Anna is a woman who sells flowers at the local market and whose only hope and joy in her life is her only son Amaurys. Raul, Amaurys' best friend,...

In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college...

Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems,...

A gang of violent teenagers uses detention class to get revenge on the teacher who identified a friend as the gunman in a deadly shooting.

An Italian businessman travels to Brazil looking for a new job. When things don't go his way, he becomes despondent until he meets a beautiful woman...

An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to...

Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against...

Lalu is a reckless youth who is willing to do anything for money, even if it means getting involved in the drugs business.

Two former seminarians meet by chance in adulthood: one has become a dealer, the other a terrorist.

The career and death of notorious Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

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...

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de...

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

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses,...

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...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a...

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

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.

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...

The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.