Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (1991)

Director
Neville de Almeida

Main cast
Alexandre Frota; Cláudia Raia; Louise Cardoso; Maria Gladys; Guará Rodrigues

Genres
Drama, Crime

Description
In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes. The first one is about a wealthy woman, Márcia, bored with her marriage, who decides to spend a couple of days alone in her house in Petrópolis. When her best friend Renata unexpectedly arrives to stay with her, they get drunk and something tragic happens. The second one is about a loser who arrives home upset and drunk, and kills his family. The third one is about a tragic repressed lesbian relationship. The last one is about a man addicted to stealing women's underwear.


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