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- 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.
- Daniel (Gagliasso), a physicist, becomes obsessed with time travel in an attempt to save his murdered girlfriend.
- Photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town
- At the peak of her mid-life crisis, a full time mom will do whatever it takes to conquer the friendship and admiration of her teenage daughter, even facing her deepest fears by joining a beauty contest in a summer resort.
- A little boy goes on an adventurous quest in search of his father.
- Behind the looks of a shy film student, David hides an obscure past that is about to be revealed.
- The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent times, they've watched as the system that protected them for so many years slowly disintegrates. Mirão Menezes lives at the mercy of the drug-trafficking industry, the ever-encroaching authorities, and the constant and violent power struggle with his brother Abílio. Mirão's daughter Elaine becomes involved with her father's pilot, finds herself pregnant and decides to flee with him after her Uncle Abílio bribes them. Brito, the hitman sent to find the couple and finish them off, is ironically also victim of a love story.
- 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.
- A group of friends make a pact together to come out of the closet after one of them is assaulted during São Paulo's Gay Parade.
- 'Doutor Gama' is based on the life of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history. A black man who used the law and the courts to free over 500 slaves. Born a free man, Gama was sold as a slave at the age of 10 as payment for his father's debts. Even as a slave, he learned to read and write, studied and then gained his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. He was an abolitionist and a republican who inspired an entire nation.
- Afraid her husband will fall back with his ex girlfriend after they're assigned to work together, Adriana and her sister set sail to the U.S. to go after him to stop this from happening.
- Three young people arrive from different parts of the country to go to college in Sao Paulo. On their first day there, a strange and intense attraction unites them. Together, they rent an apartment and begin living together, in close quarters. Sharing kisses and fond embraces. They exchange words of endearment with the naturalness of ordering a sandwich at a diner. They threaten to break up and the next moment they are all laughing together again. College days however soon come to an end and, with each having different paths to trail, separation is imminent. And consequently, their gestures, words and attitudes take on a new weight. Touching each other now takes on a new significance. Words of love are weighed down by consequences.
- Free adaptation of the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet translated to the harsh life in Favela da Maré, one of largest and most violent slums in Rio de Janeiro.
- In search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, Marina Abramovic travels through Brazil experiencing sacred rituals and exploring limits between art, immateriality and consciousness. How far will she go to create her work of art?
- Rebeca is the daughter of divorced parents, moving with her mom to the Piratininga suburb, coast of Niterói. Due to a wave of thefts, she is not allowed to leave her house by herself. Living in the neighboring suburb, Tibay, Mika is a girl of the same age as Rebeca, who doesn't identify herself with the sex she was assigned at birth. Her dead name is João Pedro. She had let her hair grow and used the clothes of her older sister, who doesn't live there anymore. Her parents do not accept her. Mika spends most of her time on the streets, committing petty crimes such as breaking ins to steal feminine objects. The paths of the two girls cross. Adults will not look kindly to their friendship. After being forced to shave her hair and use masculine clothes, Mika disappears. This will be the trigger to a series of extreme actions that will shake the life of the kids and adults living on Beira-Mar Avenue.
- Three young friends, Tita (Andréia Horta), Mari (Gianne Albertoni) and Aninha (Fernanda Souza) decide to change their situations and travel to a beach place for a weekend. On the road, they meet Estrella (Débora Lamm), a hippie that wants a hide to try to find her unknown father. Together, they will live hilarious, absurd and moving situations. More than a change the air, they change themselves.
- The true story of a working-class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one of the most influential politicians in Brazil's history.
- During the period of 1964 to 1985, Brazil lived a military dictatorship. In the 60s, the Dominican friars Tito, Betto, Fernando and Ivo help leftist organizations. However, they are arrested and tortured by the despicable Chief of DOPS Fleury, who is trying to arrest the leader Carlos Marighella. Tito and Fernando do not resist the violent torture and betray Marighella, who is ambushed and executed by Fleury. In 1973, in France, the exiled friar Tito is unable to overcome his trauma and depression and commits suicide in the Convent of La Tourette.
- Split into three chapters, "Cabrito" tells the story of a man haunted by his loved ones. The film begins with the story of his father and how the family became cannibal. The second part focuses on his mother and how she awakens the worst in her son with her twisted religiousness. The last part is focused on the main character's final catharsis, when he kidnaps his first love, Rosalita, and reproduces the inhuman bizarre caring to which he was subjected in his family relations.
- The life of Renato Manfredini Júnior, Brazilian musician, from his first involvement with music, to his years in the punk rock band Aborto Alétrico, to the formation of Legião Urbana, in the rock scene of 70's/80's Brasilia.
- The filme relates how a victory - winning a scholarship to an elite private school - may become an obstacle race for an impoverished young person.
- On the porch of a farm, a lady tells stories while cutting and sewing scraps of cloth, creating images that form a towel. There are four stories of humor and magic. The marriage of the fisherman with Iara, the mermaid of the rivers. The choirboy in a church who sees a procession of souls. The meeting between a store Santa Claus and a street kid and the adventures of Zé Burraldo, a naive guy who always lets himself be influenced by others.
- During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.
- After losing a baby in the third trimester, Joana decides to go on vacation in Peruibe, a small seaside town, known for UFO's sightings. After a one night stand, Joana runs over a man and kills him. Joana then ignites a strange relationship with Maria, the wife of the man she killed and finds herself immersed in a peculiar story of alien abductions.
- Sofia has a clear goal: get in an university, find a job and leave home. When her school is occupied by her friends and classmates though, she sees herself in a dilemma between keeping on studying or sharing her knowledge in transforming the school.
- With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years.
- In the early 1960's, a group of people responsible for the construction of the Brasilia-Fortaleza road is abandoned in the middle of the jungle by the Brazilian government, after the military coup.
- 5 friends have a plan to rob a transporter that can change their lives completed.
- O Contador de Histórias (The Story of Me), a Luiz Villaça;a movie based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, is a story about how affection can change reality. The youngest of 10 brothers, Roberto showed a special talent to tell stories, by changing through narrative his own experiences about frustration into beautiful and touching fables. At age 6, the boy filled with imagination goes to live in a newly opened government institution, which main goal is to help young and poor children. His mother takes him there believing it will guarantee a better future for her child. But the reality of the institution is very different from what was advertised on TV. Roberto, little by little, loses hope. At age 13, after hundreds of escapes, he's considered "irrecoverable", in the words of the headmaster of the facility. However, Roberto proves to be a challenge to the French pedagogue Margherit, who comes to Brazil to work on a research. Determined to make the boy her object of study, she tries to get closer to him. At first, Roberto struggles, but after a traumatic experience, he looks for shelter in Margherit's home. What comes out of it is a relationship based on friendship and tenderness, that will put Roberto's disbelief in his future at check and will challenge Margherit to keep her beliefs.
- Nina is a 6-year-old girl who lives with her parents in a forest reserve. Gentle, fair, adventurous, kind, cheerful and companion. When she has been chosen by the spirits of nature, she was presented with a necklace that allows her to communicate with all animals, as well as to see and interact with the Nature Guardians. Along with the Guardians, and with the help of the magic necklace, Nina will experience great adventures, while at the same time she will try to protect and care for nature and the people who live with her.
- The story of one man's journey from Denmark to Brazil to get a child.
- TV Series
- The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
- A body. No clues. No suspects.
- On an isolated beach, powerful business woman Frederica is holding a New Year's Eve celebration that everyone is awaiting. In the midst of a marriage crisis with photographer Constantin, that also affects their teenage daughter Tuane, she has to manage her life and the career of pop icon Lenny, who has decided to write a mysterious book alongside writer João Wommer. When a giant sea creature strands on the coast, Frederica will have to face her biggest fear: loss.
- Half-documental independent film about torture against women in Brazilian military dictatorship. Ravache is both a nameless narrator and main character.
- The life of Friar Damião of Bozzano: his youth in Italy, his participation in World War I, his role as a catholic missionary in Brazil from the 30s until his death in 1997 and the reports of miracles that led him to be popularly called the "Saint of Northeast".
- In Rio Grande do Sul, the newcomer intern Paula sees the schizophrenic Dante Becker and she decides to study his case for her graduation work in the university. She learns that Dante was left in the institution ten years ago and has been abandoned by his family, friends and even the doctors and his files are lost. Her supervisor retrieves the name of Dante's father Gregório and the women Renê Heller and Berenice that had visited him in the past and she interviews them to discover what happened with Dante. Like in a puzzle, she learns that Dante worked researching lands to see whether they have archeological value. Berenice is a childhood friend that glances at him on television and seeks him out to investigate her real estate that her brutal husband Ciro wants to transform in a camping area. Dante finds an ancient bone in the location but he is forced by the violent Ciro to stop his research. Berenice asks him to forget his findings and they have one night stand. However, Dante shows his discovery to the archeologist Renê on whom Dante has a crush, and she seduces him and convinces him to show the site. Dante fells like a dummy in this triangle of love, triggering his schizophrenia.
- How far would you go to be happy? In this delightful comedy, chef Teodora (Bruna Lombardi) embarks on a journey of discoveries that will make her a new woman. Crises in love and in her professional life will take her, along with her friend Zeca (Marcello Airoldi) and young Spanish girl Milena (Marta Larralde), through the Way of St. James of Compostela, an ideal background for meetings and adventure.
- 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.
- Few summers are so remarkable to deserve a title, but the Brazilian summer of 1987 1988 became 'The Summer of the Cans', after thousands of cans containing 1.5 kg of high-quality pressed marijuana surfaced along the hippest beaches of Rio and Sao Paulo, unraveling amazing criminal, economic and behavioral events. Revive the heat of the moment with oriented reenactment and a patchwork of rich 80's archive material, with testimonials from Brazilian police authorities, an American prosecutor and celebrities.
- A psychiatrist married to a financial executive is intrigued by a young call girl prone to panic attacks and they begin circling each other.
- A journalist is placed upon the management of a large broadcasting company to the capital of Brazil at the time of local elections. She must now face ideological and ethical questions, brought back by a left-wing former boyfriend and her own colleagues. At the same time, a free-lancer spy is sent by an obscure figure in politics to manipulate the elections and its media coverage.
- After more than 10 years apart, two sisters meet again and set off on a journey through the interior of the state of Minas Gerais in search of the mythical Saideira cachaça, the legacy of their grandfather.
- CAFUNÉ is about people who are starting their adult lives in the both violent and charming environment of the city of Rio de Janeiro. This scenery is viewed through the eyes of a young couple: a high-class girl, Débora, and a boy from a favela, Marquinhos. Slowly, they'll discover each others' worlds. What was believed to be prejudice against lower class actually turns into a fascination that is both sexual and affective - the meaning of Cafuné is fondling. This fascination evolves to the environment around the girl, to the point that we suspect that her mother is attracted to the kid. The girl's friends start leaving the city due to lack of perspective. Those who remain find themselves entangled in a web of boredom and vanity, like Marta, who obsessively takes pictures of herself and publishes them on the Internet. Débora, the lead character, finds out to be pregnant of Marquinhos. Her mother pushes her into abortion, but she resists, claiming that she intents to raise the baby in the favela. They have the baby, but he is born with a medical condition. They can't take him to Marquinhos' house; she gets depressed and he enjoys being installed in her big flat. After an accident with Marquinho's brother and Débora's mother, the girl decides to definitely move to the slum. Marquinhos leaves to work as a car keeper and never returns. She tries to find him and is trapped in her memories of the relationship.
- The feature documentary Dominguinhos is about the life and the work of one of the great masters of Brazilian music, interspersing archival images and concerts passages, plus exclusive gigs with artists in his remarkable career.