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Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho, who own a small steaming boat in Bahia, meet strip-dancer Karinna. Both men fall for her and their friendship is deeply shattered.

Noronha, a low-class civil servant and his wife Gorda have four elder daughters. Silene, the youngest, is expelled from boarding school for killing a cat and newborns.

On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.

Public relations man is invited to guide American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. In this course, he gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties and sexy ménages-a-trois to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.

A young man, Kent Lane, who is distraught after his childhood sweetheart, Manuela Thiess, commits suicide, goes in search of himself. He gets involved with woman, Michelle Carey, who teaches him lessons about life.

After the tsunami struck the coast town of Takua Pa, young architect Ton moves in town to develop a construction project and settles in a small hotel run by Na, a young sensitive local girl. They begin a secret love affair, but soon rumors spread and they meet with strong opposition from the town's residents.

Ana is going through psychological problems. She and lifelong friend Cléia decide to revisit the place they spent their childhood together in an attempt to get better results in her treatment. But they meet a stranger who will upset their plans.

An uncle travels with his three nephews once a year, during the holidays, looking for adventure.

Married with two young children, Jean Girod, a "writer", partly escapes that family life when he secretly witnesses a young woman commit suicide. In that new other life, he rents a room through his abstract artist friend Tian, there where he takes refuge. Through delusion or psychopathy, Jean begins to pedal the notion that he killed the woman, taunting the police through open anonymous letters to the media stating that he knows who killed her. He seemingly is either trying to push the theory as far as he can without getting caught, or truly does want to be caught as the killer despite not having done it. In an encounter with Tian's friend Florinda, with who there is a seeming mutual attraction, Jean may divulge his true intent and from what mental illness he suffers.

Documentary about French Equatorial Africa, including sequences on adult circumcision rites of Bariba tribe; whipping of young Peuls; a secret asylum in the jungle; new-born tattooing in Haussa tribe; Muslim Tabaski tribe's rites; blood rites.

Christer Berg dies in a car crash and is found with a teddy bear named "Bamse". His son, also named Christer finds out that Bamse belongs to his father's lover Barbro Persson. He tries to humiliate her, introducing her to his mother as his new fiancée. But he ends up falling in love with her, and she sees in him the memories of her dead lover. When she finds herself pregnant, they have to decide about their love affair.

Documentary about Brazilian songwriter and poet Vinicius de Moraes, showing his life, work, family, friends, and love-affairs.

Italian comedy in 4 episodes about the Italian "art" of womanizing: "Il Colonello e la Signora" (The Coronel and the Lady); "Gioie della Vita" (Joys of Life); "Pomicioni di Provinzia" (Small Town Womanizers) and "Il Piazzista" (The Piazza Boy).

Film in 3 episodes. In the 1st episode "Um Uísque Antes", Carlos is aware that his best friend Otávio is making passes at his wife Márcia and at a dinner party he intends to take revenge; in the 2nd episode "......" Maria has been seduced and abandoned by João and seeks legal advice from a lawyer; in the final episode "e um Cigarro Depois", Robertinho is bewildered by Ivone's behavior -- by night time she's willing to play his love games, but by day time she treats him coldly.

A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead husband's fortune. In the third episode, young widow Daisy arrives in Italy to meet her deceased much-older husband's family and ends up marrying his great-grandson.

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).

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.

Henri Langlois tour of French Cinemathèque early locations.

A new priest comes to a Brazilian coastal town and builds an insane asylum. Eventually the whole population ends up in the asylum.

Documentary on the killing of 73-year-old Catholic nun and activist Sister Dorothy Stang in February 2005, in the state of Pará (Brazilian rain forest), where she, for 30 years, fought along with environmentalists and the underprivileged local communities against the exploitation of powerful loggers and landowners.

Lora Berg is the host of radio show "Namoro no Ar" that promotes romantic dates. One day, she interviews listener Carlos Henrique, a 22-year-old man who claims he wants to find his true love. They get to know each other and Lora finds herself falling in love with him, but she gradually suspects he may have another agenda.

Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One day she meets young author Paulo and falls for him; but he is in love and engaged to ballerina Vilma, and misunderstandings abound.

Documentary about French-born Pierre Verger, who lived between Bahia (Brazil) and Africa from 1946 until his death in 1996, and dedicated himself to photograph and research the Candomblé rites, becoming himself deeply involved with the religious communities. This film includes his very last interview to Brazilian composer Gilberto Gil, one day before Verger's death at 93.

Chiyo (Matsuoka) is a young innocent girl. Her mother works in a cabaret. One day Chiyo goes in to take her mother a snack and calls all the men's attention. Harassed by various characters, she ends up being a stripper but Imai's secret love for her might turn things around.

An escort at a karaoke bar struggles to raise money to send her daughter out of the city to live with her grandmother and settle her debts with her pimp. She moves in with an aging photographer and helps him fulfill his last wishes.