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- Follows the lives of 2 poor Brazilians and their schemes to get money and the consequences of their actions.
- In 2002, 12-year-old Maria, living in dire poverty with her family, is sold by her fisherman father to prostitute recruiter Seu Tadeu, who takes her to a low-class brothel in the Amazon region. While she suffers innumerable abuses, Maria only thinks of escaping the horrible conditions she's faced with.
- In a dystopian near future in Brazil, an authoritarian government orders all citizens of African descent to move to Africa - creating chaos, protests, and an underground resistance movement that inspires the nation.
- A chronicle of a real-life bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro that occurred on June 12, 2000.
- A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.
- Publicist Claudio and homemaker/choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they don't understand or respect each other's feelings or viewpoints. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as insensitive and rough. On the night before Claudio's 50th birthday, Mars, Earth, and Jupiter are aligned and during a quarrel at home, Claudio and Helena say "If I were you..." at the same time. When they wake up the next morning, they have switched bodies and each must face the other's difficulties in the agency, in the school, and with their friends.
- João do Santo Cristo leaves his hometown and moves to Brasília in search of a better life. There, he encounters misery and crime, but also discovers love in the arms of Maria Lúcia.
- The young warrior indian Tainá must now battle against biopirates, and is joined by a new boy from the big city and an indian little girl who wants to follow her steps as a protector of the jungle.
- A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
- Witty and entertaining, every independent episode embraces all the diversity of Brazil, its women, and their life experiences.
- The life and times of Cazuza, Brazilian singer/poet/enfant terrible, from his start with rock group "Barão Vermelho", to his death from Aids, in 1990, showing his career, love affairs, and involvement with drugs.
- 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.
- A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to investigate what is happening and is helped by the experienced, but forgotten, Inspector Pimentel.
- Luísa 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.
- A romantic comedy in which a 35-year-old man is abandoned by his wife and falls in love with his neighbor, a perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist.
- When executive Ricardo is found dead, shot in the seat of his car with no suspects to be found, Inspector Espinosa and Officer Daia are put in charge of the case and soon begin to investigate the people closest to the victim. As everyone involved in the case mysteriously disappears, the situation takes on unexpected proportions.
- Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last.
- Geraldine is a fairy who lost their wings by using unconventional methods in their missions. Her last chance to retrieve them will be the mission "Julia".
- Four sisters live in the famous neighborhood of Ipanema, in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, and have typical adolescent habits. With different personalities, the four teenagers complete each other in a bond of friendship, confidences and companionship. Based on the book of the same name by Maria Mariana.
- Caco leaves prison. Back in action, he unites his group to take 100 million dollars out of the country. In disguise, they organize a comical excursion to Foz do Iguaçu.
- The social lives of four coming-of-age sisters are shaken when they discover they are moving - to another neighborhood.
- Based on the true story of Zuzu Angel, a famous Brazilian fashion designer in the 70's, who searches for her son Stuart, a member of a leftist university group who suddenly disappears during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
- "Boca de Ouro" (Golden Mouth) tells the story of a feared and respected mob boss, an almost mythological figure of Madureira (a neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) during the 60's. His ambition, lovers and sins arouse the curiosity of journalist Caveirinha, who seeks an ex lover to collect material for a story about Boca's life.
- The story of two neighboring couples and the marital problems caused by the unexpected arrival of two important personages of their past. The first couple, Carlos and Ana, live on the seventh floor of a building. Ana feels she's entitled to more love than her husband is willing to give. Suddenly, an old friend, Tomás, reappears after many years away and stays at their house. Andréa and Miguel live in the building across the street and are also going through a marriage crisis. At a party, they meet Cláudia, Miguel's first girlfriend, and she has no place to stay. Naturally, she's invited to sleep at their place. The presence of the two newcomers will cause many changes in their relationships.
- A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities... What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.
- Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
- In an old-time dance hall (the "gafieira") in São Paulo, one evening is all it takes to meet different characters as they remember the past, live the present, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, naturally, dance.
- The real story behind creation of Comando Vermelho (Red Commando), powerful criminal organization terrorized Rio de Janeiro for several decades.
- Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.
- As the stars move through the sky of São Paulo five people ask what will become of their dreams. In the struggle to break their isolation they discover the transforming power of solidarity.
- In 1945 the war was not over in Brazil: A death squad assassinated all the Japanese immigrants who accepted defeat.
- In Rio de Janeiro, the forty-something year old, Mercedes, goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life - from a child who lost her mother. Over three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces her husband, Gustavo, and has love affairs with Theo and other young men, always supported by her best friend Monica.
- After the death of their mother, four sisters gather to divide their inheritance, and bring back several family troubles.
- Roberta (Ximenes) and Suzana (Duarte) are sisters who plan a kidnap of their own grandmother, who used to torment them as children with rigid rules of etiquette and social conventions.
- Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira).
- Antonio, a famous Brazilian astrophysicist and professor at an American university, receives the news that he has a fatal disease. Upon returning to Brazil to receive an official tribute, he discovers the identity of his true parents and the surprising love story between them, which changes his life.
- Angel works in a wedding dress store. Ulisses, her boyfriend, works as personal trainer. They are swallowed for the television and, to leave, need to discover how to use the Ulisses' ring.
- Mari and her friend Déia discover about the affair of her husband with another woman in a accidental phone call.
- In 1945 Rio de Janeiro, a customs official interrogates a suspected Nazi fugitive.
- A man decides to turn on the webcam of his laptop and hide it before committing suicide at his apartment, in order to film the actions of the people and how they react by seeing his dead body.
- Wanderley, a young and dreamy Army parachutist, arrives in Teresópolis, a resort mountain town, to enjoy his holidays with his father, a housekeeper for a rich family. Wandering around the woods, he meets Débora, an extremely good-looking girl, but doesn't reveal his true identity, saying only he was a Prince Charming in search of a Sleeping Beauty.
- On Alberto's birthday, his daughter Zezé gets engaged. But the party turns sour when he decides to expose his pain and regrets.
- Erotic comedy in two segments. On the first, housewife finds her husband having sex with the housemaid. In order to avoid divorce, he promises to be faithful to her, but finds extremely hard to keep his word. The second is about a musician who places a strange bet: a sandwich in case he manages to conquer the heart (and have sex with) of a beautiful girl.
- In 1980, Daniel Filho directed a TV show with the most important names of Brazilian music. Named "Série Grandes Nomes" (Full Names Series), every episode was a different show of important Brazilian singer and its was titled with the singer's full name. The TV show was such a success that in 2006 all episodes were released in DVD.