Uma Doce Mentira

Briar Hill, une paisible banlieue du Connecticut, fut autrefois bouleversée par un terrible drame : un étudiant perdit la raison et tua une quinzaine de ses camarades de classe...Quinze ans plus tard, Diana semble avoir surmonté cette tragédie. Son mari Paul, qu'elle a connu au lycée, est devenu professeur de beaux-arts à l'université. Sa fille Emma n'en finit pas de grandir et semble avoir hérité du caractère marqué de sa mère. Diana a théoriquement tout pour être heureuse. Sa vie semble épanouie et seule l'ombre de la tragédie l'obsède encore.En ce temps-là, elle était amie avec Maureen. Elles étaient ensemble lorsque le drame s'est produit, elles étaient sur place lorsque leur camarade est devenu fou. La tragédie avait fait la une des journaux. Pourtant, tout n'a pas été dit... Derrière cette affaire se cache un secret qui depuis ronge sa vie...

Summer is ending.Isabel returns to the beach, alone, has if a threat was getting closer to her.Her father and younger sister are home.Father writes texts for Diogo's radio show.Isabel likes Diogo. She just failed her exams and waits for him through the pines. She wants to give up on school, get a job, and leave her father at home.Diogo acts has he can't understand what she wants, see what she is.In a world with no apparent dangers, Isabel feels like she has death underneath her feet.

Love story concerning a pair of star-crossed lovers living in Rio de Janeiro's two-tiered society. Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina, the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro, who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. As Dé and Nina's romance intensifies, they both begin to realize that that society is dead set against them ever achieving any measure of true happiness together.

This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own. "Starting off from a fine novel by Carlos de Oliveira, Fernando Lopes doesn't so mush reconstitute a story, but rather defines an atmosphere parallel to that which exists in the literary work.

A brilliant documentary taking a look at life in the favela slums in Rio De Janeiro where a daily conflict exists, some call it a war, between ghetto residents and the police. With a labour market which doesn't pay a living wage to low end employees and positions netting an average 10x more in the drug supply chain ever present, it's no wonder why people in Brazil's slums turn to a life of crime. They sell drugs to the wealthy middle class (where there is always a market) and buy military grade weapons on the black market (mostly from corrupt police).

In the 70's, the fifteen years old whore Iracema meets the truck driver Sebastião, a.k.a. "Tião Brazil Grande", and travels with him along the Amazon Forest through Transamazônica, the longest Brazilian highway recently built by the military government to bring development to the area settling landless peasants. When Tião drops her on the road, Iracema is submitted to the most decadent types of prostitution to survive.