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- Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
- A Brazilian photocopier operator falls in love with a girl who lives in an opposite house and spends his evenings looking at her through his binoculars.
- A small community of descendants of Italian immigrants in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul resorts to making a video to try to solve the problems of basic sanitation that plague their village.
- Photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town
- 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.
- Éder is arrested when he confesses to killing a man. Duca, Éder's nephew, is only 15, but decides to prove his uncle's innocence, since he is sure that his uncle is assuming the crime in order to get his girlfriend out of prison.
- A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. They meet up again the following summer.
- Sissi, the young daughter of an unemployed widower, struggles to support her family, while dreams of sharing an apartment with her boyfriend, a soccer player. Martina, who has a more stable financial situation, struggles to be desired again by her adman husband, or by whoever is around. Giane has already changed her life, and can influence Sissi's future. According to Professor Valadares, these three women are only trying to satiate their most basic appetites: Food, Sex, and Fasma.
- A Bob Dylan fan who goes by the name Mr. Tambourine passes his time in the Brazilian countryside by looking at photographs and movies on the Internet that seem to feature the same mysterious woman.
- The countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. Daniel has a crush on his girlfriend Mim, who has just broken up with him but is still his friend, and his best friend, Lucas, is one of the best students in São Lucas High-School. Daniel is the son of Elaine and the photographer Daniel, who left Elaine when she was pregnant and moved alone to Thailand. Daniel is raised by Elaine and his stepfather Antônio, and shares a house with his half-sister, Maria Clara. One day, Daniel receives a letter from his biological father, who has malaria, and he is reluctant to open the envelope. Later he offers to help Lucas with some duties at the school laboratory, but when the Daniel realizes that his friend is dating Mim, he blows up and breaks the laboratory, leaving the key in the door. Lucas is blamed by the headmaster and is suspended from classes and examinations. Daniel decides to tell the headmaster the truth and learns that a laptop was stolen from the lab.
- An adaptation of the namesake play by Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, which tells the story of Manguari Pistolão, an anonymous militant, that after 40 years of fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, his son accuses him of being conservative, antiquated, and anachronistic. With no money to pay the monthly bills, suffering chronic arthritis pain, and in a growing conflict with Luca, Manguari recalls his past and sees himself repeating the same attitudes as his father. Staggering fragments of various moments of Manguari's life, the film shows forty years of Brazilian political history through a father-son relationship.
- On an isolated beach, powerful business woman Frederica is holding a New Year's Eve celebration that everyone is awaiting. In the midst of a marriage crisis with photographer Constantin, that also affects their teenage daughter Tuane, she has to manage her life and the career of pop icon Lenny, who has decided to write a mysterious book alongside writer João Wommer. When a giant sea creature strands on the coast, Frederica will have to face her biggest fear: loss.
- Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age, such as loneliness and growing blindness, which he thinks he can disguise. When Ernesto became a widower, he learned that aging is about filling the silences with a spinning record, with the calls from his son who lives far away, with the bank errands to withdraw his pension, with his neighbor Javier's flying visits, with the wait for a new letter from Lucía. However, Bia, a careless dog carer, storms into his life and upsets his methodical daily life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the intense company of a girl who is not even thirty years old. And that life and love are possible even for those who are almost eighty.
- Based on the book "Louca por Homem" by Claudia Tajes, MULHER DE FASES: STATES OF GRACE is a modern chronicle on couple relationships, and the search for love and for oneself. In 13 half-hour episodes, the series relays the adventures of Grace, a 30-something woman, recently divorced, anxious to be loved and to revamp her life. During her search, Grace becomes involved with a number of men; she imitates each of them, adopting his tastes, habits, and culture. Grace soon realizes that finding a mate is not an easy task; and, unlike most fairy tales, the prince usually turns into a frog.
- In Sao Paulo, the betrayed wife of Americo Baldini, a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After his girlfriend's consequent suicide, Baldini has his illegitimate son, a 17 year old, kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. To protect the operation, the Senator chooses a former mistress in her late 50s, the now-nurse Serena (Betty Faria), to take care of the kidnapped illegitimate son during his secret captivity. Isolated in this forgotten beach at the end of the world, kidnapped son and his father's older mistress become involved beyond that of a mother son relationship.
- After her boyfriend's death, a successful executive finds some unfinished scripts in the dead man's computer, and decides to make a film of them. Her relationship with the world of movie-making is going to change her life.
- The historical conflict of Canudos is told by Pedro Cardoso, who plays five different characters. Going from a teacher to historical characters, the actor shares an overview of the battle between religious leader Antonio Conselheiro and the army forces sent by president Prudente de Moraes to fight the peasant rebels in the 1890's.
- Enrique and Antonio are two neighbors who live in a duplex. One afternoon, Antonio is reading a book while Enrique is jumping on a trampoline, each one in his garden. With each jump, Enrique looks out over the dividing wall. This upsets Antonio, who rings Enrique's doorbell and asks him to stop. The discussion becomes heated, and the conflict that was insignificant at first becomes increasingly violent and unpredictable.
- Dione is a mysterious young man living with a family in a rural and remote place. The quietness of the region is disturbed when a rich landowner tries to buy the small property where Dione and the family live.
- To whom does the poison belongs? to the young lovers? or to their parents, whom in old hands "behold rusted hatred"?
- Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. At 85 years old, she pushes the limits of her age and does everything she can for her family and friends. Sweet Mother illustrates the everyday life of the elderly with clarity and levity, and shows that youth actually starts at 80. In the role that earned her the 2013 International Emmy® Awards for Best Actress, Fernanda Montenegro adds another success to her list of characters, which includes an Oscar nomination for the film Central Station.
- Recife, the hometown of football legend Rivaldo, is overrun by the 2014 World Cup, but also faces enormous social problems. This documentary provides a fascinating insight into the events and inhabitants of the town during the tournament.
- Primavera das Neves, full name Primavera Ácrata Saiz das Neves was a Portuguese translator, journalist and writer, who worked and lived a good part of her life in Brazil, having signed most of her works as Vera Neves Pedroso.
- The story of Picucha, an 85-year-old suburban widow and mother of four who faces the reality of living alone in her age while keeping good humor and love for family and life.
- A couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich.
- Chilean desert, Brazilian Amazon, Colombian Andes and Argentine Pampa. Four destinations in Latin America revisited through fragments of memories, reconstructed from rubble.
- An undercover agent devises a scheme to arrest a businessman who intends to bribe a congressman.
- Ricardo has nighmares with "O Velho do Saco" ("The Old Man With the Sack"), sort of a Brazilian bogeyman.
- Antonio, an 8 year-old boy, discovers that his neighbour Cristina, 80, is always telling different stories about her life, the names of her relatives and the day's saints. And Dona Cristina believes that Antonio can help her recover her lost memories.
- A group of free-spirited hippie street merchants is approached by a wealthy businessman who hires the men and women to take care of his countryside house, free of charge, and they can also continue producing their artful works, of which he'll sell.
- A humored sketch from the TV show "Dóris para Maiores" (1991). A fake documentary about the fictional German filmmaker Volker Freunden talking about his fake pioneer horror film shot in the 1920's in the city of Novo Hamburgo in Porto Alegre.
- The day to day work of the people behind the scenes and down the glamour scale in a movie set.
- Joao is a 50 year old actor who lives with his 72 year old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his work at night as a crossdresser in small gay bars and his parts in small plays, movies and TV shows. Tormented and haunted by ghosts from his past, day after day Joao starts to merge the reality in which he lived with the fiction he is interpreting.
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