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- Soccer referee, Juarez Gomes da Silva, is a man in love with Brazil's favorite sport. He is assigned to the Copa Libertadores, but his goal is to referee the World Cup's final.
- 12 MOEDAS investigates the history of Brazil's economy based on an interesting fact: the country has already changed its currency 12 times since 1822.
- Sofia Prado is a sexologist, therapist and director of an alternative therapy center for couples.
- A catholic, mother of four from Minas Gerais, Adélia is a poet of the simple things in life. A graduate in Philosophy and a university professor, she never wanted to leave Divinópolis, her hometown, where should could hear the train whistle and write under divine inspiration. In this way books like Bagagem (Baggage), O Pelicano (The Pelican) and A Faca no Peito (Knife to the Chest) were born. She finally released her only work of fiction, O Homem da Mão Seca (The Man with the Dry Hand), after a long period of literary stagnation, during which she fought against depression and had to rescue her power to be enchanted by the beautiful things of life and the themes that always stimulated her: God, death and sex.
- In 2006 Mexico declared war on drug trafficking and since then, violence spread like wildfire throughout the country. Until today more than 120,000 people have died violently and thousands were forced into exile, kidnapped or disappeared.
- The Imperador Theater is buzzing. Inspector Santos and Manolo face off in a most unusual wager. But what is really at stake is the quarrel over Dora. Santos goes to watch the shoot. But the mood heats up when Manolo, in what is clearly a provocation, decides to shoot a sex scene with Dora.
- The daily lives of Arab refugees and Brazilians at Leila Khaled Occupation, in São Paulo.
- The stories of several women imprisoned for different reasons in an experimental penal complex in Mexico City.
- Shy, mysterious and sullen, Clarice always felt out of place. This characteristic marked her life in literature. She used to say that she identified with the wild, free and instinctive animals. The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, she arrived to Brazil while just a baby and grew up in Recife, which deeply impacted her. She married an ambassador and moved many times throughout her life. She had insomnia, anxiety and felt everything very intensely. The world poured out from her and was reflected in books such as Perto do Coração Selvagem (Near to the Wild Heart), Laços de Família (Family Ties), Uma Aprendizagem ou o Livro dos Prazeres (An Apprenticeship or the Book of Delights). She loved being a mother, gave only one on-camera interview and kept correspondences by letter with her best friends around the world, in a deep exchange with those she loved.
- CLUBVERSÃO LATINO presents singers and musicians from Brazil and Latin America with the challenge of creating together new versions of a famous song in one day. Fabio Pinczowski, the artistic director, welcomes the artists to the studio and we see the creative process and development of the songs as the episodes follow the musicians from the moment they meet till they start recording the bases and vocals, eventually executing the new version of the chosen song.
- Conceição had to always write in her spare time, in the time between work and taking care of her home and her special-needs daughter. Born into a family of women who laundered clothing, she grew up in the favela called Pindura Saia in Belo Horizonte. She was the only black girl in her traditional public school and having access to books, she fell in love with them at an early age. She graduated, earned a PhD, wrote books and marked her place in the world of literature, breaking barriers and stigmas. Her books give first and last names to black women and their stories, such as in Insubmissas Lágrimas de Mulheres (Unsubmissive Tears of Women), Ponciá Vicêncio and Olhos D'Água (Eyes of Water). In Becos da Memória (Memory Alleys), she relives her past and gives wings to her "life of writing", as she commonly called her art.
- In 1889, Anna Bretas was born in the heart of Brazil. A frail and sick girl, she was the daughter of extremely strict parents and would search for the refuge she needed to survive in the backyard of the home where they lived. It was also in the arms of an ex-slave turned nanny that she received the affection that she lacked from her parents. Anna adopted the name Cora Coralina when she began to write, but repressed by her family, she was only able to carry out her literature once she was old. Cora became a full-fledged confectioner, got married and had children. She moved to São Paulo, lived in the big city for decades, and when life permitted, she returned to Goiás to once again live in the Old House on the Bridge where she was born and finally began to write. She left her memories and thoughts in books such as Histórias da Casa Velha da Ponte (Stories of the Old House on the Bridge) and Meu Livro de Cordel.
- Anthology series in which each season depicts a look at the lives of foreigners who decided to live or stay temporarily in a Brazilian city, such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador.
- Destino Brasil 2014 approaches all the fans to experience the emotions of the World Cup through its central characters, picturing the stories of the most outstanding players of each soccer team. In each episode the spectators meet the Latin America nations that are looking for the pathway to raise the cup, as well as the great stories of the Latin soccer stars, such as Argentinian, Lucas Bernardi and Fernando Gago; Mexico players Raúl Jiménez, Miguel Layún, Rafael Márquez, and many more along with the Tricolor Team and its 120 million followers; the passion of the Chileans for "the red one" and the players Alexis Sanchez, Jose Rojas, Ivan Zamorano, Jorge Valdivia and finally, the Colombians with the goals of Aquivaldo Mosquera, Luis Amaranto Perea, Francisco Maturana, Fredy Rincón and Victor Aristizábal.
- Explore sports from the furthest regions of Latin America in this international series that focuses on athletes, issues, and more.
- Destino Rusia 2018 is the first co-production between HBO Latin America and HBO Europe, who came together to present in-depth stories of growth, friendship, glory and redemption in the world of soccer.
- Destino Sudáfrica 2010 is a 30-minute weekly program that shows an intimately perspective of the players, coaches and teams intimately that participates in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. Through interviews and clips, the program offers the public a look at what is needed to classify the most popular sporting event in the world, the pressure of its participants and the dreams of glory of each of them. The performance of these teams in previous worlds will also be discussed.
- Destination: Sao Paulo is not just a miniseries which depicts the everyday life of some groups of foreigners in the world's second largest city. Over six episodes in draws an intimate portrait of the metamorphoses immigrants have to undergo to overcome the barriers they encounter in trying to settle in this complex city. Destination: Sao Paulo has as its principal focus love in all its forms and how it is experienced by these new citizens - eternal, fleeting, maternal, fraternal, conventional or controversial. It is with love as its starting point that it searches for whatever is universal in human relationships.
- A great discovery that could change the world-the origin of God-unleashes a battle for power, steeped in fanaticism and intrigue.
- The story of eight great Brazilian writers, unveiling the different personalities and talents of the country's literary universe.
- Sophie decides to start working as a lawyer. But she can't find a job. Because of the mortgage of the house, she decides to continue the company. She takes her late husband's position and starts to learn the business.
- Sophie doesn't like hardcore movies. Although her mother-in-law and the company director objects, she decides to make more romantic movies. But the rehearsals are not good. So, she decides to figure it out by herself.
- Violeta finds out about the secrets her mother has been hiding. Sofia tries to move on from Marcello and starts dating again. Lucia sends more clients to SofiX but things quickly get out of hand.
- A series of homicides reunite detectives Renzo Marquez and Marina Segal and leads them on a quest to stop a killer whose modus operandi is to replicate previous slayings as if they were works of art.
- From the land of narco-violence to the land of displaced persons. The documentary Guerras Ajenas ('Wars of Others') explores the consequences of the war on drugs in Colombia, and one of its main tools: aerial spraying.
- Four men become fugitives after a failed drug deal, running from north to south of Chile.
- Free, intense, obscenely lucid. Hilda Hilst, daughter of a man who went mad, had an obsession with the human mind and an enormous fear of ending up like her father. She was, however, the personification of vibrancy and impulse. She lived her youth intensely, broke taboos in the way she loved men, circulated in the upper social and cultural circles of her time and, suddenly, in a moment of hyper lucidity, gave up everything to live off of her writing. She isolated herself in Casa do Sol for 30 years, wrote numerous books, countless poetry, received friends and expanded her intensity to another dimension, in which she tried to contact the dead. She left us books like Presságio (Omen), Kadosh, Fluxo Floema and A Obscena Senhora D (The Obscene Madame D).
- Heroes Cotidianos is a series of six episodes recounting the stories of real people who happen to have become true heroes of our time and of their own communities.
- HD. 'Icarus.' Series Finale. Santos Dumont spends his old age in Petropolis, where he finds love and begins working on one last invention.
- What would happen if cannabis gets legalized in Brazil? Biriba is a drug dealer that lefts his past behind and uses his knowledge to start selling the product legally. He must deal with countess challenges and the weight of his past.
- The production portrays the experiences lived by the multifaceted artist throughout 60 years of career, as well as important moments of the artistic and political history of Brazil.
- HD. 'Le Petit Santos.' Series premiere. Alberto Santos Dumont heads to Paris where he begins experimenting in balloon aviation.
- Ants, a dwarf, an antique shop, a doorman, a ballerina. Characters in situations that border on the fantastic permeate the tales of Lygia, an attorney who graduated from the Largo São Francisco Law School, whose imagination worked endlessly. A Caçada (The Hunt), A Estrutura da Bolha de Sabão (The Structure of the Soap Bubble) and A Chave na Porta are examples of the power of a thought-provoking prose, that often flirted with mystery and the ethereal. Quite politicized, in As Meninas (The Girl in the Photograph) she writes about her traumatic experience of living in the midst of a military dictatorship, against which she fought alongside friends who were murdered, which left her deeply scarred.
- MAGNÍFICA 70 portrays the underground cinema-making scene of São Paulo in the '70s with stunning visuals and an award-winning cast and crew. The third season wraps up the series with the protagonists coming back to their original paths, struggling to beat the decade's cultural censorship, remain faithful to the art and find success.
- HD. 'Heavier Than Air.' (Season One) Santos Dumont receives a heavy blow when his mentor passes away.
- Mandrake is a Rio de Janeiro criminal attorney specializing in blackmail and extortion cases, particularly ones involving high-society elites who call on him when their secret lives in the city's sordid underbelly get them in trouble.He moves effortlessly between two starkly contrasting universes: a sophisticated one of money and privilege (also of corruption and hypocrisy); and the corrupt and dishonest subculture of blackmail artists and opportunists. Mandrake works out of a small but respected practice with his 70-year-old partner named Wexler, who handles the civil cases. His late father's ex-associate, Wexler treats Mandrake like a son but also hassles him over the unorthodox methods he employs. What makes Mandrake an intuitive and shrewd investigator is the same thing that makes him irresistible to the opposite sex.
- The series follows the challenges, dilemmas and conflicts of people who raise flags on issues such as public health, environmental awareness, education, sports and social inequality.
- Passionate about traveling, she considers herself an eternal wanderer. Of Galician descent, but born in Rio de Janeiro, she was taken to Galicia as a child. She fell in love with the land, the people and the adventures of a new language, new values and new flavors. Nélida is an adventurous romantic, obsessed with history and great heroic deeds. Her prose, such as A República dos Sonhos (The Republic of Dreams) and Coração Andarilho (Wandering Heart) reflects all of this. She became the first woman to preside over the Brazilian Academy of Letters and continues to write around the world.
- Karin, Magali and Luna are three call girls, who decide to apply some marketing knowledge on the world's oldest profession.
- The beginning of the Deutsch Prize in the year 1901. Flights, accidents, controversies and the relationship of Santos Dumont with Aida de Acosta and the cartoonist Sem.
- HD. 'The Flight of the Dragonfly.' (Season One) Santos Dumont wins the Archdeacon Prize and once again becomes the talk of the town.
- After leaving the Paris Aeroclub, Santos Dumont is invited to an air race at the Universal Exhibition in St. Louis in the USA, illuminated by the geniality of Thomas Edison. But Dumont's airship is sabotaged and he returns to Paris to continue his experiments. Pressured by her aunt to get married, Aida de la Costa, Dumont's friend, decides to take her destiny into her own hands, by exchanging her lace gloves for those of a mechanic.
- Chronicles the adventures of Carlo Antonini, a psychiatrist, psychologist, and a moderately pathological and highly interventionist psychoanalyst, both inside and outside the office.
- Daughter of Ceará's intellectual elite, she grew up as an only child surrounded by books and stories. She experienced the terrible droughts of the northeastern hinterlands up close, which inspired her first book, O Quinze (The Fifteen), written at the age of 15 under the light of a lantern. A columnist for decades at important Brazilian newspapers and a translator of classic novels, she didn't consider herself a writer, but rather a political animal. It is from her proximity to this world of politics that the book João Miguel emerges. She was the first woman be a part of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. She was an enthusiast of the feminist movement, as reflected in Memorial de Maria Moura, Dôra, Doralina and As Três Marias (The Three Marias). She did hands-on work on her farm, where she enjoyed her three favorite things: a porch, a hammock and a small lake.
- In 1976, Gilberto Gil traveled to Lagos (Nigeria) with the purpose of participating in the Second Festival of Black Art and Culture. The event had the participation of approximately fifty thousand Afro-descendant and Diaspora artists. After the trip, Gil released the album Refavela. The documentary celebrates the 40th anniversary of this album essential album for the Brazilian Popular Music.
- Victoria, Isabella, Sara, and Julieta share a house with no rules at all. These models have a taste for partying, dancing and sex. They're out to have a good time, and for them, sex is the very best time of all.
- In a situation where marijuana is legalized in Brazil, Biriba sees his clients diminishing rapidly. He has to provide for his family, so he faces a dilemma. Does he accept an offer from his best friend and go down the path of crime, or become partners with a dodgy client who wants to run a 'legal' business.
- The four girls show up for a photo session with a very important Chilean fashion designer. It's their first job together. During the gig, Sara hooks up again with her make-up and wardrobe specialist, while Victoria seduces the photographer.
- Sons of the Carnival tells the story of Anésio Gebara, leader of a wide network of "Animal Lottery," and his four sons, who take different paths to occupy a significant place in their father's life.
- A man who lives a double life, as a criminal and a family man, becomes involved in an underground murder ring and ends up being named head of the organization.