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"Pureza" tells a story of a mother, Pureza, who goes in search of her son, Abel, disappeared after leaving for the mining in the Amazon.

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.

Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of...

TV Globo celebrates its 60th anniversary with a mega-show.

A little fisher village in Brazilian Amazon. Without aparent reason, the dweller start falling ill. Would it be a witchcraft? Felício looks...

Two women, from opposite worlds, Louise and her maid Luzia, both share a passion for music and finding the perfect man. What can happen during a...

To escape past traumas, a truck driver João decides to leave his hometown behind and travel cross the country. Alone and lonely he drives all...

Ângelo arrives at his grandmother's house in Minas Gerais. There, a small chest full of coins and an enigma were discovered, supposedly left by...

A painter is found dead with a gun in his hand, in his shabby studio in Lapa, a bohemian district in Rio de Janeiro. A brief note is published on a...

Three male friends navigate different stages of romantic relationships: One is starting to date; another fears infidelity; the third is divorcing.

The real-life story of Zeneida, a girl who moves to a farm with her mother and finds herself having an unusual connection with a forest spirit.

Reencountering the only man she ever loved is Gringa’s dream. She is the owner of a brothel in the interior of Brazil and even though she is...

Young Deisy (Ana Letícia) dreams of moving to bustling Belém, but instead she lives on Combu Island, across the river, cut off from the...

A young doctor has a promising career in São Paulo, but the diagnosis of a serious illness profoundly changes her relationship with the world...

During the Brazilian military dictatorship, a doctor forged autopsy reports to hide the victims of the regime.

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as...

While waiting for her at the airport, a film critic recounts to a receptionist how he met his great love, Celeste.

Personal records of characters of the student movement, of the youth's cultural activity, song. poetry, and theatrical plays made by militants in the...