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- A middle-class teen runs away from home and decides to work as a call girl. In little time, she becomes Bruna Surfistinha and gains notoriety after writing her routine on a blog.
- After the adoptive daughter of a stable family leaves them for a new life as a prostitute, she rises to become a popular performer among her clients, and details her routine in her blog.
- Marcela's world becomes strange and fragile after the death of her sister Rina. She feels lost in her own home and the connections with her close family environment are dislocated.
- Malu, a 50 year old unemployed actress living off memories of her glorious past, shares a run-down home in a Rio de Janeiro slum with her conservative mother, whilst also dealing with a troubled relationship with her own daughter.
- Based on the true story of Dr. Nise da Silveira, a psychiatrist in Brazil who treated her patients with art instead of electroshock therapy.
- Based of the true story of Júlio Santana, a gunman responsible for 492 murders throughout the country. A Christian, charitable man and a good son, Júlio is always tormented by his conscience every time he pulls the trigger.
- Irene has only a few days to surpass the anxiety and discover a new strength before sending her eldest son away to the world.
- Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel Buchmann decided to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams. After ten months on the road, he arrived in Kenya determined to discover the African continent. Until he reached the top of Mount Mulanje, Malawi, his last destination.
- Manuela (Nathalia Dill) is a beach volleyball teacher, determined, objective and self-confident, always ready for fight. She never guided her happiness to a relationship and never planned to get married. But one day, an unexpected encounter takes place and she meets Leo (Marcos Veras), a successful, charismatic, extremely seductive, although very romantic, pediatrician. The two fall in love and start living a life together, but a disagreement cause their separation. During the fights and moments of nostalgia, and with the help of the manipulative Esther (Totia Meirelles), Manuela's mother, they will find out why they are inseparable.
- Showcases an exploration of the disabled and queer people's sexual lives.
- TV Series
- Serra Pelada's discovery in 1979 precipitated one of the world's largest contemporary gold rushes. In a matter of days miners could make hundreds of thousands of dollars as chunks of gold kilos in weight were found.
- Documentary on poor people living in two slums in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve.
- TV Mini SeriesStory of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs' time in Rio. A man who was neither saint nor sinner, but a potent mix of both. A man the world came to love or hate. Life with or around Biggs was never dull.
- Three blind sisters, Regina, Maria and Conceição, earn their living by singing in front of churches, in Brazil... They tell their amazing stories, full of drama, heartache, rape, poverty, death and hope.
- A documentary about the life, controversial career, and decline of one of the greatest Brazilian singers and showmen, Wilson Simonal.
- Documentary about the Portuguese language, and people who speak it around the world.
- Two young men share different points of view of the same sexual encounter in a public space.
- Herbert Up Close is the life and music of Herbert Vianna, front man of the Paralamas do Sucesso, "the most successful band in Brazillian rock", according to the Billboard magazine. In 2001, Herbert had his career interrupted by an airplane accident that killed his wife and left him disabled. Sitting on a wheelchair, Herbert watches his past on a television, a life of fighting, persistence and achievements shown by close and caring vision from directors Roberto Berliner and Pedro Bronz. The film tells the inside story of one of the most talented musicians in Latin American pop music.
- After a long time apart, the elderly Argentine guitar player Lucio Yanel and his virtuous Brazilian pupil Yamandu Costa get together again on a road trip that goes through their memories and their common cultural background.
- During 1994, Pet Shop Boys embarked on a tour of Australia and South America with their 'Discovery' show. This is a live recording of the concert as performed in front of an enthusiastic Brazilian crowd, featuring some of their biggest hits.
- A reflection on loss, grief, sex and breathing.
- When their oldest son disappears from home, Edna and Eustáquio need to look for help in unconventional places.
- Aging journalist Ana Lucia confronts a personal and professional breakdown in a night full of phone calls, boozing and cocaine snorting.
- She is a regular woman who receives the visit of seven different people. Some, like her daughter, are close to her. But for others, a psychologist, a priest, a detective, a poet, a writer, she is a complete stranger, a puzzle to solve. What will each of them talk about? Will she be the same with each of them?
- During the 80's, brazilians were living under a dictatorship (since 1964). Some players of the soccer club Corinthians, from São Paulo, begins a new form of managing the team, always using polling to decide everything.
- Directed by Roberto Berliner, who accompanies the band since their beginnings, when they played at Circo Voador, in 1983, this film about music and friendship discusses the relationship of the three musicians who go up on stage (Herbert, Bi and João), but also of the fourth element, who barely appears to the media, but who plays a fundamental role: José Fortes, their manager. In a conversation at Bi Ribeiro's living room, the quartet recalls their career, talk about their unshakable friendship and play songs that are a part of this almost 40-year trajectory.
- Brazil's most famous voice tells his own story. Journalist Cid Moreira opens the doors of his home and deconstructs his mythical image in a labyrinth of memories.
- The prized documentarist Julien Temple (director of films such as The Filth and The Fury and Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten) offers a look at the cultural and social history of Rio de Janeiro. Starting at the end of slavery and leading up to the preparations for the World Cup 2014 and the Olympics 2016, the film offers an x-ray of the extreme city in all its charm and danger. It makes the most of archive images and previously unpublished interviews with renowned citizens such as Ronnie Biggs, Fernando Gabeira, Eduardo Paes, Narcisa Tamborindeguy, Sany Pitbull, amongst others.
- Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude, immersed in the house routine, while coexisting with a past of lovers and Molotov cocktails.
- Featuring never-before-seen footage shot by Roberto Berliner in the 1980s, Ruckus at the Circus is film about the generation that built Circo Voador, the dream factory. From the Arpoador sidewalk to their trip to Mexico during the 1986 World Cup, stopping at an unforgettable night in Lapa, the film presents a generation which revolutionized Brazilian culture.
- Founded in 1968, in a tiny space of 18 square meters in Copacabana, Bip Bip is a Rio de Janeiro cultural heritage site. The bar reflected the spirit of its owner, the emblematic Alfredinho. The film is an affectionate record of his wake, a ceremony that began at the bar table and filled the St. John the Baptist cemetery with joy and longing on a carnival Saturday.
- The film is a journey through the more than 45 years of career of singer and composer Alceu Valença, a unique character in Brazilian music. His work and reflections are presented through the sewing of songs, testimonies, vast archive material and travel records made by the documentary team with Alceu and his team throughout 2018.
- The monotonous life of the butcher João is broken with the wedding announcement of Dona Eva's niece: Melissa, a thirteen-year-old girl. At the end of the day, he closes the butcher shop and the loneliness becomes immense. With Duda Mamberti, Angela Leal and Ana Carolina Dias.
- Daniel Gonçalves was born with a disability that no doctor has been able to diagnose. In the personal documentary "My Name is Daniel", the young Rio-based filmmaker traces his life's path to try to understand his condition. Through family archive footage and footage recorded nowadays, you'll take a walk-through Daniel's moments, stories, and reflections.
- What to do when drugs are found in a classroom of 10-year-old children? A parents' meeting will discuss such taboo in a very unconventional way: having a joint.
- The path of a professional football player between the sieve and retirement is more arduous and full of mishaps than you can imagine.
- In Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of friends share their lives and experiences with each other. They are mostly middle-aged. A man and woman are inseparable buddies involved in a friendship that's more like extended therapy and philosophizing sessions. Their dialogs dominate the film, and involve many other people. Chief among them: his daughter, her boyfriends, the her husband, mistresses and lovers including an HIV positive gay Brazilian recently back from abroad.
- Documentary about the legendary gold prospection site of Serra Pelada, in the north of Brazil, telling some of its secret stories and a new perspective about the trajetory of some people who found fortune or disgrace in the biggest gold rush of the twentieh century.
- Seven dwarf brothers have the task of moving forward with the legacy of their father, the mythical Pindoba, known as "the smallest and funniest clown in the world". The film follows the journey of the brothers, who are the soul and brain of the Pindorama circus, a troupe that travels through the northeastern hinterland, through the testimonies of the dwarves, their families and other artists from the circus company.