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- DirectorGuilherme de Almeida PradoSara SilveiraStarsMaitê ProençaAntônio FagundesJosé LewgoyReal estate broker and former boxer enters an old cinema in the decadent downtown São Paulo and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much alike the leading lady of the film. He gets involved with her and her problems and in no time is being accused of a crime.
- DirectorGuilherme de Almeida PradoStarsChristiane TorloniJosé MayerWalter QuirozDriver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub.
- DirectorGuilherme de Almeida PradoStarsJosé LewgoyJúlia LemmertzAlexandre BorgesA woman dreams of staying in bed late one day, free from her husband, daughter, neighbor and father-in-law.
- DirectorGuilherme de Almeida PradoStarsHelio LahalJúlia LemmertzRaul GazollaTito, a radio soap opera actor, falls in love with a passionate fan who will take him into a world full of mysteries.
- DirectorGuilherme de Almeida PradoStarsMaira ChasserouxCarmo Dalla VecchiaCarolina DieckmannIn the 1980's, a journalist goes out to find the whereabouts of a famous singer/actress who disappeared some decades earlier. During his search, he crosses the country between several states in what ultimately becomes not only a case about finding a missing person but also a journey of self-discovery.
- DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeStarsAntônio FagundesLouise CardosoMayara MagriTV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighborhood.
- DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeStarsRolando BoldrinIrene RavacheAntônio FagundesA series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle involved.
- DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeThe film is a discussion of what to do and what the population's relationship to progress and the authorities is and why that relationship does not solve the problem.
- DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeStarsTonico PereiraLuciano PortoRomulo AugustoOn the shores of Lake Paranoá, in Brasilia, a storyteller entertains the visitors of a bar with his narratives. Only one of them he is reluctant to take to the end: the murder of two girls.
- DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeStarsPaulo AutranCarlos GregórioRicardo PetrágliaWith death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup.
- DirectorLynn SheltonStarsKeira KnightleyChloë Grace MoretzSam RockwellIn the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes. She takes an opportunity to escape for a week, hiding out in the house of her new 16-year-old friend Annika and her world-weary single dad.
- DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeStarsMarco RiccaChristine FernandesLuciana BragaAm unemployed man receives a package from a dying stranger to be delievered to a certain Maira at 6th Street but he never learns the number.
- DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeStarsRicardo Leite AgostinhoMário César CamargoMarcos CesanaMateus, his wife Antônia, their three kids and his brother Pedro open a grocery/bar in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1959, called "Armazém Brazil". But in the opening party, the Police, headed by a violent inspector nicknamed "Capitão", arrives to arrest, with extreme violence, an outlaw known as "Flexa". This violent scene scars the family permanently, and becomes the prelude to a tragedy.
- DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeStarsJosé DumontAldo BuenoRafael de CarvalhoSão Paulo police mistakenly thinks a folk poet and singer is the same man who had stabbed his boss.
- DirectorSuzana AmaralStarsMarcelia CartaxoJosé DumontTamara TaxmanMacabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the subways. She describes herself saying, "I am a typist and a virgin, and I like Coca-Cola." Then she meets Olimpico, a north-easterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a Congressman.
- DirectorSuzana AmaralStarsSabrina GreveEliane GiardiniCacá AmaralYoung girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
- DirectorLeon Hirszman
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsFerreira GullarThe short documentary follows the cocoa cultivation in Itabuna, Bahia, and the working process by workers with their old tradition of singing chants during the whole process of labor and stomping of the fruit. A great social event that united a whole community.
- DirectorLeon Hirszman
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsOthon BastosIsabel RibeiroNildo ParenteThe story of Paulo Honório, a poor kid who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsNelson CavaquinhoNelson Cavaquinho is caught rambling his impressions of music and life in his home in Bangu's quiet day-to-day life, walking through the simple neighborhood and, mainly, singing with his choked voice.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsBarry O'MooreLinda ArvidsonArthur V. JohnsonThe story, while not biographical, is founded on incidents in his life, showing his devotion for his sick wife, Virginia. Desperate from his utter helplessness to ameliorate his dying wife's suffering, owing to extreme destitution, he is in a frenzy of grief, when a raven is seen to perch on a bust of Pallas above the door of their cold, cheerless apartment. An inspiration! He sets to work, and that masterpiece. "The Raven," is the fruit. During his work he has divested himself of his coat, putting it over his wife to protect her from the cold. The poem finished, he rushes coatless and hatless to the publisher, where he meets with scant attention. One editor, however, thinks the work possesses some merit and offers ten dollars for it. Ten dollars for the greatest jewel in the diadem of fame - think of it! Poe thinks of the comforts, meager though they needs must be, for his poor wife and accepts the offer. Hastening to the store, he procures food, a heavy comfortable for the cot, and medicine, and with much lighter heart returns home. Spreading the quilt tenderly over Virginia, he takes her hand and gazes fondly into her sightless eyes, but the cold, unresponsive hand tells him the awful truth. "My God, she is dead!" and he falls prostrate across the cot.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonTom McGuireErnest TorrenceThe effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsCaio BlatSophie CharlotteGabriel AntunesIn 1960s Rio de Janeiro, aspiring writer Felipe leads a life of wild parties held in an apartment in famous street Barata Ribeiro in Copacabana. There he and his friends enjoy freedom even in the midst of a complicated political moment.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsDuaia AssumpçãoCamilo BeviláquaDomingos de OliveiraThe psychoanalyst Inês intends not to be lovingly involved with anyone else. However, she ends up falling in love with two men at the same time, unaware that they are father and son.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsCláudia AbreuPedro CardosoDomingos de Oliveira1st story: a woman discovers in the pocket of his partner a tablet of Viagra. 2nd story: a couple for years has a conventional marriage, until, due to an unexpected circumstance, can not live without having other sexual partners.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsLucas BarrosEdward BoggissEdward BorgesThree friends are re in the house of one of them, recall cases where the past and have fun.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsGabriel AntunesKaio CaiazzoAna CordeiroA couple of actors share an unbearable marriage. Julio has always been a mediocre actor, but he is famous as he has worked all his life in television. He is much older than Julia. The two have developed a perverse co-dependent dynamic and Julio is the weak link.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsPriscilla RozenbaumDomingos de OliveiraPaulo CarvalhoAging journalist Ana Lucia confronts a personal and professional breakdown in a night full of phone calls, boozing and cocaine snorting.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsDedina BernardelliDomingos de OliveiraCacá MourthéFour actresses in their mid-forties get together in the afternoon to write a play about their own experiences. But the director isn't satisfied with the outcome.
- DirectorMaria RibeiroStarsDedina BernardelliPedro CardosoDomingos de OliveiraA look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsVicente BarcellosClara BethencourtPedro BethencourtIn Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of friends share their lives and experiences with each other. They are mostly middle-aged. A man and woman are inseparable buddies involved in a friendship that's more like extended therapy and philosophizing sessions. Their dialogs dominate the film, and involve many other people. Chief among them: his daughter, her boyfriends, the her husband, mistresses and lovers including an HIV positive gay Brazilian recently back from abroad.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsRubens AbreuAdolfo ArrudaLeonidas BayerTwo brothers kill their father, helped by their sister's fiancé.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsDomingos de OliveiraPriscilla RozenbaumFábio JunqueiraCabral is a 60 year old playwright, and he's been married to Glorinha for half her life. Now they're getting bored...
- DirectorWoo-Ping YuenStarsJackie ChanSiu-Tin YuenJeong-lee HwangWong Fei-Hung is a mischievous yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts.
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsKeanu ReevesSandra BullockChristopher PlummerA lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside house begins to exchange love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
- DirectorGee Malik LintonStarsAna de ArmasKeanu ReevesChristopher McDonaldA police detective investigates the truth behind his partner's death. The mysterious case reveals disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.
- DirectorAndy FickmanStarsKristen BellOdette AnnableSigourney WeaverWhen a young woman realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiancée's true colors.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsAnthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonJohn HaycraftA butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
- DirectorJohn BadhamStarsRoy ScheiderWarren OatesCandy ClarkThe cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.
- DirectorD.J. CarusoStarsAngelina JolieEthan HawkeKiefer SutherlandAn FBI profiler is called in by French Canadian police to catch a serial killer who takes on the identity of each new victim.
- DirectorJulie TaymorStarsSalma HayekAlfred MolinaGeoffrey RushA biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
- DirectorJulio QuintanaStarsLucas QuintanaMartin SheenJacqueline DupreyTen years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
- DirectorAlain GsponerStarsAnuk SteffenAnna SchinzLilian NaefA story of a young girl who lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding Grandfather.