Janaína is an 18-year-old girl who lives with her mother and grandmother in a housing complex on the outskirts of Recife. She is the first person in her family to obtain a university degree, but an unwanted pregnancy threatens the plans she had made for her life.
12 Oct 2007
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
19 Jul 2024
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15 Oct 2019
Denise, Hannah and Leticia are three ordinary women with extraordinary stories to tell. As transgender people, they talk about the challenges of finding their true identities within an intolerant and prejudiced society.
23 Oct 2019
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03 Apr 1998
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
02 Nov 2015
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09 Sep 2005
Salaam Namaste is about two Indians who have left their houses to make a life on their own, and how they meet and how they tackle their own relationships and problems and overcome them themselves without their families
22 Aug 2024
Young African-Brazilian Miguel drives across the country in search of a long-lost relative to find out about his ancestry. However, a deeper understanding emerges through his encounters along the way.
16 Jul 2024
In the year 3003, two scientists find a primitive being called Ooga Ooga in the middle of the woods. They decide to adopt him and try to insert him into today's society.
22 Dec 2023
A 17-year-old young man is about to finish high school, but after a traumatic event, he starts using drugs, thus incurring a debt with The Godfather of the Italian mafia in Ituberá.
13 Oct 2024
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29 Aug 1951
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
24 Apr 2025
In Pernambuco, a jewel robbery brings together an old group of misfits, with catastrophic results. Watched over by ghosts from the past, each of them will have to find their own way to freedom.
16 Mar 2022
Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the origin of his love for cinema and tragedies.
29 Oct 1918
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12 Dec 1918
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
24 Jun 2023
An anguished woman awaits her love. A film is made about this. The parallels between the love between the woman and the film team are interspersed and show how this feeling can be both a pain and a joy.
19 Apr 2019
For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a desperate plea for help from her sister.
19 Sep 2024
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
03 Jul 2019
Two teenage boys are cursed by a witch to swap bodies after an accidental encounter. To break the spell, they must work together before the switch becomes permanent.