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- Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho, who own a small steaming boat in Bahia, meet strip-dancer Karinna. Both men fall for her and their friendship is deeply shattered.
- The hosts travel to various destinations around the world. As they do, you view their experiences and listen to their critiques along the way.
- In a small city of Brazil, a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho, but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking and he takes all of her money to gamble. After Vadinho dies, Flor marries Tedoror, the owner of a drugstore. Flor is happy with her new husband but misses the love life with her previous husband. When one day the ghost of Vadhino comes back to pursue her.
- A U.S. actor gets a gig in South American Parador. When the dictator dies, he's forced to play him for real and gets his mistress. Can they change Parador?
- After killing his employer when he tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint.
- Santo is a drug dealer whose face has never been revealed. Two policemen who go after him, Millán and Cardona, radically opposed, will have to learn to collaborate to solve the case and keep their lives safe.
- A simple yet devout Christian makes a vow to Saint Barbara after she saves his donkey, but everyone he meets seems determined to misunderstand his intentions. Will he be able to keep his promise in the end?
- A moving biopic about the Brazilian humanitarian leader Divaldo Franco.
- After a breakup, an influencer takes her friends on a free trip to Bahia's vibrant Carnival, where she learns life's not just about social media likes.
- One of two music videos for They Don't Care About Us by Michael Jackson. In a Rio de Janeiro slum, with the Brazilian drumming group Olodum, huge crowds, police barricades and MJ.
- During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil), we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor and music.
- In the midst of Brazilian carnival, the murder of a young and beautiful axé singer shocks the entire country and starts a thrilling hunt for the killer.
- "It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles" is a 1993 documentary feature about Orson Welles's ill-fated Pan-American anthology film "It's All True," shot in 1941-42 but never completed.
- Four Third-World Christs try to stop the American industrialist John Brahms in Glauber Rocha's experimental film inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder.
- In 1979 Brazilian pop singer and sex symbol Sidney Magal travels to Bahia to promote his hit LP. In the very first day he meets the love of his life, Magali West.
- About the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as Capitães da Areia (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia, during the 1950s.
- Brazilian singer Laura Monteiro is murdered in her dressing-room by her jealous lover João Fernandes de Oliveira when he discovered she was cheating on his with Assis and planning to escape from him and go to Buenos Aires with Assis. Meanwhile, Belén Moreira, who lives in Favela do Salgueiro and is a dead ringer for Laura, goes to Copacabana with her boyfriend Paulo. Two members of a gang that smuggles precious stones sewn in Carnival costumes see Belén and force the President of the Salgueiro Samba School to invite her to perform Chica da Silva in the Carnival parade in a costume that is adorned with genuine precious stones to be smuggled to Europe.
- Artur and Carolina, who do not know each other, wake up on the same day from altered states of consciousness that left them out of life for many years. Both feel out of place in the world in which they wake up.
- Carla Perez (portrayed by Carla Fabianny as a child and by herself as an adult) lives with her father (Armindo Biao) and tuberculous mother (Juliana Calil) in a small, poor shack located somewhere in the middle of the sertao of Bahia. After her mother dies, Carla and her father decide to move to Salvador in order to achieve better life conditions. Carla, having an innate talent for dancing, soon is spotted by zany talent manager Pierre (Perry Salles) and his goon Beto (Josevaldo Oliveira); she is initially enthusiastic about her newly acquired fame, but soon discovers Pierre is an unscrupulous man that is only interested into the profits of exploiting her. Helped by her two vagabond friends, Bucha (Lucci Ferreira) and Chico (Lazaro Ramos), and by her boyfriend, Alexandre Pires (portrayed by himself), she garners the strength to fight Pierre back and live freely as she wishes.
- Dona Flor marries Vadinho, who is very handsome and passionate, but does not offer him much. She supports the family by cooking for her neighbors, but the husband bets most of the money. Vadinho dies suddenly and Dona Flor begins to miss the wedding. She marries the doctor Teodoro Madureira, but he is the opposite of Vadinho. While Dona Flor is married to Theodore, the ghost of her late husband appears.
- Reginaldo is a womanizing taxi-driver, who always has woman problems; Roque is a popular singer who is working hard to construct a career, always with a lot of street-wise savvy; Yolanda is - or would like to be - a woman who has to work hard during the Salvador night to survive and uses humor to deal with the funny situations that she confronts as a transvestite. Dandara is a dancer who gets through life because of her shrewdness and flexibility - but she barely makes ends meet -and she'll leave her job as a prostitute to chase after the love of her life, Roque; Neusão is the owner of the bar and wants to have a child, but she hasn't found the right woman to be the mother; Queixão is the local outlaw - the gangster who when imprisoned converts to evangelism and becomes joined at the hip with Joana, the owner of the slum who is a fervent evangelist.
- This is the Brazilian Version of the TV show The Apprentice where the contestants compete in this reality show. There are a total of 8 seasons. The 3rd Season the prize was a contract with WPP Group, the largest advertising group of the world in New York working for Wunderman NY. The 4th season of the Brazilian version of the show The Apprentice with a twist, instead an employee a partner for a company will be chosen. As a reward for winning the show they visit Anselmo Martini, winner of the Aprendiz 3 and also the Blue Sky studios.
- Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.
- Dissection of Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political and sociological theses.
- The life of Dulce, a Bahian nun, who guided by her faith dedicated her life to the needy and was beatified by the Vatican.
- Six-time world champion and Brazilian sports legend, Acelino "Popó" Freitas left behind his hometown of Salvador and differences with his brother, Luis Cláudio, the first great boxer in the family, to build a successful career.
- 2014's Football World Cup, held in Brazil.
- In a fishing town, three teenagers are involved in an ambush. Young Coral, friends Pedro and Larissa keep a big secret that would end the entire port, where they needed to face the villain Gabriel who is behind a big mystery.
- A teenage girl from Paris decides to complete the aborted journey of a young man whom she secretly has a crush on.
- Survivors inside a bunker rebel against controlling scientists in a world devastated by a nuclear holocaust.
- Anthology series in which each season depicts a look at the lives of foreigners who decided to live or stay temporarily in a Brazilian city, such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador.
- The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.
- Tungsten will bring four characters to the center of a narrative built like a precision mechanism: a police officer that acts moved by his instincts; his wife, whose decision to get a divorce from him seems irrevocable; a small drug dealer, whose main interest is to survive another day; and an ex-army Sargent, who misses his life in the barrack.
- Bené is an old man who lives peacefully in a remote rural village. He is fully integrated into the community and he has made great progress in his spiritual quest. Fond of the simple things he learned in his many years of solitude in the countryside, Bené is susceptible to Cupid's erratic arrows, and becomes an easy target for a love that will bring him back to the big city.
- Set against the backdrop of Carnaval in Salvador, Brazil, the movie cuts between shots of musicians performing on an elevated stage; images of sweaty, often splendidly costumed onlookers; and gliding close-ups of a parade float - a monster-truck-wheeled, all-terrain vehicle topped with what appears to be a synthetic tree that's still being built.
- Documentary about French-born Pierre Verger, who lived between Bahia (Brazil) and Africa from 1946 until his death in 1996, and dedicated himself to photograph and research the Candomblé rites, becoming himself deeply involved with the religious communities. This film includes his very last interview to Brazilian composer Gilberto Gil, one day before Verger's death at 93.
- Schizophrenic tramp performs outrageous acts in the streets of Salvador, and in the end tries to fulfill his ultimate dream: to fly over the city, as a superhero would.
- "The Path Of Stones" reflects on the relationships and social spaces built from the popularization of psychoactive substances, having as reference, for that, the cities of Salvador and São Paulo, in Brazil, and Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia. In a lyrical way, prioritizing a psychological approach, the documentary proposes a reflection a historical journey in the use of psychoactive substances that that, par passar, from its representations, places us before ourselves, before the other, before life.
- A biographical documentary short film about the greatest Brazilian sailor of all time. Setting sail from Salvador - Bahia, Capital of the Blue Amazon, the Ukrainian Brazilian personality Aleixo Belov has already circumnavigated the globe five times, three of them alone, aboard a little sailboat built in his own backyard.
- Three Carnival blocks, born in candomblé terreiros in Bahia, are the center of this documentary: Ilê Aiyê, Cortejo Afro and Bankoma. Through the work of these centennial groups, the film explores black culture, its dances, its fabrics and its ancestry. The blocks continue to resist and echo the black Bahian movements, helping their communities and spreading brightness through the tortuous paths of a racist Brazil.
- From poor Brazilian kids to autistic adults in Switzerland to Finnish jazz aficionados, music documentary follows the legendary jazz drummer and composer Billy Cobham as he unites them all through rhythm and improvisation.
- The making of "The Grabuge" and how, despite all the best intentions, everything goes haywire on a film produced by Darryl Zanuck and directed by a then promising director. From Paris suburbs to Canoa Quebrada. From Godard to Glauber Rocha.