The film shows the day when Rui and Vani first met. It was at their wedding (with other partners). Vani was going to marry Sérgio, and Rui would marry Marta in the same church, following Vani's marriage. While waiting for the ceremony, they begin to talk. Complications ensue.

A brave and bold indigenous girl, protector of her jungle and its wild life and guided by her shaman grandfather, pairs with a boy from the big city, against animal traffickers in the Amazon forest.

Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than an apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles, the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, and expectations. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.

Colonel Furtado struggles to keep his lands, the Sobradinho Farm, and win the heart of his cousin Esmeraldina. In the process, he fights big beasts, experiences the taste of a bohemian life in town, fends usurers and thieves off, and uses all his cunning to get rid of haunting entities. His rival is the man he was brought up with, Pernambuco Nogueira, a werewolf.

Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams.

At the end of the 19th century, a poor family comes to the rural Canudos, a community led by Antônio Conselheiro, seen by many as a holy prophet. Their ways bother the powerful people of the region, and the newly founded Republic sends their army to destroy the settlement, which culminates in one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Brazil.

Ovidio è un annoiato e noiosamente ripetitivo professore di scuola media, ugualmente bersaglio dei disgustosi dispetti degli alunni che dei rimbrotti del preside. A rompere il tedio delle sue giornate sbadigliate arriva inatteso, dopo vent'anni d'assenza, il gemello Raf, un esagitato e scapestrato cantante da due soldi, peraltro simpatico alle poco numerose e meno esigenti platee di locali infimi della periferia. Il gemello s'insedia senza complimenti nella casa del fratello e gli vive alle spalle, gabbandolo da disinvolta canaglia e cacciandolo al centro di una serie di imbarazzanti equivoci.

Aldo, bancario ed ex campione di pallanuoto, a causa di un'incidente automobilistico è in sedia a rotelle. Vittorio, ladruncolo non vedente, si arrangia a campare con piccole truffe. I due si conoscono per caso e si cacciano in varie disavventure che li conducono fino al casinò di Sanremo, dove Aldo ritrova l'uomo responsabile del suo incidente...

After being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his father-in-law, Zé Araújo becomes the mythical Ojuara, an unconventional hero devoted to debauchery.

When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.

The real first comedy about love.

A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.

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.

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.

Un famoso medico deve condurre un programma di prevenzione dall’aids nella prigione di Carandiru, a San Paolo, la più grande dell’America latina. Abituato alla medicina di alto livello, qui invece non può fidarsi che del suo istinto. Conosce i detenuti, il loro mondo a parte, la loro umanità. Si guadagna il loro rispetto e conosce i loro segreti. Fino al giorno in cui scoppia la rivolta che termina con un terribile massacro.

"Oltre il Giardino" è un'amara e, al tempo stesso, esilarante rappresentazione della nuova società apolide, nutrita di frasi fatte e televisione, in cui il problema dell'incomunicabilità sembra aver perduto la sua importanza, poiché non vi è più nulla da comunicare realmente, oltre l'inadeguatezza che coinvolge la stessa classe dirigente così come i signori della comunicazione e dell'informazione.

Dora è un'insegnante in pensione di Rio, che per arrotondare scrive lettere per gli analfabeti. È una donna senza fascino e delusa, certamente cinica. Quando un bambino rimane solo per la morte della mamma, Dora lo raccoglie soltanto per venderlo a chi fa commercio di organi. Si pente, recupera il bambino ma deve fuggire. Così, attraversa il Brasile per accompagnare il piccolo da un fantomatico padre, che non viene mai trovato. In compenso il bambino si ricongiunge con due fratelli sconosciuti, mentre Dora ha tratto qualcosa dall'esperienza. Saprà star sola, meno disperata.