs, movies, and books, but he has trouble socializing. This situation can't last long.

The film tells the story of a man who was born in 1959 and died in 2070, told by people who knew him and somehow contributed to his trajectory.

Two straight (but not really) guys invite two naive (but not really) prostitutes for a night of sex. In the preliminary conversations, a little poetry, a lot of philosophy and heavy doses of vulgarity, all with Beethoven in the background. But when it comes to sex, the truth comes out.

Sissi, the young daughter of an unemployed widower, struggles to support her family, while dreams of sharing an apartment with her boyfriend, a soccer player. Martina, who has a more stable financial situation, struggles to be desired again by her adman husband, or by whoever is around. Giane has already changed her life, and can influence Sissi's future. According to Professor Valadares, these three women are only trying to satiate their most basic appetites: Food, Sex, and Fasma.

December 11, 1983: this date sticks in the memory of the Grêmio supporters. With a spectacular performance by Renato Portaluppi, and a team that had as much strength as talent, Grêmio defeated the mighty Hamburger SV, the Champion's League winner, and was crowned world champion. In 1983 - O ANO AZUL, the responsibles of this achievement count each step of the long road to the title, which began with the conquest of the Copa Libertadores da América.

A documentary that tells the history of Grêmio Football Porto-Alegrense from its foundation in 1903 to the triumph of the 1997 Copa do Brasil. In addition to providing the historical panorama of the achievements of the club, the documentary explores the relationship between club and supporter through testimonies of players, coaching staff, former presidents and fans.

A typical criminal. A typical taxi driver. A typical route through the night of Porto Alegre, from the bus station to a deserted street. But at the time of the crime, the driver doesn’t react as he should. Meanwhile, on TV, Brazilian Minister of Justice make a speech against violence.

A fifteen-year-old girl is beaten by her father and seeks shelter at a friend's house. Between tears and sobs, she watches her friend's father. He feels sorry for a child, but she is a woman. Tonight, they will have to discover the difference between passion and compassion.

Deu Pra Ti Anos 70 is a Brazilian film, shot in super-8 in 1981 in the city of Porto Alegre. It tells the story of the meetings and disagreements between Marcelo and Ceres through the 1970s, in bars, dance meetings and camps. It has the special participation of artists who would become important in the gaúcho music scene, such as Nei Lisboa, Júlio Reny, Augusto Licks, Wander Wildner and Carlos Gerbase. It was the first film by actor Werner Schünemann.

Brazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros and the movement to keep vice-president João Goulart from taking office. Using the radio transmitter from his improvised bunker, Brizola sets up the Legality movement, to ensure Goulart's right to the presidential chair. Caught in the crossfire, two brothers who are in love with the same woman unite to fight alongside Brizola.

After her boyfriend's death, a successful executive finds some unfinished scripts in the dead man's computer, and decides to make a film of them. Her relationship with the world of movie-making is going to change her life.

In Rio Grande do Sul, the newcomer intern Paula sees the schizophrenic Dante Becker and she decides to study his case for her graduation work in the university. She learns that Dante was left in the institution ten years ago and has been abandoned by his family, friends and even the doctors and his files are lost. Her supervisor retrieves the name of Dante's father Gregório and the women Renê Heller and Berenice that had visited him in the past and she interviews them to discover what happened with Dante.

An 18-year-old boy is forced to attend a course to receive his father's inheritance. In the first lesson, a kiss. In the second, a woman's body. In the third, the primer on the sexual act. Other lessons will come, and the boy will still have to face the final exam.

Dolores, a beautiful, wealthy and paralyzed woman, hires detective Otávio to follow her husband Inácio and find out what his real relationship is with a young woman named Alice. A story of lies, false leads and obscure motivations, in which four characters of dubious morals try to appear honest to each other.

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.

Maria Moura loses her father in childhood and at the age of 17 finds her mother dead at home. Believing her stepfather to be the killer, Maria seeks revenge for her mother's death.

Amidst romances, missed connections, family crises, and situations that feel all too familiar, "Comédias da Vida Privada" transforms the everyday lives of the Brazilian middle class into stories brimming with humor, wit, and relatability.

Raised in a conservative home, Engraçadinha challenges taboos and forbidden passions over two decades. Between desires, guilt and secrets, she lives intensely her loves and her sins.

Ramiro is a 40-year-old lawyer and university professor who returns to Brazil after eight years of exile in France as a result of the military dictatorship. Recently separated from Dora, he meets Elisa, the youngest daughter of a couple of friends of his parents, who will turn his life upside down.