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In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.

Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

After diving into a shallow lake, a college student becomes tetraplegic. In his wheel chair, he remembers the important facts of his life as an adolescent.

A man gets obsessed by 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.

The story of three friends in Rio de Janeiro. When a patient at the hospital where Paulo interns asks him to get in touch with her sons, the three friends are pulled out of their tranquil lives and drawn into a web of violence and police corruption.

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.

A man and his family travel 3200km (1984 miles) by bicycle, from the State of Paraíba to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in search of a job.

Publicist Claudio and homemaker/choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they don't understand or respect each other's feelings or viewpoints. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as insensitive and rough. On the night before Claudio's 50th birthday, Mars, Earth, and Jupiter are aligned and during a quarrel at home, Claudio and Helena say "If I were you..." at the same time. When they wake up the next morning, they have switched bodies and each must face the other's difficulties in the agency, in the school, and with their friends.

Didi works at a candy factory on the brink of bankruptcy. After praying to the saints of his devotion, St. Cosmas and St. Damian, two beggars give him a bag of magic candies, with the power to transform anyone into a child.

God is getting tired. So he looks for a saint to take his place for a while.

Vado enters the bedroom of prostitute Neusa Suely at dawn in search of money, which he discovers has disappeared. To get rid of Vado's accusations, Neusa claims that the homosexual Velvet, his neighbor, stole the money.

Maiquel has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw--all in 24 hours.

Fifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was left waiting in the lobby alone. While he waits, something happens which will change his life. A scene, an encounter, an unfinished sentence... Something insignificant, but which will determine the character's life. Fifteen years later, we follow three completely different versions of Carlos's life. In one, he is a man divided between the stability of a secure life in a lukewarm marriage, and the growing desire to live a great love affair. In the second, he is homosexual and places passion above all else. In the third possible life, Carlos is a man who hasn't yet discovered love, and lives through successive disastrous relationships in search of the perfect woman. One of them is his real life. Another is not his life. And a third is the life he'd like to lead. Which is his true life ?

Psychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.

Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.

Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, the movie tells the story of Bauer, a trans man who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with young librarian Clara.

A clumsy angel is sent away from heaven by God Himself. He may only return after he becomes a good Cupid. But the first couple he tries to connect is a real challenge: the man is poor, and the girl comes from a rich family. And their names are Romeu and Julieta.

Sofia goes to her cousin Matheus' to take care of his two children, Júlia and Lucas, while he goes to a party. She finds a magic book that transports them to a Magic Forest where they meet fairytale characters like Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood. But their presence starts to interfere with the original stories, so Matheus tries to return them to the real world.

An environmentally-friendly botanist finds out that she is part of a hidden magical world inhabited by gnomes, elves and faeries.

Separated early in life, twin sisters grow up to very different realities: one as an arrogant, wealthy businesswoman and the other as a humble, volunteer artist. Fate reunites them under extraordinary circumstances.

A retired fashion model returns to Brazil to personally meet her on-line date, as her modeling agency becomes successful which angers a competitor.

A group of high-school seniors who must face choices of everyday life: problems within groups and with having to face the future.

Based on a book by Machado de Assis (1839-1908) and adapted to the present time. After the death of the philosopher Quincas Borba, his friend and disciple Rubiao inherits all he possessed: his fortune, his dog, his philosophy and the germ of his madness. Rubiao's passion for Sofia, a friend's wife, places him at the center of a game in which she is the main piece while he is the only one who ignores the rules. The story of a dreamer and delirious man facing a reality to which he is not prepared.