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- During the rehearsals for the production of the tragedy Andromaque, the leading actress and her director, a couple behind the scenes, can't find a way to leave their personal problems at home. And life imitates fiction, creating a real tragedy for this couple when the man finds comfort with other women while the actress prefers to stay focused on her work, as if nothing is happening with her partner.
- The story of a businessman who, after surviving a plane crash in the forest, discovers that he was contaminated with the AIDS virus after receiving a blood transfusion from one of the other survivors. He decides to track down the individual; meanwhile, he's dealing with other personal problems such as an ex-girlfriend and his relationships with his business partners. He faces prejudice but also gets some help.
- Spain. September 2016. Four Brazilian people were brutally murdered on a horrible act. Behind the murders was a young family member who broadcast the macabre events online to a friend through a series of messages. A documental series on the Pioz killings.
- Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher and matriarch of a problematic family who desperately tries to keep her family together, after many years they separated from each other. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her relatives, back in her hometown, a group of shopping mall developers are planning to take over her family land in order to begin their ambitious project. Now she needs to find ways to stop this construction in time before the town's annual festivities.
- An adaptation from the famous play written by Samuel Beckett. The story of Estragon and Vladimir, two clownish tramps who wait for a man named Godot, who probably knows all the answers to their question and to lead on a righteous way. But while doesn't show up, they encounter an arrogant master and his slave.
- An 3-hour project conceived by ten directors presenting the famous German legend of Kaspar Hauser, the story of a man who spent his childhood and adolescence raised on a cave by a strange man who kept him there for 18 years. One day, the man decides to take the young man out of the cave and takes him to a city where the under-developed subject will finally learn what it means to be a human being.
- Eugene O'Neill's award-winning and classic play about a day in the life of a dysfunctional family controlled by their addictions gets a staged version made for TV. Past, present, and future discussions about life, human relations, and family problems are all discussed by the Tyrone family from the early hours in the morning up until the final minutes of the night, revealing failures, lost hopes, possible dreams, and all sorts of memories that prevent them from changing their current sad situation.
- Chronicle of Nixon's last months in the White House. A paranoid power-abuser, all too human - a confused, narcissistic individual who cannot fully comprehend how, in less than one year, he lost everything he has worked for in a lifetime.
- A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.
- In the 1980's, a journalist goes out to find the whereabouts of a famous singer/actress who disappeared some decades earlier. During his search, he crosses the country between several states in what ultimately becomes not only a case about finding a missing person but also a journey of self-discovery.
- A documentary on the final years of the great director Andrei Tarkovsky while living outside his native USSR and going to an exile on Italy to film "Nostalghia" (1983) and then a visit to a Swedish island to film "The Sacrifice" (1986), released a few months before his death. The film presents interviews with the director, his family and friends, and even includes excerpts from his diary.
- "Flight 222" presents the story of a Soviet dancer visiting New York who wishes to ask to defect from the USSR and ask for political asylum in America. However, his plans are affected when the Soviet authorities learn about his actions and they take his wife to a plane back to Moscow that gets stranded waiting for permission to take off. The conflict leads to an international crisis between the two nations at the peak of the Cold War and the estranged relation between the U.S. and the Sovier Union.
- The documentary follows the samba group Portela during the early stages of 2015's Carnival season. It follows from the moment the musical theme is created, the production of costumes, all the way to the parade and voting counts on the final day of competition.
- A controversial documentary that debunks many of the facts presented in the Oscar winning Holocaust themed documentary The Last Days, produced by Steven Spielberg. Throughout the film, its director/narrator exposes what's real and what's not in that documentary and analyzing the interviews featured in it.
- Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious skiing accident. Dependent on medical staff and painkillers, she takes the time to remember the tumultuous love story she lived with Georgio.
- The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently living: one is running away from the deforestation in the Amazon while the other got tired of living in heaven and wants to return to his land.
- Thornton Wilder's classic play on Grover's Corners, a fictional small town and its story taking place between 1901 and 1913, dealing with themes as life, death and the everyday routine of its many residents, all followed and detailed by the Stage Manager.
- Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, decides to go on imaginary adventures along with his friend, the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who becomes his squire. On their journeys, they rescue dames in distress in honorable acts and fight giants among other perils, with Don longing to be with the love of his life, lady Dulcinea, and Sancho waiting to be rewarded with an island where he's about to become a governor.
- "Love at Twenty" unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson. The directors create their peculiar scenarios with Truffaut revisiting Antoine Doinel, this time finding some meaning to his life while getting involved with a girl; Renzo Rossellini's episode about an abandoned mistress; Ishihara's tale about an obsessive love; Ophüls' story about a pregnant woman trying to plot against the baby's father; and Wajda presenting a confusing relationship between people from different generations.
- Grace Connors is facing a great load of family and business problems of which she thinks she won't know how to handle. Like a touch of magic, an unexpected help returns to her after many years of absence. Enters in her life Day-O, an imaginary childhood friend who is back to help her cope with every possible obstacles but also causing some new problems, all in amusing situations.
- A documentary on controversial Rio de Janeiro YouTubber/alderman Gabriel Monteiro, following the voting for his impeachment on the house after several complaints of political misconduct, abuse of power, moral and sexual harassment and abuse.
- A TV movie/documentary that presents the story of Irish leader Michael Collins and his fight against Great Britain for the independence of Ireland. The project intertwines interviews with historians and re-enactments of Collins' story with actors.
- This sequel to "Os Fuzis" follows the story of a hard working operator who dies on a work related accident due to the precarious conditions established in the place. But when his superiors decide to hide the fact and try to bribe his family, one of his relatives, with the help of a lawyer and a journalist, tries to fight for justice.
- Exclusive interviews, photos and footage related to the Nixon Watergate scandal.
- When two sisters embark on a sailing trip on the Aegean coast with their fractured family, simmering resentments and buried secrets rise to the surface, threatening to shatter their fragile bonds with each other and their homeland.
- Film adaptation of the best-seller "Perdida", by Carina Rissi.
- A college student turned revolutionary during the military regime is captured by the armed forces and sent to jail. He ends up sharing a cell with a preacher, mistaken as a Communist. Despite their ideological differences they form a great bond.
- A depiction of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat.
- An in-depth look at the unsolved 1994 Loughinisland massacre, where six Irishmen were murdered, presumably by a Unionist paramilitary group, while watching the World Cup at the local pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland.
- During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
- Two textile traders, with the shop close to one another, fight for the supremacy of their own business during the racial laws in Italy.
- Hickson (Marcelo Adnet) lived on a freelance basis, running from one place to the other to make ends meet. His only great achievement in life had been winning over his wife Jéssika (Letícia Lima), an evangelical hairdresser and his sweetheart since childhood. The two lead a life without great prospects in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, until Hickson gets a job at an evangelical radio station. With luck, talent and Jéssika's help, he soon becomes a pastor and has a meteoric rise in the church. But with fame and money, envy always comes with it. And now Hickson?
- After experiencing a wild life of sordidness, the young Pierre decides to quit this chaotic world, trading it for a search for inner peace and getting closer to God. During this quest, he's followed by a girl from Denmark, of whom he becomes friend for a while. However, Pierre isn't close to reach his spiritual enlightenment, since he's still tormented by visions, vivid dreams and strange hallucinations.
- A detailed making of Mel Gibson's epic film "The Passion of the Christ", presenting from its script conception and initial ideas brought by Gibson all the way through its long shooting, all the technical aspects worked behind the scenes and then its release.
- A young French peasant from Normandy falls in love with an aristocrat Polish girl in the late 1930's. While she allows some advances from him, she provokes some jealousy as she's also in love with her German cousin. But when WWII breaks in, they are severely tested through a series of dramatic events.
- The story of two young men (Marcelo and Ceres) who are best friends who live in Porto Alegre and they enjoy life, parties, the final days of 1979 and entering 1980 when they're about to grow and decide what they're gonna die with their lives when applying for college.
- A pseudo-documentary on the life of Yves Montand, who plays himself, in this tribute to his long career. During a musical tour, Montand returns to Marseille and revisits the many highlights of his life, meeting figures from his past and remembering the old days.
- A female Beijing student living in Paris accidentally meets a French construction worker. They have an intense relationship based on sexual attraction, mistrust, submissiveness and a dependence that leads them out of control and with no boundaries.
- Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she has no memory, no recollection of what happened to it. It becomes her goal to discover and clarify the mystery behind this painting, at the same time she notices that a strange man is following all of her moves.
- The documentary analyzes a dark period in Hollywood's history due to the Red Scare of the 1940's and 1950's, when actors, writers and directors were persecuted and investigated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee after being considered suspects of committing Anti-American acts by preaching the Communism in their films and television shows.
- The rise and fall of a pop/rock trio immersed in the counterculture of the 1960's. The rebel Charly, the audacious Gigi and the thoughtful Simon present their stories, thoughts and feelings in countless songs, dealing with audience demands and also the pressures from their business managers. Fame and show business are a constant tightrope.
- A surrealistic and fantastic view of the world through the eyes of a film projectionist and a movie he projects which takes him to mysterious and dreamy places and situations while the audience to whom the film is destined doesn't seem to care with what goes on the screen. A tale about the human degradation.
- Most of what we know about World War II comes from monochromatic images and pictures. But this documentary brings something different: it's a fascinating collage of colored images from that period, filmed in 8mm and 16mm. All the footage was gathered from private collectors, soldiers, tourists, state institutions, even footage shot by Hitler's private pilot and there's also images captured by Eva Braun, Hitler's companion. Most of the images were recently discovered, some of them hidden for more than 40 years and they were all remastered and put together by director Michael Kloft.
- A veteran popular singer remembers her early days before fame as a humble woman who faced many obstacles in order to achieve fame, notoriety and make her dreams come true. Her life, the songs, the men she knew and helped her on her ladder to success all have a big influence on her life.
- Three short stories adapted from Nelson Rodrigues works and all revolving around infidelity, some with humored moments and others with more tragic results. "Traição" ("Betrayal") presents the story of a man who falls in love with a married woman; a segment where a young girl captures the attention of her sister's fiancee; and a third one about an unfaithful wife who is taken hostage by her husband after he finds out she's cheating him with his best friend.
- The story of Passarinho, one of the most feared and dangerous Brazilian criminals. He and his gang terrorized São Paulo with their robberies for several years. Notorious for his acts of defiance against the authorities, Passarinho was the hottest news in town by a frantic media, and also managed to find love in the company of a hard working woman.
- The brazilian candidate to Brazil´s presidency was stab. As similar to Kennedy´s murder, they discuss if it was a solitary wolf or a conspiracy.
- In 1985, the military regime in Brazil was weakened due to previous protests and manifestations demanding for new direct elections in the country. With that outcome in mind, the current leadership asked the Congress to include a new election which had two candidates: one supported by the regime and another one running for the democracy. Tancredo Neves was that candidate and he won the election becoming the first democratic president in more than 20 years. But things didn't happened as planned during this government transition. The documentary follows the initial ecstasy of change and the agony a whole nation suffered in those days that altered politics in Brazil.
- An adaptation from Shakespeare play "Henry IV" but taking place in the Northeast of Brazil during the Cangaço era. Faustão is a leader of a group of bandits (cangaçeiros) who intervenes in the battle between two important families (Pereira and Araújo) after saving a member of one of the groups and demand a ransom.
- When the União Nacional dos Estudantes (UNE) celebrated its 70th year of existence filmmaker Silvio Tendler decided to present this documentary which tells the student's union and his activism in Brazilian society, going from its inception in the 1930's.