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To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca, but becomes trapped in the dangerous world of human traffick

Raimundo Nonato leaves the Northeast to try his luck in São Paulo and, by chance, discovers he has a talent for cooking. Everything goes well until a betrayal changes the course of his life.

Portrait of a young gay man recently arrived in Sao Paulo.

Stories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.

Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where various nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, ba

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

After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.

In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.

As the stars move through the sky of São Paulo five people ask what will become of their dreams. In the struggle to break their isolation they discover the transforming power of solidarity.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a gi

Maiquel has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw--all in 24 hours.