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- A simple yet devout Christian makes a vow to Saint Barbara after she saves his donkey, but everyone he meets seems determined to misunderstand his intentions. Will he be able to keep his promise in the end?
- The unconditional love a mother has for her daughter, even after they fall in love with the same man.
- Serafina is a romantic secretary from an Italian family. Every day she buys herself a rose and arranges for it to be delivered to her office so she can pretend she's getting flowers from an admirer. She's developed a crush on her French boss, Claude Antoine Geraldi; to her great surprise, one day he proposes to her--intending to get a permanent permit to live in Brazil. He offers her a considerable amount of money in exchange, and she accepts because with that money she'll be able to stop the demolition of the place where she and her neighbors live. For her that's a good-enough deal; but surprise. Later on they actually fall in love with each other. Millionaire Nara Paranhos de Vasconcellos is against their relationship and tries everything to stop it, but Serafina is helped by her sister Terezinha and by old puppeteer Pimpinoni.
- In the 1960s, the lives of several Catholic school students unfold as they romance, party to the American rock and roll craze, and live through high society's prejudices of the times.
- A young woman signs in to be the surrogate mother to a couple's child, but eventually grows fond of the baby and starts a battle to keep her.
- Two stories set in Río de Janeiro: The first (HO) is about a man who picks up a newlywed couple on the highway to Río; their car is wrecked and the man offers to deliver the bride to their honeymoon bungalow. Everything goes wrong when the man's wife catches him with the bride in his car. The second story (Divertimento) is about a woman who wants to kill her lover's wife, not knowing that her lover and his wife plan to stage the crime to blackmail her.
- In an old-time dance hall (the "gafieira") in São Paulo, one evening is all it takes to meet different characters as they remember the past, live the present, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, naturally, dance.
- An ambitious young woman with a traumatizing past targets an Italian man, the distant son of a wealthy Brazilian family.
- Luzia comes from the backwoods of Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, in search of her fiancé. But soon she'll find out he has turned into a dangerous criminal and is being looked after by the police.
- Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enemies is bitten up and left for dead. He is rescued by a couple of humble small farmers who nurse him for a long time until he is well again. Influenced by the couple Augusto Matraga turns to a religiosity a long time neglected, believing he is atoning for past sins. Then he starts a long penitent life while waiting for his hour and chance. As time goes on he comes strong again but he only realize this after meeting Joaozinho Bem Bem, a famous chief of "jaguncos" who sees in him the violent man he was. Augusto Matraga starts a fight between his violent nature, his hidden desire of vengeance and the mysticism and goodness which is also part of him. This conflict lasts until the moment when his hour and his chance comes, the hour and chance to fight, to struggle an to use his strength and courage in the name of faith and humanity.
- A young Portuguese cartographer in the 18th century finds new forms of love, war and a wild new world in an expedition into South American heart.
- German documentary for TV about the "Cinema Novo" movement (Brazilian New Wave). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967: Leon Hirszman preparing the script with poet/writer Vinicius de Moraes for "Garota de Ipanema" (1967); Glauber Rocha shooting "Terra em Transe" (1967); Arnaldo Jabor editing "A Opinião Pública" (1967); Nelson Pereira dos Santos shooting "El Justicero" (1967); the rushes and voice-looping sessions of Domingos Oliveira's "Todas as Mulheres do Mundo" (1967); and the opening of Carlos Diegues's "A Grande Cidade" (1966).
- After her mother's death and her father's disappearance, a young woman is raised by her loving uncle, her hostile aunt, and attentive older cousin, whose boyfriend she ends up falling in love with, stirring disturbing family memories.
- Five friends are reunited from childhood, no longer carrying the innocence that brought them together at first.
- A tele theater where famous plays were adapted and staged, during the days before videotaped Brazilian television, and performed by a cast of accomplished actors.
- Brazilian singer Laura Monteiro is murdered in her dressing-room by her jealous lover João Fernandes de Oliveira when he discovered she was cheating on his with Assis and planning to escape from him and go to Buenos Aires with Assis. Meanwhile, Belén Moreira, who lives in Favela do Salgueiro and is a dead ringer for Laura, goes to Copacabana with her boyfriend Paulo. Two members of a gang that smuggles precious stones sewn in Carnival costumes see Belén and force the President of the Salgueiro Samba School to invite her to perform Chica da Silva in the Carnival parade in a costume that is adorned with genuine precious stones to be smuggled to Europe.
- Juca is an artist from Pernambuco, who leaves his homeland and goes to Rio de Janeiro in search of greater career visibility. In Rio, he gets involved with the daughter of the respectable men, and Vivian, a simple woman.
- An existentialist drama that narrates one night in the life of a couple formed by an architect and university professor who has just left his job and a modern married woman, interested in a casual love affair.
- Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.
- The story of Virgulino, the famous Lampião, who led a bunch of cangaceiros (as his followers were called) through the Northeast of Brazil, and became respected by poor local people, for his sense of immediate justice.
- In the beginning of the 20th Century, Ana, Brazilian writer Euclides da Cunha's wife, meets Dilermando de Assis, a much younger officer, and they fall in love. A tragedy ensues.