Matheus Nachtergaele

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)

Welcome to the world's most notorious slum: Rio de Janeiro's 'City of God.' A place where combat photographers fear to tread, where Police rarely go, and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20. This is the true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and ultimately may be his only way out. [Original Release 2002] (Miramax)

Short stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters living in the Brazilian underground: a butcher married with an evangelical woman, a necrophile in love with a bar owner, a transvestite, and many others. (imdb)

Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger. (imdb)

At midnight of December 31st of 1999, the destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the fireworks fall over Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach and the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone... (imdb)

The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. But when they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary, before they are admitted to paradise. (imdb)

A young wizard must create new spells in his magic book before the planets align. His uncle and aunt, powerful mages themselves, help him achieve that. Based on the award-winning Brazilian TV series. (imdb)

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

Alex, Lino and Liz, three sons of diplomats, live together in Brasilia enjoying the freedom inside an empty apartment with no parents, seemingly unaware of the world outside. Their lives change irrevocably when they meet 'X', a person with no name or past, who suggests taking the idea of living every day as it was the last one. (mezipatra.cz)

Quinzinho decides to leave his small farm together with his wife, his son and his donkey go to town to see a movie. During their trip they face many problems and get involved with many different people. This experience will change their lives forever.

Birdwatchers is a fascinating film that mixes fiction with anthropological documentary. A group of Guarani-Kaiowa Indians, lead by the shaman Nadio, defy society by breaking out of the reservation and settling on a piece of land where there once was dense jungle. It marks the end of a search for their roots, they have come home. There is only one problem; this land is now part of a large plantation. (Kosmorama.no)

Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead.

An adaptation of a play by Dias Gomes

After stirring society by leaving her groom at the alter and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "Hilda the Hurricane", in the 50's Brazil. She could do fine if it wasn't for Malthus, a young novice said to be a saint, for whom she falls in love. However, the boy is kept under the strict, severe doctrine of Father Nelson, a conservative priest intolerant even to every minor sin. (imdb)

Zizo is a nonconformist and anarchis poet who who has lived in his private world until he meets Eneida. She becomes their contemporary and peripheral consciousness promoting great changes in your life. (Jornal O Globo)

Juliano and Joaquim leave Rio de Janeiro in search for the dream of gold. The year is 1978. Both arrive at the Amazon Rainforest like so many human beings had arrived. Full of dreams and illlusions. But the life in the mining change them. The obsession by the richness and the power destroy them. Juliano becomes a gangster. Joaquim leaves all his values behind. A story about the golden fever, about ganancy and violence. About a great friendship and its break-up. (Globofilmes)

The story line is about all the funny situations in our private life. (imdb)

The rite of passage from youth that has poetry as its guiding light, and prose as its basis. (imdb)

Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires. (imdb)

Biopic about the late Joãozinho Trinta, a self-taught classical dancer who turned Rio's Carnival into an international phenomenon in the 1970s and '80s by directing parades for samba schools and putting focus on costumes and decor. (imdb)

The quiet life of the small town Piedade's inhabitants is shaken up by the arrival of a big oil company, which barges in taking over houses and local businesses, throwing everyone out, to better reach and use the area's natural resources.

A taxi company owner's son has an extraordinary connection with cars: he can talk to them. He makes friends with the car that saved him from a traffic accident as a child, but he also hears the old wrecks complain about the law banning cars over 15 years old from the roads. Together with his uncle, he converts the write-offs into futuristic vehicles that are conscious and speak. They then take on the status quo under King Car's banner. However, capitalism's zombies prove more evil than exp

João Carlos finds himself politicized, but he begins to realize that he is becoming as boring as the city's taxi drivers. While being pursued by this ghost and experiencing a relationship crisis, he has a surge of lucidity.

The story of Picucha, an 85-year-old suburban widow and mother of four who faces the reality of living alone in her age while keeping good humor and love for family and life.

Two hapless cops find themselves in over their heads as they cross paths with dangerous criminals while searching for Celestina, a beloved goat mascot.

The creation of Babel scatters over the world men who speak different languages: all the faces, bodies and voices of Paulo José are embodied in the characters that the actor has played throughout his career in theater, television, and film. EVERY PAULO IN THE WORLD is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.

Depois de 20 anos desaparecido, João Grilo retorna à Taperoá para se juntar ao velho companheiro Chicó e, após sua história de ressurreição ter se espalhado, é disputado como cabo eleitoral pelos dois políticos mais poderosos da cidade.