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A U.S. actor gets a gig in South American Parador. When the dictator dies, he's forced to play him for real and gets his mistress. Can they change Parador?

A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.

Andre is a young boy that lives in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Brazil, near an old aluminum factory. One day he finds a notebook from one of the factory workers.

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 ...

After the death of her father in Argentina, Elza returns to Brazil to see her remaining family. When visiting her mother's grave, she steals a flower off an unknown grave and put it in her mother's. After that, she begins to receive strange phone calls, from an unknown voice that claims: "Give back my flower!". She becomes terrified and obsessed with the stranger's voice, and starts believing that it's the spirit of the deceased.

A film version of the Minas Gerais Conspiracy, a separatist movement that took place on the year 1789, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.

Based on the literary classic "Romeo and Juliet", by William Shakespeare, a reinterpretation by Mauricio de Sousa adapted to the narrative style of the Monica's Gang universe.

Viramundo is a sympathetic guy, perhaps insane, perhaps a genius, who decides to leave his tiny hometown and turn the world upside down.

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.

Pedro has taken the road and he does not know where he is going. Lucas does not know it either. After meeting at a roadside café, they travel through the Brazilian Savannah seeking for a violent dose of anything.

Inspired by true events, this is a story about what happens when two outsiders from opposite corners of the world are thrown together: Brazil and Germany. Marten Brueckling, a retired music teacher from Germany, has inherited original sheet music from Bach's son and must collect the sheet in person, in the beautiful Baroque city of Ouro Preto in the heart of Brazil. But Brazil is not for beginners: Funny circumstances drive him to teach music to the young inmates of a juvenile detention center. Bach's music and Brazilian instruments mix perfectly. One of the kids is Fernando, a lovable abandoned boy who lived on the streets. But Marten discovers that they have more in common than he thought.

The documentary 'PRESENT BODY' investigates the body as a form of art, expression and identity, presenting works, artists and thinkers that reflect on the theme. The film deals with the symbolism of the body through one of the main contemporary artistic expressions - Performance - which several scholars underline as a new ideology, typical of our time. The multiple bodies that make up the documentary are political bodies that create and propose new universes, signaling new ways of being in the world, translating contemporary society in all its complexity.

An angel must help a man to fulfill his destiny.

Chico Rei was an enslaved Congolese king who fought for freedom - his and that of his people - during the Gold Cycle in Minas Gerais. This character's story is the starting point for exploring the diverse echoes of Brazilian slavery in the lives of blacks today, understanding his movement for self-assertion and freedom from a collective perspective.

The arrival on Rio de Janeiro of the remains of the members of the Inconfidência Mineira movement, who fought from freedom in the late 1700's. The event was followed by statesman Getúlio Vargas, other politicians, military men and a large crowd.

Students Samuel and Yasmina fall in love, in the city of Ouro Preto. However, they have to overcome many difficulties and prejudices to affirm their love.

There is no word spoken in the film. A composition of only pictures, movements and noises try to show the origins of the Brazilian music.

The film narrates the story of a slave boy at the end of the 18th century who gains his freedom by means of his extraordinary musical talent and goes on to become a famous composer.