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Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.
A financial reporter travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit a wealthy friend, only to get sucked into a plot to fake his friend's death.
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
Screen adaptation of James Franco's novel 'Actors Anonymous', in which the Hollywood star addresses the strange addiction of acting, based on the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Ale is 16 years old and lives with her mother in the mountains of Córdoba, Argentina. Her only friend in town is Diana, a 40-year-old trans girl. Ale gets her hopes up by chatting on a dating app with a man who has been with her for more than 20 years. Is he her mother's friend? Growing up never ceases to be both painful and pleasurable.
Bruno and Franco meet again several years after having lived a romance in their adolescence and during a day that they spend together, they exchange reflections on their behaviors in the past and the changes in attitude around sexuality.
A boy spends the day by a river with his family. His mother, who emigrated to Spain and sends him money, is the only family member missing. The boy’s relationship with his family is complicated because to them he represents a source of income. An unexpected call from his mother pushes him to rebel against this abuse.
While shooting some Hollywood images, a filmmaker meets a Mexican immigrant who works at the motel. Soon, Hollywood is left behind and the movie takes him to other cities, stories, and characters.
Sarah Morris's Rio continues her investigation into urban psychological landscapes, this time moving her focus to Rio de Janeiro, a vast and contradictory metropolis. Tracing the culture and undercurrents of the city, Morris captures individuals and sites as varied as the office of architect Oscar Niemeyer, a party in the 'City of God', a famed talk show host, Bossa Nova muse, Brahma beer factory, the largest assembly line in South America, and the factory of the Dolores underwear company.
French top secret agent, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, is sent to Rio to buy microfilms from a running nazi. To do so, he has to team up with Mossad secret services.
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.
Antonio Barracano is a respected man among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a young man asks him permission to kill his father.
In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over the country to challenge the legitimacy of Putin’s rule. Among them were a group of young, radical-feminist punk rockers, better known as Pussy Riot. Wearing colored balaclavas, tights, and summer dresses, they entered Moscow’s most venerated cathedral and dared to sing “Mother Mary, Banish Putin!” Now they have become victims of a “show” trial.
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.
Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world.