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.

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

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.

Η Όλγα Μπενάριο Γκουτμάν Πρέστες είναι μια από τις πιο ηρωικές γυναικείες φιγούρες παγκοσμίως. Γεννήθηκε στη Γερμανία από εβραϊκή οικογένεια και εντάχθηκε στο κομμουνιστικό κίνημα από τα 15 της χρόνια. Όταν το 1930, ο πρώτος της σύζυγος και στέλεχος του ΚΚ Γερμανίας Όττο Μπράουν συλλαμβάνεται και φυλακίζεται από τη δημοκρατία της Βαϊμάρης, η Όλγα οργανώνει μια παράτολμη ένοπλη επιχείρηση για την απόδρασή του μέσα από την αίθουσα όπου δικαζόταν. Διαφεύγουν μαζί στην Τσεχοσλοβακία κι από εκεί στη Σοβιετική Ένωση. Αναλαμβάνει και εκτελεί πολλές διεθνείς αποστολές για λογαριασμό της Κομιντέρν, πράγμα που της στοίχισε μια σύλληψη στη Μεγάλη Βρετανία για κατασκοπεία.

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.

Η Val (Regina Case) αφήνει την κόρη της Jessica στα χέρα της γιαγιάς και πηγαίνει στο Σάο Πάολο για να εργαστεί ως οικονόμος σε ένα μεγαλοαστικό σπίτι και να αναλάβει τη φροντίδα του μικρού γιου της οικογένειας, Fabinho. 13 χρόνια μετά, η Val έχει μεν κάνει κομπόδεμα, αλλά αισθάνεται τύψεις για την κόρη που άφησε πίσω της. Ξαφνικά, η κόρη της Jessica ανακοινώνει ότι πρόκειται να έρθει στο Σάο Πάολο για να δώσει εισαγωγικές εξετάσεις σε κάποια σχολή. Οι εργοδότες την υποδέχονται αρχικά εγκάρδια και της προτείνουν αμέσως να μείνει μαζί τους. Εξάλλου, η Val είναι «μέλος της οικογένειας», αφού ήταν εκείνη που ουσιαστικά μεγάλωσε τον γιο τους. Όμως η συμβίωση μάνας και κόρης, μετά από 13 χρόνια απουσίας, δεν είναι εύκολη υπόθεση.

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.

Καθώς ο γερουσιαστής Τζακ Στάντον οδεύει στο να κατακτήσει την προεδρία της Αμερικής, ένας Αφροαμερικανός οπαδός του, που τον υπηρέτησε σε όλη του την πορεία, διαπιστώνει ότι το ίνδαλμα του είναι ένας ψεύτης που ξεγελάει τον λαό. Στο κέντρο της προσοχής, ένα σεξουαλικό σκάνδαλο.

With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.

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.

Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck he uses to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.

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.

Στις 9 Μαρτίου 1977, η Francine Hughes, μετά από δεκατρία χρόνια σωματικής ενδοοικογενειακής βιας στα χέρια του συζύγου της,, με τον οποίο έχει τρία παιδιά, ένα βράδυ, μην αντέχοντας άλλο το μαρτύριο και αφού αυτός την έχει βιάσει για άλλη μια φορά, αποφασίζει να βάλει φωτιά στο κρεβάτι του την ώρα που εκείνος κοιμάται. Η ταινία είναι βασισμένη στην πραγματική ιστορία της Francine Hughes η οποία υπέφερε 13 χρόνια ενδοοικογενειακής βίας μέχρι που έκαψε τον άντρα της ζωντανό στον ύπνο του. Το δικαστήριο την αθώωσε λόγω «προσωρινής παραφροσύνης».

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.