Francisco de Paula
Monte Serrat is a short film filmed from the tale Three Lost Treasures, scored by Machado de Assis.
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
In the near future, in the country of Kali, a group of young terrorists carry out robberies, kidnappings and murders under the orders of a mysterious big boss known as "Entity" and are pursued by the pompous and inefficient Special Police.
Eugenia's parents die. She goes to live with Amalita, her close friend. Her grandmother Amalia Pradere a wealth landlady, takes the orphan under her protection. After a chain of events, disappearing her grandchild, Eugenia will take Amalita's place. She will inherit not only Amalia's possessions but also Ezequiel's love, Amalita's widower.
A beautiful woman (Libertad Leblanc) is married to a film director (Francisco de Paula). Despite the apparent happiness of the marriage, she has an affair with a young womanizer (Ricardo Bauleo), and flirts with a screenwriter (José María Gutiérrez). During the filming of a film directed by her husband, two actresses are mysteriously murdered.
When a gangster is murdered, the victim's daughter sets out to track down her father's killer. She soon suspects her friend and her own mother may have been involved in the murder plot, in this heavy-handed and tragic crime drama.
From Emile Zola's novel "La Bete Humaine", tells the story of a jealous husband, a provocative woman and a man with an uncontrollable desire to kill.
The disappearance of some children in a neighborhood causes ruptures and reunions between their parents.
In seventeenth century's Chile a woman kills her lover because she wants to conquer a priest.
In 1812, the Argentine people and the army of the north resist the royalist advances.
A thief commits a robbery and is seen by a showgirl who becomes a witness to the crime. The man finds her and forces her to help him take what he stole to Rio de Janeiro. With no other way out, she is sent on a boat to Brazil by the thief. On board, the showgirl meets a doctor with whom she begins a romance while the criminal falls in love with her.
To avoid the romantic approaches of a mature man with whom her elder sister is in love, a young girl invents a boyfriend: Captain Perez.
At the core of this enormously bleak melodrama, there is a beautiful, passionate woman (Florence Marly, Chenal's wife) who capriciously oscillates between two men (Chiola, De Paula), even though she knows her fate is fatally linked to one of them.
