Caio Junqueira

Set in the Brazilian badlands in 1910, Behind the Sun tells the story of two families locked in a generations-old deadly feud. It started out as a battle over land, but now it's escalated into a series of reprisals that is claiming the lives of the young men on both sides. (Miramax Films)

A young boy's (Oliveira) mother is killed in front of Rio de Janeiro's Central Station. Homeless and with nowhere to turn, he is reluctantly befriended by a lonely and cynical woman (Montenegro). Resisting her initial impulse to make a quick profit off the child, she commits to returning him to his father in Brazil's remote Northeast. The trip becomes a quest for their own identities: one boy's search for his father, and one woman's search for her heart. (Sony Pictures Classics)

It tells the story of acclaimed Brazilian fashion designer Zuzu Angel at the time her son Stuart Angel was captured, tortured, and murdered by the government because of his fight along with the student's movement against the military dictatorship which took over the country in the 60's and 70's. (MadeInBrazil.com)

During the Second World War, the U.S.A. established a military base in Natal, Brazil, changing in many ways people's lives and behavior. (imdb)

In Rio de Janeiro, in the 80s, twin sisters Iara and Marilena (Fernanda Torres) fell in love with the same man.

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged. Captain Nascimento is trying to find a man to replace him because his wife is pregnant and he intends to quit the command and become a trainer of the new recruits... (imdb)

Three stories having as scenery the countryside of Brazil. The first is about two old friends. In the second, a cowboy is afraid of the past. The third depicts a relationship between a florist and his beautiful wife, marred by jealousy. (imdb)

TV adaptation to the screen of the books of Nelson Rodrigues, about a woman and her many seductions.

Apolônio Brasil was a cult pianist who used to play in nightclubs in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950s and 1960s. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women, idolized by his audience and friends, besides being extremely high-spirited and charming. For all that, his brain is removed after his death and becomes the center of a dispute among an American scientist, Dr. Bóris, who wants to study it, his friends and his son Paluca. (imdb)

The story of Cadu, a public defender who sees his life change after being mistaken for a drug dealer and end up stuck.

Unaccepting of their father's decision and overcome by envy, the brothers decide to teach Joseph a lesson, throwing him into a deep well with no way out and they then sell the brother as a slave. Joseph is taken to Egypt. The young Hebrew becomes the servant of Potiphar, head of the Pharaoh Apepi's guard. (imdb)