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Brazilian baroque. The young son that ran from his dominant family, descends into decadence and then returns to the nest. With melodramatic themes of tyrannical fathers, incest, fierce family conflicts and an overheated and intense visual style to match. (imdb)

Free 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. (imdb)

In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Beatriz leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro in their Volkswagen. While traveling to São Paulo, the couple explains Mauro that they will travel on vacation and will leave Mauro with his grandfather Mótel... (imdb)

Three upper-middle class teenagers start a night of partying, including wild sex, rape, drugs, and accidental murder. Fun merges with violence with absurd, tragicomic results. The more they try to cover up their goof ups, the more complicated their lives become. (imdb)

the compelling true story of freedom and belief and also, the events and people which shaped a Nation, during the years of military dictatorship (IMDB Comments)

A man falls in love with 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. (imdb)

The story of three friends in Rio de Janeiro: Leon, a sociology student; his girlfiend Leticia, an architecture student; and Paulo, a medical student and Leon's best friend and roommate. When Rosalind, a leukemia patient at the hospital where Paulo interns, asks him to get in touch with her sons, the three friends are pulled out of their relatively tranquil lives and drawn into the violence and police corruption in one of Rio's infamous favelas (imdb)

Valter goes to night school. Iara, his wife, says that the new tenants don't work, that they're probably criminals. Nobody knows where they're from, Iara tells him that they bring women home and cuss all the time.Valter doesn't have a gun, he's got a young daughter and son, is at work the whole day, doesn't see what is going on in the neighborhood, hears what his wife tells him, hears the loud music and laughter next door, in the early morning. And can't get any sleep. (imdb)

Mano is a teenager of 15 years. He is learning to play guitar with Marcelo because it would draw the attention of a girl. His parents, Horace and Camilla, are separating, which affects both he and his older brother, Peter. His best friend and confidante is Carol, who is in love with Artur. In the midst of these situations, Mano has to deal with his school friends in moments of fun and also serious, typical of adolescence today.

Focused on a friendship for 24 hours, traces the reunion of three childhood friends who grew up together: Jaiminho, a football player on the rise abroad, Pibe, a realtor and Macu, the young protagonist who remains in the neighborhood, flirting with crime.

An aspirant writer founds out that his girlfriend is having an lesbian affair with a foreign girl. Instead of trying solve the problem, he starts having an affair with that girl.

An adaptation of a play by Dias Gomes

Xingu tells the story of the Villas Boas brothers and the adventure of creating the first major Indian Park in Brazil.

A Long Journey tells the story of three siblings who reach adolescence in the late 1960's. The documentary's storyline follows the youngest brother's travels around the world. Worried that he would enter the struggle for freedom against the Brazilian dictatorship, his family sent Heitor to London. There however, he dives head on into the "Swinging London" and, just like the European and American youth of the time period, he experiments with drugs and the mystic allure of India. (imdb)

A 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. (imdb)

Doca, Danillo, Carlinhos, Branco and Samuel are five policemen working undercover at the Complexo do Alemão, an area which gathers several slums and is considered one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. Their operation goes wrong after the government threatens to raid the place using military vehicles, which leads drug lord Playboy to cut off all the slum's communications, leaving them unable to contact their boss, Valadares, forcing them to hide at the basement of Doca's pizzeria. (Wikipedia)

Bruno and Amanda have to face the difficulties of a long distance relationship after meeting in a flight forced into an emergency landing. (imdb)

São Paulo, 1984. Estela gets through the troubled phase of adolescence. Sex, love, friendship; everything looks too complicated. Her personal refuge is her uncle Carlos and the trip to USA. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

In 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.

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. (imdb)