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- After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.
- The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
- Third installment of the Cities of Love series (Paris, je t'aime / New York, I Love You / Rio, Eu Te Amo), this collective feature-film is made of 10 stories of romance set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Newly wed arrives at her husband's family house, in the country. The heavy atmosphere of the house frightens her, and she takes refuge in her homosexual son-in-law's room, who is kept locked and hidden from society. A tragedy occurs, causing her departure. She's only to return seventeen years later, and sick.
- Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another woman, causes a lot of humiliating situations to him.
- On the eve of a volleyball championship decisive for her future as an athlete, 17-year-old Sofía discovers an unwanted pregnancy. In an attempt to interrupt it clandestinely, she ends up becoming the target of a fundamentalist group.
- In this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.
- Short stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters living in the Brazilian underground.
- Los Angeles, February 1974. Tom Jobim, the incarnation of Bossa Nova, and Elis Regina, then Brazil's most popular singer, met to record what would become one of the most iconic albums in the history of Brazilian music.
- The unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities (Brazil, German and Italy) during World War II.
- A man loses everything. Again.
- The night side of a modernist icon. The fauna and flora of Roberto Burle Marx's gardens inhabited by visitors to Parque do Flamengo while the city of Rio de Janeiro falls asleep.
- Selma, a retired nurse, is an extremely loving mother for his son Raimundo, in an almost incestuous relationship. One day, she becomes aware of some changes in her son's behavior. At first, she thinks it may be some girlfriend. But soon she learns it's something else.
- A man and his family travel 3200km (1984 miles) by bicycle, from the State of Paraíba to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in search of a job.
- Durval and his mother Carmita live at the back of "Durval Discos", a record store they own in São Paulo, specializing in vinyl records. They lead a boring and unattractive life, until the day Durval hires a maid, Celia, to help his mother with the housekeeping. However, on her second day, Celia goes away leaving a 5-year-old child behind, Kiki, and a note promising to be back in a couple of days. Durval and Celia are charmed by the child at first, but soon they see some sad news about Celia and Kiki on TV that will change the whole situation.
- At the age of 80, Polidoro decides to demolish the stability of his comfortable life as a retired judge and become the owner of a strip club.
- The illiterate population of the small town of Javé charge Antônio Biá with the mission of writing the story of the town, in an attempt to stop the construction of a hydropower dam that would destroy the village. They start remembering (or making up) great local personalities and events.
- The drama of a poor family in the bloodiest war in the History of Brazil: the war of Canudos.
- The story of Brazilian popular singer Luiz Gonzaga and his son Gonzaguinha.
- Vado enters the bedroom of prostitute Neusa Suely at dawn in search of money, which he discovers has disappeared. To get rid of Vado's accusations, Neusa claims that the homosexual Velvet, his neighbor, stole the money.
- Dudu is a shy boy who, in his senior year of high school, is still a virgin. This situation makes him the constant target of jokes from his inseparable friends. One day, at the end of the school year, he is invited by the gorgeous Professor Deborah to take extra lessons at her house. The situation soon causes Dudu and his friends to believe that she is flirting on the boy, who cares more than never about his sexual inexperience.
- Immature, cheap douchebag Fábio Clóvis marries pseudo-intellectual Miá and they take a honeymoon cruise to Europe aboard a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the ship. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura when they were classmates. Meanwhile, cynical chambermaid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip, then try to poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça; this affects their honeymoon.
- "1917. Fleeing famine and war in Poland, Rebeca (Valentina Herszage) arrives in Brazil to reunite with her husband and start a new life. However, contrary to the promises of happiness, the reality she encounters in Rio de Janeiro is completely different. She discovers that her husband has passed away and ends up becoming a hostage in a large network of prostitution and human trafficking, led by the ruthless Tzvi (Caco Ciocler). Despite having to transgress her own beliefs, Rebeca finds allies who are experiencing the same plight, and together, they will fight for their freedom."
- A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de reis. The movie shows his life from poverty to riches and back to poverty again, as is common in Brazil, rich people die poor.
- A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.
- Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis, is encouraged by her personal Brazilian maid Amélia to perform in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, she is forced to tolerate the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.
- A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to take pictures of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian outlaw, kind of a tropical Robin Hood.
- Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this older person has had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American lives with his daughter.
- Residents of a slum in Rio de Janeiro are invited to share religious experiences and personal beliefs while reflecting about their daily lives.
- A dangerous drug lord operates in Brasilia, the federal capital of Brazil. To capture him, the police will do whatever is necessary. Caught in the middle is a frightened population. "Federals" exposes the reality of a country that today is an important route for international drug-trafficking.
- Marcelo is a twelve-year boy with an apparently vegetative life. Three years ago his mother Anna was killed in an accident and as a consequence the boy became reduced to a condition of semi-paralysis, detachment and silence which the other members of the family accept and are conformed with He lives in an impressive mansion in São Paulo where the story takes place. The boy's father and owner of the house, Marcelo Rondi has a dynamic and downright personality. A middle aged man he is a successful businessman with a considerable fortune and reputation. Little Marcelo is his only son, but he has a daughter from his first marriage, eighteen year old Berenice. During Marcelo and Berenice frequent absences, the house is run by the housekeeper Matilda. The film begins with Matilde interviewing young Anna, a candidate to the position of little Marcelo's nurse and nanny. Anna reveals an unpretentious demeanor and a peculiar beauty and takes over her functions with exceptional interest and zeal trying to penetrate the boy's universe. After a long and stressing business trip, Marcelo comes back accompanied by his girlfriend Ruth. At the beginning Marcelo is not impressed by Anna whom he considers discreet and competent. But he notices that the boy is getting involved with his nanny and that she has conquered Matilde's friendship. The contact between the boy and Anna grows at different levels and the reality and the dream coexist. but even so little Marcelo apparently found the peace he had before and sleeps quietly with the mother image is present... A close affinity with little Marcelo playing the role of an intermediate develops between Marcelo and Anna. Marcelo confesses to Anna his deepest feelings about his son and even a touch of envy of his son's bliss and placidity in contrast with his own lust for life. This is how a romance rises between them provoking Ruth's jealousy and Matilde's reproach. Notwithstanding, the attraction develops on and on along with the family conflict. The boy's universe is shaken by the relationship between Marcelo and Anna and a strange triangle begins.
- Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film tries to trace a parallel between life in Brazil during the slavery period and life in modern Brazil.
- A biography of the Portuguese-Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature was her tutti frutti hat. She came to the US as the "Brazilian Bombshell" and was a Broadway and Hollywood star in the 1940s.
- Bia Ferreira (Mina Nercessian), 35, lives it up as a single woman in Rio while climbing the ranks of an adrenaline-charged Internet-influencer agency. Everything suddenly changes when she discovers that she's entering early menopause. Now she only has six months to find someone and get pregnant before her womb ends her hidden dream of being a mother.
- Exposed by his girlfriend through a video on the Internet, Bruno tries to revive his reputation, but all he can do is get into a series of traps (Cilada, in Portuguese). Cilada.com is a comedy about love and betrayal that shows the power of the Internet to transform small intimacies and slips in fame and constraints globalized.
- A young Portuguese cartographer in the 18th century finds new forms of love, war and a wild new world in an expedition into South American heart.
- Grande Otelo was one of Brazil's greatest actors and comedians, using the spotlight to shape his own narrative and discuss the institutional racism that haunted him for eight decades, two dictatorships and over a hundred films.
- In 1945 the war was not over in Brazil: A death squad assassinated all the Japanese immigrants who accepted defeat.
- A shy journalist asks a womanizer friend for advice on how to seduce women. The lessons work so well that the "teacher" decides to write a book on the subject: The Single Man Manual.
- The real story of a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.
- The journey of a middle-class amateur.
- In Copabacana, the pothead surfer Paulo Roberto is the son of a politician with a dysfunctional family that spends the day surfing and smoking grass. The family maid has a son, the smalltime drug dealer China, who spends most of the time in the beach with Paulo. In the building across the street lives the sexy Amazon-born babysitter Rita de Cássia that has a crush on Paulo. On the streets, the boy Waldick has just arrived from the country of Minas Gerais and idolizes the successful TV entertainer Fúlvio Fontes, who worked as a street vendor when was a boy. When Rita meets Paulo and tells him that she is virgin, Paulo leaves her telling that he likes whores. Rita visits the pimp Tim Mais and asks him to work as a prostitute using the nickname of Mystery to draw the attention of Paulo Roberto. Mystery becomes a hit among the clients of Tim. Their lives entwines when Paulo steals a can of marijuana that China had found in the sea, while Paulo Roberto, Tim Mais and Waldick fall in love for Mystery.
- This picks up with Fábio and Miá three years after their wedding took place after only one month of dating. Stressed out from dealing with their many differences, they decide to travel to Portugal in an attempt to save their marriage.
- The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure, and passion for Brazil. The story shows aging Villa-Lobos going to a gala concert in the Theatre of Rio de Janeiro for a tribute in his honor. This is the last time he is coming out of his house alive. His looks are feverish and attentive. Different scenes of the concert will bring back memories of his life. Villa-Lobos suffers a great many ordeals: his father's violence; his mother's sadness; his first wife Lucilia's disaffection, inability to have children, and rejection of his art; the possible loss of his great love Mindinha; and the abyss between genius and madness. The pieces of this puzzle recreated chronologically confirm his personality: energetic and fragile, humble and megalomaniac, amorous and egocentric, brilliant and naive, adventurous and independent, sensitive and brutal.
- On December 31st of 1999, the destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.
- Documentary on poor people living in two slums in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve.
- Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer.
- Portugal, 1739, the reign of King João V, who tries to keep a delicate balance between the power of the Church and the interests of the Court. António José da Silva, nicknamed "the Jew", a famous playwright admired both by the people and the aristocracy, is charged by the Inquisition with the crime of heresy and sentenced to die at the stake. His execution is organized as a demonstration of the triumphant power of the Church against any other force.