Sensuality, beauty, sophistication, elegance turning into a great debauchery. Both sides: chic and tacky. Where does one start? Where does the other end? Black tie party with pool, "waterfalls", champagne and murder. A police farce full of humor to the sound of great hitz by Artie Shaw, Marilyn Monroe, Alberta Hunter, Andre Previn and Gipsy Kings.
Maria Lúcia Dahl
Lygia Pape
Laura de Vison
Detetive
Maria Padilha
Susana Matos
Liège Monteiro
Sensuality, beauty, sophistication, elegance turning into a great debauchery. Both sides: chic and tacky. Where does one start? Where does the other end? Black tie party with pool, "waterfalls", champagne and murder. A police farce full of humor to the sound of great hitz by Artie Shaw, Marilyn Monroe, Alberta Hunter, Andre Previn and Gipsy Kings.
Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich European-American women.
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.