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- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
- In 1950s Rio de Janeiro, two sisters live restricted lives with their conservative parents. After they are separated and forced to live apart, they take control of their destinies, while never giving up hope of finding one another.
- A group of teenage friends face a murder mystery in their last trip together.
- The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.
- A man returns to his birthplace, the area surrounding the Araguaia river, unaware of an Indian curse targeting him, gathered on his family several years before.
- Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três Virgens" (The Three Virgins) three spinsters are influenced by the behaviour of their teenager niece, whom they are lodging. In "O Arremate" (The Purchase) a colonist turns his virgin daughter in to a landowner, to have his debts forgiven. And, finally, in "Vereda Tropical" (Tropical Trail), a man becomes sexually obsessed by a watermelon, to the point of having sexual intercourse with it. The stories are based on prize-winner short stories, from a Status Magazine contest.
- A pompous, adventure-seeking businessman journeys through Africa with a clumsy employee to find his own disappeared brother-in-law.
- At the end of the 19th century in Rio de Janeiro, a young man, who lives in favor of his parents' boss's house, falls madly in love with his wife's arms. She, in turn, notices the boy's almost adult traits. Dreams and desires blend with reality.
- In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter. Sam hopes to find people who remember him, and he takes film he shot in 1954. He's Rip Van Winkle, and, indeed, a great deal changed in the village. There are televisions, watches, and brick houses. But, the same Karajá culture awaits as well. He gathers the villagers to show his old film footage, and people recognize friends and relatives, thanking Fuller for momentarily bringing them back to life.
- While riding a motorboat along Guanabara Bay, Gaspar, an elderly senator, tells the nurse that between the 50's and 60's he became involved with an exotic dancer, Luz Del Fuego, who adopted this stage name when she saw the name on the lid of a man's lipstick. As an adult and in the magazine theater, she participates in a choir of stars and is arrested for the first time for a violent assault. In jail he befriends a reporter, Indalecio, and a gay, Agildo, who would be attached to her forever. Debut in the theater completely naked, wrapped in snakes. Success spawns a roundtable on TV, consisting of a priest, a star, a delegate, and the president of the Animal Protection League. At this time she was involved with Gaspar, married politician, who was campaigning for the Senate. Gaspar is honored by Luz, who gives him a kiss on the mouth publicly, but is nonetheless elected. At the height of fame Luz sells his beautiful mansion, which had been given to him by Gaspar, leaves the theater and moves to the Sun Island, where she intends to create a naturalistic ecological paradise.
- A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he falls in love with an innocent girl.
- In 1866, during the anti-slavery movements, a romantic young lady, who lives on Paquetá Island, meets her childhood love again, who is now pursued by another young woman who does not spare efforts to be beside the man she loves.
- Maria is a sweet child. She hasn't father and doesn't like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
- Lúcio and his family live in a seaside village and endure the daily psychological violence of their father, Jorge. Lucio loves mermaids and on his birthday his mother surprises him, but the small joys are hastily curtailed by the man who refuses to accept things as they are.
- Nazareno is another man who was born and works on the continent, but nowadays survives on the island. Crossing the river is part of his routine. Under it, every day, flows the "Big River" flooded with unresolved stories.
- The inspiring story of a French artist who after assisting the painful death of his mother left everything and embarked on a spiritual journey on a mystical island in Brazil.
- It's 1939, and the world is teetering on the edge. On the day World War Two breaks out, a group of people discuss the state of the world in a little bar on a South American beach, far away from the front. A Brazilian communist faces off against a Portuguese capitalist; an Argentinian fascist against a Trotskyist French actress. On this remote sandbank, they all defend their ideologies that have been overtaken by reality. Parallels with the contemporary rise of extremist ideologies in Brazil (and around the globe) are hard to ignore. The theatricality of this allegorical tale, with its unity of time and place, and highly symbolic characters, is disrupted by the extremely cinematic nature of the landscape in which the discussions are held. Paixões recorrentes was shot entirely on Ilha do Mel, a small island and nature preserve on the Paranaguá Bay estuary in southern Brazil.
- Cecília, a blind in one eye 8 years old girl, is out of the school. Until she decides to go back.
- Intrigued by the tale of a scary man living in isolation with his chimpanzee wife, David Romberg travels to his childhood home on Ilha Grande, Brazil to find him, only to discover that the tale pales in comparison to the what he uncovers.
- An author, a businessman, a shipowner and a publisher form a business venture, which will supposedly exploit a huge find of lobsters on the island of Santa Cruz. After a report in the newspaper, the business' stocks do well. But the partners quarrel with one another and it doesn't help that there aren't any lobsters on Santa Cruz after all. Nevertheless, a team heads off to the island in a decrepit boat to open up a cannery in vain.
- I think I'll remember you, everything, but I'm not sure.
- A lady. Past. A soundtrack. Future. A desire.
- Brazilian chef Onildo Rocha goes on a gastronomic tour in search of the flavors of the Brazilian hinterland. Accompanied by special guests, he will travel through four different states, discovering a rich cuisine and unforgettable people.