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Set in the 19th century, the novel tells the story of an impossible romance. Inácio, a young man from a traditional family, falls in love with Esther, the owner of the most famous brothel in the Court.

After the mysterious disappearance of his father, Joventino, the cowboy José Leôncio becomes a wealthy farm owner in Pantanal. Over twenty years have passed and, bitter-hearted because of his father vanishing and the escape of his wife to Rio de Janeiro with his baby, José Leôncio has the chance to make amends with the boy, now a young man raised in the big city with very different values and habits than his own.

The daughter of a traditional, rich Indian family falls in love for a Dalit, and "untouchable" man.

Griselda is a tough, hard-working handywoman who managed to raise her three children on her own. She struggles to make ends meet but after winning the lottery tensions rise as people inevitably show their true value. With plenty of romance and intrigue this incredibly rich and fun telenovela brings together the true values of friendship, love, and family.

Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.

Gerluce became pregnant as a teenager and, just like her mother, Lígia, she raised her child alone. Now, Gerluce watches her daughter Joélly become the third generation of the family to go through the same situation. Besides the impact that teenage pregnancy brings to the whole family, the three Marias das Graças must deal with Lígia’s worsening health.

A great love story, a family rivalry that spans generations: the telenovela narrates the love for the São Francisco River, which is revealed in the feelings between Maria Tereza and Santo.

In Ambitious Women, all levels of ambition are revealed in a plot full of greed, revenge and struggle for power, through the conflicts of three strong women with very different personalities.

Enemies since childhood, André Spina and Ariclenes Martins became Jacques Leclair and Victor Valentim and now compete for the spotlight in the fashion world.

The cunning Senator Petrônio Paranhos gives an interview to the beautiful journalist Magali Santanna, who is interested only in his affair with Arlete—an ambitious young woman intent on conceiving the older man's child via in vitro fertilization. To land this scoop, Magali agreed to interview the politician in a motel room, a condition he had insisted upon. However, Paranhos suffers a sudden collapse and dies during the interview. Detective Aristênio Catanduva, who had been keeping the senator under surveillance, investigates the case. Known by the codename "Araponga," he is a bumbling figure working for the Federal Police following his long service to the military regime.

It shows the life and problems of Marinete, a cleaning lady with a short temper. She always ends up depending on her friends, who are distracted by any stupid thing and leave her to solve things on her own.

A romantic comedy revolving around the life of three former child stars that wish to relive their fame after the end of their childhood musical group, Magic Bunch. Now in the fun-filled 90's, fate reunites the trio formed by Manu and the brothers João and Jerônimo. It also brings back the love between the aspiring young actress and João, as well as the rivalry between their disagreeing mothers. At the same time, fueled by his dubious character and jealousy towards the new couple, Jerônimo will do anything to bring back his days of glory, even if it means jeopardizing his own family.

After the breakthrough success of 'The Cariocas', the spin-off 'The Brazilians - The Women' embraces all the diversity of Brazil and its women. Powerful, fragile, funny, protective, beautiful, talented, insightful, and especially unique; they all have a certain charm. No matter what their birthplace, age, lifestyle or preference, these remarkable women have one thing in common: they are Brazilian. Brilliantly witty and entertaining, every independent episode provides an exclusive look at the life experiences of the women who inspire everyone.

Dias Gomes and Marcílio Moraes' version of the soap opera of the same name by Janete Clair shown in 1970, Irmãos Coragem features as central characters João, Jerônimo and Duda, three brothers who threaten the dominance of the powerful farmer Pedro Barros, the highest authority in the fictional Coroado, in the interior of Minas Gerais, where the story is set.

A moving tale of courage and resilience in the struggle for freedom – this is the role that life has cast for headstrong Morena in Brave Woman. Raised in a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, this tough and humble woman will spare no effort to protect her family and gain her independence.

Singing competition in which celebrities face off against one another while shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costumes, concealing their identities.

A glamorous reception at businesswoman Angela Mahler's mansion attracts high society: businessmen, powerful women, and bons vivants looking for some fun. Unexpectedly, a body is found in the pool and what was a party, becomes a crime scene. Thus begins a frantic hunt for the murderer. Trapped inside the house and in the investigators' crosshairs, all the guests are suspects. The story occurs over a 24-hour period in a web of suspense, ambition, ulterior motive and uncontrollable passion.

It tells the story of Chiquinha Gonzaga, a revolutionary musician who marked the history of music in Brazil, and challenged the social standards of her time. Chiquinha was raised very comfortably and had an excellent education provided by his father, Jose Basileu, who expected his daughter to be a lady of the imperial court. But after listening to songs played in a black yard and influenced by friends, such as composer Joaquim Callado, Chiquinha begins to make compositions mixing polka and lundu. By imposition of her father, Chiquinha is forced to marry Jacinto, with whom she has three children. However, Jacinto forbids her to play, and she decides to separate from her husband, going against social standards. Chiquinha, then, fights for his freedom to play and will live with the great love of his youth, João Batista de Carvalho Jr., with whom he has a daughter, Alice.

In this coming- of-age series, five friends are reunited after six years without seeing each other. They are entering adulthood and dealing with conflicts of different natures, but common to a generation that is skeptical about the future, relationships and people. Amid reflection on the choices and the destiny they have decided upon for their lives, together they feel stronger to face what is to come.

By day, Olímpia runs the supermarket. By night, in the same space, Eraldo runs a samba school. With love and humor, they will go to great lengths to harmonize this unusual shared existence.

Leandro is a sommelier with a penchant for women and fine wine. After seducing his boss’s wife, he is taken by surprise by the true love he feels for the married couple’s daughter, Antônia, which makes him doubt his convictions and plunge madly into a torrent of passion. When Jaime becomes aware of his wife’s infidelity, his fury coincides with the disappearance of the sommelier. Was it a planned escape or a crime of passion? The uncertainty only increases the suspense in this explosive mixture of action, romance and mystery.

Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate herself and her younger sister from a dark abyss of silence held by her own family.

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.

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 costume. Determined to change his life, he visits a wizard, but the magic doesn't work in the right way, and he wakes up as a big cat.

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 make it happen.

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

Irene is a lonely 50-year-old ornithologist who, during secret research in the rainforest, immerses herself in a sensory journey to rescue her desires, facing her dilemmas that confront the illegal trafficking of wild birds.

Public functionary and family man Lineu and his beloved wife Nenê celebrate the 40th anniversary of their first date. In the present day, Lineu feels uncomfortable when colleague Pacheco dies and goes to the doctor for an examination. When the result of his tomography arrives, Lineu steals the document, afraid of having a tumor, but he believes he will die sooner. Meanwhile, Nenê meets Lineu's old rival Carlinhos, who manages the local market, and invites him to dinner.

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 this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.

Cruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid region, rapes 12-year-old Dadá, who becomes his woman, following him and his gang. Although they were supposed to fight against social injustice, they terrorized the small villages along their way.

The story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a “miracle” upon the suicide of his own mother. The film seeks to be an intimate picture of those who are involved in this sect and of the infinite human capacity of “fabricating” faith and seeking some sense in the horrifying experience of death.

In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.

Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory.

The beautiful Flor marries Vadinho -- and soon finds out he's spending all their money on gambles and has mistresses all over the city. Vadinho suddenly dies while partying during Carnival, and Flor, left helpless and full of debts, ends up marrying Teodoro, who's the exact opposite of her late husband.

During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, 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.

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Two friends determined to become respected police officers face prejudice and ridicule for being openly gay. Given one final chance, they go undercover to infiltrate a dangerous gang terrorizing the city. Posing as inmates, they navigate chaotic events, including a botched prison escape, while maintaining their cover and planning an ambush to take down the gang leader and her operation. Their mission culminates unexpectedly at a major fashion event, where they confront the criminals and finally prove their abilities, earning the respect they’ve long sought. The story blends action, comedy, and satire, highlighting themes of courage, friendship, and queer identity in traditionally macho spaces.

This first-person-narrated film explores the trajectory of the singer Clara Nunes, who conquered Brazil and several countries across the world.

Three male friends navigate different stages of romantic relationships: One is starting to date; another fears infidelity; the third is divorcing.