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- Young housewife Helena is on the verge of fulfilling a dream as she prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid, Paula, to take care of her house and daughter. But when her husband Otavio is suddenly fired from his job as an insurance executive, Helena is left to support the family alone. As Otavio fails to find work and becomes increasingly alienated, business struggles to take off and the pressure on Helena mounts. To make things worse, she discovers that one of the building's brick walls seems to be crumbling. Helena begins to wonder if that may be the cause of all her problems.
- After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner on a decadent sex shop.
- The widow piano teacher Lúcia and her unemployed teenage son Rafa move to a poor neighborhood in the periphery of São Paulo after the bankrupting of her pension plan. Rafa a.k.a. Pilot tells his mother that he is going to the movie theater with his friend Beto, but they go to a street racing instead in a car that Beto has stolen in the workshop where he works. While seeking the documents, they find a revolver in the glove compartment. When Rafa hits the car of a black man in a maneuver, he shoots Beto on the chest. Rafa takes the gun and accidentally kills a girl. He is sent to prison and during one visit, Lúcia meets the influent lawyer Ruiva and they befriend each other. Ruiva, who is one of the head of the criminal organization "Party", offers money to the needy Lúcia to help her in minor wrongdoings, such as bringing illegal stuff to the inmates. Meanwhile the leaders of the powerful criminal organization have inner fights; when they are sent to a maximum security prison, they order rebellions in the prisons and havoc on the streets on the Mother's Day. Lúcia gets a remission to Rafa for this day, but the teenager has obligations with the Party.
- A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the brothers, finally forming a real family.
- The story begins in 1789 in Congo, in Africa, where a tribe celebrates the marriage of Luena and Kamau. The natives, trapped and sold as slaves. Kamau is killed, Luena and is raped by an overseer and died. After 18 years, Juliana, her daughter, grew up as a slave on the Avelar's farm. She is a friend and confidant of Teresa, the youngest youngest daughter of Colonel Avelar, but is hated by Maria Isabel, the oldest daughter. Juliana and Miguel, a Portuguese immigrant, falls in love and facing the world for this love.
- 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.
- 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.
- Three young people with Down syndrome decide to run away in search of three simple wishes: Stalone wants to see the sea, Aninha looks for a husband and Marcio needs to fly.
- In 1945 the war was not over in Brazil: A death squad assassinated all the Japanese immigrants who accepted defeat.
- Vicente is an economist, Caio's father, married to Marina, a dedicated dentist. He leads a normal life at home and at work until one loss after another leads him on an erratic journey towards alienation. A story that deals with mans' fragility and the capacity to recreate oneself.
- 1950s. At the village of Rio Bonito, cowboy Diogo leads a horde of oxen to the Ouro Fino Ranch. When passing by the Remanso Farm, he meets Rodrigo, a boy who dreams of becoming a cowboy. Soon they become friends and witnesses of the wrong doings that happen in the region due to Major Batista's greed. The major orders his thugs to blackmail the local residents, in a way they sell the cattle by the price he wants. The situation changes when Otacílio Mendes, Rodrigo's father, decide to rebel himself, counting on Dr. Almeida's help.
- 5 friends have a plan to rob a transporter that can change their lives completed.
- The life of a Lebanese immigrant through 50 years in Brazil.
- Three families, in three different situations, have to deal with a sudden change in their lives, caused by a loss or a re encounter. Three mothers sing their love for their children while facing difficult times. A film about affection on the borders of painful happenings.
- Expedito is a retired gentleman who has lost ties with life. Among other anonymous ones, he walks around the city of Rio de Janeiro witnessing conflicts of others.
- The community of the DDC is at war. White boy Morro (Fábio Porchat) and transvestite demoness Blonde (Kiko Mascarenhas) vying for power in the community. Oblivious to this, Of Faith (Luke D 'Jesus) believes it needs to become the head of the hill to win the love of Gildinha (Mariana Rios), his muse. Everything gets worse when the bumbling reporter Vanderlei (Fábio Assunção) forges a cover that will give the talk. The story also brings Felipe Neto as a narrator timely interventions.
- Today in Detroit (USA), an American woman trying to understand her recurring dreams and searching for explanations, she finds out that she lived another life in the early 30ies during "Fordlandia's construction saga by Henry Ford ". Our character is now a Brazilian woman, who experienced an intense and forbidden love with an American project manager of Fordlandia. Even, finishing his failed wedding, this love will awaken a disproportionate anger on his ex-wife that will (along with her lover) go extreme to separate them.On this journey to the past, she found out that her romance was brutally interrupted by the sudden murder of her beloved. Back in the present time, she discovers that her great love of the past is also here and right next to her. They are reunited to finally live this love that crossed time and will remain in their hearts for eternity.
- An idiotic Brazilian deputy runs for president.
- Panamérica, 1980. A stupid president decides that all citizens must participate in a deadly car competition and sends an evil army to pursue those who resist.
- A couple separated by death is capable of anything to be reunited. Even invoking the Goddess of Eternity. Based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe and the German expressionist cinema.