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- A little boy goes on an adventurous quest in search of his father.
- 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
- 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.
- Behind the looks of a shy film student, David hides an obscure past that is about to be revealed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "The Virgin's Tower" - Memoires of a group of rebel women that were imprisioned by the Brazilian dictatorship in the 60's.
- The filme relates how a victory - winning a scholarship to an elite private school - may become an obstacle race for an impoverished young person.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A teacher takes a student to his house in the slum, but on arrival discovers that drug traffickers have killed his parents and now are looking for him.
- The film is based in the Saint Anima Sola, Lonely Soul, present in several gospels of Christianity. Anima Sola represents the souls in purgatory that require the assistance of both the living and the divine to alleviate their suffering hellish. A new young group are trapped in a house in Vargem Grande, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and haunted by Gestas, who seeks his salvation through the reincarnation of the soul in a young girl who just moved to the house. The house is haunted by spirits trapped there since before its construction. These spirits wandering along to new residents and intercede with them.
- 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.
- Half-documental independent film about torture against women in Brazilian military dictatorship. Ravache is both a nameless narrator and main character.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A psychiatrist married to a financial executive is intrigued by a young call girl prone to panic attacks and they begin circling each other.
- An insecure journalist is turned into a drag queen and joins an agency, intending to uncover an alleged sex traffic scheme.
- Priscila thinks she is too uptight. When her mother goes on a trip she decides to use her temporary freedom to deal with her uptightness.
- TV Series
- 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.
- Léo (Daniel Rocha) has spent his entire life trying to become a famous and successful soccer player, but the suburban reality has never made things easy for him. However, even with all the problems, he does what every good Brazilian does: he never gives up. Intent on turning things around, Léo finds his strength in family and in his vocation by bringing together his love for soccer and writing.
- '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.
- Apnea presents a week in the life of Chris and her friends. Chris does not want to sleep. Afraid of her sleep apnea and her own unconsciousness, Chris stays up several nights in search of some sort of sense to her life that she did not see during the day, always living on the edge of her own body, and of existence itself, and dragging everything around with her.
- 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 story of one man's journey from Denmark to Brazil to get a child.
- At her only child's 9Th birthday, Lucas, Estela, a telemarketing operator, plans a party that has minimal chances of success.
- A body. No clues. No suspects.
- 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.
- 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.
- As filmmaker Maria Carolina Telles comes to terms with the death of her father, a man who regretted never making it to the frontlines of World War II, she focuses her lens on the life of another man who had his own unique experience as a civilian in the midst of combat: award-winning war photographer André Liohn.
- 5 friends have a plan to rob a transporter that can change their lives completed.
- 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.
- Cristina still lives with her mother and wants to find her true love. She looks for help in a matrimonial agency, that arranges a meeting between her and Paulo. She likes the guy, but Paulo doesn't seem too enthusiastic. As time goes by, Chico, the owner of the agency, feels he is becoming too fond of Cristina...
- A sensory journey through the recollections, travels and gardens of the Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.
- 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.