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- The story of the famous "Polacas", Jewish women deceived into prostitution in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1900's. Ricardo interviews Mrs. Mira, who struggles to bring back memories from her mother's past as a Polaca.
- Based on the homonymous play written by Nelson Rodrigues. When witnessing a hit by a car, Arandir, a newly married bank clerk, tries to help the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is caught by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a sensationalist police reporter.
- In 1997, Rio de Janeiro was shaken by a wave of kidnappings. Security forces call controversial agents to help save the city from thugs and also from the police itself.
- Gringa owns a brothel in Brazil's countryside. Blind and sick, her last wish is to go to Venice to ask for forgiveness to the only man she ever loved whom she abandoned years before.
- A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
- As a judge, Pedro tries to find the truth to make justice. But while he judge others, dark and unexpected events in his life makes him judge himself.
- Anthology series in which each episode depicts a different woman confiding her misadventures and dirty deeds to her hair stylist.
- A group of playboys organize the last party of the year in a slum before the change in weather.
- Christabel finds Geraldine, a mysterious woman who's been attacked. Christabel gives shelter to Geraldine, but that sparks passion and freedom never experienced by the girl.
- A gang of young dirt bikers on a ride across an isolated region of Brazil find themselves being hunted by a machete wielding band of motorcyclists intent on killing them all.
- Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second largest private bank in Brazil. One day, Elias meets a mysterious woman who claims to be able to predict his future and says he will become vice president that day and the next day, he will become president of the Bank. The wheel of fortune is bound activated and a series of murders is committed by Elias and his wife Clara, leaving a trail of blood on his way to power and making them executioners and victims of their own destinies.
- Gabriel's ex Luiza is now married to Alex, and Gabriel dates Jaqueline, an energetic younger woman. Gabriel and Luiza are apparently happy in their relationships, but an unexpected encounter revives their interest in each other.
- Senator Maria Pilar (Dira Paes) is a good example that the backstage of the power of Brasilia (capital of Brazil) do not belong only to the world of men.
- The taxi driver Berenice is under a family crisis with her male chauvinist husband and her son, whom is discovering his sexual identity. The murder of a transgender at Copacabana beach makes her start an investigation on her own, what turns her world upside down.
- The late director Eduardo Coutinho sits down and talks with young Brazilian students in his last documentary.
- Dedicated police officer, Roberta will not stop until she unravels the mysteries behind the death of actress Antwerp Fox. With the help of her therapist Isabela, she infiltrates the Bianchini Energy Realignment Clinic in search of answers. Surrounded by suspicious employees, such as receptionist Amanda Jéssica, and eccentric customers, such as actress Natasha Ferreiro, she discovers that she may still be the target of a bigger scheme.
- Four little sketches whose central theme is the lie, its motivations, and consequences. The stories are based on the anecdotes told by Ariano Suassuna in his master classes.
- In an original and linear way, it shows the life and work of the famous author, I share with Vinícius de Moraes, "Girl from Ipanema" one of the 5 most re-recorded and played songs in the world, worshiped by Sinatra and many others .
- How a bad company can ruin a teenager?
- The adventures of an average Brazilian man who goes through all sorts of troubling situations.
- Documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho interviews people who tell their life stories and recall songs that marked their lives.
- The celebrated composer and musician Jards Macalé is in the recording studio where director Eryk Rocha captures him in a wide variety of poses and states of creating, imaginatively varying style and shooting formats. Fashioning an intimately attuned portrait of an artist, Rocha uses his camera as an instrument to riff with Jards in a poetic exchange between images and music. The repetitive, time-stopping process of rehearsal and the flow of energy between the two art forms create an elegiac vision of the creativity of some of Brazil's most beloved singers and musicians.
- Mia and Fabio form a young couple in full honeymoon, but what was to be a romantic moment turns into a real "discussion of relationship" when they decide to recall stories of their ex-boyfriends.
- This is the story of an unusual candidate in the Brazilian first free elections after abandoning dictatorship and embracing democracy. In 1988, Macaco Tião, a chimpanzee from Rio Zoo, received approximately 400 thousand votes for Mayor of Rio de Janeiro. The worthy candidate became the most beloved monkey on the planet and the Candidate of the People.
- Dreaming of having her own cooking business, her "luck of luck" comes when she is approved to be a famous chef's assistant on a television show.
- The director goes on a journey to his grandfather's homeland, Transylvania, in search of an old watch his grandpa hid before the Nazis came to take the family to Auschwitz. The 70-minute documentary tells the story of immigrant Holocaust survivors who settled in Brazil after World War II. Through the pursuit by the film's director of the history of his Hungarian grandfather and ancestors, the memories of a dark time reappear in testimonials by survivors themselves. From Israel to Hungary, Poland, and Brazil, Heller tries to understand his family's past, discovering dark secrets along the way.
- Ada and Otto have spent their entire lives in a bucolic country town where everyone knows each other. The peaceful routine of the couple and their neighbors takes on mysterious contours with the sudden disappearance of the postman.
- After a domestic accident which causes death in the family, the older son blames himself for the accident and 20 years later, when he thinks the past is behind he needs to deal with all the problems from the past to be able to look into the future.
- Actor/Rapper Malik Work tells his own story of perseverance, love, music, and the struggle to survive as an artist in New York City.
- Newsreels, photographs, letters, diary excerpts, fiction and family films, folk songs and so on. Through these heterogeneous records, the film offers a vision of Getulio Vargas dictatorship by commenting on these documents produced for various purposes - political advertising, journalistic information, personal note, family celebration - as well as by seeking to unravel the Estado Novo regime's political plot.
- The documentary Migliaccio - O Brasileiro em Cena follows the path of those who take risks for the art, either as directors, as writers, as scenographers and even as costume designers. The Oscarito trophy received by Flávio Migliaccio in 2014 Gramado Film Festival crowns a career enmeshed by many threads. Since Migliaccio has performed in different fields of art - from cinema and theater to literature and drawing -, the documentary creates varied visual interventions to enchain the narrative, in addition to the interviews and archive pictures, such as a shadow play to represent his humble childhood, and to the cartoons the artist drew to portray his existential questions in his ranch in Rio Bonito (State of Rio de Janeiro). Images and stories that aim to show a professional and personal life pervaded by possibilities and attitudes, both artistic and political.
- Aging journalist Ana Lucia confronts a personal and professional breakdown in a night full of phone calls, boozing and cocaine snorting.
- Rio de Janeiro, May 1981. DOI-CODI, the body responsible for the repression during the days of Brazilian military dictatorship, organized the "Mission 115", which aimed to "observe" closely a show in honor of International Labor Day, in the show house Riocentro. However, the mission failed to highlight its main objective: to carry out a terrorist attack by incriminating leftist revolutionary groups and thereby sabotaging the country's re-democratization.