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- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsAlan ArkinPedro CardosoFernanda TorresBrazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.
- DirectorRené SampaioStarsAlice BragaGabriel LeoneOtávio AugustoOn an unusual day, a series of coincidences lead Eduardo to meet Monica at a party. Curiosity is aroused between the two and, despite not being alike, they fall madly in love. This love needs to mature and learn to overcome differences.
- DirectorGustavo PizziStarsKarine TelesOtávio MüllerAdriana EstevesIrene has only a few days to surpass the anxiety and discover a new strength before sending her eldest son away to the world.
- DirectorHilton LacerdaStarsMaria de Jesus BaccarelliJesuíta BarbosaAriclenes BarrosoThe romance between a 18-year-old soldier and the cultural ringleader of an anarchist cabaret.
- DirectorAna CarolinaStarsMarília PêraBéatrice AgeninCamila AmadoFictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis, is encouraged by her personal Brazilian maid Amélia to perform in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, she is forced to tolerate the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.
- StarsLeandra LealAdriana EstevesCássio Gabus MendesFour ordinary people under arrest in one single night in different stories of crime, justice and revenge that will intertwine and forever haunt the lives of those involved.
- DirectorToni VenturiStarsLeandra LealCauã ReymondLee TaylorThe plot centers on a young female doctor Carmen with a terminal disease. A feeling of urgency unconsciously leads her to live each moment of her life as it were the last. During this journey into the unknown, she gets involved with two men and a homeless community.
- DirectorJúlio BressaneStarsFernando EirasPaulo JoséMariana XimenesA cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.
- DirectorMoacyr GóesStarsJoão MiguelLeandra LealLetícia ColinIn his film, "Pretty, But Ordinary", the renowned Brazilian writer, Nelson Rodrigues, works with the idea of temptation that has plagued man since the beginning of time (part of the human condition, as it were). "Pretty..." is the story of a young man named Edgard. His girlfriend, Ritinha, is a simple and attractive woman who works as a teacher to support her three sisters and deranged mother. He also suffers financial hardships, and also supports his mother, widower to a man that never had any money, not even for his own funeral. Edgard tries to make do in a low ranking job at the company of millionaire Mr. Wernecks. The story begins when Peixoto, son-in-law and employee to Werneck, makes Edgard the indecent proposition to marry his boss' daughter, Maria Cecilia. At a bar, fueled by alcohol and the trauma of his dads poverty, Edgard accepts. At Mr. Wernecks house, he learns Maria Cecilia has been badly raped and is in urgent need of a fiancé, even if he has to be bought. Edgard is shocked by the proposal and walks out his boss' house. The following day, he receives a visit from Peixoto, accompanied by Maria Cecilia, who asks him to reconsider his decision. He goes back to Mr. Werneck, who hands him a cashier's check worth millions. At first Edgard does not accept the check. He says he's not a Peixoto. But the old man insists. He wants to prove Edgard is just like Peixoto; he says that, in Brazil, everyone is a Peixoto, a very current theme. From that moment on, the story revolves around the temptation that may imprison the young man.
- DirectorJuancho CardonaVinicius CoimbraManuela DiasStarsLeandra LealManolo CardonaNanda CostaAn actor and a screenwriter meet at a short film festival and struggle to keep up their affair as films, festivals and other partners hamper their burgeoning romance.
- DirectorRicardo PrettiStarsLeandra LealJiddu PinheiroMariana XimenesAfter 10 years away from the city of Rio de Janeiro, Marina receives a mysterious postcard that makes her return to the city. Not knowing clearly the reasons that made her return, she looks for answers.
- DirectorLeandra LealStarsRogériaJane di CastroDivina ValériaThe Divine Divas are the icons of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists in the 1960's. One of the first stages to host men dressed as women was the Rival Theatre, ran by Américo Leal, the director's grandfather. The film shows the intimacy, the talent and the stories of a generation that revolutionized the sexual behavior and defied the moral of a time.
- DirectorAurélio TeixeiraStarsJúlio César CruzAurélio TeixeiraHenrique José LealPoor boy treats a sweet lemon tree as his only friend, talking to it, and learning important values in the process. But one day the tree must be cut.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesStarsJoão MiguelPeter KetnathMadalena AcciolyA road movie about a German man who went to the Northeast of Brazil in 1942 to sell Aspirin.
- DirectorPaulo MorelliPedro MorelliStarsCaio BlatCarolina DieckmannMaria RibeiroA group of literature-loving friends bury letters to be opened 10 years later when they will confront the dreams of their youth with what the future has held in store for them.
- DirectorPaulo HalmStarsCaio BlatLúcia BronsteinHugo CarvanaIn Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the idle aspirant writer Zeca has been living with Arts Professor Júlia for five years. He is stuck on page 50 of his novel for a long time and Zeca claims lack of inspiration to conclude the plot. He leads a comfortable life from inheritance left by his mother and administrated by his father Humberto. When Zeca sees Júlia alone with her best friend Carol in his flat, he believes that they are having a love affair and becomes obsessed with Carol, following her. Júlia travels to São Paulo with work giving Zeca the perfect opportunity to have an affair with Carol. So begins his complicated life: while Júlia works and studies for her doctorate, Zeca has sex with Carol during the days and with Júlia during the nights. Zeca plots a scheme to stay with either Carol or Júlia but his plan does not go as he hoped.
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsFernando TeixeiraCaio BlatMatheus NachtergaeleA man gets obsessed by a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
- DirectorHelvecio RattonStarsCaio BlatDaniel de OliveiraLéo QuintãoDuring 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.
- DirectorJeferson DeStarsCaio BlatJonathan HaagensenSilvio GuindaneIn the slum of Capão Redondo in São Paulo, the twenty-third anniversary of Marco Aurélio a.k.a. Macu will be celebrated with a "feijoada" (a typical Brazilian dish of black beans and pork) and beers promoted by his mother Dona Sônia and their closest friends. Among the guests are Macu's childhood best friends Jaiminho, who plays soccer in Spain and is waiting to be summoned by the coach to the national team, and Pibe, who has a baby and is living with Macu's former girlfriend Claudia. Macu owes money to the dangerous criminal Serjão and Napão and will host a boy that will be kidnapped by the delinquents in order to pay for his debts. Along the day, Macu stays with Jaiminho and Pibe recalling their childhood together. By the end of the day, Serjão and Napão tell Macu that they have changed their plans and the kid will not be kidnapped, but Jaiminho instead. Further, he shall meet the powerful Dr. Venceslau for further instructions. Now Macu is to be on the horns of a dilemma between his friendship for Jaiminho and the fear for the gang of his slum.
- DirectorSergio BianchiStarsAna CarbattiCláudia MelloHerson CapriFree adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film tries to trace a parallel between life in Brazil during the slavery period and life in modern Brazil.
- DirectorLina ChamieStarsGregório MusattiDira PaesJulia WeissTéo (Marco Ricca) is a lonely architect who goes through a difficult phase in life, because of the death of his best friend in childhood. Her best friend nowadays is Majú (Dira Paes), the mother of two children who are trying to get him a girlfriend.
- DirectorLina ChamieStarsGregório MusattiDira PaesJulia WeissTéo (Marco Ricca) is a lonely architect who goes through a difficult phase in life, because of the death of his best friend in childhood. Her best friend nowadays is Majú (Dira Paes), the mother of two children who are trying to get him a girlfriend.
- DirectorAlexandre StocklerStarsRennata AiroldiLuiz AraújoCainan BaladezCristiano, Francisco and Gabriel are three good old friends celebrating their entrance in the University. But in a horror night, the fun gets mixed up with violence.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsCaio BlatSophie CharlotteGabriel AntunesIn 1960s Rio de Janeiro, aspiring writer Felipe leads a life of wild parties held in an apartment in famous street Barata Ribeiro in Copacabana. There he and his friends enjoy freedom even in the midst of a complicated political moment.
- DirectorGlauber FilhoHalder GomesStarsPaulo Goulart FilhoNelson XavierHerson CapriThree 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).
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsCaio BlatThe true story of the director Lucia Murat's younger brother , Heitor, who is sent to London by his well to do family to avoid the possibility of joining his director/writer sister Ms. Murat in prison for "crimes" against the then fascist Brazilian government in the late 60's. Studying in London, Heitor meets an American girlfriend and an array of fascinating ex pat pals who dabble in pot smoking , music and self indulgent jobless days enjoying and experiencing early 70's London in NottingHill Gate area of London before it became tony. Heitor, the apple of the family's eye and youngest child, is a prolific letter writer but quits school and soon moves from pot to hashish to acid. He leaves London and begins traveling to Afghanistan , India, (wherever the Best and Most drugs were) pen and paper in hand, and becomes more and more addicted to cultures where he can deal and consume drugs experiencing a lonely lifestyle of being high, walking and writing. His letters to his family are the subject of the movie. Heitor, an unusual yet brilliant man, multilingual and extraordinarily handsome with the heart of a poet, starts to lose his grasp of reality and ends up in jail and eventually, a mental institution. His long journey to madness is all evidenced by his letters ,written like an itinerary of downward, disturbing spiral, are saved by various family members, especially by Ms. Murat.
- DirectorSergio RezendeStarsPatricia PillarDaniel de OliveiraLeandra LealBased 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.
- DirectorEduardo NunesStarsJulio AdriãoRegina BastosRaquel BonfanteIn a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.
- DirectorCarlos ReichenbachStarsRosanne MulhollandCauã ReymondMaurício MattarSilmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsLázaro RamosMarcelia CartaxoFlavio BauraquiLoose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorBarbara Topsøe-RothenborgStarsDar SalimSonja RichterSus WilkinsThe thin line between love and hate turns deadly when a wife discovers her husband's affair - and they both take extreme measures to get what they want.
- DirectorBreno SilveiraStarsNanda CostaMarjorie EstianoJulio MachadoIn the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both of them will assert themselves in their own and surprising way.
- DirectorRuy GuerraNelson XavierStarsNelson XavierLeonidas BayerCarlos Alberto BaíaThis sequel to "Os Fuzis" follows the story of a hard working operator who dies on a work related accident due to the precarious conditions established in the place. But when his superiors decide to hide the fact and try to bribe his family, one of his relatives, with the help of a lawyer and a journalist, tries to fight for justice.
- DirectorAlberto SalváStarsOduvaldo Vianna FilhoGlauce RochaAmaury AlvesA man, trying to get a job, meets a lot of unusual characters on his Way.
- DirectorAndrea TonacciStarsPaulo César PeréioAbrahão FarcJura OteroThe actor of a film being made lives without distinction his own personal reality and his character's fiction. As the involuntary object of chance and circumstance, he looks for a meaning and way out, while being pursued by outlaws, a magician, a romantic fantasy, a drunk and his own self-image. The humour, the reason of the persecution, situations, personages, set decoration, dialogs and soundtrack (which uses themes from other films) lead us to symbols, metaphors and the refusal of a possible logical narrative, in a way to allow the viewer to experiment a sensation analogous to the one of the main character, inducing in him the need of thinking a meaning while lost and led by the sustained expectation, and by the intentionally recurrent anti-climax.
- DirectorJúlio BressaneStarsGuará RodriguesA serial killer kills blonde women.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsHermila GuedesMaria MenezesZezita MatosIn order to get funds, a young woman living in the Northeast of Brazil decides to raffle her own body.
- DirectorRoberto BerlinerStarsGlória PiresLuciana FregolenteSimone MazzerBased on the true story of Dr. Nise da Silveira, a psychiatrist in Brazil who treated her patients with art instead of electroshock therapy.
- DirectorCarlos ReichenbachStarsOrlando ParoliniPatrícia ScalviRoberto MirandaUnemployed professor, Fernando is sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita. One day they go out to an afternoon picnic with a couple of friends, sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperienced Lilita.
- DirectorCarlos ReichenbachStarsRoberto MirandaBenjamin CattanMárcia FragaSandra is a rich widow who wants to know the beach house her late husband has left her. She goes there with her lover Odilon, an unscrupulous young man whose studies she's supporting. Helping her with the red tape is dr. Carvalho, a very conservative and old-fashioned lawyer. In her way to the house, she meets a couple of hippies, looking for a place to stay. She hires them as temporary housekeepers. Living nearby is a crazy prophet, who shows his genitals to anybody who comes close. During their stay in the house, all these characters clash, in unusual and funny ways, including some disgusting tourists, three young women on vacation, the police, prostitutes, a reporter for a communist magazine, and many others.
- DirectorLuiz Fernando CarvalhoStarsSelton MelloRaul CortezJuliana Carneiro da CunhaA 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.
- DirectorRoberto FariasStarsEliezer GomesReginaldo FariaJorge DóriaFilm about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
- DirectorLuiz Sérgio PersonStarsAnselmo DuarteRaul CortezJuca de OliveiraThe innocent brothers are wrongly accused of a crime by a corrupt and violent police officers and are forced to face the injustices of the brazilian penal system.
- DirectorAndrucha WaddingtonStarsMarcelo AdnetEduardo SterblitchMariana XimenesMarcos and Beto meet when crashing a private New Year's Eve party and subsequently go on a three-day adventure.
- DirectorMiguel NagleStarsCaio BlatSolange CoutoEinat FalbelA child gets lost in the cracks and his mother desperately attempts to save him.
- DirectorGlauber FilhoJoe PimentelStarsCarlos VerezaMagno CarvalhoLarissa VerezaThe life and work of writer, politician and medical doctor Bezerra de Menezes, known as the doctor of the poor. The film follows him through his many social causes and his devotion to the cause of the Spiritism doctrine of which he became a reference.
- StarsEmilio DantasDrica MoraesJohnny MassaroFollow four completely different stories, but with one theme in common: relationships during social isolation forced by the pandemic.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsCamila AmadoLuisa ArraesMilton GonçalvesIn "The Silver Cliff" Violeta (Alessandra Negrini) is a married dentist in a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma (Otto Jr.), said he was leaving her and going to another city.
- DirectorVicente AmorimStarsMichele MorroneGiancarlo GianniniGabriel LeoneDuetto takes place in 1965 and tells the story of 18-year-old Cora, a Brazilian from an Italian family who, after losing her dad in a tragic car accident, goes with her grandmother Lucia to Puglia, Italy, where her ancestral homestead still stands. Lucia, aiming to sell an old family land lot, reencounters her sister Sofia and her husband Gino, whom she hasn't spoken to in 40 years. Things get complicated when the sale of the land turns out to be lost in bureaucracy and takes more time than they expected because of the town's upcoming traditional Music Festival where the biggest Italian musicians of the time perform. Lucia and Cora are forced to extend their stay and old family issues resurface, creating for Cora an intense journey of grief and growth, along with the unexpected, almost fantastical encounter between the girl and Marcelo Bianchini, the Italian "cantautore" who was an idol of her deceased father.
- DirectorGuilherme FontesStarsMarco RiccaAndrea BeltrãoPaulo BettiThe story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communication in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called The Brazilian Citizen Kane.
- DirectorLuiz Sérgio PersonStarsAna EsmeraldaEva WilmaOtelo ZeloniA man lives in conflict as he deals with his friends and love interests against the backdrop of São Paulo.
- DirectorWalter SallesDaniela ThomasStarsSandra CorveloniJoão BaldasseriniVinícius de OliveiraA story about four brothers from a poor family who need to fight to follow their dreams.
- DirectorSandra KogutStarsThiago da Silva MarizWallison Felipe Leal BarrosoMaria Juliana Souza de OliveiraThiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.
- DirectorGuel ArraesStarsAndrea BeltrãoJosé WilkerMarco NaniniDuring a remake of the play Tristan and Isolde, actors Peter and Ana fall in love. While the characters live an idealized love, the interpreters are living a true story, which they try to spice it up with the intensity of the fiction.
- DirectorDaniel FilhoStarsTony RamosGlória PiresThiago LacerdaPublicist Claudio and homemaker/choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they don't understand or respect each other's feelings or viewpoints. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as insensitive and rough. On the night before Claudio's 50th birthday, Mars, Earth, and Jupiter are aligned and during a quarrel at home, Claudio and Helena say "If I were you..." at the same time. When they wake up the next morning, they have switched bodies and each must face the other's difficulties in the agency, in the school, and with their friends.
- DirectorFábio MendonçaStarsLuana PiovaniMarcos PalmeiraJúlia RabelloAna and Duda a couple who's in the verge of taking a break from their marriage throw a New Year's party at their house. The party gets overcrowded with all kinds of people and it's in the bathroom that most things will happen between them both and many other guests.
- DirectorRenée Nader MessoraJoão SalavizaStarsFrancisco Hyjno KrahoIlda Patpro KrahoLuzia Cruwakwyj KrahoThrough her child's eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest.
- CreatorMaria CamargoStarsAntonio CalloniAdriana EstevesPaolla OliveiraA women's organization is formed to report sexual abuse committed by a respected physician. The saga begins when one of them breaks the silence.
- DirectorLuciano MouraStarsWagner MouraLima DuarteMariana LimaA man who has put his career ahead of everything else in life learns the value of family when his son goes missing.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsJohnny DeppHelena Bonham CarterAlan RickmanThe legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.