Xica da Silva

6.9

Sweet Diva

August 2025 •Portuguese

Maria da Paz is a committed baker who becomes a wealthy businesswoman twenty years after a tragedy strikes on the day of her wedding to Amadeu. From this broken union a baby is born, Jô, who seeks power and despises her mother’s humble origins. Afraid that her parents’ reunion might spoil her plans, Jô starts an alliance with the charming Régis to convince Maria to marry him and, together, they plan to steal all of Maria’s fortune. In this exciting telenovela written by Emmy Awards winner Walcyr Carrasco, Maria’s optimism must be stronger than Jô’s ambition when the baker finds out about the betrayal and her own daughter’s dangerous secrets.

8.3

Ling Cage

August 2025 •Chinese

In the near future, human inhabitants would have been crowded and congested. It was an urgency to stride out to the universe and find a new home. When everything was under progress in an orderly way, dramatic geological transformations erupted over the courses of decades. Humanity was demolished by this disaster and hardly left anything. Until the nature gradually restored calm, people struggled to their feet from ruins and abysses, stepping again onto this familiar but strange earth. But for us people, dominating everything has been rooted into our blood. Are we still masters of this new world?

7.5

North and South

August 2025 •English

The story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of Pennsylvania, who become best friends while attending the United States Military Academy at West Point but later find themselves and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.

6.5

The Book of Negroes

August 2025 •English

Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the 19th century.

3.0

How to Become Crazy Rich in Eastern Europe

August 2025 •Polish

Tired of just scraping by, an ambitious janitor scams and schemes his way to the good life in 1980s Poland amid changing regimes and personal chaos.

6.5

DearS

August 2025 •Japanese

One year ago, a UFO containing 150 aliens crash-landed off the shores of Kasai. Because no one could fix their ship, the Japanese Government decided to bestow upon them the designation "DearS" and make them into Japanese citizens. One morning, a truck carrying a capsule that housed one of the aliens ends up dropping it into the riverbank, releasing her from her confinement. She is eventually found by a high school student named Takeya Ikuhara, who saves her, despite being extremely distrustful of their race and wanting nothing to do with them. Upon being named Ren, she imprints upon him as her "Master" and serves as his personal "Slave," leaving him with a "DearS" who wants to remain with him no matter what.

8.3

Bakekang

August 2025 •Tagalog

A loving heart trapped beneath an ugly facade, ignored and unappreciated by those who fail to see beyond what is skin-deep. She is a woman whose only desire is to feel a little affection from the world that has deprived her of everything she has always longed for.

5.9

Escrava Isaura

August 2025 •Portuguese

Set in 19th-century Brazil during the waning years of slavery, Escrava Isaura tells the story of Isaura, a white-skinned enslaved woman raised with the manners and education of a noble lady. Though treated with affection by her mistress, Isaura remains legally enslaved and becomes the object of obsessive desire by Leôncio Almeida, the cruel heir to the plantation. After the death of her protector, Isaura falls under Leôncio’s control. Despite his attempts to seduce and dominate her, she resists, determined to preserve her dignity and freedom. Her father, Miguel, helps her escape to Recife, where she adopts a new identity and meets Álvaro, a wealthy and principled abolitionist who falls in love with her. Leôncio eventually tracks her down, leading to dramatic confrontations. In the end, Álvaro rescues Isaura by purchasing Leôncio’s debts, securing her freedom and affirming the story’s central themes of justice, love, and resistance against oppression.

6.6

Underground

August 2025 •English

A group of slaves plan a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive.

5.0

Great Expectations

August 2025 •English

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

8.4

Itaewon Class

August 2025 •Korean

In a colorful Seoul neighborhood, an ex-con and his friends fight a mighty foe to make their ambitious dreams for their street bar a reality.

6.9

Roots

August 2025 •English

An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.

8.0

The Civil War

August 2025 •English

A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

7.0

Mildred Pierce

August 2025 •English

Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.

6.3

Great Expectations

August 2025 •English

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

8.0

Khun Chai Tum Raberd

August 2025 •Thai

When a skilled papaya salad vendor suddenly becomes a millionaire thanks to a lucky lottery ticket, his once simple life changes. He has to take his family away from his uninvited relatives to Bangkok to start living like a rich person. What's more, he...

8.1

Record of Youth

August 2025 •Korean

In a cutthroat world where the life you’re born into decides your success, three aspiring youths are determined to change that perception as they fight for their dreams.

8.8

Parizaad

August 2025 •Urdu

Based on Hashim Nadeem’s novel of the same name, the titular protagonist is born in unfortunate circumstances – a poor family of eleven people and dark skin. In a society obsessed with fair skin, he finds himself in start contrast with his name (lit. fairy's child)

8.5

Legend of Lu Zhen

August 2025 •Chinese

To escape her cruel stepmother, Lu Zhen enters the palace and rises through the ranks with her pottery skills. Despite capturing the heart of Crown Prince Gao Zhan, social barriers and jealous enemies prevent their union. She dedicates herself to politics, helping him thwart a coup, and is eventually honored with the position of female prime minister.

8.2

The Handmaid's Tale

August 2025 •English

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

Xica da Silva

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Cast

Taís Araújo

Victor Wagner

Drica Moraes

Carla Regina

Murilo Rosa

Adriane Galisteu

Carlos Alberto

Eduardo Dussek

Zezé Motta

Ângela Leal

Maurício Gonçalves

Giovanna Antonelli

Guilherme Piva

Deo Garcez

Eliana Guttman

Teresa Siqueira

Fernando Eiras

Charles Moeller

António Marques

Lídia Franco

Miriam Pires

Altair Lima

André Di Mauro

Jayme Periard

Anabela Teixeira

Rosa Castro André

Andréa Avancini

Leci Brandão

Matheus Petinatti

Rita Ribeiro

Maria Clara Mattos

Alexandre Lippiani

José Steimberg

Gonçalo Diniz

Fernando Vieira

Maria Alves

Haroldo de Oliveira

Alexandre Moreno

Iléa Ferraz

Joana Limaverde

Walney Costa

Edson Montenegro

Lucimara Martins

Ludmila Dayer

Lourdes Mayer

Sorys Gabriela

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