Screenplay: Paulo Lins

Direction Fernando Meirelles · Kátia Lund

Cast Alexandre Rodrigues · Leandro Firmino · Phellipe Haagensen · Douglas Silva

Plot Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that--in the early 80's--became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale...

Direction Lucía Murat

Cast Caco Ciocler · Flavio Bauraqui · Werner Schünemann · Antônio Pompêo

Plot On the 70's, Brazil lived under a military dictatorship, when many political prisoners were incarcerated in a penitentiary in Ilha Grande, located on the coast of the State of Rio...

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Toni Garrido · Patrícia França · Murilo Benício · Zezé Motta

Plot In a dangerous but human Rio de Janiro's slum, rises the love affair between Orfeu, a famous composer, and Eurídice, a simple but pretty brunette, provoking jealousy and violence in...

Direction Lucía Murat

Cast Vinícius D'Black · Monique Soares · Rafael Mariano · Elisa Lucinda

Plot Free adaptation of the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet translated to the harsh life in Favela da Maré, one of largest and most violent slums in Rio de Janeiro.