Janaína is an 18-year-old girl who lives with her mother and grandmother in a housing complex on the outskirts of Recife. She is the first person in her family to obtain a university degree, but an unwanted pregnancy threatens the plans she had made for her life.
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to ...
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Polic...
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main...
Pedro, 30 years old, a young worker, is awarded a trip that will make two of his big dreams come tru...
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of ...
Short on cash and a place to live, a woman agrees to let an old upper-class couple takes care of her...
For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown acce...
Salaam Namaste is about two Indians who have left their houses to make a life on their own, and how ...
Nina is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neig...
After losing her husband, 65-year-old midwife Betânia is persuaded by her daughters to leave her rem...
When nurse Gloria has financial difficulties, her friend Dr. Ana Torres invites her to move with her...
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all ...