Maria Bethânia

Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil (2025)

A sound and visual journey that portrays the life and work of singer and composer Luiz Melodia. The Poet of Estácio himself tells us, in the first person, his trajectory as a black boy born on the hill until his transformation into one of the greatest art ...

Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi (2024)

The film reveals the creation of poet Dorival Caymmi's musical works with testimonies from researchers, journalists and friends who lived with him and were able to enjoy his wisdom and talent. ...

Os Afro-Sambas: The Brazil of Baden and Vinicius (2024)

Released in 1966 by Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell, the record Os Afro-Sambas is one of Brazil's most revered. Participants of the original recording, critics, friends and family of the musicians revisit the creation of this masterpiece. Filmed betwee ...

Toquinho Maravilhoso (2024)

The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language with his sensitivity. A story that shapes Brazilian popular music. ...

Moacyr Luz, O Embaixador Dessa Cidade (2024)

Partner of Aldir Blanc and creator of the Samba do Trabalhador, Moacyr Luz is followed by Tarsilla Alves' cameras for a week. A seasoned bohemian, we follow Moacyr's wanderings, filled with plenty of booze, gatherings with friends, and beautiful sambas tha ...

Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu (2022)

The film is an unprecedented and exclusive testimonial of Maria Bethânia from director and screenwriter Carlos Jardim, interspersed with rare footage of rehearsals and concerts by the singer throughout her 57-year career. Actress Fernanda Montenegro narra ...

Especial Caetano Veloso 80 Anos (2022)

Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta (2019)

The intense life of Ferreira Gullar, one of the most influential poets in Brazil, is revisited by his personal friend Silvio Tendler, based on his most acclaimed work: Poema Sujo. In addition to addressing other poems by Gullar, the documentary also includ ...

Memórias do Grupo Opinião (2019)

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous ...

Fevereiros (2019)

A record on Brazilian samba school Estação Primeira de Mangueira's victory on the 2016 carnaval parade. Mangueira's parade that year was a homage to singer Maria Bethânia. The documentary also follows Bethânia on the celebrations of Our Lady of Purific ...

Maria Bethânia e Zeca Pagodinho: De Santo Amaro a Xerém (2018)

Com a Palavra, Arnaldo Antunes (2018)

From his origins as a poet to his success as a singer and composer, Arnaldo Antunes revisits the most remarkable moments of his career. ...

Dê Lembranças a Todos (2018)

Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought about his Bahia, even far from it. His family, partners, friends and fans remember his history, which made him ...

A Imagem da Tolerância (2017)

While the differences in religious beliefs tend to separate and divide, the image of Nossa Senhora de Aparecida is like her cloak, covering and protecting the body of her followers. Aparecida has devout followers of all social classes, religions and region ...

The Next Samba (2017)

A year of hard work, thousands of people involved, the choice of a great samba, the death of their official vocalist for 17 years, lots of sweat, tears and love, made Carnival 2016 extremely special. Behind the scenes of the biggest samba school on the pla ...

Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas (2017)

Karingana - Licença para contar (2017)

Maria Bethânia takes her poetic narrative to Mozambique for the first time. The interpreter presents excerpts of works connected by different forms of expression in the Portuguese language. With testimonies from Mia Couto, José Agualusa and several Mozam ...

Abraçar e Agradecer (2016)

Celebrating 50 years of her career, Maria Bethânia filmed in Brazil in 2105 the show Abraçar e Agradecer, which now comes out on CD and DVD. ...

Pitanga (2016)

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and ...

Zeca Apresenta - o Quintal do Pagodinho ao Vivo - Vol. 3 (2016)

Ruin (2016)

A woman reads a poem, but the world doesn't seem to care. ...

Chico: Brazilian Artist (2015)

Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, show ...

26º Prêmio da Música Brasileira - Homenagem a Maria Bethânia (2015)

Cauby: Começaria Tudo Outra Vez (2015)

The film discusses decisive moments in the life and career of Cauby Peixoto. In addition to interviews and recordings of the singer's concerts, the film uses testimonials from fans and artists such as Maria Bethânia, Emílio Santiago, Agnaldo Timóteo and ...

Maria Bethânia: Carta de Amor Ao Vivo (2013)

The show brings successes of his career, songs from the new CD and unpublished songs in his voice. In the script, songs from the new album as 'Casablanca' and 'Barulho' (both by. which inspired the album's title. ...

Maria Bethânia - Caderno de Poesia (2013)

Tropicália (2012)

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thoug ...

Alcione - Duas Faces (2011)

Rio Sonata: Nana Caymmi (2011)

Featuring images from concerts that marked the history of Brazilian music and interviews with major personalities, Nana Caymmi, one of the greatest artists of Brazilian popular music, has her story analyzed and revisited. The ex-wife of Gilberto Gil, muse ...

Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1 (2010)

Duetos (2010)

"Duetos" is the sixth compilation by Brazilian musical artist Ivete Sangalo, released on May 5, 2010 by Universal Music. The collection brings together 16 duets that Ivete made throughout her career, from 1999 to 2009. It's an opportunity for fans to be c ...

Maria Bethânia: Dentro do Mar Tem Rio (2009)

Multishow Registro: Pode Entrar (2009)

Pode Entrar: Multishow Registro is a DVD by one of the greatest singers from Brazil, Ivete Sangalo. It was recorded at the singer's house in Salvador, in a more intimate mood, when she is visited by many guests, great names of Brazilian music as Maria Beth ...

Palavra (En)Cantada (2009)

A journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry and music, sewing testimonials of great names of our culture, musical performances and amazing research of images. ...

The Man Who Bottled Clouds (2008)

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement i ...

Maria Bethânia e Omara Portuondo (2008)

Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal (2008)

This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of Brazilian culture over the last four decades. Author of songs such as "Vapor Barato" and "Movimento dos Barcos", a partner in crime of poet Waly Salomão, ...

Maria Bethânia: Pedrinha de Aruanda (2007)

A unique and intimate portrait of singer Maria Bethania, that starts at the artist's 60th birthday, celebrated during a concert in El Salvador and a Mass in Santo Amaro, her hometown, in 2006. In the same house where she spent her childhood and adolescence ...

Vento Bravo (2007)

Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day (2006)

The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which the singer was the muse and one of the main interpreters, and reaching the present day. ...

Maria Bethânia: Tempo Tempo Tempo Tempo (2005)

Vinicius de Moraes (2005)

To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music and, above all, an enlightened character of the Brazilian cultural history - director Miguel Faria Jr. gathered an ...

Viva Volta (2005)

A documentary on Brazilian trombone player Raul de Souza who, since 1996, has lived in Paris and suffers because he goes unnoticed, unrewarded in his native land. With the sound of his trombone for a background, the film takes him back to Bangu, in Rio de ...

Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume (2005)

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family. ...

Phono 73: A Country and its Music (2005)

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest against the curtailment of freedom of expression in those dark years of the dictatorship. With the images res ...

Maria Bethânia: Brasileirinho Ao Vivo (2004)

MPB dos Tempos da Repressão (2004)

Ana Carolina - Estampado (2003)

O DVD intitulado Estampado da cantora e compositora Ana Carolina traz grandes sucessos e músicas inéditas na voz desse ícone da música brasileira. Você pode conferir faixas novas como "Escurinho", "Gente Humilde" e "Oração de São Francisco de Assis ...

The Egg (2003)

Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken. ...

Outros (Doces) Bárbaros (2002)

Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia), the artists involved decided to get together again for limited concerts in São Paulo ...

Brazil's Maria Bethânia (2001)

This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the work, the records and the career of this great lady of Brazilian music are well known, the starting point, the tra ...

Maria Bethânia: Noite Luzidia (2001)

Recorded at Canecão in 2001, this historic show celebrates Maria Bethânia's 35-year career with guest appearances from MPB. The DVD also shows testimonials from various artists and the soundtrack that was the beginning of this great and memorable party. ...

Chico e as Cidades (1999)

The documentary "Chico e as Cidades" was directed by José Henrique Fonseca in 2001 and re-released by Biscoito Fino in June 2009 with three previously unreleased extras: Cecília's music video and takes of the songs "Injuriado" and "Futures Amantes." The ...

Entangling Shadows (1998)

Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inici ...

Maria Bethânia: As Canções Que Você Fez Pra Mim - Ao Vivo (1994)

Brasil (1981)

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil. ...

Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque (1980)

The life and work of Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer and poet Chico Buarque de Hollanda. ...

Mulher 80 (1979)

Mulher 80 emerged as a result of the success of 'Malu Mulher' (1979), a miniseries starring Regina Duarte, which addressed the female situation in Brazilian society at that time. The main focus of the special was the female presence in music, honouring the ...

Panorama with Clarice Lispector (1977)

A rare interview of Clarice Lispector, from 1977, to Julio Lerner, TV Cultura reporter. After its recording, Clarice asked for the interview to be aired only after her passing. It went on air ten months later. Clarice died in December 1977, aged 57. "Uma ...

Os Doces Bárbaros (1977)

The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, who formed the group with the name of Doces Bárbaros (Sweet Barbarians), at the suggestion of Bethân ...

When Carnaval Comes (1972)

Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task. ...

Bahia - Stadt aller Heiligen (1971)

Saravah (1969)

Documentary about Brazilian music circa 1969, with extremely rare scenes, such as the only color footage of Pixinguinha, images of João da Baiana, one of the fathers of Samba, Maria Bethânia rehearsing at Barroco nightclub, Baden Powell playing his acous ...

The Man Who Bought the World (1968)

In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape. ...

A Última Ceia Segundo Ziraldo (1968)

The Girl from Ipanema (1967)

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremel ...

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo (1967)

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967. ...

Bethânia Bem de Perto: A Propósito de um Show (1966)

Documentary about Maria Bethânia, at the very beginning of her career as a singer, when she arrived in Rio da Bahia to replace Nara Leão in the show Opinião. Bethânia's appearance, at that time in southern Rio, was a cultural shock that shook the city. ...

The Dare (1965)

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in 1960s Brazil, a journalist enters a personal crisis, aggravated by his affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son. ...

Abraçar e Agradecer (2016)

Celebrating 50 years of her career, Maria Bethânia filmed in Brazil in 2105 the show Abraçar e Agradecer, which now comes out on CD and DVD. ...

A Gis (2016)

Gisberta was a Brazilian trans woman that lived as immigrant in Portugal. She was brutally murdered 10 years ago and since then became an icon for the transsexual rights cause. Piece by piece, this documentary offers a delicate portrait of a woman torn apa ...

Maria Bethânia: Tempo Tempo Tempo Tempo (2005)

The Man Who Bought the World (1968)

In a fictitious country, a civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities to prevent a collapse of the world economy. But he manages to escape. ...