A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off ...
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marri...
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' ...
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Polic...
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she ta...
Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees th...
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...
In order to study fashion in so-desired Paris, a young country girl who hates Carnival travels to Ri...
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor...
Raymond, a maladjusted cart pusher at a dying grocery store, has a brief yet confusing romance with ...
Toquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together w...
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the bas...
Ferdinand Weitel, a forklift driver, is desperate: Insurance agent Arno von Mehling, a true sales ta...
A bible salesman finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the...
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with enter...
A magician in a carnival--who actually can read minds and levitate people and objects--works with a ...
A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
In 1971, military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family — Rubens, Eunice, and ...
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hi...