Macabéia
Imagine "Macabéa", that one from Clarice Lispector's book. Plain, stuck in life - What would her life be like today? This is the story of Marluce, who thinks, acts, feels and dreams like a Macabea from the late 90's.
Imagine "Macabéa", that one from Clarice Lispector's book. Plain, stuck in life - What would her life be like today? This is the story of Marluce, who thinks, acts, feels and dreams like a Macabea from the late 90's.
Rated 7.3 on TMDB
Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux's plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother. Story of two disparate people linked by "fate" gets increasingly interesting as it rolls along.
Rated 6.3 on TMDB
A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
Rated 6.3 on TMDB
Young, beautiful, talented Alexis Winston comes from nowhere to become a figure skating superstar. But her rise to stardom isn’t easy. She has to push herself, reinvent herself, and most painfully of all, leave her hometown boyfriend behind. When a tragic fall leaves her blind, she needs someone to believe in her, to love her; someone to convince her she has the strength to skate and dream again.
