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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.
- 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.
- 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?
- The hosts travel to various destinations around the world. As they do, you view their experiences and listen to their critiques along the way.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- A moving biopic about the Brazilian humanitarian leader Divaldo Franco.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The worldwide travels and unique cultural finds of renowned American folklorist Henry Glassie are enthralling chronicled in this portrait by director Pat Collins.
- The life of Dulce, a Bahian nun, who guided by her faith dedicated her life to the needy and was beatified by the Vatican.
- 2014's Football World Cup, held in Brazil.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gunfighter Kim makes a serious mistake. The organization decides to order him to do another job. If he does, he will escape his punishment: killing his sister, the only person he really loves.
- 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.
- 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.
- The young Beto ventures to the Brazilian countryside in search of a collection of rare drawings. There he meets Samir, the collector, and his family ruined by the demise of the cocoa plantations. The journey and the encounter will irrevocably change the young man's soul. Based on a short story by Stefan Zweig.
- A desperate woman plans to rescue her baby with her cop friend.
- 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.
- 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.
- LIVING LOUD is a timely film about the collaboration between two very different drumming groups with a lot in common, following them as they build community and empowerment through samba reggae.
- A body was found at the university in the morning. After the investigation team arrives, the gates are closed and no one can leave. Who's the killer? What is the secret Julia wants to tell André? What the woods of the university hide?
- Ready to move out of the house where she grew up, the birthday girl Salma receives a visit from her older sister to help her, but the house's stowage and the celebration of this rebirth is taken by a bizarre apparition.
- I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't have more time to destroy. Is my loneliness real and is my longing about what? Then who are this people?
- In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, a vast network of shacks built on stilts above a rising tide of garbage over the ocean bay. When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, hundreds of families are about to lose their homes. Filmed over 6 years, BAY OF ALL SAINTS is a lyrical portrait of three single-mothers living in the water slums during this crisis. Geni, AKA 'Miss Mayor,' a pizza parlor manager rapidly becomes a community organizer; Jesus, a laundry-washer, starts to look beyond her dreams of a Prince Charming who never comes; Dona Maria, a trash-picker, once freed from domestic servitude, ventures outside the palafitas as she raises her 16 children and grandchildren on the ocean bay. Their individual stories of poverty unfold through visits from Norato, their big-hearted refrigerator repairman, born and raised in the palafitas. He bears witness, as each family is promised a new home in governmental housing, without knowing when, or if this promise will ever be kept. BAY OF ALL SAINTS offers a glimpse at the complexities of urban poverty; the sacrifices these women make for their children's survival and the demands of life on the bay. Ultimately, the State's urban development project-through its tumult and blunders-compels these women to rise up to fight for their future.