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- A Brazilian photocopier operator falls in love with a girl who lives in an opposite house and spends his evenings looking at her through his binoculars.
- Set in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre, the film focuses on a socially repressed young man who only comes out of his shell during chatroom performances, when he strips and smears neon paints on his lithe body.
- Luana e Hugo são colegas de escola e apaixonados um pelo outro. Mas quando a mãe de Hugo e o pai de Luana decidem namorar e mudar de cidade com todos, a situação complica para os pretendentes.
- The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.
- Two families are long time enemies, Monteiro Castro and Figueira, due to a love triangle from the past. On present days Zé, who is the daughter of Hermínia, the maid of Monteiro Castro's family. She falls in love with Rafael. But suddenly she discovers she was stolen from her mother as a child, her true mother being Beatriz Figueira, from the opponent family.
- In 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.
- Amanda, an introverted 12 year-old swimming athlete, finds safety in her own world: underneath the water. Lacking attention from her parents, she spends most of the time at the swimming pool, training and trying to succeed in maybe the only thing she truly loves. Priscila, an amazing swimmer, becomes her opponent, not only in the pool also in life. A subtle power game begins.
- Based on real events, This story of Andre a gay teenager who's searching for his place in this world despite obstacles from his religious mother and bullying at school. He finds comfort in Diego as his love interest.
- Éder is arrested when he confesses to killing a man. Duca, Éder's nephew, is only 15, but decides to prove his uncle's innocence, since he is sure that his uncle is assuming the crime in order to get his girlfriend out of prison.
- A film about imagination, in which the protagonist goes on internal journeys around the world, overcoming fears and making new discoveries.
- Based on the book "Louca por Homem" by Claudia Tajes, MULHER DE FASES: STATES OF GRACE is a modern chronicle on couple relationships, and the search for love and for oneself. In 13 half-hour episodes, the series relays the adventures of Grace, a 30-something woman, recently divorced, anxious to be loved and to revamp her life. During her search, Grace becomes involved with a number of men; she imitates each of them, adopting his tastes, habits, and culture. Grace soon realizes that finding a mate is not an easy task; and, unlike most fairy tales, the prince usually turns into a frog.
- Anita an ex junkie moves with her husband to an isolated wind blown coastal town hoping to leave her out of control drug fueled past behind her. Her laddish, bad tempered husband is not sensitive to Anita's emotional needs and her new life does not seem to fulfill her. In her utter isolation in the misty lonely endless beach she falls victim to terrifying demoniac visions from which she will need to liberate herself before her real new life can begins.
- Pedro Paulo decides to put his car on the road, an 80s Opala, and work as an app driver. What he didn't expect was to pick up passengers who could turn his day upside down.
- Bruno, a young soldier who has just run away from the Brazilian Army, travels to Porto Alegre in search of his brother Leo, who he hasn't seen in years. Bruno can't find Leo but meets Leo's friends and learns about his life. As Bruno discovers a new space where he is free to be himself and explore his sexuality, he finds a new family away from home. Portuguese audio with English subtitles.
- YONLU is a fiction film based on the real story of a 16 year-old boy who, aided by the internet, won over the world with his talent for music and art. Fluent in five languages, YONLU had a network of virtual friends on all continents. However, no one suspected he was also taking part in a forum for potential suicides.
- The show presents the misadventures of two truck drivers, Pedro and Bino, who struggle to make their livings on the roads of Brazil, trying not to be misled by life's traps.
- This series is about a group of teenagers who study together, and start to notice how difficult it is to love and respect each other, in certain situations. Teachers and students find themselves learning life lessons by unexpected ways.
- The countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. Daniel has a crush on his girlfriend Mim, who has just broken up with him but is still his friend, and his best friend, Lucas, is one of the best students in São Lucas High-School. Daniel is the son of Elaine and the photographer Daniel, who left Elaine when she was pregnant and moved alone to Thailand. Daniel is raised by Elaine and his stepfather Antônio, and shares a house with his half-sister, Maria Clara. One day, Daniel receives a letter from his biological father, who has malaria, and he is reluctant to open the envelope. Later he offers to help Lucas with some duties at the school laboratory, but when the Daniel realizes that his friend is dating Mim, he blows up and breaks the laboratory, leaving the key in the door. Lucas is blamed by the headmaster and is suspended from classes and examinations. Daniel decides to tell the headmaster the truth and learns that a laptop was stolen from the lab.
- In 2165, Michele's kidnapping puts the city-state of Porto 01, the last stronghold of human civilization, under a state of war. To save the city it will be necessary to count on the help of Jefferson, a high school student who lives in 1999.
- Um aspirante de cantor de Funk e uma de pagode são surpreendidos pelo seu empresário malandro ao serem obrigados a participar de um festival de música country
- While attempting to escape from a claustrophobic family scene, Enio, a 14-year-old boy, defies a stormy night that will lead to a brutal clash with fate.
- Sissi, the young daughter of an unemployed widower, struggles to support her family, while dreams of sharing an apartment with her boyfriend, a soccer player. Martina, who has a more stable financial situation, struggles to be desired again by her adman husband, or by whoever is around. Giane has already changed her life, and can influence Sissi's future. According to Professor Valadares, these three women are only trying to satiate their most basic appetites: Food, Sex, and Fasma.
- The meeting between a young boy and a tough sergeant in the 1970s.
- A novelist comes under the spell of a beautiful woman who is rumored to be a legendary Amazon who lures men to their doom.
- Miguel is called to his boss' room and is dismissed. Stunned, goes into a trance, confronts him and makes him his hostage. The man puts the lifestyle of the boss in doubt while thinks about your own condition.
- A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- Raul and Saul work at the same office. Raul, outgoing and good-natured comes from a broken marriage. Saul is shy, with a critical and bitter disposition. He comes from a broken engagement, and a failed suicide attempt. In spite of their differences, they become quite good friends. But their colleagues begin to wonder whether there's something beyond friendship between them.
- Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. At 85 years old, she pushes the limits of her age and does everything she can for her family and friends. Sweet Mother illustrates the everyday life of the elderly with clarity and levity, and shows that youth actually starts at 80. In the role that earned her the 2013 International Emmy® Awards for Best Actress, Fernanda Montenegro adds another success to her list of characters, which includes an Oscar nomination for the film Central Station.
- The film tells the story of sixteen people in the hottest day of the year in the city of Porto Alegre.
- An undercover agent devises a scheme to arrest a businessman who intends to bribe a congressman.
- An invisible man tells his life trajectory and the motives that led him away from his family.
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- What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question remains, but Wenders is now on the other side of the camera.
- Nothing could have prepared Renata for what she was about to experience on that beautiful spring morning. Overcome by emotions, uncertainty, and fear, she is faced with a difficult decision that will undoubtedly change the rest of her life.
- On a Saturday morning, Alice decides to start from scratch.
- Benji is a seventh grader who is bullied at his school. After a comet falls into his city, the boy acquires special powers and has to decide whether or not to fight back the attacks he suffers.
- In a devastated post-apocalyptic world where the rules of reality are transformed by magic and madness, a vengeful police officer searches for a possessed serial killer in a battle of the not-so-good versus absolute evil.
- Seven years after the massacre of the first film, the survivors Niandra and Eliseu still fear the return of Geison, the terrible psychopath who mutilated his friends on a Friday the 13th. New murders start happening in the small town of Carlos Barbosa, putting a new generation of victims as targets of the killer. But who is behind that "Scream" mask?
- Facundo is a normal and normal boy, who needs a job to survive. He has just finished high school and is in a critical situation that does not allow him to continue studying. This is how he begins to wander around the city for several days until one morning, through a classified ad, he meets Doctor Benavidez, a man of respectable appearance, who offers him a job in decent conditions. But not everything is what it seems.
- 5 HOUSES, 5 interconnected stories. An old teacher struggling to keep her home, a young man bullied for being gay, a nun expelled from the school she used to run, an old farmhand in a haunted farm and a boy whose parents died 20 years ago.
- When their mother's disease aggravates, Ana and Julia travel to the conservative countryside of southern Brazil, searching for their father. Along the way: ghosts, superpowers and dinosaurs.
- YOUR WORLD ISN'T FOR MY EYES is a story about the need for tolerance through a metaphor of life - a blind man can finally see but refuses to see the world around him. A story involving a love that disappears because of the lack of understanding one another. A friendship that goes beyond all the difficulties that arise along the way. Emotion through simple situations, recognizable people, that we can find in any city in the world. A blind pizzaiolo, of Italian descent, an Argentine, from a wealthy Jewish family and a friend, the waiter, who becomes the 'eyes of the pizzaiolo.' Within this familiar environment, the story told is about the lack of understanding that exists in our world today. This is not a typical Brazilian story or from a specific place, it is a story of our time about individualism, about respect for what the other desires.
- The documentary tells the story of Júlio César, a young Afro-Brazilian who was executed by the Police in the 1980s in Porto Alegre.
- Documentary included with the DVD Rush in Rio (2003). Provides an almost hour-long look at the band and its crew during the final dates of their 2002 Vapor Trails Tour, specifically their first-ever Brazilian shows in Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Behind the scenes footage shows the band weathering the rigors of a sometimes comically catastrophic tour, with their innate humor and grace. This documentary, by longtime Rush photographer Andrew MacNaughtan, shows the band and crew at their most light-hearted, though still thoughtful. We see the band's arrival in Brazil, to the unexpected onslaught of Brazillian fans boiled over in the culmination of a lifetime's anticipation. Following this are insights from the band and their crew, which provide a view into their longevity as well as ample evidence of the individual strengths and varied senses of humor that helped them achieve it.