During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.

Två fattiga killar jobbar åt byns rika bagare. De serveras hundmat medan husets hund får fina middagar. En dag byter de ut sin mat mot hundens, vilket hunden inte överlever.

The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of their new reality as the political dust settles. Tércia, the mother, reinterprets her world after an unexpected encounter leaves her wondering if she’s cursed. Her husband, Wellington, puts all of his hopes into the soccer career of their son, Deivinho, who reluctantly follows his father’s ambitions despite secretly aspiring to study astrophysics and colonize Mars. Meanwhile, their older daughter, Eunice, falls in love with a free-spirited young woman and ponders whether it’s time to leave home.

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

Den hårt arbetande hushållerskan Val (spelad av den i Brasilien mycket kända Regina Casé) bor hos sina arbetsgivare, en välbeställd familj ur den brasilianska övre medelklassen. Hennes egen dotter har fått växa upp på annat håll. När den snart vuxna dottern plötsligt dyker upp, ställs alla outtalade klassbarriärer som finns i hemmet på ända och kaos uppstår.

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.

Exposed by his girlfriend through a video on the Internet, Bruno tries to revive his reputation, but all he can do is get into a series of traps (Cilada, in Portuguese). Cilada.com is a comedy about love and betrayal that shows the power of the Internet to transform small intimacies and slips in fame and constraints globalized.

Den unge idealisten Henry Burton söker en förebild inom politiken. Han fascineras av Jack Stanton, en guvernör från södern, som kämpar tillsammans med sin hustru och sina trofasta medarbetare för att bli demokratisk president. Men Henrys illusioner om Jack har varit ganska naiva. Stanton är nämligen en kvinnojägare med omåttlig sexdrift. Följden blir såklart en hel del skandaler. Henry inser snart att han är indragen i ett stort politiskt spel.

Den "knäppa" TV-värderpresentatören Harris Telemachers (Steve Martin) liv kan inte bli värre! Han har förlorat sitt jobb. Sin agent. Sin flickvän. Och nu får han goda rår från en vänligt sinnad vägskylt! Denna galna kombination av omständigheter gör att Harris till slut finner lyckan tillsammans med den excentriska engelska journalisten Sara Mac Dowel (Victoria Tennant). Ett blivande par på gänsen till ett romantiskt genombrott - men dessförinnan måste de reda ut den trassliga härvan av älskare de lämnat bakom sig! Följ med detta muntra sällskap genom hela L.A. på ett fantastiskt galet äventyr som bara Steve Martin hade kunnat fantisera ihop.

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.

1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.

In the '40s, three brothers decide to live a great adventure and enlisting in the Roncador-Xingu Expedition, which has a mission to tame the Central Brazil. The Villas Boas brothers: Orlando, 27, Claudius, 25, and Leonardo, 23, engage in a fantastic and incredible saga. Soon start to lead the expedition that opens new paths 1,500 km, navigates over 1,000 miles of unspoilt rivers, opens 19 airfields for airplanes Army, gives rise to the creation of 43 towns and 14 make contact with wild Indian tribes, unknown, as the Xavante, courageous and feared warriors, no casualties on both sides. This adventure allows the Villas Boas brothers the creation of the Xingu National Park, the first major Amerindian reservation in Brazil, the size of Belgium, transforming them into true contemporary heroes.

”Vaquejada” är en traditionell sport i nordöstra Brasilien, en form av rodeo som går ut på att två män på hästrygg fäller en tjur genom att dra ner den i svansen. På dagarna är Iremar en tuff cowboy som lever för sina tjurar. Men på nätterna plockar han fram en helt annan sida. Då syr han fantastiska kreationer åt Galega som arbetar som dansare. En udda, vacker och sinnlig film som utmanar machokulturen och våra invanda föreställningar.

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.

Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.

In a poor neighborhood in Recife, the lives of exotic and bizarre characters entwine in a bar and in a very low-budget hotel. The queer Dunga works in the hotel and has a crush on the butcher Wellington that is married with the religious Kika and has an affair with his mistress Dayse. The sick necrophiliac Isaac owns a yellow Mercedes Benz and wants to have sex with Lígia that owns of Bar Avenida.

Two friends at a bar talking about theories involving Quentin Tarantino's movies.

An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.

On a scorching summer day in Rio de Janeiro, five impoverished black boys venture out of their favela to peddle peanuts throughout the bustling city. As they navigate the various districts of Rio, they bear witness to a series of unfortunate events and encounters, unfolding a vivid tapestry of urban life in Rio de Janeiro during that period. These true misadventures shed light on the gritty reality of the city, unveiling its vibrant urban tapestry.