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Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.

The dictator of a small Caribbean island receives the New York Times daily, sent by a nephew. Through the newspaper, he gets in touch with the world. Guerrilla groups try to neutralize this information system.

The daily routine of a women's Republic in the late days of 1963 and early 1964 - before the military coup - is presented from the perspective of several characters, and the place's owner who is about to sell the house to an international company who wants to build a mall in the place.

Adelina Gomes, a poor girl, daughter of peasants, with a primary education and some manual training, shy and submissive to her mother, had never had a boyfriend until she was 18 years old, when she fell in love with a man who was not accepted by her mother. He submitted himself to the fact and gradually withdrew until one day he strangled the cat, which he liked very much. By killing the cat, Adelina denied herself as a woman, taking refuge in madness with great aggression.

A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.

Four years after a military coup overthrew the Brazilian government in 1964, all civil rights were suspended and torture became a systematic practice. Using a mix of fiction and documentary this extraordinary film is a searing record of personal memory, political repression and the will to survive. Interviews with eight women who were political prisoners during the military dictatorship are framed by the fantasies and imaginings of an anonymous character, portrayed by actress Irene Ravache.

Two women, caught up in existential questions, search for answers to the best way to live.

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.

Gavião is a bandit who is massacring the people of a region and kidnapping the women. Gregory is a hero, whose wife was also kidnapped and he is determined not to rest until he finds her.

Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments because the network that financed it went under.

To get money and produce the play in which his girlfriend acts, an unemployed actor dresses up as a woman and falls in love with a millionaire widower.

Mr. Kapa and his assistant meet Iara, a mythical being, in a river with purple waters. Geléia, the assistant, fills a bottle with this magic water and makes three puppets turn alive.

A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death.

A poor woman is visited by the fairy godmother who turns her into a brilliant movie and TV star.

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.

Based on interviews with 15 women, including directors, producers and film actresses, a journey around the world is made, seeing the wars waged by each one against economic and political repression, bombs, police dogs, censors, etc. Images from England, New York, Brazil, South Africa.

Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one of his best friends and marries her; soon after, she cheats on him.

Documentary about the avenue (Avenida Brasil) that is the main access to Rio de Janeiro, crossing very poor and violent suburbs.

Documentary about Carnival, narrated by anthropologist and photographer Pierre Verger, who came to Brazil in the 1940s. Video tells the origins of Carnival in Salvador, with the Blocos and Afoxés, and the traditions of frevo and maracatu in Recife, with notable images from the Verger archive.

In Vino Veritas(1982) is the first feature film made by a woman in Rio Grande do Sul(RS), as well is the first movie of the famous actress Itala Nandi, which is a documentary about the itallian collonization in the south of Brazil .

Documentary about 30 years of Brazilian politics, focusing on ex-president Jânio Quadros, a controversial persona, elected using the broom as a symbol (to sweep away corruption!). For some a pathetic and lunatic figure, for others the great responsible, with his resignation, for the dire events following his successor: the military coup.

Canudos is a controversial topic that has always been excluded from Brazil's official history. This video does not attempt to exhaustively cover such a significant episode, which has been interpreted in so many different and contradictory ways. República de Canudos narrates the trajectory of the liberation struggle of organized communities in the hinterlands of Bahia and brings to light the memory of Antônio Conselheiro, who survives unscathed in everyday life, in fantasy, or even in the utopia of the communities of Uauá, Euclides da Cunha, Cocorobó, Tucano, and Monte Santo.

The legendary singer-songwriter Alceu Valença through the lenses of directors Jomard Muniz de Britto and Rucker Vieira.

Comedy in which drag queen Laura de Vison acts as a madame, her debiloid daughter and a professor.

Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the properties of his former owner, and his companions' freedom, becoming Chico Rei, the first black man to own lands in Brazil.

The government decides to change the way people kiss. There is a youth competiton to invent a new kind of kiss, and the final is between two groups, one from the north and one from the south of São Paulo.

The art of Oscar Blois, a miniaturist artist - paint on pins, fleas, models on lamps - a character whose personal universe includes contacts with extraterrestrials, from whom he learned mathematical calculation that he applies in domino divination games

On a walk in the countryside, Cascão and Cebolinha encounter a strange creature, the Boogeyman's little son. They try to capture him, but receive a serious moral lesson. Other Stories: I Want to Get In: Cebolinha's father, Mr. Cebola, loses the key to the front door. How will he get in? Dirty Mountain: Cascão finds a mountain, but it turns out it's all dirty. The Boogeyman: Cascão and Cebolinha go camping in the forest, but a baby boogeyman also goes there! The Forest Ogre: This story takes place in medieval times. Monica (Princess Monica) is kidnapped by a forest ogre who wants to kidnap all the princesses of the kingdoms, but Cebolinha (Sir Cebolinha) will save Monica at all costs.

After being evicted, a family in serious financial difficulties moves into a tenement next to a cemetery. As soon as they settle in, they meet the neighboring couple who, upon learning of the financial problems of the newcomers, offer them a pact to be made through a magical amulet: the monkey paw.

Filmed and recorded live at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro in 1987.