Herson Capri

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

Dona Hermínia and other renowned characters from Paulo Gustavo, such as Senhora dos Absurdos and Maria Enfisema, are in the '220 Volts Special New Year'.

Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholic fable mixes animation, live-action, voice-overs, genres, and continents to explore Brazil's colonial past.

Dona Hermínia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.

Rosa es una mujer que sólo anhela ser perfecta, en su trabajo y como madre, hija, esposa y amante. Cuanto más se esfuerza, más siente que lo está haciendo mal. Rosa se ve atrapada por las exigencias de dos generaciones, hasta que un día su madre deja caer una bomba, y Rosa comienza a redescubrir su verdadero yo.

Dona Hermínia is back, but now rich and famous since she is the host of her own successful TV show. However, the overprotective character will have to deal with her children's departures, as Marcelina and Juliano decide to move out. In counterpart, she will welcome, as a visitor, her sister Lúcia Helena, who's been living in New York.

Fernanda, 39 años, periodista, es una mujer ejemplar del tercer milenio, libre en sus elecciones, independiente... y con dificultades de encontrarse un marido. Igual que sus compatriotas, Fernanda dejó a un lado la vida personal para dedicarse a la carrera, y ahora cree que su vida afectiva está en una situación de emergencia. Estar soltera a los 39 es muy distinto de estar soltera a los 29, pues “óvulos tienen fecha de caducidad”.

After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.

Una mirada acronológica y en profundidad a la vida de Heleno (1920-1959), mítico y controvertido futbolista brasileño de los cuarenta. Conocido como «Gilda» por su temperamento violento, Heleno fue el príncipe de la edad dorada de Río de Janeiro. Apuesto, encantador y refinado en los elegantes salones de baile, tenía un carácter explosivo y lleno de pasión en la cancha. Heleno estaba seguro de que era el futbolista brasileño más grande de todos los tiempos, pero la guerra, la sífilis y una turbulenta vida lo alejaron de ese destino de gloria, precipitando la tragedia.

Three mothers see their reality become completely, they are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces problems with drugs; Elisa, trying to make up for the absence of her husband giving full attention to the child, the little Theo, and Lara, teacher who faces the dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy. These three women, living in different times of their lives, seeking comfort next to Chico Xavier. And Karl reporter remains insisting on interviewing the medium, even without being prepared for it.

A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.

Priest Marcelo Rossi visits a juvenile correction center, and gives Paulo, one of the interns, a Bible. He starts reading the story of St. Paul.

In 1894, with a coup d'état, President Floriano Peixoto closed down The National Congress, soon reinstated with co-religionaries in key positions. In the south of Brazil, the Maragatos revolutionaries would not come to terms with this. They rebelled and marched to Rio de Janeiro to join Admiral Saldanha's troops and depose the President in an episode known today as the Federalist Revolution. The rebels fought bloody battles with Floriano soldiers during the march. Idelfonso Corrêa is a quiet, reserved citizen of humble origin who becomes the Baron of Serro Azul. His mature demeanor makes him a choice for mediator between both groups. Midst negotiations and difficulties to safeguard the family and his protegés, the Baron expands his domains, starts a newspaper, a bank, and exports herva-mate. With the battle over, his form of address, Baron, becomes synonymous with traitors.

Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than a spacious apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles – from the apartment’s sale to splitting a toy tea set – the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, expectations. The divergences are inevitable, because they’ve followed very different tracks. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.

Una familia de clase media-alta, que tiene sus orígenes en Ceará, se reúne paracelebrar la boda de las cuatro hermanas. Es su primer encuentro después de años de separación, provocado por circunstancias de la vida. Su retorno provoca en ellas diversos sentimientos, como el reencuentro con los viejos amigos, el descubrimiento de diferentes formas de relación afectiva, incluso el reencuentro con la violencia de la ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)

The forbidden love affair between Peri, an Indian, and the beautiful Ceci, a Portuguese white girl, in the 17th century Brazil.

On the eve of an important surfing championship, a group of young friends travels along the Brazilian coast with the intention of training hard and having a chance to become professional in the sport. However, along the way, Guel, a surfer bum, falls in love with a rich girl.

Anjo is a millionaire playboy who fights the forces of crime, especially his deadly enemy, the arch-villain Scarlet Scorpion, who recently has kidnapped the fashion designer Glória Campos, who is in love with our hero.

En una prisión sudamericana, Molina (William Hurt) y Valentín (Raúl Julia), dos compañeros de celda, se cuentan sus respectivas historias. Molina es un homosexual encarcelado por seducir a un menor. Valentín es un revolucionario que no ha olvidado las torturas a las que ha sido sometido durante los interrogatorios.

La joven Ariella se siente solitaria y percibe extraños a su familia de clase alta en su propia casa. Ariella está descubriendo su sexualidad y su madre arrogante Helena, su padre Rodrigo y sus hermanos Clécio y Alfonso no le dan amor ni afecto. Cuando Ariella escucha una conversación de sus hermanos, se entera de que su padre biológico fue atraído por Rodrigo que le robó su fortuna y la crió como a una hija. Ahora Ariella planea venganza contra su familia usando su hermoso cuerpo para alcanzar su objetivo.

The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".