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- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
- James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
- A young private on military leave comes to the rescue of his girlfriend who's been abducted by thieves and brought to Rio de Janeiro. An extravagant adventure ensues.
- Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
- On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
- A bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.
- A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and turned over to the oversexed owner of a banana plantation.
- The Queen of Pop celebrates her four-decade career in a record-breaking concert for over 1.6 million people at the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro broadcasted live.
- Rio de Janeiro police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he tracks a serial killer of taxi drivers, he also seeks his estranged daughter, Sandra, whom he had thrown out of the family home when she adopted a promiscuous teenage lifestyle. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho, a young man of unsavoury connections, befriends Sandra, now an exotic dancer and prostitute living and working in the seamy underside of late 1970s Rio. Theirs is an unstable relationship, built on unmet emotional need, lived in the shadow of her father's pursuit.
- Policeman has one obsession: to catch the psycho who is killing women in their wedding dresses.
- The rise and smash success of Elite modeling agency founder John Casablancas is chronicled in this biography of the man who invented the supermodel.
- A little kid-ghost called Pluft lives with his ghost-mother and ghost-uncle, in a remote house in a desert island. He doesn't even believe people real exist. His world will be thrown upside down, when an evil pirate (Perna de Pau) disembark on the island, after kidnapping the little girl Maribel (daughter of a famous captain), in search of Captain's hidden treasure. Three friendly sailors will help to free the girl. Based on a very well known Brazilian children's play.
- A retired woman spends her days snooping everybody in her neighborhood as a police informant. When she thinks she sees a man murder a woman, but the death is seen as natural by the police, she decides to prove she was right.
- Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell.
- Luiz Bonfá, João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim appear as themselves in this Italian light comedy set in Brasil.
- Frank, a (HIV infected) former Lufthansa steward, goes back to Rio from Germany with a film crew to look for Mario, a young man with whom he had a one night stand. Before Mario departed the morning after, he left a message scrawled in soap on the bathroom mirror: 'Welcome to the AIDS club'. Frank and his director hire a fast talking hustler named José (Guilherme di Padua) to help them to find Mario who seems alway to have just left whenever they arrive. Via Appia is the nickname of a Rio district where male prostitutes hang out...
- Brazilian singer Laura Monteiro is murdered in her dressing-room by her jealous lover João Fernandes de Oliveira when he discovered she was cheating on his with Assis and planning to escape from him and go to Buenos Aires with Assis. Meanwhile, Belén Moreira, who lives in Favela do Salgueiro and is a dead ringer for Laura, goes to Copacabana with her boyfriend Paulo. Two members of a gang that smuggles precious stones sewn in Carnival costumes see Belén and force the President of the Salgueiro Samba School to invite her to perform Chica da Silva in the Carnival parade in a costume that is adorned with genuine precious stones to be smuggled to Europe.
- Jorginho, his white friend Rico, Lici and Paulinho are homeless best friends living in a slum in a hill in Copacabana. They spend their hopeless life playing with kite; trying to survive getting food from the street market or the fishermen; learning how to pickpocket; working on the streets polishing shoes. Rico escaped from an institution in Caxambu that symbolizes hell on Earth for them. When he gets ill, he decides to return to the place because he does not want to die on the streets.
- RIO BREAKS is more than just a film about surfing. It follows the story of two best friends, Fabio and Naama, as they navigate their way between the pitfalls of life in the slums and the joys of surfing on their favorite beach. Their goal: to win the contest and become professional surfers. Thirteen-year-old Fabio and 12-year-old Naama live at Favela do Pavao, an enormous slum near Arpoador Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pavao is home to Commando Vermelho (CV), or Red Command, one of Rio's most heavily armed drug gangs. It's the Red Command who sets the rules and regulates life in the community. Their presence is ubiquitous, with armed soldiers constantly patrolling the hills and regulating the various points of sale. Fabio lives in an area of the favela called Vietnam, the poorest and most violent part of the slum. When the police come up looking for traffickers, that's where they look - and shoot - first. Raised by illiterate grandparents, he cannot read or write and is not going to school. Fabio is a prime candidate to join CV and become yet another gun-toting teenager involved in Rio's drugs war. In fact, he already shows worrying signs: mouthing off to the police, bullying some of the younger surfers and threatening Naama. Naama lives around the corner from Fabio. Born under a bridge where he lived until he was three, he and his family moved to the favela 9 years ago. What will happen to these best friends? Will any of them win the contest? Will their own relationship survive Fabio's aggressive personality? Can surfing offer a way out for Fabio or will he follow in the footsteps of his dad and join the drug gang? This is the story of Rio Breaks.
- 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.
- Protagonists of an intense and passionate relationship, Dalva and Herivelto live the duality of a perfect match in their artistic life and a complete misadventure in their personal lives. Professionally, Herivelto is a dedicated and concerned partner, but in their private life he drives Dalva crazy, causing her to drink away her jealousy. Their routine of fights and reconciliations becomes even more complicated when Herivelto falls in love with Lourdes, whom he intends to marry. However, to accomplish this union, besides leaving Dalva, he must give up the musical partnership that has brought them great success.
- Dwayne Love, a world-class music icon, becomes a desperate, hunted protagonist. From the deck of their Malibu beach estate, what seemed to be the perfect family is destroyed in one harrowing night of murder and mystery. Upon the horrific discovery of the slashed and bloodied body of his wife, Love realizes he has been framed as the prime suspect. In a state of confusion and frenzy, Love is forced to become a fugitive, and desperately attempts to unravel the mystery of his wife's slaying, while proving his innocence. Love's turbulent quest leads him across three continents in search of the murder weapon, a fabled relic known as the Dagger of Adultery. "Whoever receives the dagger has surely committed an act of adultery and therefore their family will all die by its serpentine blade". Love's pursuit guides him from the murky back alleys of Prague, to a perilous ship hoarding criminals that sails to Rio, Brazil. After suffering horrific burns, Love awakens in a decrepit gothic hospital in Rio de Janeiro, his memory erased by the harrowing and mysterious incident that committed him there. The shifting timeline unfolds over what begins as a fractured series of dreams. Love is fraught with demons of his own making, and relies on the support of a priest locked in a crisis of faith, who becomes drawn into Love's struggle by his own need for atonement. Betrayal and desperation play out against an intricate backdrop of dream and memory as crimes, real and imagined, are brought to bear. And the unlikely duo proceed to unlock a reality far more unlikely and extraordinary than the visions that haunt Love.
- Carlos, a left-wing militant involved in actions against the Brazilian dictatorship in the early seventies, decides to get closer to his teenage son Gabriel, but his duties towards the revolutionary struggle will make him move away again from the boy, who does not understand the absence of the dad. They have been away for eight years. One was in boarding school and the other in prison. He takes his son out from the boarding school, and puts him temporarily in a friend's luxury and empty apartment in Copacabana beach. He is trapped in an almost empty apartment and having only the company of a TV set and a guitar. He knows very little about his father, and the latter cannot really explain his activities to his son, fearing for his security. So the young man stands alone in the huge apartment, waiting for the infrequent meetings with his father, without really knowing what's going on. Meanwhile he ends up facing the need to discover his own identity.