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- James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
- The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
- A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
- 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?
- 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.
- Through the spirit of Dr. Fritz, a German doctor who died during the First World War, José Arigó became a hope for a cure for millions of people by performing spiritual surgery, helping about 2 million people.
- A young son who ran from his dominant family descends into decadence, then returns to the nest. Tyrannical fathers, incest, fierce family conflicts, and an intense visual style to match.
- The love story of two young Italian immigrants who first meet on their way to Brazil at the end of the 18th century, but are separated after their ship docks.
- After the mysterious disappearance of his wife Madalena, Elon engages on a sleepless journey through the darkest places of the city, trying to figure out what may have happened to her, without losing his sanity on the way.
- The adventures of a nutty little boy of unique personality traits who finds comfort at his grandfather's farm after his parents are divorced.
- A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
- The only one survivor of a mysterious murderer that killed his wife, friends and the tourism guide who leaded them through a interdicted grotto, a boy become the only suspect to make the crime. He, however, claim for his innocence saying that your wife killed those people as she was possessed by an evil force. Refusing to talk to police officers who are in charge for the crime investigation, he asks for help to a nun.
- In the Brazil Colonial period, an intelligent, seductive and vengefully ruthless slave rises to become a practical queen when an important contractor falls for her, much for the anger of a woman obsessed with him.
- A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
- In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair soon turns into an unbridled passion.
- Lalinha, after being abandoned by her husband, seeks comfort in her farm. There, she discovers a new world.
- Jimmy Five gathers his friends Monica, Maggy and Smudge to find his kidnapped dog Fluffy.
- The enmity between two rancher families in territorial dispute, and the forbidden love between a drover and a landless, mysterious woman with no past.
- Portrait of the decadent Portuguese aristocracy in the second half of the 19th century, through the tragic history of a traditional Lisbon family.
- 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.
- Brazil 1821. A rich cattle herder finds out that his wife dies in labor. Forced to live in the property with numerous African slaves, he marries his wife's niece. But he returns to droving, leaving his wife behind alone with the slaves.
- A man's journey from his humble origins to his life as a millionaire patriarch. his dedicated first daughter, and the unscrupulous efforts of a woman who is obsessed with him.
- Nadi is an android with citizenship, who earns the right to adopt two children. However, a sensationalist politician, brings up several controversies about the case, in order to gain popularity for his candidacy for Senate president.
- The middle-class housewife Natália and her husband Guido Rossi have been married for three years unsuccessfully trying to have a baby. Their best friends are Flora and Guido's partner Jorge that have three children. Guido refuses to be submitted to clinical examination while Natália secretly submits and finds that she is healthy. Natália loves Guido but feels that their marriage is near to the end. When Natália travels to Poços de Caldas with Flora to rest for a couple of days, she meets the student Gustavo and decides to have one night stand with him to get pregnant and save her marriage. Seven months later, Gustavo finds Natália and blackmails her, forcing the future mother to take an ultimate decision.
- Two young men find a woman's mutilated body by the lake. After the two teenagers call the police, they are brutally interrogated. Soon enough, the victim's identity is revealed: she was the wife of a dentist, who confesses the murder to the police. The news spreads like fire and quickly finds its way into the party at the mayor's house, where the most affluent public figures of the region are in attendance. A huge commotion ensues. The chief of police is quick to declare the case has already been solved. The mayor sighs with relief. His political aspirations would have been shattered if the brutal murder ended up on the front page of the local newspapers. The local journalist, frustrated with the lack of police reports filed in the town, used to spending most of his time covering local social events for the gossip page of the paper and republishing news stories from regional news outlets and. To him, the murder is the chance of a lifetime. He is convinced the victim's elderly husband is way too delicate and feeble to have carried out such a brutal attack. As soon as the young reporter starts digging deeper into the facts, he dies in a rather suspicious fire. With the experience of finding the body still etched into their memory and intrigued by the recent tragedies, the two teenage boys decide to investigate on their own. After all, what harm could possibly come from a bit of adventure?
- A partly fictional, partly historical account of the life of Brazil's national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, alias Tiradentes.
- Young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy having a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him. But the wind...
- The story of a boy who sees his mirror reflection come to life.
- The story of Brazilian popular singer Luiz Gonzaga and his son Gonzaguinha.
- 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.
- Three mothers see their reality become completely ... They are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces problems with drugs; Elisa, trying to make up for the absence of her husband giving full attention to the child, the little Theo, and Lara, teacher who faces the dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy. These three women, living in different times of their lives, seeking comfort next to Chico Xavier. And Karl reporter remains insisting on interviewing the medium, even without being prepared for it ... In production, Nelson Xavier revive the role of Chico Xavier. Herson Capri plays Mario, Ruth's husband. Caio Blat lives a journalist who wants to investigate the medium. Neuza Borges is the careful housekeeper who lives with the couple William (Joelson Medeiros) and Elisa (Vanessa Gerbelli).
- A trans girl and her mother move to a new town in order to start fresh, but quickly face dilemmas when the local high school needs a second parental signature for enrollment.
- Coming-of-age series depicting the lives of six irreverent, dreamy college friends.
- Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while.
- 2014's Football World Cup, held in Brazil.
- Where are you, João Gilberto? sets out in the footsteps of German writer Marc Fischer who obsessively searched for the legendary founding father of Bossa Nova, Brazilian musician João Gilberto, who has not been seen in public for decades. Fischer described his journey in a book, Hobalala, but committed suicide one week before it was published. By taking up Marc Fischer's quest, following his steps one by one, thanks to all the clues he left us, we pursue João Gilberto to understand the history, the very soul and essence of Bossa Nova. But who can tell whether we will meet him or not?
- Mini-series about the life of former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek.
- To overcome the fear of losing his ill and aging grandfather, a forensic photographer needs to discover the truth behind the alleged suicide of an elderly man.
- 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.
- 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.
- Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimaraes, two of the most interesting filmmakers working in Brazil today, have crafted an elegant, parsimonious, and formally impeccable story of Juvenal, a lonely train driver in Belo Horizonte, and his encounter with Margo, a station controller. Emphasizing the theme of alienation in Poe's story and revealing Guimaraes's work as a visual artist, the two directors opted for an unusual, perfectly square aspect ratio, which intriguingly makes the film resemble a Polaroid. Juvenal and Margo, who each embody a different form of urban solitude, have been brought together in this beautifully composed ode to friendship.
- Chico earns his living by repairing ovens, in which he enters easily thanks to his small size. Faced with the contempt of a system that relegates him to the ranks of the marginalized, he gradually enters into resistance.
- After taking a hit from producer Missiê Jack, composer Simon opens a record label to face his rival. Before long, a war between them dominates 1980s pop music.
- In Copabacana, the pothead surfer Paulo Roberto is the son of a politician with a dysfunctional family that spends the day surfing and smoking grass. The family maid has a son, the smalltime drug dealer China, who spends most of the time in the beach with Paulo. In the building across the street lives the sexy Amazon-born babysitter Rita de Cássia that has a crush on Paulo. On the streets, the boy Waldick has just arrived from the country of Minas Gerais and idolizes the successful TV entertainer Fúlvio Fontes, who worked as a street vendor when was a boy. When Rita meets Paulo and tells him that she is virgin, Paulo leaves her telling that he likes whores. Rita visits the pimp Tim Mais and asks him to work as a prostitute using the nickname of Mystery to draw the attention of Paulo Roberto. Mystery becomes a hit among the clients of Tim. Their lives entwines when Paulo steals a can of marijuana that China had found in the sea, while Paulo Roberto, Tim Mais and Waldick fall in love for Mystery.
- "Essas Mulheres" (These Women) is a soap opera set in the 19th century's Rio de Janeiro, freely inspired on José de Alencar's novels "Senhora", "Diva" and "Lucíola". It tells the story of three exceptional women who had lived torrid and forbidden love and had their lives radically transformed because of it.
- Based on the true story of Zuzu Angel, a famous Brazilian fashion designer in the 70's, who searches for her son Stuart, a member of a leftist university group who suddenly disappears during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.