Chico Buarque
Biography: Francisco Buarque de Hollanda OMC • ComIH, better known as Chico Buarque (Rio de Janeiro, June 19, 1944), is a Brazilian singer, composer, guitarist, playwright, writer and actor. He is considered by many critics to be the greatest living artist in Brazilian music. His discography includes approximately eighty works, including solo albums, in partnership with other musicians and compacts.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 19, 1944
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume
2005-08-24
Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume
Overview: Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-08-24
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Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
2022-09-01
Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
Overview: 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 narrates five texts by authors such as Ferreira Gullar and Caio Fernando Abreu about Bethânia's importance on the Brazilian cultural scene.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-01
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O Tempo e o Som
1970-01-01
O Tempo e o Som
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Jair Rodrigues - Let Them Talk
2023-04-27
Jair Rodrigues - Let Them Talk
Overview: Jair Rodrigues, the portrait of an artist from a Brazil so close and yet so distant.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-04-27
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Dia Voa
2011-07-20
Dia Voa
Overview: "Dia Voa" is a documentary that follows Chico Buarque during the recording of his album, capturing exclusive interviews and unseen footage. It was his first album integrated into digital platforms during the promotional process. In just over an hour, the film showcases the conception and production of the album—from Chico’s return to songwriting after a period dedicated to literature (during which he released Leite Derramado, winner of the 2010 Jabuti Award for Best Fiction Book) to the final product.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-07-20
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Loki: Arnaldo Baptista
2009-06-19
Loki: Arnaldo Baptista
Overview: Loki brings the trajectory of Arnaldo Baptista from childhood, passing through the most successful phase as leader of the Mutantes, marriage to singer Rita Lee and then separation. He also goes through the depression that devastated his life after the group ended and that led him to attempt suicide, his solo career, rapprochement with his brother and member of the Mutantes, Sérgio Dias, culminating in the band's return in 2006.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-19
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Beyond Citizen Kane
1993-09-01
Beyond Citizen Kane
Overview: Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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The Coup d'État Factory
2022-09-08
The Coup d'État Factory
Overview: Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the support of the big media, particularly TV Globo. Two Brazilian journalists in the UK reveal the manipulative tactics of these organisations.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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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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Consideração do Poema
2011-03-03
Consideração do Poema
Overview: Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Torres, Marilia Pera, Antonio Cicero and others.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-03-03
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The Mandarin
1995-11-06
The Mandarin
Overview: The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.
Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-11-06
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Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air
2007-01-14
Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air
Overview: A documentary made to coincide with Niemeyer's 100th birthday. The renowned architect talks about his long life, his inspirations, and his aspirations towards a just Brazil, and the ways he tried to help that along in his spectacular and beautiful buildings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-14
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Fattoruso
2017-05-06
Fattoruso
Overview: Documentary on the life of uruguayan legendary musician Hugo Fattoruso.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-05-06
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Desconstrução
Desconstrução
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
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Betinho: Hope on the Line
2015-10-29
Betinho: Hope on the Line
Overview: Documentary on the life of Brazilian sociologist Herbert de Souza, engaged in the struggle against hunger, SIDA and military dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-29
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Ana Carolina - Estampado
2003-01-01
Ana Carolina - Estampado
Overview: 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", além da interpretação da canção "Corsário" acompanhada pelo violão de João Bosco. O disco ainda conta com participações especiais de Chico Buarque, Chico César e Maria Bethânia. Imperdível!
Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Ana Carolina - #AC Ao Vivo
2015-03-31
Ana Carolina - #AC Ao Vivo
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Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-03-31
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A Night in 67
2010-07-30
A Night in 67
Overview: In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of elimination rounds. They also formed the springboard for the career of many a big-name stars, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Roberto Carlos and Gilberto Gil. Appearing on such a program was no cakewalk, however: audiences could be as wild in their condemnation as in their appreciation of an artist. Extensive archive footage (including performances and behind-the-scenes interviews) from the turbulent final evening of the Festival of Brazilian Popular Music 1967 paints a fascinating picture, not only of the transformation of Brazilian music into real "festival" music, but also of a society starting to buck against the yoke of military rule.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-07-30
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The Man Who Bottled Clouds
2008-07-28
The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Overview: 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 in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-07-28
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Water and Salt
2001-08-01
Water and Salt
Overview: Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threatened when she starts doing her daily walks by the village and the beach: she saves a stranger from death in the sea, meets young Alexandre and Emilia, and her friend Vera turns up in her house. And then, everything changes…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-08-01
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Vinicius de Moraes
2005-11-01
Vinicius de Moraes
Overview: 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 incomparable cast of partners, singers, friends and rare images from the archives recalling Vinícius’ genial simplicity, with the spontaneity, the humor, and the freedom of a person chatting over a bar table, exactly how the eternal Vinícius would enjoy.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-11-01
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Raízes do Brasil
2004-03-19
Raízes do Brasil
Overview: Documentary in two parts about Brazilian writer, journalist and sociologist Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. The first part describes how the author used to pass his days with family and friends, while the second offers a historical panorama of the times, including his reaction to Nazism and the years of Vargas’ dictatorship, and the arrival of the modernist movement in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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When Carnaval Comes
1972-07-13
When Carnaval Comes
Overview: Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-07-13
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Jorge Amado
1996-08-04
Jorge Amado
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-08-04
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The Girl from Ipanema
1967-05-26
The Girl from Ipanema
Overview: 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 extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-26
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Chico e as Cidades
1999-01-02
Chico e as Cidades
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-01-02
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
2015-11-26
Chico: Brazilian Artist
Overview: 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, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-11-26
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Phono 73: A Country and its Music
2005-01-02
Phono 73: A Country and its Music
Overview: 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 rescued in 2005, revealing exciting moments, containing the incredible presentations, it brings a team of all greatness and the opportunity to understand the path that Brazilian music has taken to the present day.
Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-02
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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
2023-01-30
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Overview: For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-30
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Chico Buarque - Meu Caro Amigo
2005-01-01
Chico Buarque - Meu Caro Amigo
Overview: The DVD MY DEAR FRIEND opens the retrospective series of work of Chico Buarque, highlighting some of his passions: the city of Rio de Janeiro and its partners and friends. "I kept an almost alien look on Rio I still have a relationship with the city of wonder. " Friends, partners and songs will be happening in the first episode of the series, in a relaxed and intimate way.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Chico Buarque - Anos Dourados
2005-08-23
Chico Buarque - Anos Dourados
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-23
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Chico Buarque - Uma Palavra
2005-01-01
Chico Buarque - Uma Palavra
Overview: Este é o nono DVD da série retrospectiva da obra de Chico Buarque e trata da rica relação entre múcica e literatura nas canções e livros do autor. Gravado em Lisboa, Paris e Budapeste, mostra o artista explicando as diferenças entre duas linguagens e como elas se influenciam mutuamente em sua obra. Faixas 1 Fado Tropical 2 Uma Palavra 3 Mar E Lua 4 Passaredo - Part Francis Hime 5 Mano a Mano - Part João Bosco 6 Joao E Maria 7 Ela Desatinou - Part Daniela Mercury e Tom Jobim 8 Quem Te Viu, Quem Te Ve 9 Fantasia 10 Pivete 11 Carioca 12 Sonhos Sonhos Sao 13 Morro Dois Irmaos 14 A Danca Dos Banqueiros
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Chico Buarque - À Flor da Pele
2005-01-01
Chico Buarque - À Flor da Pele
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Chico Buarque - Estação Derradeira
2005-01-01
Chico Buarque - Estação Derradeira
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Chico Buarque - Romance
2015-03-27
Chico Buarque - Romance
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-03-27
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Chico Buarque - O Futebol
2005-01-01
Chico Buarque - O Futebol
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Chico Buarque - Vai Passar
2005-01-01
Chico Buarque - Vai Passar
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Chico Buarque - Saltimbancos
2005-01-01
Chico Buarque - Saltimbancos
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Chico Buarque - Bastidores
2005-01-01
Chico Buarque - Bastidores
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Chico Buarque - Roda Viva
2005-01-01
Chico Buarque - Roda Viva
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Chico Buarque - Cinema
2005-01-01
Chico Buarque - Cinema
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Chico Buarque: Carioca – Ao Vivo
2007-01-01
Chico Buarque: Carioca – Ao Vivo
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Ed Mort
1997-05-05
Ed Mort
Overview: A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-05-05
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The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017-01-20
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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Evandro Teixeira: Snapshots of Reality
2003-01-01
Evandro Teixeira: Snapshots of Reality
Overview: Evandro Teixeira is one of the leading names in world photojournalism, with a career spanning more than 37 years in the Brazilian press. Baiano from Jequié, chose Rio de Janeiro to settle down and it was in Jornal do Brasil that he spent most of his career. In addition to an untiring photographic reporter, he also traveled to Brazil to search for images of Brazilians and recorded important events in the history of Brazil and the world, in coverage of national and international events.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Vinicius para Criança: A Arca de Noé
1980-10-10
Vinicius para Criança: A Arca de Noé
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Genres: Family Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-10-10
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Palavra (En)Cantada
2009-03-13
Palavra (En)Cantada
Overview: Palavra (En)Cantada makes 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.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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Pitanga
2016-09-23
Pitanga
Overview: 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 Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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Music According to Tom Jobim
2012-05-20
Music According to Tom Jobim
Overview: Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with "The Girl from Ipanema." This relaxed, cool, sensuous music blended jazz and samba. After recording an album of songs by his friend Jobim, Frank Sinatra is reported to have said, "I haven't sung so quietly since I had laryngitis." Naturally, "The Girl from Ipanema" and Frank Sinatra are featured in this musical collage of countless seamlessly edited excerpts of concert footage that cover decades of events all over the world: from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon, Paris, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Montreal, New York and back to Rio.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-20
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Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
1989-10-11
Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
Overview: A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-10-11
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Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
2017-04-19
Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-04-19
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Um Homem de Moral
2009-07-05
Um Homem de Moral
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-07-05
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MPB dos Tempos da Repressão
2004-03-10
MPB dos Tempos da Repressão
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-03-10
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Toquinho
2001-02-18
Toquinho
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Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-02-18
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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
1991-01-02
Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
Overview: Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Fevereiros
2019-01-31
Fevereiros
Overview: 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 Purification, in Bahia, northeast of Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-31
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Fados
2007-12-31
Fados
Overview: A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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The Trial
2018-05-17
The Trial
Overview: The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others, her then vice-president Michel Temer. Director Maria Augusta Ramos follows the trial against Rousseff from the point of view of her defence team. This is a courtroom drama that unfolds slowly: the appearances of the various parties gradually turn the proceedings into something akin to theatre. Inside the courtroom, grand emotions are played to full effect whilst, on the other side of the doors, lobbyists and supporters pace the corridors. Meanwhile, outside, in front of Brasília’s modernist government buildings, demonstrators are chanting like a Greek chorus. Only the main character, Rousseff herself, remains professional and aloof.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-05-17
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Chico Buarque: Caravanas – Ao Vivo
2018-11-09
Chico Buarque: Caravanas – Ao Vivo
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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O Samba é Meu Dom
2018-10-23
O Samba é Meu Dom
Overview: Between 2009 and 2012, filmmaker Cristiano Abud’s team followed the Brazilian samba musician Wilson das Neves. The result is this documentary, which recaptures the trajectory of Wilson, considered the greatest samba drummer of the 20th century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-23
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Aperana Street 52
2012-01-20
Aperana Street 52
Overview: In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque
1980-10-30
Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque
Overview: The life and work of Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer and poet Chico Buarque de Hollanda.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-10-30
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João do Vale, Muita Gente Desconhece
2005-01-02
João do Vale, Muita Gente Desconhece
Overview: Latest images of the artist still alive, an unprecedented composition, testimonies of friends, family and icons of Brazilian culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-02
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Chico Buarque - Palavra-Chave
2006-01-01
Chico Buarque - Palavra-Chave
Overview: 44 clips about themes, places and people that have appeared on the series
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Chico Buarque: Na Carreira
2012-10-20
Chico Buarque: Na Carreira
Overview: Na Carreira features the entire recording of Chico's concert – with ten tracks from the composer's album of the same name, and another 20 songs from different phases of his work.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-20
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Brazil's Maria Bethânia
2001-08-24
Brazil's Maria Bethânia
Overview: 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 training, the first years remained till now in a vaguely legendary and imprecise blur. Thanks to many investigations that concern as many places as times, thanks to journeys back in time through the towns and regions, the film seeks the origins of Maria Bethânia’s voice and style. Helped and led by Bethânia herself, with the assistance of Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque, the two princes of Brazilian music, along with the complicity of the great Gilberto Gil, the author is allowed to go to the first context : the North-East. In the family home in Santo Amaro, the film finally touches the childhood of Maria Bethânia – and her brother Caetano, and this mysterious point – from which the music radiates.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
2006-08-19
O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
Overview: Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian press, produced daily for six months, in the 1960s. The newspaper spoke of culture, politics and education through satires and prominent figures in the cultural scene of the time passed through him. Archive scenes and music from the period seek to reconstitute the spirit of the 68-generation. The film has the participation of personalities such as Ziraldo, Zuenir Ventura, Arnaldo Jabor, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Carlos Heitor Cony, Fernando Gabeira, Betty Faria, Hugo Carvana, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-08-19
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Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed
2010-03-04
Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed
Overview: The movie "Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed" shows the path of the dramaturgo Augusto Boal at the creation of a theatre that has as objective to transform those who participate it in a spiral of changes, in an oppressing society. Along the trajectory we see Boal's intellectual search and the transformations of the Brazilian society, from the 60s to nowadays. The spectator will meet the numerous uses of the Theatre of the Oppressed around the world (there are groups in 77 countries) and how they manifest in different situations, characterized by the relation between the oppressor and the oppressed, from the biggest to the smallest powers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-03-04
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Meu Caro Amigo Chico
2012-01-01
Meu Caro Amigo Chico
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Flamengo: A Century of Passion
1995-01-01
Flamengo: A Century of Passion
Overview: When Brazilian multi-sport club completed its 100th anniversary, this documentary narrated its story by interviewing some of its most important sportsmen ever, in football, basketball, rowing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Roberta Sá - Pra Se Ter Alegria
2009-08-08
Roberta Sá - Pra Se Ter Alegria
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Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-08
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Semente da Música Brasileira
2018-07-15
Semente da Música Brasileira
Overview: It tells the story of the musicians who revitalized Lapa, from the end of the 90s, in meetings on the small stage of "Bar Semente". The documentary is a historical record of a stronghold of cultural effervescence that remained in the affective memory of Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-15
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Another Country
2000-10-29
Another Country
Overview: The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographers and filmmakers that witnessed the event. Their dreams and expectations and what came out of the revolution. With outstanding historical footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-10-29
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Porfírio do Amaral: A Verdade Sobre o Samba
2020-09-10
Porfírio do Amaral: A Verdade Sobre o Samba
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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Brascuba
1987-06-25
Brascuba
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-06-25
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Chico Buarque MPB Especial
1973-10-26
Chico Buarque MPB Especial
Overview: Chico Buarque and MPB-4 performing live at TV Cultura.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-26
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Vento Bravo
2007-01-01
Vento Bravo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Clara
2012-07-13
Clara
Overview: Orphaned by father and mother, Clara has always dreamed of building a singing career. At the age of 16, she moved to Belo Horizonte, where she won the ABC Golden Voice contest. In 1966, she recorded her first vinyl: A Adorable Voice by Clara Nunes. The approach to samba made her achieve the longed for success, in addition to international repercussion. Clara Nunes revolutionized the music industry, becoming the first woman to break the barriers imposed by the record label.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-07-13
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Ney - À Flor da Pele
2020-09-21
Ney - À Flor da Pele
Overview: The impact of Ney Matogrosso's performances on his audience and the reverberation of that impact on Brazilian culture, from the second half of the 20th century to the present. An audiovisual anthology, all composed of archival images. The best way to get to know Ney is to be with him on stage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-21
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A World Without Beethoven?
2020-09-15
A World Without Beethoven?
Overview: "What would the world be like without Beethoven?" That’s the provocative question posed by this music documentary from Deutsche Welle. To answer it, the film explores how Ludwig van Beethoven's innovations continue to have an impact far beyond the boundaries of classical music, 250 years after his birth.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-15
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A Farra do Circo
2013-11-30
A Farra do Circo
Overview: This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-30
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Alvorada
2021-04-13
Alvorada
Overview: The film narrates, from an intimate point of view, the daily life of President Dilma Rousseff in her official residence, the Palácio do Alvorada, while awaiting the verdict of the impeachment process. Portraying the hallways of the palace, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, we see the coming and going of political meetings, the daily routine of the kitchen, the exchange of guards, whispers and phone calls. We feel the growing tension of officials, advisers and former ministers.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-13
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Éramos Todos Loucos
2014-01-01
Éramos Todos Loucos
Overview: A documentary about the production of Hugo Carvana's successful film "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo", from 1973.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
2021-04-10
Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Overview: In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-10
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Toquinho Maravilhoso
2024-08-13
Toquinho Maravilhoso
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-13
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Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi
2024-11-28
Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-28
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Naked Eye
2014-05-15
Naked Eye
Overview: “Naked Eye” is a film-documentary of long-length of the artistic and existential universe of the singer Ney Matogrosso, which proposes to recreate through archive’s images in counterpoint with the current production of the artist, thirty-five years of career marked for inventive and transgressing spectacles, always symphonize with its time. Through a coherent boarding with its intransigent trajectory, the film intends to translate the language musical-corporal of Ney Matogrosso, trying audiovisuals resources that express signs evoked poetical politicians and in the repertoire of the singer. A film-song that that looks for to, ultimately, embody the voices of an artist who searches for a nation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-05-15
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Dias de Euforia
1989-12-25
Dias de Euforia
Overview: Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of São Paulo, television broadcasts, and support from artists like Djavan, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Lobão, and Leci Brandão. Additionally, it features footage of the marches and Lula's first interview after his electoral defeat. A work that recounts fragments of the struggle for democracy in the country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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