When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
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When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Durval and his mother Carmita live at the back of a record store they own in São Paulo specializing in vinyl records. They lead a boring and unattractive life, until the day Durval hires a maid, Celia, to help his mother with the housekeeping. However, on her second day, Celia goes away leaving a 5-year-old child behind, Kiki, and a note promising to be back in a couple of days. Durval and Celia are charmed by the child at first, but soon they see some sad news about Celia and Kiki on TV that change the whole situation.
Sully is a psychotic criminal who has just been released from prison. Now he has only one goal: revenge against police detective Elaine Reynolds, who he blames for the death of his wife's unborn child.
Riding High is a psychological thriller about a crime that has become common in today’s Rio de Janeiro. The film takes us into the most dramatic day in the life of Julia, a housewife who is kidnapped in her armored car by Case and Sapeca, two young men from Rio’s slums. What seems at first sight to be a conflict between rich and poor turns into a much more complex plot linking the characters’ past and present.
In a small country town in the south of Brazil, the daughter of a wealthy farmer is brutally raped and left for dead near a river. Miguel arrives in Rio and starts following Carol, an upper-class young girl, while himself is being followed by Luciano. When Miguel starts going out with Carol, his purpose becomes more clear, putting in motion events which relate to the rape.
São Paulo, today. Bones are found in an anonymous grave and sent to the morgue. The coroner Artur deals with actresses and extremists. A body gets preserved for more than thirty years. An identity is searched...
Maiquél has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This seemingly innocuous event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which he goes from nobody to hero to outlaw — all in 24 hours.
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...
Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.
Cristiano, Francisco and Gabriel are three good old friends celebrating their entrance in the University. But in a horror night, the fun gets mixed up with violence.
Doctor Rafidjian turns to Dora Lobo's investigation agency to locate prostitute Ana Cintia. The case is in charge of Bellini and Beatriz, his new assistant. But the doctor is brutally murdered and the detectives infiltrate the night underworld of São Paulo in search of an answer, where they meet Fatima, a mysterious prostitute who gets involved with Bellini.
In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie, and they have a little son. When a client is killed by his wife in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs.
Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.
Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods operation that brings in both money and influence. But their empire is crumbling, as corrupt politicians and rival gangs seek to end their power in the city. Yuda is soon got arrested and his dedicated son tries his best to save not just the family business, but his father's reputation.
A group of friends find themselves circling in time. Welcome to room 38. Within it's confines time becomes scattered and loops back on it's self, memory becomes useless, and survival carries an entirely different meaning.
Ex-drug dealer is forced to go back to business by a corrupt policeman. He must go to Colombia and bring back some cocaine, but discovers the whole thing is a set up. He then devises a suicidal plan for revenge.
Two executives leave for a sailboat trip with two prostitutes. They end up mysteriously disappearing. Everything indicates that it was a crime. Meanwhile, a documentary filmmaker is making a film about the life of prostitutes. She meets Viviane, sister of one of the missing girls. Together they go in search of the truth.
Eight women convicted for violent crimes find themselves trapped in a prison where there are no rules and where darkness has only one meaning - death. A shapeless executor is killing the convicts in the same way they committed their crimes. As the mysterious deaths mount up, suspicion grows amongst the prisoners. In a race against time, they will have to overcome rivalries and dig back into their past to find the missing link that can set them free. Who brought them there and what for? Will they be able to escape alive? Or will the merciless punisher make them all pay for their crimes?
Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of events that will force her to take stock of her life.
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...
Red Fish tells the story of a young woman traveling with her boyfriend. The couple's relationship seems peaceful and happy, but at times, it feels like she's losing him. When he disappears one night in an empty amusement park, the girlfriend's lucidity begins to be tested. Is she dreaming? Was he kidnapped? Did a mysterious force take him? Did he abandon her? Did he ever exist?
After being fired from his job and have his unemployment insurance money robbed, a young man decides to become a robber himself. While escaping authorities, he meets a female teacher of whom he takes hostage. Things get complicated when they fall in love with each other.
Tells the story of detective Remo Bellini, who gets pulled into a web of death and mysteries that take him to a world of illusions where everything is a self-created fantasy. He's taken by this evil inside that makes him lose a sense of reality with visions, anguish and loneliness - everything takes him down a path of no return. He can't understand what's happening, but the deaths surrounding him are getting closer and closer. It's a race against time before it's too late.
A punk scientist formed the formula of the deadly drink that transforms drunks into hallucinated zombies and awakens the fury of Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother and her afternoon tea buddies, who armed and dangerous decide to get revenge.
When two burglars break into the Sampaio family's house and get into an altercation with the victims, there are only two options for them.
On a stormy night, two friends leave the house in search of fun.
A girl is kidnapped by a drug dealer at the behest of a corrupt senator, who intends to hold a party in the presence of a demented priest and a doctor using the girl as fun.
In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.
The planet is at war. And even though we're all engaged in the conflict, it goes unnoticed. Lucas is young and lives only for the moment. As time passes, he doesn't seem to notice that his eternal destiny is at stake. Immersed in his daily routine, he's unaware that all things in this life do come to an end. He puts off the decision he must make. The last call is issued. The last chance is offered. Lucas makes up his mind. You, too, have a decision to make. In this war there is no neutral territory. The final battle has already begun.
A man awakes in an abandoned shed.Confused, he finds itself tied to a chair. Standing in front of him is an unknown man, who begins a weird speech about his unique professional ethics, until the conversation rovers to a new and tense situation.
In the movie, Eduardo Moscovis is Danilo, a stage director obsessed with the injustice committed against XIX century farmer Manoel da Motta Coqueiro, case that initiated the process of extinction of death penalty in Brazil. Incited by a beautiful and mysterious woman, Danilo takes a fateful decision. He stages a play about the case with himself as Motta Coqueiro and psychiatric patients playing all the other parts. When the borders between reality and fantasy start to blend, Danilo relives the historical facts in first person, all the time conscious of the tragic doom of his character. Full with uncommon characters and surprising turns, the movie approaches the issue of death penalty in a refreshing new perspective.
At the end of a tough workweek an assistant congressman and his friend go to an abandoned room in the Capitol building to relax and smoke a joint. While trying to unwind the assistant congressman complains about his job. He is doing all he can to cover up his boss' scandalous sex affair but nothing seems to be working. "Things can't get any worse", he proclaims. . . but they do!
The film surrounds a misunderstood event that ends up changing completely the lives of the characters.
An atheist gets into a taxi whose driver is a believer who will try to convince him that God exists, but it was not quite as he had imagined.
A short documentary about the fantastic world of Bianca Exotica.
Ana Argento, an accomplished cartoon artist yet frustrated with her relationships, meets two other lonely characters with peculiar lives. Daniel Torres is a sociopath and rapist coroner. Tom is a chronic cataleptic who ironically is a life insurance salesman. They could only meet in one place: the morgue.
In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them.
Leo, a young hustler, gets himself in trouble by stealing from his pimp.
A documentary about the creative process of Gurcius Gewdner.
The unconscious screams when it's confronted with three different personalities. Inside an alcove, a man wakes up trapped in a diabolical ritual executed by his self-villain and observed by his self-asleep.
"When death is inevitable... there is only one thing left to do."
The story is based on a legend about a serial killer who extracts the livers of his victims.