Vinicius de Moraes

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. ...

They Shot the Piano Player (2023)

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976. ...

Otto: De Trás p/ Diante (2022)

The life story of journalist and writer Otto Lara Resende. Paulo Mendes Campos, a personal friend of Otto, provides intimate insights into the artist's life. The documentary's central theme is the interview published in 1975 in Manchete magazine, celebrati ...

Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova (2022)

Despite her position at the epicentre of the Brazilian bossa nova scene, singer Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known as Miúcha, has been largely underappreciated. This documentary, which dives into her career and personal life through a rich collecti ...

Pixinguinha, an Affectionate Man (2021)

The life of legendary Brazilian musician Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, better known as Pixinguinha. ...

Garoto - Vivo Sonhando (2020)

A prodigy of stringed instruments, a pioneer of Bossa Nova, a modernizing master of the guitar: Aníbal Augusto Sardinha, better known as Garoto (1915-1955), is one of the hidden pillars of Brazilian music. Woven by rare archival material, personal diaries ...

The Crystallization of Brasília (2019)

Fourth chapter of the "Atlas", "The Crystallization of Brasília" explores the ideia of the future as a petrified past. In an accelerated geological time, centuries crystallize in a few months in the form of a city. This process is driven by the force of m ...

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 ...

Mario Wallace Simonsen, Entre a Memória e a História (2013)

The documentary is an investigation into the life of Mario Wallace Simosen, a man who commanded conglomerates of several companies and was threatened during the Military Dictatorship, when his rights were revoked. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova (2005)

Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style. ...

Toquinho (2001)

As nascentes (1993)

ABC of a Strike (1990)

ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of highly-regarded director Leon Hirszman in 1987, by which time the material had a new relevance. The gripping film captures the ...

Brasília, Uma Sinfonia (1986)

Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família (1983)

A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death. ...

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. ...

Vinicius para Criança: A Arca de Noé (1980)

Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music (1979)

Musicalmente (1978)

Witness here a historical moment of Brazilian music. At the end of the 70's, Vinícius de Moraes, Toquinho, Tom Jobim and Miúcha took off to Italy, to take part in a TV program called Musicalmente Vinícius (Musically Vinícius). In a casual and intimate ...

Masters of Bossa Nova: Jobim, Toquinho, Vinicius (1978)

Legendary bossa nova artists Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Toquinho demonstrate on stage why this infectious Brazilian musical genre, with the lilting, alluring sound, has left its global mark. Performing in 1978, the trio runs throu ...

Música, poesia e amor (1976)

Cyro Monteiro (1975)

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. ...

Pluft, o Fantasminha (1962)

It tells the story of a girl being abducted by the evil pirate with a wooden leg. ...

Noah's Ark (2024)

A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark: Vini, a charismatic poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist. When the rains come, only one male and one female of each species is allowed on Noah's Ark. With the help of an in ...

Language of the Infinite Cycle of All Things (2023)

There is no disorder in nature, we just don't understand it's language. ...

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. ...

Para Viver Um Grande Amor (1984)

Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich girl falls in love with a poor composer. Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica", by Vinícius de Moraes ...

Iracema, a Virgem dos Lábios de Mel (1979)

The loves and life of a beautiful Brazilian Indian woman. ...

Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber (1977)

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti. ...

Marília e Marina (1976)

Carioca Tigre (1976)

Doomed Lovers (1967)

The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished its purity. The modern transposition of the legend is set in Brazil, in a village of poor fishermen on Guanaba ...

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 ...

Sol Sobre a Lama (1963)

A poor community in Salvador organizes a resistance against the destruction of the Água de Meninos street market. ...

The Dead at the Phone (1963)

This story begins with Marcelo's funeral. His family, his fiancée Lúcia and three suspicious men are the only people accompanying the coffin. By night, at home, Rosa, Ricardo and Lúcia notice something strange: Marcelo's room has been completely ransac ...

Black Orpheus (1959)

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the G ...