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- DirectorFernando MeirellesStarsJulianne MooreMark RuffaloGael García BernalA city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.
- DirectorHector BabencoStarsEnrique DiazWagner MouraCaio BlatStories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsSonia BragaJosé WilkerMauro MendonçaIn a small city of Brazil, a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho, but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking and he takes all of her money to gamble. After Vadinho dies, Flor marries Tedoror, the owner of a drugstore. Flor is happy with her new husband but misses the love life with her previous husband. When one day the ghost of Vadhino comes back to pursue her.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsSonia BragaMarcello MastroianniAntonio CantaforaIn 1925, Nacib (Marcello Mastroianni) is the owner of a bar in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. He meets Gabriela (Sonia Braga) and hires her on as a cook. They soon enter a passionate relationship, fueled by his strong attraction to her sensual nature. However, he soon grows annoyed by the attention she receives. Under his best friend Tonico's (Cantafora) advice, he proposes to her, thinking it will stop the attention. After they're married, he warns her to dress and behave more modestly so they will be seen as more respectable, but she can't help but stray and he is forced to annul their marriage when he finds her in bed with none other than Tonico. Later, as both Nacib and the town begin to undergo a transformation, Nacib and Gabriela resume their relationship. The town's political ways modernize slightly and Gabriela returns as Nacib's mistress.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsGlória PiresMiranda OttoTracy MiddendorfA chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsAlan ArkinPedro CardosoFernanda TorresBrazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.
- DirectorMauro LimaStarsSelton MelloGiulio LopesJúlia LemmertzThe true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
- DirectorFábio BarretoStarsNatasha HenstridgeEduardo MoscovisSophie WardAmerican couple move to the State of Ceará, Brazil, in the 1930s. The husband is looking for oil. His beautiful wife, Donna, soon falls in love with a rude but charming fisherman. The forbidden romance may destroy her marriage and upset the morals of the small village where they live.
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsSonia BragaMarília PêraChico AnysioJust when her family starts believing that she is dead and that they can expect a rich heritage, Tieta returns from São Paulo to her native village in Bahia, which she had been forced to leave long ago because of her involvement with a goatherd. Believed to be fabulously rich--and nobody knows how--she brings, to the great disappointment of her family, a young stepdaughter and heir. With the arrival of Tieta, turmoil enters the life of her family and their fellow villagers, most particularly those of her nephew who was promised to the Church, and the young aspiring mayor.
- DirectorWalter CarvalhoStarsLeonardo MedeirosGabriella HámoriGiovanna AntonelliJosé Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects".
- StarsRubens de FalcoLucélia SantosGilberto MartinhoThe difficulties faced by a gentle-hearted young white slave targeted by the obsession of her lord in the Brazilian colonial period.
- DirectorWalter SallesStarsPeter CoyoteTchéky KaryoAmanda PaysAn American photographer in Rio de Janeiro becomes involved in the world of "knife culture" when he sets out to find the killer of one of his models.
- DirectorMurilo SallesStarsLeandra LealFrank BorgesLuciano BortoluzziThe story of Camila, a young woman intent on becoming a writer.
- DirectorJoão Nuno PintoStarsChulpan KhamatovaFernando LuísMaría BarrancoAmerica a tragic story told in a burlesque and ironic way, within a love triangle. Liza, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a small-time crook who lives on scheming and swindling, born and bred in Portugal. Fernanda, the ex wife, who ten year's passed decides to drop by, is the gang leader, an Andalusian Spaniard. Victor has to decide which women to follow, Liza cannot really leave him, Fernanda doesn't really want to stay. The six year old kid hangs everybody by a string. Eastern European newcomers give new business perspectives that are going to rock their small world by the beach: Cova do Vapor. A chaotic neighborhood of precarious housing located at Lisbon's gates, where the Tagus River meets the Atlantic, where fishermen and retired factory workers coexist. An obscure little place, where everything suddenly changes, even the weather. After a violent storm, the gangster's house gets a rusted fishing boat hanging on top of their home. In the midst of the tragedy, there's always room for love, and most of all, hope for a piece paper called passport, sometimes fake!
- DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeStarsGrande OteloPaulo JoséJardel FilhoOur story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born fully grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family and followers on a journey to the Big City. More miracles occur on the way, but Macunaima still has the heart and mind of a child. In the Big City, terrorists enlist him in their revolutionary schemes. In the Big City he learns that nuts are not always food and other hilarious life lessons.
- DirectorMarcos BernsteinStarsJoão GuilhermeJosé de AbreuCaco CioclerMy Sweet Orange Tree begins with José Mauro de Vasconcelos (Caco Ciocler) receiving an edition of his finished novel. Then, the film starts to tell the story from the writer's memories, through flashbacks. Zezé (João Guilherme Avila), a boy of eight years who lives in Minas Gerais in a very humble house with his family, consisting of his father (Eduardo Dascar), an unemployed and alcoholic, and his mother (Fernanda Vianna), which works to support the home and his brother and sisters. Despite the lack of understanding, affection and the aggression suffered by from his father and school colleagues, the boy has a great skill for storytelling using his imagination. With financial difficulties, the family has to move. At the new home, Zezé finds an orange tree, which he talks everyday. However, for being extremely extrovert he got involved in several confusions. One of them, he tries to ride on the bumper of Manoel Valadares, the "Portuga" (José de Abreu), but is caught and spanked. The boy feels humiliated and wants revenge, however Valadares ends up understanding Zezé, which turns to share his world of fantasies, and a new friendship arises.
- DirectorBeto BrantStarsMarco RiccaLilian TaublibMaria ManoellaAntônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.
- DirectorMarcelo SantiagoStarsFelipe CamargoMel LisboaSergio MaroneMarcelo Santiago's period romance Dancing in Utopia (AKA Sonjos E Desejos 2006) explores variations of passion and lust as manifest in a potentially incendiary love triangle ...
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsÁtila IórioMaria RibeiroOrlando MacedoA poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to live, with food and work. But the drought and misery destroy their hopes.
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsBené BatistaJonas BlochZózimo BulbulPalmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the aged seer, Acotirene. She anoints one who becomes Ganga Zumba, a legendary king. For years, his warriors hold off Portuguese raiders; then he agrees to leave the mountains in exchange for reservation land and peace. It's a mistake. Zumbi, a warrior whose mother was killed by Portuguese and who spent 15 years with the Whites, stays in the mountains to lead Palmares. In 1694, the Portuguese import a ruthless captain from São Paulo to lead an assault on the free Blacks. Can Zumbi keep Palmares free?
- DirectorJosé Henrique FonsecaStarsMurilo BenícioCláudia AbreuNatália LageMaiquel has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw--all in 24 hours.
- DirectorDaniel FilhoStarsDébora FalabellaFábio AssunçãoGlória PiresLuísa is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luísa was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basílio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luísa will discover the price of her infidelity.
- DirectorSuzana AmaralStarsMarcelia CartaxoJosé DumontTamara TaxmanMacabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the subways. She describes herself saying, "I am a typist and a virgin, and I like Coca-Cola." Then she meets Olimpico, a north-easterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a Congressman.
- DirectorSergio MachadoStarsMariana XimenesPaulo JoséOthon BastosFriends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.
- DirectorBeto BrantStarsMarco RiccaAlexandre BorgesPaulo MiklosTwo businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.
- StarsReginaldo FariaClaudia OhanaJosé LewgoyTieta's father expels her from the fictional city of Santana do Agreste because of her liberal behavior. Years later she returns to seek vengeance against the people who judged her before.
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsZezé MottaWalmor ChagasAltair LimaIn18th-century Minas Gerais, the Portuguese mined diamonds and gold. João Fernandes de Oliveira arrives from Lisbon with the Crown's exclusive contract for mining diamonds. He quickly asserts control, letting the attendant and other authorities know that he's aware of their corruption. Xica, a slave of the local sergeant-major and possessed of phenomenal sexual drive and tricks that cause men to howl with pleasure, quickly captures João. He denies her no extravagance; miners die for his greed. Eventually Lisbon hears of João's excesses and sends an inspector. José, a political radical, provides Xica refuge; her unrelenting sexual tingle is Brazil's spirit.
- DirectorHeitor DhaliaStarsGuta StresserMyrian MunizJuliana GaldinoPsychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
- CreatorMaria Adelaide AmaralStarsIsabelle DrummondFábio AssunçãoAna Paula ArósioPortrait of the decadent Portuguese aristocracy in the second half of the 19th century, through the tragic history of a traditional Lisbon family.
- StarsTony RamosBruna LombardiTarcísio MeiraA cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces.
- CreatorPatrícia AndradeGeorge MouraStarsIsis ValverdeGabriel Braga NunesCamila MorgadoIn the midst of Brazilian carnival, the murder of a young and beautiful axé singer shocks the entire country and starts a thrilling hunt for the killer.
- DirectorLeonel VieiraStarsDiogo MorgadoKarra ElejaldeMaitê ProençaYoung man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
- DirectorAndré KlotzelStarsReginaldo FariaMarcos CarusoPetrônio GontijoFree adaptation of Machado de Assis's classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.
- StarsPatrícia FrançaHumberto MartinsHerson CapriBased on the novel by Brazilian Jorge Amado. Tereza is the story of a beautiful orphan and her struggles in life.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsCarlos VerezaGlória PiresNildo ParenteGraciliano Ramos' period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.
- StarsSonia BragaArmando BógusNívea MariaA simple, sometimes naïve, sometimes madly sensual young women works at Vesuvius bar in the city of Ilhéus and is in love with its owner, who disapproves of the way she unwittingly seduces men.
- StarsÂngelo AntônioMylla ChristieAlexandre BorgesA big tragedy happens in one of Espirito Santo's most prominent families after the teenager Engraçadinha seduces her cousin Sílvio, who's engaged to her best friend Letícia. Years later, Engraçadinha is a different person but starts to see her old self in Cilene, one of her teenage daughters.
- StarsFernanda MontenegroNicette BrunoRegina DuarteIn 1963, workers in the fictitious city of Antares in the South of Brazil decide to strike, fighting for better salaries and working conditions. Meanwhile, seven locals die: conservative Catholic matriarch and very powerful lady, Quitéria Campolargo; corrupt lawyer Cícero Branco; Spanish anarchist shoemaker Barcelona; drunkard Pudim de Cachaça; prostitute Erotildes; student João da Paz; and pianist Menandro Olinda. Their bodies remaining unburied because of the general strike, they decide to claim to the local authorities the right of being buried. Major Vivaldino Brazão, Judge Quintiliano do Vale, "Colonel" Tibério Vacariano, and the local sheriff are unable to force the workers to return to their normal activities, so the dead citizens disclose dark secrets about the corruption of leaders and dwellers. Once they are corpses, they are not subject to the laws of the living and they can freely speak about the sordid hidden secrets.
- DirectorJorge Paixão da CostaStarsIvo CanelasAntónio Pedro CerdeiraBruna Di TullioA critique of the romantic Portuguese society of the nineteenth century.
- DirectorBeto BrantRenato CiascaStarsJúlio AndradeLuiz Carlos V. CoelhoMarcos ContrerasIn Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspiring actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsOthon BastosIsabel RibeiroNildo ParenteThe story of Paulo Honório, a poor kid who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
- DirectorSandra KogutStarsThiago da Silva MarizWallison Felipe Leal BarrosoMaria Juliana Souza de OliveiraThiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.
- DirectorHaroldo Marinho BarbosaStarsLucélia SantosJosé LewgoyLuiz Fernando GuimarãesEngraçadinha is a sexy teenager, with whom every man wants to get involved, except her cousin Sílvio, the only man she loves. On Sílvio's engagement day, she seduces him at the party and becomes pregnant. But her father, Dr. Arnaldo, tells her a horrible secret, saying that her child cannot be born. A tragedy ensues.
- StarsIrene RavacheOthon BastosLuciana BragaThe life and times of a family of six in Sao Paulo in the 1920s.
- DirectorWalter Lima Jr.StarsEdson CelulariFernanda TorresSebastião VasconcelosIn the 19th century, a country girl is seduced by a young doctor who's staying at her house for a few days, caring for her, and tries to hide the forbidden romance from her father, who disapproves of the relationship.
- DirectorAurélio TeixeiraStarsJúlio César CruzAurélio TeixeiraHenrique José LealPoor boy treats a sweet lemon tree as his only friend, talking to it, and learning important values in the process. But one day the tree must be cut.
- DirectorAnselmo DuarteJohn HerbertAdriano StuartStarsAnselmo DuarteBruno BarrosoIvete BonfáFilm in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for his own wedding, cannot remember who the bride might be. In the third, a rich husband tries to find the tattooed man he saw escaping through his wife's bedroom window.
- DirectorAlfredo SternheimStarsHelena RamosMichel CohenOswaldo D'ávilaLúcia, a prostitute, the most rich and most beautiful woman in Rio de Janeiro, a single woman, until knows Paulo. With a relationship, the both walk together on a hard way, where the court makes awful comments about them. Is possible a prostitute live with only a man? Is possible live well with the court making awful comments?
- DirectorRuy GuerraStarsJorge PerugorríaBianca ByingtonSusana RibeiroThe journey of a middle-class amateur.
- DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeStarsJuliana Carneiro da CunhaÍtala NandiFlávio GalvãoFantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.
- StarsAlessandra NegriniAlexandre BorgesLeandra LealAround 1600, the saga of the bandeirantes towards the interior of the Brazilian territory took place. Disputes over new lands and riches were inevitable. The struggle of the Jesuits, who protected the Indians from slavery, too.
- DirectorCarlos Hugo ChristensenStarsArturo de CórdovaTônia CarreroCarlos CotrimPrisoners of Ilha Anchieta penitentiary rise up, dominate the guards and run away. One of them, who dreams of seeing his mother again, meets a prostitute, and tells her his story.
- StarsGiulia GamEdson CelulariMarco NaniniDona Flor marries Vadinho, who is very handsome and passionate, but does not offer him much. She supports the family by cooking for her neighbors, but the husband bets most of the money. Vadinho dies suddenly and Dona Flor begins to miss the wedding. She marries the doctor Teodoro Madureira, but he is the opposite of Vadinho. While Dona Flor is married to Theodore, the ghost of her late husband appears.
- DirectorEduardo EscorelStarsLilian LemmertzRogério FróesIrene RavacheA German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s. But soon they get involved, and she teaches him love lessons instead.
- DirectorPaulo NascimentoStarsEdson CelulariDaniela EscobarRogério SamoraIn 1752, a ship arrives in Brazil, bringing doctor and writer Gaspar de Fróes. He keeps a diary about the dangerous trip, the diseases and hunger aboard, his impressions of the new country, and the political struggle between the crowns of Castela and Portugal. In Brazil, he is going to fall in love with the wife of a Portuguese officer.
- DirectorWalter Lima Jr.StarsGeraldo Del ReySávio RolimRodolfo ArenaIn Brazil in the 1920s, boy is sent to live with some parents in a sugarcane plantation, after losing his mother. His adaptation will be difficult and painful.
- StarsChristine FernandesCarla ReginaMiriam Freeland"Essas Mulheres" (These Women) is a soap opera set in the 19th century's Rio de Janeiro, freely inspired on José de Alencar's novels "Senhora", "Diva" and "Lucíola". It tells the story of three exceptional women who had lived torrid and forbidden love and had their lives radically transformed because of it.
- DirectorCarlos CoimbraStarsHelena RamosTony CorreiaCarlos KoppaThe loves and life of a beautiful Brazilian Indian woman.
- StarsGlória PiresJosé de AbreuTarcísio MeiraThe story of the foundations of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, through the Cambará family and Bibiana's memories of her grandmother, Ana Terra, and her husband, Captain Rodrigo.
- DirectorMarcel CamusStarsMira FonsecaZeni PereiraMaria Viana
- DirectorFrancisco MansoStarsNelson XavierMaria CeiçaChico DíazNopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways ...
- StarsMarcos PauloMarília PêraGiulia GamArriving in Lisbon from London, Basílio falls in love with his cousin Luísa, but he must go to Brazil, promising he will eventually marry her. As time goes by, he sends her a letter ending the relationship and she marries Jorge, an engineer. One of Jorge's rich aunts dies, leaving him a small fortune and her former maid Juliana. Juliana gets hold of love letters between Luísa and Basílio and starts to blackmail her employer.
- DirectorJúlio BressaneStarsJoão RebelloGiulia GamDiogo VilelaStory with some autobiographical touches taken from director's life. Miramar is a teenager raised by his parents to be an artist. But a tragedy occurs in his life: both his parents commit suicide. He then discovers the movies, and dreams of being a director.
- DirectorFábio BarretoStarsLetícia SpillerThiago LacerdaAlexandre PaternostIn the 1870s, Jacobina, daughter of German immigrants to southern Brazil, starts to break with both the Catholic and Lutheran churches to preach physical healing through soul cleansing. After having a divine vision and speaking with Jesus, she suddenly changes her look and usual ways, disturbing the local, ultra-conservative population. After the death of a "mucker" and two others opposing her sect, the local authorities decide to act against her and her followers.
- StarsDaniel HerzTony RamosMaitê ProençaLife and love of ladies man Joao, while lab outside of town does experiments on lizards and people.
- DirectorGilberto LoureiroStarsCristina AchéJurandir AlliatiHeleno Alexis AndradeNight falls when, in an elegant neighborhood of Porto Alegre, a socialite is brutally murdered. The entire police department act immediately to identify and arrest the killer. A man in his 35s wanders down a large avenue. He wears fine clothes, he walks elegantly. His broken watch reads 18:47. The man searches his pockets for documents he cannot find. Neither he can recognize himself in the objects he carries: a wallet full of bills, a theater entrance ticket, a bloodstained handkerchief. Crossing pedestrians for whom that night will be like any other, he seeks to recover his memory and identity.
- DirectorFlávio Ramos TambelliniStarsJosé MayerTony RamosIsabel GuéronIvan Canabrava is a detective in a Pan-American insurance company and is investigating the case of a landowner who dies shortly after taking out a 1 million dollar insurance policy.
- StarsAdriana BocalónRoberto BomtempoYolanda CardosoFreely adapted from Jorge Amado's novel, "Capitães de Areia" tells the story of very young outsiders, homeless children and teenagers, living in Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil.
- StarsMurilo BenícioEdson CelulariJosé WilkerBrazilian soap opera, released in 1993.
- DirectorPaulo ThiagoStarsPaulo JoséGiulia GamChico DíazPolicarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.
- DirectorEmiliano RibeiroStarsCamila AmadoOtávio AugustoWalney CostaInspired in Lygia Fagundes Telles's famous book, the film follows three very different girls (Lorena, Lia and Ana Clara) living in a boarding house during some of the most repressive moments of Brazil's military dictatorship in 1972.
- DirectorJúlio BressaneStarsKaren AciolyAnkitoHélio AryIrreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's Posthumous Memories"). A dead man tells about his love life and adventures, specially his affair with Virgília, a dubious married woman.
- DirectorMoacyr GóesStarsMarcos PalmeiraMaria Fernanda CândidoBruno GarciaFree adaptation of Machado de Assis's "Dom Casmurro". Bento marries an actress, and soon afterwards she gets pregnant. He begins to suspect the child isn't his, but his best friend's.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsGrande OteloJulien GuiomarCharles BaianoJubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonym novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador.
- DirectorGeraldo Santos PereiraRenato Santos PereiraStarsMaurício do ValleSônia ClaraJofre SoaresCowboy Riobaldo is attracted to same sex Diadorim, not knowing that "he" is a girl dressed in man's clothes. After Diadorim's father is killed, she swears revenge, being joined by Riobaldo in this mission.
- StarsVera FischerCarlos Alberto RiccelliRoberto MoraesThe couple Carlos and Eduarda arrive at this small fisherman village in the northeast of Brazil, where he is in charge of rescuing the mysterious cargo of a sunken ship. Eduarda feels a magical connection to this place full of light and specially to Nô, a handsome local man who's grandmother is viewed as a type of sorcerer. She is preparing Nô to inherit her knowledge and powers an thus "closed his body", making him indifferent to love, despite being the heartrob of most women in town. But this will change when Eduarda and Nô fall for each other, unleashing a series of dramatic events and complex sentiments. The story is based on the homonymous bestselling novel by José Lins do Rego.
- DirectorTom PayneOswaldo SampaioStarsEliane LageAnselmo DuarteEsther GuimarãesIn 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this backdrop, Sinhá Moça falls in love with a young lawyer, and they get involved in a great love story.
- DirectorFauzi MansurStarsDavid CardosoDorothée Marie BouvyerFlávio PortoThe love affair between Ceci, a white woman and a handsome Indian, Peri, in Brazil.
- DirectorAndré Luiz OliveiraStarsTatauTaíse CostaRoberto BonfimIn order to earn a warrior name, the son of Araguaia chief wanders the forest, falls in love with a girl from the Tocantins tribe, and defeats their bravest warrior. When his true identity is discovered, he makes a deal: promises to fight the Tapuias, another tribe which threatens the Tocantins, marries the Indian girl and establishes the Ubirajara nation.
- StarsDionísio AzevedoCristina MullinsBaby GarrouxThe life of a poor young boy who talks to a sweet orange tree and establishes a beautiful friendship with a lonely old Portuguese man.
- DirectorAndré SturmStarsCarolina KastingBruno GiordanoLu GrimaldiPolish Jewish woman arrives in Brazil dreaming of marrying but has to become a prostitute to survive. At the same time, sanitarian doctor Oswaldo Cruz comes back to Brazil after three years in Paris, where he had studied in the Pasteur Institute. He's full of ideas on how to change Brazilian public health, which is being threatened by yellow fever.
- DirectorFernando Coni CamposStarsEsmeralda BarrosFernando Coni CamposTalula CamposDuring a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.
- DirectorLucas AmbergStarsElliott GouldTaís AraújoTalia ShireThe drama of a Jewish immigrant who is going to study in a catholic school and falls in love with a black catholic girl.
- DirectorWalter AvanciniStarsPaulo GracindoDina SfatSuzy Arruda
- DirectorZelito VianaStarsIsabel RibeiroClaudio MarzoRoberto BataglinIn São Paulo, during the 1920s, a woman who is loved by a telegraphist and seduced by a slacker ends up in prostitution.
- DirectorPaulo César SaraceniStarsIsabellaOthon BastosRaul CortezAdaptation of Machado de Assis's classic novel "Dom Casmurro". Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not really his.
- DirectorLuiz Gonzaga dos SantosStarsHelena RamosJosimar CarneiroDilim CostaThe dwarf Jujuba becomes famous and powerful after an unsuccessful attempt of suicide. He receives many letters of sympathy from children and a TV network offers him a show for children. He hires an obscure writer to write his shows with a high salary, and gives him the nickname of "Escriba" (obs: meaning who writes). Jujuba is an abusive and mean boss, humiliating Escriba most of the time in various situations. Jujuba invites the stripper Patty to his wonderful house as if he were interested in hiring her with an expensive salary for his show, but actually with the only intention of having sex with her. When Patty steals the original of the fake contract, Jujuba tries to retrieve it, and Escriba has the chance of his revenge, leading to a fatal conclusion.
- DirectorGlauco Mirko LaurelliStarsSonia BragaDavid CardosoNilson CondéRomantic girl gathers some old friends in her house on Paquetá Island, in Rio de Janeiro, and tries to find out, among all the boys, which one of them had been her boyfriend during her childhood, with whom she had exchanged vows of eternal love.
- DirectorHermanno PennaStarsLuiz A. BarretoFernando BezerraAmaral CavalcanteIn the 40s, sergeant is ordered to escort a political prisoner from Paulo Afonso to Aracaju, Brazil. During the trip, there's a change in the Government and he is ordered to release the prisoner. But he decides to go all the way.
- DirectorHelvecio RattonStarsMarco NaniniPatricia PillarAlexandre BorgesGodofredo suffers a terrible blow when he comes back home earlier than usual and finds his wife in the arms of his partner. He sends his wife away to a coast town and dares his rival to a duel. But he begins to miss his wife and the company of his friend.
- DirectorAntônio CalmonStarsDenise DumontRoberto BonfimAndré de BiaseGirl and her boyfriend are kidnapped. She develops a strange attraction to her kidnapper and the two get involved.
- StarsMaitê ProençaGracindo JúniorEdwin LuisiThe scandalous love affair between Don Pedro I, first emperor of Brazil, and his lover Domitila de Castro Canto e Mello, Marquise of Santos, and its repercussions in the Brazilian court.
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