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- A female lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
- A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
- 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.
- Pele's meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama.
- Stories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.
- A U.S. actor gets a gig in South American Parador. When the dictator dies, he's forced to play him for real and gets his mistress. Can they change Parador?
- David Sloan travels to Rio for a kick-box exhibition. There he saves two youngsters and stops a white slaver.
- Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.
- A divorced mother makes the ultimate sacrifice to secure her daughter's happiness.
- Our story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born fully grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family and followers on a journey to the Big City. More miracles occur on the way, but Macunaima still has the heart and mind of a child. In the Big City, terrorists enlist him in their revolutionary schemes. In the Big City he learns that nuts are not always food and other hilarious life lessons.
- A family and household are frozen after a shipwreck in 1886. They wake up in today's São Paulo, and must deal with temporal and cultural shocks.
- Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.
- Sitcom about a dysfunctional but loving average Brazilian family.
- The story of a honest, incorrupt airplane pilot and his ambitious, unscrupulous, and ill-disposed older brother.
- Monarchists and republicans meet in Araruna, a small fictional town in the interior of São Paulo, in 1886. The novel portrays the love story of the beautiful and wealthy Sinhá Moça - daughter of the slave, Barão Ferreira de Araruna, and sweet and submissive Mother Candida - , with the young abolitionist lawyer Dr. Rodolfo Fontes - son of Dr. Fontes, and the housewife Inêz. Together, they face the difficulties in the campaign for the abolition of slaves.
- The difficulties faced by a gentle-hearted young white slave targeted by the obsession of her lord in the Brazilian colonial period.
- The friendship of two women is torn apart as one, supposedly innocent, is accused of murdering the other one's husband.
- The enmity between two rancher families in territorial dispute, and the forbidden love between a drover and a landless, mysterious woman with no past.
- In Araruna, a small town in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, circa 1886, Sinhá Moça and republican Dr. Rodolfo are engaged in a forbidden love affair. Rodolfo is fighting slavery and Sinhá Moça, an abolitionist herself, is the daughter of Coronel Ferreira, the Baron of Araruna, a man who is thoroughly pro-slavery. To complicate things further comes Rafael, a former slave who earned his freedom; he is the result of a secret relationship between the Baron and his slave Maria Dolores.
- After being presumed dead, a messianic figure returns to the small city he once helped to defend from a criminal mob, shaking everyone's lives up.
- In "The Silver Cliff" Violeta (Alessandra Negrini) is a married dentist in a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma (Otto Jr.), said he was leaving her and going to another city.
- A simple, sometimes naïve, sometimes madly sensual young women works at Vesuvius bar in the city of Ilhéus and is in love with its owner, who disapproves of the way she unwittingly seduces men.
- A romantic comedy about a robbery in a luxurious Rio de Janeiro hotel and the repercussions this event has on the lives of each person involved.
- Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the aged seer, Acotirene. She anoints one who becomes Ganga Zumba, a legendary king. For years, his warriors hold off Portuguese raiders; then he agrees to leave the mountains in exchange for reservation land and peace. It's a mistake. Zumbi, a warrior whose mother was killed by Portuguese and who spent 15 years with the Whites, stays in the mountains to lead Palmares. In 1694, the Portuguese import a ruthless captain from São Paulo to lead an assault on the free Blacks. Can Zumbi keep Palmares free?