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- In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in Belo Horizonte, the industrial Sampaio lives in a manor house with his stepdaughter Carmen, who has a sort of engagement with Roberto. Sampaio's daughter Neusa, of same age as Carmen, was sent to a metropolis to have a modern education and returns to Belo Horizonte. In the São João party in the country of Acaba-Mundo, promoted by the traditional Marta, Neusa has a one night stand with Roberto. Carmen witnesses their affair and decides to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Cristovão and his cousin Max decides to go to a cabaret in town instead of staying in the party,. They find Carmen and bring her to Marta's property, where she stays with the family and Tufy, Max's younger brother. Along this period, Cristovão falls in love for Carmen, and she has to decide between the love of the unfaithful Roberto and Cristovão.
- Shows how the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was carved out of a mountain valley and made into one of the biggest cities in Brazil.
- 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.
- In the mid 1960s, while Brazil was being ruled by a military dictatorship, a young man, living in the city of Belo Horizonte, begins to approach a subversive behaviour.
- The actor of a film being made lives without distinction his own personal reality and his character's fiction. As the involuntary object of chance and circumstance, he looks for a meaning and way out, while being pursued by outlaws, a magician, a romantic fantasy, a drunk and his own self-image. The humour, the reason of the persecution, situations, personages, set decoration, dialogs and soundtrack (which uses themes from other films) lead us to symbols, metaphors and the refusal of a possible logical narrative, in a way to allow the viewer to experiment a sensation analogous to the one of the main character, inducing in him the need of thinking a meaning while lost and led by the sustained expectation, and by the intentionally recurrent anti-climax.
- Young man inherits small fortune from his old uncle, on condition he lives in the old man's house for a time. Soon the uncle's spirit begins to manifest itself through the nephew's personality, requiring the presence of an exorcist.
- A group of men has an uptight boss who always gives them a hard time for arriving to work hung over and late. They decide to make him understand what it means to party.
- Viramundo is a sympathetic guy, perhaps insane, perhaps a genius, who decides to leave his tiny hometown and turn the world upside down.
- The adventures of a nutty little boy of unique personality traits who finds comfort at his grandfather's farm after his parents are divorced.
- Comes the day awaited by Anne: she will finally find John, a "case" no resolved, with whom she needs to talk ... But even in the face of evidence and the insistence of her friend Clara, she does not realize that maybe the person she had to find was very close ...
- Music teacher observes his student play and imagine things.
- Wife expects her husband to dinner to celebrate the marriage of marriage. This comes to travel and want to watch the final football championship. The dispute between the two is the dining room to the football field where both take on different roles in the game. So he is the judge now the top scorer, sometimes it is the goalkeeper, now the head of the crowd.
- A love triangle unique in that Helen lives a life crisis: the need to take a final decision between radical and two men, Peter and Anthony. A reflection on the dual male / female.
- Kiko Goifman always knew he was adopted. At age 33 he finally decides to undertake a journey to find his biological mother, and film it as a documentary. He starts off with the few facts he knows, aided by two private detectives, his adoptive mother, and his wife. He also writes an online diary detailing his activities and findings, which gives him additional tips. The title 33 not only refers to Kiko's age, but also to the famous film noir ".33", the age of Christ - "like Kiko - a Jew" , and other coincidences involving the number 33.
- Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give voice to the outcasts' complaints.
- A conservative father is not satisfied with the dating his daughter. But the relationship between the boyfriend and the father will have a big change with an unusual meeting between the two in a nightclub GLS.
- Young leaves at night in search of pleasure and an atmosphere of suspense discovers facts about her sister. Chronicles the obsessive passion of a brother by his sister.
- Enclosed within a man tries to rid himself of his own captivity. In his delirium, the character thought to have been kidnapped, but in fact, is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital suffering from a psychotic episode.
- In a derelict factory space, characters move to impulses, memory loops, fragments of feeling. Isolated in their own dense, stagnated realities, they communicate imperceptibly with each other in a ritual of anticipation and release, confined by the laws of the 'steady state', the dynamic stasis. Inspired by the choreography of Urbe, but stripped of its socio-political and sensorial contexts, the performers interact with space and time without narrative substructure and interpersonal reference: bodies without foothold, in a state of suspension and release, in illusory congruence and stability. Through their bodies surge eloquent yet inscrutable impulses, building to a crescendo; but the impulses subside, yielding to the Fliessgleichgewicht.
- A documentary about the life and work of the writer Cyro dos Anjos and his literature fellows Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Pedro Nava, Abgar Renault, João Alphonsus and Emílio Moura.
- Writer of screenplays has paralyzed when her life falls for a fictional film diva.
- A middle-aged woman faces a conjugal dilemma after.
- Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 U.S. soccer team, who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Although no U.S. team has ever won a World Cup title, this story is about the family traditions and passions which shaped the lives of the players who made up this team of underdogs.
- In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Coronel Ponciano de Azeredo Furtado inherits the farm Sobradinho in the country, many possessions and the title of "colonel" of his grandfather. His close friend Pernambuco Nogueira, son of one of the employees of the farm and with whom Ponciano was raised together since they were born, gets nothing in the will. Ponciano has a crush on his cuisine Esmeraldina, but he never declares his love to her. When he loses the mortgage of his farm to Nogueira, who got married to Esmeraldina, Ponciano goes to the court trying to prove that Nogueira is a werewolf.
- After having his house invaded by some burglars, Marcos Ferranti becomes paranoid and obsessed with security. Not trusting the police, he becomes intent on transforming his home into a fortress, to protect his family.
- Dóris is a widow and keeps a small restaurant in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Two of her customers, the old friends Freitas and Otávio, fall in love with her, and start competing for her affection.
- Mini-series about the life of former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek.
- The ghost of a gay man, Lolo, refuses to follow his natural way to heaven and stays on Earth. After meeting the man of his dreams, Lolo decides to incorporate in the body of Vicente, the guy's best friend. The only problem is that Vicente is heterosexual, and the sudden changes in his behavior affect his relationship with his girlfriend.
- Marcelo Santiago's period romance Dancing in Utopia (AKA Sonjos E Desejos 2006) explores variations of passion and lust as manifest in a potentially incendiary love triangle ...
- During the period of 1964 to 1985, Brazil lived a military dictatorship. In the 60s, the Dominican friars Tito, Betto, Fernando and Ivo help leftist organizations. However, they are arrested and tortured by the despicable Chief of DOPS Fleury, who is trying to arrest the leader Carlos Marighella. Tito and Fernando do not resist the violent torture and betray Marighella, who is ambushed and executed by Fleury. In 1973, in France, the exiled friar Tito is unable to overcome his trauma and depression and commits suicide in the Convent of La Tourette.
- An obsessive photographer crazy for female feet; a man that projects himself on situations he sees on TV; a simple public officer that receives a proposal from a corrupt Judge; a slaughter in a marriage crisis and a broken heart secretary that dreams to get married. These five characters will have their lives changed from a hot weekend.
- A look into the work of one of the best filmmakers in the world, Eduardo Coutinho, until he makes one of his masterpiece: Cabra Marcado para Morrer.
- O Contador de Histórias (The Story of Me), a Luiz Villaça;a movie based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, is a story about how affection can change reality. The youngest of 10 brothers, Roberto showed a special talent to tell stories, by changing through narrative his own experiences about frustration into beautiful and touching fables. At age 6, the boy filled with imagination goes to live in a newly opened government institution, which main goal is to help young and poor children. His mother takes him there believing it will guarantee a better future for her child. But the reality of the institution is very different from what was advertised on TV. Roberto, little by little, loses hope. At age 13, after hundreds of escapes, he's considered "irrecoverable", in the words of the headmaster of the facility. However, Roberto proves to be a challenge to the French pedagogue Margherit, who comes to Brazil to work on a research. Determined to make the boy her object of study, she tries to get closer to him. At first, Roberto struggles, but after a traumatic experience, he looks for shelter in Margherit's home. What comes out of it is a relationship based on friendship and tenderness, that will put Roberto's disbelief in his future at check and will challenge Margherit to keep her beliefs.
- The story of rival stylists Jacques Leclair and Victor Valentim, who have been competing for everything from toys to girlfriends since childhood.
- This is the story of the waiting of Dona Virgínia, a lady who, for more than fifty years, has been waiting for the expropriation of her house. Year after year, the government threatens to destroy the place where she keeps her past and her living memories.
- A unique and personal register of the trip American director David Lynch did to Brazil to divulge Transcendental Meditation and launch a book on the subject. His intimacy with the camera, generosity and patience with fans and admirers - that treat him like a rock star - and his reluctance to talk about his films, reveal the man usually behind dark film scenes in a unique and very personal way. The films reveals Lynch's peculiar sense of humor and his faith on the benefits TM can bring everywhere, especially to regions and countries suffocated by violence and social instability.