Nelson Sargento

Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho (2022)

A documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her l ...

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar (2021)

Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during ...

Porfírio do Amaral: A Verdade Sobre o Samba (2020)

Memória em Verde e Rosa (2016)

The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba. ...

Mário Lago (2013)

Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago. ...

Samba Social Clube - Vol. 1 (2008)

Cidade do Samba (2007)

Cartola: The Samba Legend (2007)

Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira). ...

Atabaque Nzinga (2007)

After being collected from the dressing room of the Candomblé center, Ana shares her desires, memories, dreams, and reflections with the viewer through a diary. ...

The Passenger: Adult Secrets (2006)

A coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds out about his family and where he came from. ...

Samba no Trem (2005)

A documentary about the celebration of the National Samba Day with the aim of preserving the memory of part of the history of samba, which was being forgotten by the press and the Brazilian people. ...

Paulinho da Viola: Meu Tempo É Hoje (2004)

Documentary about Brazilian samba songwriter and singer Paulinho da Viola, one of the most sophisticated musicians of the genre. The film shows his biography, influences, masters and friends, as well his simple and peculiar way of life, with activities lik ...

Casa de Samba (2003)

Meu Compadre, Zé Ketti (2001)

Short musical film paying a tribute to samba composer Zé Ketti, one of the greatest popular artists of Brazilian music. In a jam session, in the late composer's house in Inhaúma, a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, a group of friends get together to play h ...

Orfeu (1999)

Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood. But the local drug boss Lucinho stands between them and will drastically change both their lives. ...

Midnight (1998)

On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone. ...

Nelson Sargento (1997)

Biographical portrait of samba dancer Nelson Sargento in Morro da Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro. ...

Black Fragments of Samba - Cariocas, The City Musicians (1987)

A brief history of origins of brazilian carioca samba and its types. ...

Orfeu (1999)

Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood. But the local drug boss Lucinho stands between them and will drastically change both their lives. ...