After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.

Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of 12th June 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.

Povestea a doi frati: unul dintre ei este un gangster renumit, iar fratele sau, mai mic decat el, este un absolvent al Academiei de Politie din Hong Kong. Intriga acestui film se invarte in jurul rupturii dintre cei doi, atunci cand cel mai mic afla ca fratele sau mai mare este un criminal, iar acesta incearca din rasputeri sa iasa din banda de gangsteri. De-a lungul drumului putem vedea destule jafuri, rasturnari de situatie si multe impuscaturi.

A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.

Povestea documentar a lui Oscar Grant III, un locuitor de 22 de ani din Bay Area, care se întâlnește cu prietenii, dușmanii, familia și străinii în ultima zi a anului 2008.

The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.

Un secret sinistru este ascuns într-o pivniță a unei biserici abandonate din Los Angeles. Odată cu moartea unui preot dintr-o sectă misterioasă, un alt preot deschide ușa pivniței și descoperă o cuvă conținând un lichid verde. Preotul contactează un grup de tineri cercetători pentru a investiga. Din nefericire, ei descoperă că lichidul verde conține esența Diavolului însuși, și mai află că acesta își va elibera tatăl, un foarte puternic Anti-Zeu. Lichidul se trezește la viață și transformă niște studenți în zombie pentru a pregăti venirea Diavolului. Va putea fi oprit?

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.

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Drumul improbabil al boxerului „irlandez” Micky Ward către titlul mondial la categoria welter ușoară. Ascensiunea lui asemănătoare cu a lui Rocky a fost condusă de fratele vitreg Dicky, un boxer devenit antrenor care a revenit în viață după ce aproape că a fost aruncat la podea de droguri și infracțiuni.

Acest film-eseu autobiografic graviteaza in jurul imaginii obsedante a mamei, o mama enigmatica, apropiata si indiferenta totodata, care nu explica nimic copiilor lasandu-i sa descopere singuri lumea cu senzatiile ei, ca un imens labirint. Rar cinematograful a reusit sa surprinda de atat de aproape impresiile primare, care nici nu sunt numite.

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.