At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly remembers the maloca where he lived with Joca and Mato Grosso, their passion for Iracema and other characters eternalized in his sambas, chronicles of a metropolis swallowed up by the voracious appetite of progress.

Amid an identity crisis, Fábio, 22 years old, a young black man from Cidade Tiradentes, reconnects w...

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hi...

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life ami...

Patty meets Dave at the bar. Later that night, she and her friends follow him out and "fuck him up".

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dea...

Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with hi...

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair wi...

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures d...

Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a b...

Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of ...

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obses...

Marvin, a young aspiring writer from New York, moves to California to write a novel. He ends up room...

When Madea catches teenage Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to ta...

After watching a Bollywood film, a woman yearning for excitement begins to question the storyline of...

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison:...

In the periphery of São Paulo, the pregnant single mother Cleuza works as maid in the apartment of a...

Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. Daniel is a movie star accustomed to success. His loft apartme...

After running around the city all day, Mandy finally realizes something a little too late.