Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
Η Όλγα Μπενάριο Γκουτμάν Πρέστες είναι μια από τις πιο ηρωικές γυναικείες φιγούρες παγκοσμίως. Γεννήθηκε στη Γερμανία από εβραϊκή οικογένεια και εντάχθηκε στο κομμουνιστικό κίνημα από τα 15 της χρόνια. Όταν το 1930, ο πρώτος της σύζυγος και στέλεχος του ΚΚ Γερμανίας Όττο Μπράουν συλλαμβάνεται και φυλακίζεται από τη δημοκρατία της Βαϊμάρης, η Όλγα οργανώνει μια παράτολμη ένοπλη επιχείρηση για την απόδρασή του μέσα από την αίθουσα όπου δικαζόταν. Διαφεύγουν μαζί στην Τσεχοσλοβακία κι από εκεί στη Σοβιετική Ένωση. Αναλαμβάνει και εκτελεί πολλές διεθνείς αποστολές για λογαριασμό της Κομιντέρν, πράγμα που της στοίχισε μια σύλληψη στη Μεγάλη Βρετανία για κατασκοπεία.
A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55, including his passage by the US, where he discovers a new style of music and is arrested for theft and drug possession.
Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
Things go from bad to worse when four co-workers decide to enjoy the extended holiday at a beach house with their families.
The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
The film shows the day when Rui and Vani first met. It was at their wedding (with other partners). Vani was going to marry Sérgio, and Rui would marry Marta in the same church, following Vani's marriage. While waiting for the ceremony, they begin to talk. Complications ensue.
Alice is a thirty-something woman married to João, has a son and is very successful professionally. Alice is the typical workaholic, whose work is her largest and only pleasure. On the other hand her personal life does not exist: no sexual activity, zero libido, zero personal life. The lack of a sex life in Alice's life is overflowing in Marcela's, her stunning neighbor. A true expert on the subject, Marcela is the owner of a sex shop and knows everything when the theme is the search for pleasure. Like in the typical comedy of errors, the lives of Alice and Marcela will cross and both will undergo huge transformations after this encounter.
The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.
Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.
Μετά το τέλος του Αμερικανικού Εμφυλίου, o Τζακ Σόμερσμπι επιστρέφει στη γενέτειρα του και στη γυναίκα τoυ, Λόρελ, παρότι αυτή πίστευε πως είχε πεθάνει στον πόλεμο. Η ευγενική του συμπεριφορά θα κάνει την Λόρελ να υποψιαστεί πως δεν πρόκειται αληθινά για τον σύζυγο της.
To Waiting εξιστορεί τα έργα και τις ημέρες των υπαλλήλων ενός εστιατορίου που μοιάζει πολύ με αυτά τα franchising BBQ. Έτσι οι πρωταγωνιστές είναι ο γυναικάς Monty, ο νεαρός Dean που δεν ξέρει ακόμα τι θέλει να κάνει στην ζωή του, η πρώην κοπέλα του Monty, μια νευρασθενική γκαρσόνα, μια ανήλικη ρεσεψιονιστ πειρασμός και πάει λέγοντας...
Tati is a typical teenager, unable to learn mathematics, but very intelligent when creating plans to escape the punishment of the mother. During the summer, she needs to hide that she has to do math classes to improve her grades, conquer Zeca, the most popular boy in school and also care for the heartache of her mother, who wants to try to find a new love.
A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!
After waking from a coma, Tino learns his future in-laws have given him a high-powered financial job, for which he is woefully unqualified.
After all the trouble in the first film, Tino and Jane have more fun adventures. Still tasting bitter failure, they see a light at the end of the tunnel with uncle Olavinho’s unexpected inheritance. However, the will carries an unusual request: the rich uncle wants his ashes to be scattered throughout the Grand Canyon. The couple takes the opportunity of the trip to fulfill this wish and decides to go to Las Vegas and end up getting into comical situations. Big time spender Tino will fall into the greatest temptations and indulge in the casinos of the gambling city.
The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.