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- Tells the tale of the naive Macabéa, a 19-year-old lonely and poor woman from the Northeastern of Brazil who moves to São Paulo in hopes of a better future.
- Real 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.
- Driver 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.
- São Paulo police mistakenly thinks a folk poet and singer is the same man who had stabbed his boss.
- Tito, a radio soap opera actor, falls in love with a passionate fan who will take him into a world full of mysteries.
- TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighborhood.
- A series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle involved.
- Renato who knows that his time is running out, teaches his six-year-old granddaughter, the value of friendship and respect towards other people's views. Renato has three children; Montserrat, his divorced daughter, who takes care of him, Anita who has a failing marriage, and his son Salvador. The daughters have decided to send him to a hospital against his will. But with the help of his granddaughter Carlota, he plans to escape and sail from Venezuela to Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, as he once promised his deceased wife.
- With 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.
- Young 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.
- On 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.
- Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding.
- Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration.
- Jefferson and Washington are brothers, and have a common friend, Kennedy, whom they've known since they were kids. Jefferson enters the military life, but Washington and Kennedy turn to drug dealing instead. When Washington dies, Jefferson returns to São Paulo and goes around town with Kennedy, trying to find Washington's body, which was missing. In their desperate search, they remember a very important event of their past.
- La Tropa de Trapo en la Selva del Arcoíris
- Overbearing man changes after a few drinks, becoming affectionate and generous. His driver takes advantage of these moments.
- A tax collector is sent to a small region where he starts to differ with the unusual way of the local to exercise power.
- Part feature film/part documentary, and using of real actors along common people who were part of the real facts, the project presents the story of one of the most notorious São Paulo criminals of the late 1970's: Wilsinho Galiléia. It tells about his crimes, his methods, the police investigation and then Wilsinho's killing by the authorities.
- Inspired by the testimony of an American technician who, examining the São Paulo dump, stated: "Sao Paulo rubbish is the richest in the world." The film shows the misery of those who live on this garbage and the police repression on the scavengers.
- An ethnic-poetic documentary that glimpses at the secular tradition, surviving strategies and the rich culture of the babaçu coconut "quebradeiras", from the region of Bico do Papagaio, at the border of the Brazilian states of Maranhão, Tocantins and Pará.
- Roberto and Mitsuo are two strangers who, after a series of coincidences, return to Brazil on the same day, after a long time abroad. They find themselves due to a land that was negotiated by their parents decades ago and decide to try to make money over the spot. However, they come into conflict when they begin to think the batch has magical powers.