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When he learns of his mother’s death, Thomas returns to Brazil with Beni, his partner, and is told he now owns a country house that used to belong to a grandmother he never met. Curious to connect with his family history, they visit the house and Thomas is welcomed by two aunts that treat him like a long-lost child. As Thomas becomes increasingly enchanted with the place, Beni begins to suspect that something lurks beneath the façade of a quiet country life.
Five half-siblings – Venus, Andromeda, Jupiter, Electra, and Plutao – share the same father, Pedro. Separated by their respective mothers after Pedro's death, the quintet have had few social and intimate interactions since. Years later, now adults, they reunite when their millionaire grandmother disappears on a cruise and is presumed dead. To earn their inheritance, they will have to live and work together for a year in an attempt to bring the family business back to its peak. If they don't succeed, the inheritance will go to their cousin, Hans, who will do anything to get the money from his aunt.
When Alex and Eva choose to exchange vows at the very spot they first crossed paths, a series of hilarious missteps derails their journey to the altar.
The film brings Clarice Lispector’s novel Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres to the current days. In the plot, Lóri is a lonely and melancholic woman. She divides her time between her duties as a school teacher and her relationships, which are always fast and shallow. By chance, she meets Ulisses, an acknowledged Philosophy professor, who is self centered and provocative. Although he knows nothing about women, Lóri learns with him how to love and to face her own loneliness.
Everything is going well in the relationship between Tony and his nephews until his sister's new suitor appears and becomes the trio's new favorite, making Tony jealous.
Gilda is a free woman, in the most literal sense of the word. She has excellent culinary skills, raises pigs and chickens in the backyard of her home for slaughter and produces recipes capable of enchanting her friends, family and lovers. Her independence bothers the neighborhood, especially Cacilda, wife of Ismael who is running for public office through a party linked to a religious group.
Dona Hermínia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.
Tancinha is a charming fruit seller known for her hot temper who gets torn between an explosive relationship with passionate truck driver Apolo, her neighbour and childhood sweetheart, and an irresistible attraction for Beto, a lady-killer who will not take no for an answer. The girl ends up being caught up in a family feud over the disappearance of her father whom she believed to be dead. Tancinha will leave a path of turmoil along her way to unveil this mystery.
Winner of the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela, "Side by Side" focuses on two women of different origins and social classes. The brave Isabel, daughter of a former slave and in love with the capoeira player Zé Maria; and Laura, descendant from a wealthy family and destined to an undesired marriage to Edgar. In addition to an unshakable friendship, the two share the same purpose in life: the conquest of freedom in the conservative society of Rio de Janeiro of the early 20th century.
Valter's life turns upside-down when a gang of smalltime criminals move in next door. Valter's wife Iara wants something to be done about their new neighbors whos nigthtly activities does not allow them to sleep. Valter just wants to be left alone.
