Desejo Sintético
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Based on the short story of the same name by Caio Fernando Abreu, 'Aqueles Dois' tells the story of Raul and Saul, two coworkers who share an office at a firm that drains the joy and inspiration from their lives. As time passes, they grow closer and become good friends—a relationship that sparks gossip within the company and ultimately puts their careers at risk.
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Diva
Among bodies, jokes, eye-catching posters, and packed movie theaters, pornochanchada became one of the most popular- and contradictory- phenomena in Brazilian cinema. This documentary delves into a cinema of excess and irreverence to investigate how, during the military dictatorship, films apparently considered “minor” became box-office successes and exposed the fractures of a conservative, unequal, and closely watched country.
Follows 7-year-old Jackie on a quick but rough trip through her daily life: Typical stuff like dealing with her mom's torments, OCD, and talking to 80s TV star Ricky Schroder in the bathroom.
Years after their break-up, Tanya and Josean meet again at a conference on renewable energy. She has a lot to tell him...
After running away to Jogja to escape her mother’s new marriage, rebellious teen Shanaz finds herself lost in the city's red-light district—until an unlikely friendship with a compassionate prostitute gives her a chance to find her way back.
Twelve is set during a day at a public swimming pool. Tilde announces to Alva that she has just had her first period. This sets off a mounting sense of insecurity in Alva, which only increases when she notices her crush paying Tilde more attention.
FEU-FOLLET
A father stuck in the past. A son searching for an escape. And a family business caught right in the middle, inching ever closer towards oblivion.
In late 18th century Venice, in a convent school for girls, Teresa, a student with prophetic gifts, joins forces with some amazing music-makers. They create a new kind of pop, bright and bold, and challenge the ancient and rigid system.
A sequel to "Vampire Dead Beauty Carving", featuring the same members from the previous work, including scriptwriter Koji Takada, director Hideaki Onishi, and cinematographer Shigehira Suzuki.
A struggling entrepreneur is visited by an archangel, who tells him that he has been chosen to act as a prophet and save his hometown from corruption. He must also battle a demon that has manifested in his life, constantly whispering negatives into his mind. His marriage, his business, and his sanity will be pushed to the limit on this spiritual quest to let go and find faith.
Morphina
Max and Karen seem like a normal happily married couple, but in reality are undercover agents working for different governments. Their sexual relationship develops with new neighbors Melinda and Phil.
A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart (and Regan's lifelong pal) Mike Cassidy is about to marry Marjorie Church, pays a visit to Mike to offer congratulations. Convinced that Angie is fooling around behind his back, Regan accidentally kills her. A lost film.
On a train bound for New York, where she hopes to find work, Honey McNeil captures the appreciative eye of William Ogden, a financier, who offers her a job. At the apartment of her married sister, Jane, Honey renews her acquaintance with Sara Foote, now a worldly New Yorker secretly jealous of Jane. Honey is disappointed when young architect Harvey Gibbs brings her home from an unspectacular evening, and she declines his numerous proposals. Ogden, already married, is also rejected by Honey, despite the luxury he offers her. Don Kendall, in conspiracy with Sara, tries to obtain love letters Ogden has written Honey, so as to blackmail him, and her refusal to give them up causes him to beat her brutally. Realizing that Ogden does not love her, Honey dismisses Gibbs, who doubts her. Jane leaves her husband and elopes with Don. Honey is ultimately united with Gibbs, who wins a prize for designing a church. The film is now lost.
The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.