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Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.

A woman tries to make a life for herself in a violent Brazilian city.

A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The marijuana cigarette is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father.

Brazil 1821. A rich cattle herder finds out that his wife dies in labor. Forced to live in the property with numerous African slaves, he marries his wife's niece. But he returns to droving, leaving his wife behind alone with the slaves.

On a lark in Tijuana, a carefree Brazilian art student crosses paths with a brooding Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil. As Dolores and Damián discover an intimate love and a mysterious spiritual heritage, they struggle with ever more costly choices.

In 1942, two men from different worlds meet in the Northeastern backlands in Brazil. Johann is a German fleeing the war, who travels through the cities selling aspirin. Ranulpho is a backwoodsman fleeing the hard life in search of a dream.

Two stories of migration, memories and ghosts. After a disaster floods her land, Joana flees to São Paulo and tries to start her life over again. Meanwhile, after her father's death, Flavia moves to his farm with her wife Mara.

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.

Durval and his mother Carmita live at the back of "Durval Discos", a record store they own in São Paulo, specializing in vinyl records. They lead a boring and unattractive life, until the day Durval hires a maid, Celia, to help his mother with the housekeeping. However, on her second day, Celia goes away leaving a 5-year-old child behind, Kiki, and a note promising to be back in a couple of days. Durval and Celia are charmed by the child at first, but soon they see some sad news about Celia and Kiki on TV that will change the whole situation.

Young housewife Helena is on the verge of fulfilling a dream as she prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid, Paula, to take care of her house and daughter. But when her husband Otavio is suddenly fired from his job as an insurance executive, Helena is left to support the family alone. As Otavio fails to find work and becomes increasingly alienated, business struggles to take off and the pressure on Helena mounts. To make things worse, she discovers that one of the building's brick walls seems to be crumbling. Helena begins to wonder if that may be the cause of all her problems.

After discovering the truth about being stolen by the woman he thought was his mother as a child, Pierre (AKA Felipe) must deal with the consequences of his mother's actions and must try to cope with his biological family.

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.

America a tragic story told in a burlesque and ironic way, within a love triangle. Liza, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a small-time crook who lives on scheming and swindling, born and bred in Portugal. Fernanda, the ex wife, who ten year's passed decides to drop by, is the gang leader, an Andalusian Spaniard. Victor has to decide which women to follow, Liza cannot really leave him, Fernanda doesn't really want to stay. The six year old kid hangs everybody by a string. Eastern European newcomers give new business perspectives that are going to rock their small world by the beach: Cova do Vapor. A chaotic neighborhood of precarious housing located at Lisbon's gates, where the Tagus River meets the Atlantic, where fishermen and retired factory workers coexist. An obscure little place, where everything suddenly changes, even the weather. After a violent storm, the gangster's house gets a rusted fishing boat hanging on top of their home. In the midst of the tragedy, there's always room for love, and most of all, hope for a piece paper called passport, sometimes fake!

The enthusiasm for a monthly meeting of a group of old friends with a penchant for delicious food is waning after many years. After meeting an interesting and mysterious chef, one of them decides to gather the gang for one final magnificent meal. In spite of a mysterious death the next day, they decide to continue to gather to be served their favourite meals one by one. This distinctive combination, part culinary film-part thriller, provides an evocative depiction of friendship, food and gluttonous sin. The Club of Angels is based on Brazilian author Luis Fernando Verissimo's best-selling novel of the same name, from 1998. Director Angelo Defanti offers a visually effervescent adaptation, which is as thought-provoking as much as it tickles the taste buds. Defanti's solid grasp of the narrative as well as the remarkable artistic touches and strong acting performances makes this an impressive feature film debut.

Téo (Marco Ricca) is a lonely architect who goes through a difficult phase in life, because of the death of his best friend in childhood. Her best friend nowadays is Majú (Dira Paes), the mother of two children who are trying to get him a girlfriend.

1899. The fates of the women in two families become entangled when the Soareses, former land and slave owners, request help from Iná, a woman of African descent they once dismissed due to religious differences.

In São Paulo, the lonely forty and something year-old guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment and is addicted in her only companion, the cigarettes. She has a constant friction with her two sisters, the executive Pop and the housewife Teca, because of the inheritance of the couch of their deceased Aunt Dinah. When the musician of a barbecue place Max moves to the next-door apartment, Baby has a crush on him. Sooner they have a love affair and Baby quits smoking with the support of a fellowship. However the insecure Baby feels jealous with the relationship of Max with his former woman Estelinha that keeps stalking him. One night, Baby follows Estelinha and when she leaves the building, Baby accidentally hits her; the hit-and-run Baby calls 911 but Estelinha dies. When the doorman Chico watches the tape of the surveillance camera, he hides the VHS tape from the police. Meanwhile Max moves to Baby's apartment and she lives a conflictive situation.

São Paulo today. Brazil is in full economic upswing. This is a story of friendship and delusion between three young friends in a big city. Their life is marked by an ordinary routine where nothing much happens except the alienation impregnated by the consumer society and the lack of perspectives. An urgent film representing the historical moment of a generation.

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.

Two friends release a book called "Western Feeling". During the launch party, they meet people that remember them of several episodes from their youth.

After a short exchange program to Dublin, 13-year-old Liz develops anorexia nervosa. Having a diary with a blue butterfly on the cover as her only confidant, how will she find hope?

A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to investigate what is happening and is helped by the experienced, but forgotten, Inspector Pimentel.

A young woman who suffers a strange disease must travel to a mysterious island in South America, where the myths and the reality do not have differences.

In Minas Gerais hinterland Bastú has just lost her husband Feliciano. Without crying, she seeks shelter in everyday life and in her memories. But it is in the freedom of dreams and the news brought by her grandchildren that she makes her own transformation. Mary carries on her drum the joy and strength of her people. Its drumming echoes the sounds of other places and marks the presence of what cannot die.

Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a rock band in Brasília, but nobody cares. She tries her luck in Berlin but an incident forces her to start over in Brazil where there is still much to build.