En el interior del estado de Paríba, en el pueblo de Taperoá, viven João Grilo y Chicó, dos tipos muy pobres que van anunciando por las calles la mejor película del mundo, 'La Pasión de Cristo'. La sesión tiene éxito y ellos ganan algo de dinero pero siguen luchando por la supervivencia. João Grilo y Chicó planean nuevas tretas para conseguir algún dinero y se enfrentan a numeroso desafíos provocando múltiples confusiones causadas por la astucia de João Grilo, siempre acompañado de Chicó.
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
Obra de ficción que hace una relectura del documental "Omnibus 174" realizado por José Padilha. Se basa en la historia del superviviente de una matanza de ocho niños mendigos, perpetrada por la policía en una iglesia de Río de Janeiro, en julio de 1993. Algunos años después, el chico secuestró el omnibus 174 y retuvo once rehenes durante cinco horas.
Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.
Geraldine is a fairy who lost their wings by using unconventional methods in their missions. Her last chance to retrieve them will be the mission "Julia".
En Brasilia, a comienzos de los años 80. Joao do Santo Cristo es un joven marginal que se enamora de Maria Lucia, una estudiante de arquitectura. A su alrededor, la capital de Brasil resulta una ciudad cada vez más convulsa en un conflicto de intereses entre traficantes de droga y la policía mientras el régimen de la dictadura militar vislumbra su final.
A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!
In Rio de Janeiro, the forty and something years old Mercedes (Lília Cabral) goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life since she was a girl and lost her mother. Along the three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces from her husband Gustavo (José Mayer) and has love affairs with the younger Theo (Reynaldo Gianecchini)
Cuenta la historia de cuatro hermanas: Tina, Bianca, Alicia y Karina, que necesitan ayudar a su padre que está experimentando dificultades financieras, mientras que al mismo tiempo descubren y experimentan momentos típicos de la adolescencia. Cada una de estas hermanas transitan por un camino diferente: Tina se preocupa en conseguir un trabajo, Bianca en ocultar una relación, Alicia en guardar el secreto de que aún es virgen y Karina, la más estudiosa de las hermanas, sin saber cómo hacer frente a los ligues por su inseguridad. (FILMAFFINITY)
The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.
Tras una larga temporada en la cárcel, Caco Antibes (Miguel Falabella) es finalmente liberado y vuelve a la actividad para planear un nuevo y grandioso golpe que involucra a toda su familia: Vavá, Casandra, Ribamar y Magda.
Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than an apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles, the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, and expectations. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.
The story of William da Silva Lima, the last survivor of the group that founded the Comando Vermelho at the end of the 1970s. It shows him living together with the political prisoners incurred under the same National Security Law and his leadership in the Ilha Grande Prison creating a type of unheard of conduct and solidarity in the Brazilian prisons. The film goes on to tell of the group's actions on the streets of Rio de Janeiro during the beginning of the 80s when they irritated the police with their daring robberies, as well as portraying the surprising love story between William and Tereza. The narrative weaves its way between the intimate conflict and the spectacular assaults and escapes.
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the “Good Angel of Bahia”, also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and canonized by the Catholic Church. Contemplating from the 1940s to the 1980s, the film shows how the Catholic nun faced an incurable respiratory disease, machismo, the indifference of politicians and even the dogmas of the Church to dedicate her life to the care of the miserable, leaving a legacy that continues today.
When Mari produces a music festival in Rio de Janeiro, she invites friends Tita, Aninha and Estrella to join her for another wild adventure.
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How...
Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.