Maria Ribeiro

A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a bitch called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to live, with food and work. But the drought and misery destroy their hopes. (imdb)

The film tells the story of Marcia and Julius, a couple who confront their civilized theories about sex and politics with reality, finding that neither the world nor themselves are still civilized enough. They raise their children in a liberal environment without divorce, living an open relationship. But when Marcia (a successful lawyer) has a relationship with a lover, Julius becomes jealousy and decides to have an affair with a friend of his daughter.

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)

Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enemies is bitten up and left for dead. He is rescued by a couple of humble small farmers who nurse him for a long time until he is well again... (imdb)

To entertain some thieves, a blind guitar player tells them the story of a man from the Northeast of Brazil, involved with criminals living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, who allegedly had a "closed body", meaning that his body couldn't be hit by bullets or other weapons, by the wish of Ogum, one of the gods of Candomblé, a religion common in Brazil and Africa. (imdb)

Cabral is a 60 year old playwright, and he's been married to Glorinha for half her life. Now they're getting bored.

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV. (imdb)

2010. Nascimento faces a new enemy: the militias. In clashing with the system that dominates the Rio de Janeiro, he discovers that the problem is much bigger than he thought. And not only that. He needs to balance the challenge of pacifying a city occupied by crime with the constant concern for a teenager. When the universes of the personal and professional meet, the result is explosive. (entretenimento.r7.com)

An aspirant writer founds out that his girlfriend is having an lesbian affair with a foreign girl. Instead of trying solve the problem, he starts having an affair with that girl.

Man drives through the road and narrates some murders he committed in the past. (imdb)

Sugarcane mill is modernized by the owner's son, opposing his father's wishes. He is sent to study in a big city and, when Governor João Pessoa dies, he comes back to his hometown and his loved one, Soledade, trying to start a revolution in the sugarcane fields. But his father also loves Soledade, and they have to compete for her love. (imdb)

A group of literature-loving friends bury letters to be opened 10 years later when they will confront the dreams of their youth with what the future has held in store for them. (imdb)

When Rosa's mother makes a surprising disclosure to her one day, she decides to break out of her usual obligations. In so doing she discovers that life holds many surprises in store for her. (imdb)

In 1960s Rio de Janeiro, aspiring writer Felipe leads a life of wild parties held in an apartment in famous street Barata Ribeiro in Copacabana. There he and his friends enjoy freedom even in the midst of a complicated political moment.

After her husband's suicide, a woman and her daughters move to Brigida, a small town that is about to bring back the pagan festivities of Ivana Kupala, which had been banned 30 years before. But terrifying events, along with a dangerous ritual of transmigration of souls, unsettle the community and bring to light the secrets of a crime that ties three families' destinies through time. (imdb)

The story of "David" anointed as a young man to be king of Israel, an action that would give him a turbulent life until his reign was secured. Based upon the text of books of "Samuel". (imdb)