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- Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One day she meets young author Paulo and falls for him; but he is in love and engaged to ballerina Vilma, and misunderstandings abound.
- The villain Rapaterra's (Lima Duarte) aim is to devastate lands and forests and pollute the sea. His next scheme is to kidnap Dona Tude (Arlete Salles) to steal away from her mind all the wonderful legends and stories she knows about the seaside of Southern Brazil. But a group of brave kids will do everything to save Dona Tude.
- Drama based in true events. In rural area in the state of São Paulo, mean and powerful Coronel Firmino kills his wife and blind Jeremias, who he thinks was his wife's lover. when he learns his daughter is blind and believes she is the blind man's child, not his own. Famous singing duo Tonico & TInoco (themselves) go to the village and proceed to unveil the truth.
- A new priest comes to a Brazilian coastal town and builds an insane asylum. Eventually the whole population ends up in the asylum.
- Nishiyama (Atsumi) is the only one to survive in his platoon in WWII Japan. After the war is over, he begins a long voyage of 8 years throughout Japan to deliver 12 letters left by his fellow soldiers to their respective families and is appalled to discover his mates have been all but forgotten by their ex-wives and families.
- Documentary about French Equatorial Africa, including sequences on adult circumcision rites of Bariba tribe; whipping of young Peuls; a secret asylum in the jungle; new-born tattooing in Haussa tribe; Muslim Tabaski tribe's rites; blood rites.
- Ana is going through psychological problems. She and lifelong friend Cléia decide to revisit the place they spent their childhood together in an attempt to get better results in her treatment. But they meet a stranger who will upset their plans.
- Alexandre (Hingst) goes to Guarujá, a beach resort near São Paulo, looking for his son Eduardo (Di Pietro), who has stolen money from a bank. Eduardo runs away and leaves behind two young girl friends, Lilian (Prieto) and Silvia (Fomm), who begin to play love games with willing but amazed Alexandre.
- Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.
- An uncle travels with his three nephews once a year, during the holidays, looking for adventure.
- Christer Berg dies in a car crash and is found with a teddy bear named "Bamse". His son, also named Christer finds out that Bamse belongs to his father's lover Barbro Persson. He tries to humiliate her, introducing her to his mother as his new fiancée. But he ends up falling in love with her, and she sees in him the memories of her dead lover. When she finds herself pregnant, they have to decide about their love affair.
- Bittersweet romantic comedy about lonely bum Bonga, who takes depressed Sônia to live with him in a poor shack. He also helps bohemian Ricardo fake an engagement to marry Maria Clara so as to go on receiving an allowance from his father, but things go wrong when Maria Clara drinks too much at his parents' house and Ricardo falls for Sônia, who must now decide between Bonga and Ricardo.
- Takeo (Kiniya), son of a wealthy car industry executive, is unhappy with his job and goes to Singapore to become a fisherman. At first ridiculed by the local fishermen, he eventually gets their respect but his rebel temper pushes him to find new adventures in Alaska.
- On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.
- As Kent drives along California coast, he recollects recent events in his life: dropping out of college, leaving behind his establishment-oriented roommate and square parents; but above all, the suicide of his passive girlfriend Bobbi after he dumped her. He's so filled with guilt he crashes his car, but isn't hurt. He then meets journalist Kristine who is interviewing American college students; they sleep together, but he wants to move on. He then meets experienced divorcée Julie; they get along well and she finds him a job and a place to live. But Kent's search for meaning in his life urges him to move on once again.
- German documentary for TV about the "Cinema Novo" movement (Brazilian New Wave). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967: Leon Hirszman preparing the script with poet/writer Vinicius de Moraes for "Garota de Ipanema" (1967); Glauber Rocha shooting "Terra em Transe" (1967); Arnaldo Jabor editing "A Opinião Pública" (1967); Nelson Pereira dos Santos shooting "El Justicero" (1967); the rushes and voice-looping sessions of Domingos Oliveira's "Todas as Mulheres do Mundo" (1967); and the opening of Carlos Diegues's "A Grande Cidade" (1966).
- Married with two young children, Jean Girod, a "writer", partly escapes that family life when he secretly witnesses a young woman commit suicide. In that new other life, he rents a room through his abstract artist friend Tian, there where he takes refuge. Through delusion or psychopathy, Jean begins to pedal the notion that he killed the woman, taunting the police through open anonymous letters to the media stating that he knows who killed her. He seemingly is either trying to push the theory as far as he can without getting caught, or truly does want to be caught as the killer despite not having done it. In an encounter with Tian's friend Florinda, with who there is a seeming mutual attraction, Jean may divulge his true intent and from what mental illness he suffers.
- Satirical comedy set in Rio de Janeiro about a general's playboy son meeting a leftist intellectual who wants to write/film the playboy's dolce vita. Various shenanigans follow in a thinly-disguised attack on the military régime which started in Brazil in 1964 and ended only in 1985.
- Director João Moreira Salles and a small crew followed Presidential candidate Luís Inácio Lula da Silva's campaign in meetings, rallies, planes, TV debates, with his family, political allies and marketeers, from Sept.25 to Oct.28 2002, when he was officially elected President with 53 million votes, the first Brazilian President to come from the working classes (he is a former metalworker and union leader).
- A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead husband's fortune. In the third episode, young widow Daisy arrives in Italy to meet her deceased much-older husband's family and ends up marrying his great-grandson.
- A wild and aimless being, in an aimless metropolis, and his adventures concerning his sexual, maternal and tropical instincts.
- Bia is a drug-addicted middle-aged woman, separated from her husband Eduardo. She takes Bebeto, a drug dealer, as her lover, so she can have access to drugs. But Bebeto mistreats her and seduces her troubled daughter Suzana, leading to a difficult family situation.
- Taki dedicated her life to her daughter Miyoko, but they were separated by Taki's parents-in-law. Many years later, they reunite in a party, but Taki falls gravely ill with a long disease. During those years, Miyoki studies Medicine and will be finally able to help her mother.
- Documentary featuring contemporary interviews with 5 of the revolutionary activists who kidnapped US ambassador Charles Embrick in August 1969 in Rio de Janeiro and some of the political prisoners who were freed from prison in exchange of the ambassador's liberty and flown out of Brazil to Mexico in an army cargo airplane "Hércules 56".
- The misadventures of Saverio Ravizzi, a Sicilian worker who escapes death during a demonstration and therefore finds a new job in a factory in Bergamo. The man begins to mobilize his fellow workers for better working conditions, unaware that his spontaneous activism is in fact used as part of a large financial system by the factory owner.
- Three friends are re in the house of one of them, recall cases where the past and have fun.
- Henri Langlois tour of French Cinemathèque early locations.
- Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho, who own a small steaming boat in Bahia, meet strip-dancer Karinna. Both men fall for her and their friendship is deeply shattered.
- Lora Berg is the host of radio show "Namoro no Ar" that promotes romantic dates. One day, she interviews listener Carlos Henrique, a 22-year-old man who claims he wants to find his true love. They get to know each other and Lora finds herself falling in love with him, but she gradually suspects he may have another agenda.
- Three brothers and their sexual problems. Jens, 20 y.o., becomes divorcée Claudia's lover. Jan, 13 y.o., loves Lilo who loves Jacques. Peter, 16 y.o., dates Sabine against her mother's will, who sends Sabine to another school. Peter then becomes involved with another girl, who seduces and abandons him. He then has an affair with waitress Gitte, who tries to squeeze money out of Peter, pretending she's expecting their baby. Jacques manages the situation, so that Peter, now wiser about the facts of life, can fight for Sabine again.
- Documentary about French-born Pierre Verger, who lived between Bahia (Brazil) and Africa from 1946 until his death in 1996, and dedicated himself to photograph and research the Candomblé rites, becoming himself deeply involved with the religious communities. This film includes his very last interview to Brazilian composer Gilberto Gil, one day before Verger's death at 93.
- Documentary in two parts about Brazilian historiographer Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda.
- Public relations man is invited to guide American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. In this course, he gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties and sexy ménages-a-trois to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.
- Two wealthy brothers, Roberto and Ricardo, decide to go to a small town and live among poor people, dedicating themselves to charity and assistance. But Ricardo suddenly suffers a nervous breakdown and is taken to an asylum. Their lives leave strong impressions on young kid Pedrinho, who embraces charity as a way of life.
- 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.
- Chiyo (Matsuoka) is a young innocent girl. Her mother works in a cabaret. One day Chiyo goes in to take her mother a snack and calls all the men's attention. Harassed by various characters, she ends up being a stripper but Imai's secret love for her might turn things around.
- Italian comedy in 4 episodes about the Italian "art" of womanizing: "Il Colonello e la Signora" (The Coronel and the Lady); "Gioie della Vita" (Joys of Life); "Pomicioni di Provinzia" (Small Town Womanizers) and "Il Piazzista" (The Piazza Boy).
- Fantasies and clichés about Brazil and Brazilians as reinforced by international films, even those actually shot in Brazil. This documentary features interviews with non-Brazilian directors, writers and stars who have been involved in some of those films.
- Screenwriter Philippe (Duchaussoy) imagines a crime committed by his wife Sylvie (Delon) and a mutual friend Pierre (Serre): a dead body is put in a trunk but the hand sticks out. Sylvie and Pierre begin to have an affair and things get very dangerous and the imaginary crime is on its way to becoming prophetic.
- An escort at a karaoke bar struggles to raise money to send her daughter out of the city to live with her grandmother and settle her debts with her pimp. She moves in with an aging photographer and helps him fulfill his last wishes.
- Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four elder daughters. The fifth and youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.
- Documentary on the killing of 73-year-old Catholic nun and activist Sister Dorothy Stang in February 2005, in the state of Pará (Brazilian rain forest), where she, for 30 years, fought along with environmentalists and the underprivileged local communities against the exploitation of powerful loggers and landowners.
- Film in 3 episodes. In the 1st episode "Um Uísque Antes", Carlos is aware that his best friend Otávio is making passes at his wife Márcia and at a dinner party he intends to take revenge; in the 2nd episode "......" Maria has been seduced and abandoned by João and seeks legal advice from a lawyer; in the final episode "e um Cigarro Depois", Robertinho is bewildered by Ivone's behavior -- by night time she's willing to play his love games, but by day time she treats him coldly.
- Documentary about Brazilian songwriter and poet Vinicius de Moraes, showing his life, work, family, friends, and love-affairs.
- The documentary follows the campaign of 6 candidates to the municipal legislative council of the city of Rio de Janeiro (population of approximately 6 million) in Brazil, in the 90 days preceding election day. All of them dispute their first election, but only two of them will be successful.
- After the tsunami struck the coast town of Takua Pa, young architect Ton moves in town to develop a construction project and settles in a small hotel run by Na, a young sensitive local girl. They begin a secret love affair, but soon rumors spread and they meet with strong opposition from the town's residents.