Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.
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Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.
Marina, a beautiful young woman with leprous parents, marries a shipyard owner to escape an institution. She moves to a coastal village, faces gossip, and is assaulted by her husband’s partner. After her husband dies in a boat accident, a handsome sailor arrives, and Marina is blackmailed about her family’s health issues.
"Protected by the mountains that surround the neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city of Sabará, Brazil, a group of young people are having fun on their motorcycles on a dead-end viaduct known by the residents of the region as ramal ferroviário".
According to an Amazonian indigenous legend, a certain insect, Anophelis sexualis, has aphrodisiac properties: one who is bitten by it will surely die if it does not have sex within two hours. Knowing this news, Hans Muller, a scientist, moves to the habitat of the insect and collects several specimens for research in his laboratory in the city of Ilha Bela, on the coast of São Paulo. There, besides the local administration and the population, there are several tourists. By an accident, the insects flee and attack the world.
Two travelers inside strange landscapes.
Show fun and cynically the filmography of a completely unknown director who has many projects and screenplays, but has no film produced.
After his father's death, a prosperous banker, Fernando, takes over the bank with the support of his family and shareholders. But his actions lead to bankruptcy, and he faces the family's hardship. With his assets auctioned off, Fernando lives in a boarding house until he faces bankruptcy proceedings and is arrested.
Rómulo's quiet routine in Rio de Janeiro changes overnight when an accident starts a wave of absurd events. Far from there, Orlando, his twin brother and rare works dealer tries to buy the book of a Brazilian student with financial problems. The twins' lives will be on a collision course with the arrival of a mysterious manuscript.
Based on real-life Brazilian bandit "Mineirinho", the film follows the story of Zezé, a man falsely accused by sensasionalist press of being a high-caliber criminal who suddenly becomes one of the most wanted men of Rio de Janeiro.
Heightened physical desire can be both liberating and treacherous, as two women observe each other from their towers.
Two friends discuss their love adventures, and the emptiness ensuing each new conquest.
Non-communication can emerge through different ways, whether by conflict, language, or culture. In Giuliano Robert's film it happens through the interference of speech: a hearing mother describes the beginning of a communication process with her deaf son. Based on the mother's experiences, Márcia, the documentary is conducted by her son, Giuliano, in search of a connection with a culture which, through lack of information and access, silences other modes of communication.
Breno's neurotic and ruled life goes into an unhealthy spiral when Verônica, a beautiful shopkeeper, appears outside his apartment to offer him an invitation.
A self-employed worker faces financial and emotional problems. Without any decent opportunities, he creates a channel on YouTube as an attempt to monetize on his own failures while takes precarious jobs in huge corporations.
A man is looking for a radio singer named "Dulcineia." For this, he goes through the biggest hassles and problems. The plot, in fact, is an excuse for the exhibition of the musical numbers of the greatest Brazilian Radio artists.
At the height of the 2020 quarantine, Gustavo finds himself alone in São Paulo, far from his family and friends, with no one to share or exchange affection with. Until he received a strange notification: an old school friend started following him. Lost in his own loneliness, Gustavo invites him to eat pizza in his apartment. But upon meeting Augusto again, old feelings are reconsidered and Gustavo must discover how to deal with his past mistakes.
When she's about to fail in math – the subject she hates the most, Jasmine has to take booster classes with a cute young tutor, but who breathes numbers in everything he does. Facing family pressure and embarking on a risky love, she'll need to overcome her fears and limitations to pursue her true dream: be an artist.
Multitalented performer Clarice Falcão packs a year of ideas into one special with songs, skits and jokes dedicated to each month on the calendar.
During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.
With the unexpected end of her relationship, Bruna finds herself lost and heartbroken. What happened? Was Sabrina’s love just an illusion, or is there something deeper that Bruna still can’t see? Pain, memories, and the search for answers lead her through this emotionally intense journey, filled with reflections from the past.
The story is about a young man who has the strange habit of waking up in a dead body position and decides to buy a security camera to investigate what happens while he sleeps. What he sees is shocking.
A series of gruesome deaths, the disappearance of a digital influencer, and the existence of a serial killer in the city place Detective Carla Zagal in charge of an investigation where secrets from the past, traumas, and obsessions of the characters are revealed in an explosion of emotions, violence, and fear that become a matter of life or death for those involved, as they tread the path in search of both physical and psychological salvation.
This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of Brazilian culture over the last four decades. Author of songs such as "Vapor Barato" and "Movimento dos Barcos", a partner in crime of poet Waly Salomão, guitar player and songwriter for Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso, actor and author of soundtracks in Nelson Pereira dos Santos' films, a personal friend of visual artists Lygia Clarke and Hélio Oiticica, but, first and foremost, someone who dreams of seeing the word "love" in the Brazilian flag.
A woman haunted by grief and religious trauma finds her solitude broken by a stranger, but as night descends, so does something far older, and far more dangerous than she imagined.
As Lorena gears up for a make-or-break fight, she battles anxiety and a hostile environment, risking her sports sponsorship dreams.
Due to a rare disease, a child grows a beard. He likes being himself but resents people staring at him.
Márcia discovers that her husband is having an affair and decides to take a trip out into an isolated part of Brazil with little human contact. There she finds a black stallion roaming the fields.
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.
Palestinians Faez Abbas and his wife Salha Nasser live forcibly displaced from their culture and family.
A film about the city. A film about people. We are living at the beginning of the era of urban society. A new field still ignored and unknown. And the scenario for the future is not yet established.
Ernesto is 50 years old and carries with him a tragedy from the past, which he hides behind a good-humored smile. He meets 25-year-old Evelina when helping her on the road after her car breaks down. Both are going to the same hotel and, little by little, build a solid friendship based also on the difficulties faced throughout life, since Evelina is emotionally hurt due to her husband's infidelity.
There was once a very rich count, a slave owner, who had three daughters by his slave Olímpia: the three Marias. The count, who didn't want to dirty his feet in the mud, made the slaves build a path: The Stone Path.
It portrays the historical trajectory of Montes Claros over more than four centuries, from the bandeirante expeditions and the establishment of Fazenda de Montes Claros to its consolidation as an important regional hub in northern Minas Gerais. The documentary highlights the cultural resilience of traditions such as Congado, Catopês, and Marujada, while revisiting significant events, including the Revolta do São Francisco and the political conflicts of the 1930s. By bringing together history, culture, and development, the work reveals how the city preserves its backlands roots and ancestral memory even amid the transformations of modernity.
The history of Virginia and Janice. Two 8 year olds starting a new school year. Janice, the daughter of the school cleaning lady, is a victim of the prejudice of all girl, excpet Virginia, with who she begins to sketch out a relationship. Virginia manages, for example, to reconcile the relationship with the class and the secret friendship with Janice. But when you get caught up in the gang's cruel jokes with Janice, you have to take sides: you must make it clear, after all, where you stand.
The life and times of comedy rock band Mamonas Assassinas, from their beginning to their breakthrough in the late 1990s.
Please do not enter with clothes on.
A small-time con man is run down by a drunken young millionaire . The former blackmails the other into being taken in the family mansion.
A getaway driver reunites with his old girlfriend and remembers moments from the past. As they recall their moments inside the getaway car parked in front of a bank in Cabo Frio while a robbery takes place, they will reevaluate their ending.
Account an important part of the history of Brazil, through its main character, Anayde Beiriz a poet, journalist and revolutionary and libertarian teacher of the early twentieth century, known for its sexual liberalism, which shocked the pre-Revolution in the state of Paraíba during 1930. His love for João Dantas eventually forge João Pessoa's death, at that time, governor of of Paraíba. These events served as a trigger for the a revolution.
An Argentinian and a Brazilian fall in love and at the same time, their couples do the same thing between them.
First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.
Gabriel and Laura are two strangers drawn to each other by a spark of restlessness in their eyes. At Laura's sanctuary, an abandoned factory, a man with a camera will put their revolutionary fantasies to the test.
In prison, visits are sacred. Antônio is anxious to see his wife, Vera. However, as he walks towards the visiting yard, his world begins to crumble when he sees Rodrigo, his son, coming out of one of the cells.
Helena, a recently graduated psychologist, finds her father being taken away by Death – hood, scythe and all, tired of all the bureaucracy of his work. In order to convince the shadowy entity to give up on her father's fate, Helena invites Death to a therapy session.