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Tells the tale of the naive Macabéa, a 19-year-old lonely and poor woman from the Northeast of Brazil who moves to São Paulo in hopes of a better future after losing the aunt who raised her.

Real estate broker and former boxer enters an old cinema in the decadent downtown São Paulo and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much alike the leading lady of the film. He gets involved with her and her problems and in no time is being accused of a crime.

São Paulo police mistakenly thinks a folk poet and singer is the same man who had stabbed his boss.

Young girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.

Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub.

Tito, a radio soap opera actor, falls in love with a passionate fan who will take him into a world full of mysteries.

TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighborhood.

Part feature film/part documentary, and using of real actors along common people who were part of the real facts, the project presents the story of one of the most notorious São Paulo criminals of the late 1970's: Wilsinho Galiléia. It tells about his crimes, his methods, the police investigation and then Wilsinho's killing by the authorities.

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration.

A tax collector is sent to a small region where he starts to differ with the unusual way of the local to exercise power.

La Tropa de Trapo en la Selva del Arcoíris

A series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle involved.

With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup.

A troubled millionaire moves to a desert island in order to escape from past problems. His loneliness is abruptly interrupted when a beautiful woman arrives at his island.

Renato who knows that his time is running out, teaches his six-year-old granddaughter, the value of friendship and respect towards other people's views. Renato has three children; Montserrat, his divorced daughter, who takes care of him, Anita who has a failing marriage, and his son Salvador. The daughters have decided to send him to a hospital against his will. But with the help of his granddaughter Carlota, he plans to escape and sail from Venezuela to Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, as he once promised his deceased wife.

Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding.

Overbearing man changes after a few drinks, becoming affectionate and generous. His driver takes advantage of these moments.

Jefferson and Washington are brothers, and have a common friend, Kennedy, whom they've known since they were kids. Jefferson enters the military life, but Washington and Kennedy turn to drug dealing instead. When Washington dies, Jefferson returns to São Paulo and goes around town with Kennedy, trying to find Washington's body, which was missing. In their desperate search, they remember a very important event of their past.

An ethnic-poetic documentary that glimpses at the secular tradition, surviving strategies and the rich culture of the babaçu coconut "quebradeiras", from the region of Bico do Papagaio, at the border of the Brazilian states of Maranhão, Tocantins and Pará.

Inspired by the testimony of an American technician who, examining the São Paulo dump, stated: "Sao Paulo rubbish is the richest in the world." The film shows the misery of those who live on this garbage and the police repression on the scavengers.

On the shores of Lake Paranoá, in Brasilia, a storyteller entertains the visitors of a bar with his narratives. Only one of them he is reluctant to take to the end: the murder of two girls.

"On The Fringes of Sao Paulo: Scavengers" is a documentary that portrays the life of paper and recycled material collectors in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This documentary is the third piece of a combination of four films that started with the projects "On The Fringes of Sao Paulo: Homeless" and "Squatting on the Fringes of Sao Paulo".

The film is a discussion of what to do and what the population's relationship to progress and the authorities is and why that relationship does not solve the problem.