Dona Zica
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Nelson de Copo e Alma
1985-05-10
Nelson de Copo e Alma
Overview: Nelson Cavaquinho as seen by Ruy Solberg.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-10
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Fala Mangueira!
1983-01-01
Fala Mangueira!
Overview: A documentary on the influence that carnival has on the daily life of the Mangueira hill in Rio de Janeiro. It follows the manufacture of the carnivals of 1981 and 1982, interviewing several residents who tell the story of more than half a century of the favela's existence and emphasizing its community importance and cultural, to the sound of the most beautiful sambas composed on Mangueira.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino
2002-01-01
Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino
Overview: A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albino Pinheiro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
2022-10-06
Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
Overview: 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 lifetime.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Black Orpheus
1959-06-12
Black Orpheus
Overview: 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 Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-06-12
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