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In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living t...

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

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to mak...

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 prie...

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

Paulo Estrela (Fábio Nassar) is a film critic who is at the airport waiting for Celeste (Dira Paes). Meanwhile, she tells receptionist Salete (Ana Pau...

According to an Amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a Brazilian fishing village receives a mysterious guest: the Boto, who transforms...

Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, tryin...

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 Cis...

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously...

Lino works as an entertainer at children's parties, but he can't stand the way children treat him, making fun of him because he works in a cat's costu...

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

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 blind and...

A man returns to his hometown and resumes a dangerous old affair...