Carlos Diegues
Also Known As: Carlos Diegues
Biography: Carlos José Fontes Diegues OMC, known as Cacá Diegues (Maceió, May 19, 1940 – Rio de Janeiro, February 14, 2025), was a Brazilian filmmaker. He was one of the founders of Cinema Novo.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: May 19, 1940
Age: 85 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 14, 2025
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The Good Cinema
Overview: An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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Summer Showers
Overview: 70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-04-24
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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
Overview: This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-04
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Looking for Black Orpheus
Overview: Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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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.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-03-03
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-17
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1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
Overview: The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-05-25
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Que Viva Glauber!
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Arroz, Feijão e Cinema
Overview: Arroz, Feijão e Cinema is a record of the transformative impacts that a popular movie theater, Ponto Cine, brought to the lives of the population of Guadalupe and adjacent neighborhoods in the Rio suburbs through a program exclusively of Brazilian films and projects from audience formation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-03-05
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Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude
Overview: A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato. Such as the magazine "Navilouca", the film "Terror da Vermelha", the column "Geleia Geral" and the controversial Cinema Novo X Marginal, among other passages important aspects of Brazilian culture in the 60s and 70s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-12-16
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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At the Edge of the Earth
Overview: On 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere in Capitólio Theater in Rio de Janeiro to astonished audiences bewildered by the impressive and poetic images. Considered by many viewers the best Brazilian movie ever made, this feature has never been released commercially. However, in a great paradox, Mário Peixoto has never made any other movie. The director Sérgio Machado pays a great tribute to the life and work Mário Peixoto a.k.a. Maçarico by his close friends with this documentary, using his diary; footages of "Limite", the never concluded "Onde a Terra Acaba" (1933) and the short "O Homem do Morcego" (1980); and interesting testimonies of Olga Breno, Ruy Solberg, Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Walter Salles among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-07-07
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Depois do Transe
Overview: The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Dossiê Jango
Overview: João Goulart (known as Jango) had been democratically elected president of Brazil, but was expelled from office after the coup of April 1, 1964. After that, Jango lived in exile in Argentina, where he died in 1976. The circumstances of his death in the neighboring country were not well explained today. His body was buried immediately after his death, raising the suspicions of premeditated murder. This documentary brings the issue back to the fore and tries to publicly clarify some obscure facts of the history of Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-07-05
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Em Quadro: A História de 4 Negros nas Telas
Overview: A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-02
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Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
Overview: A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-06-30
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Rio's Love Song
Overview: Four love stories which portray a wide gamut of emotions and desires against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. "Elephant's Stomp" : the story of a highway patrol officer who is infatuated with a mulatto dancer at a local nightclub. "Drao" : a publicity man and a boutique owner who face a crises in their marriage. "You Are Beautiful" : two homeless teenagers seek love amidst their personal misery. "Samba of the Great Passion" : a book maker who is charmed and captivated by the voice of a female singer coming from a building across the street. Characters in search of love in order to escape from the boredom, loneliness and helplessness of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-09-15
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Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova
Overview: Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-18
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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Overview: Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important Brazilian documentary filmmakers in activity, his images influenced the emergence of Cinema Novo and the new Brazilian documentary years later. Quando a Coisa Vira Outra covers the most important films made by Vladimir, revealing where ideas come from to show the true reality of a country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-05
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Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-08-22
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Roberto Farias - Memórias de um Cineasta
Overview: Filmmaker Roberto Farias' passion for cinema is revealed by his daughter Marise Farias through an intimate look, from childhood to his political, economic and cultural role in Brazilian Cinema. Through Roberto Farias himself and friends such as Luís Carlos Barreto, Cacá Diegues and Zelito Viana, the film tells the stories of the director who achieved a direct dialogue with the public through successes such as O Assalto ao Trem Pagador (1962), the trilogy with singer Roberto Carlos (1968 to 1971) and Pra Frente Brasil (1982). Texts from an unpublished book of memories are interpreted by his brother, actor Reginaldo Faria.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-08-18
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Giovanni Improtta
Overview: Giovanni Improtta is a criminal who wants to climb the social ladder and become a law-abiding citizen. To achieve it, he commits some more crimes He is betrayed, and ends up under the spotlight of the media and the radar of the police, falsely charged for murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-05-18
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Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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Dib
Overview: Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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The Suns of Easter Island
Overview: Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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Making of - Quilombo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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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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Nelson Sargento
Overview: Biographical portrait of samba dancer Nelson Sargento in Morro da Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Overview: 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 Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-05-15
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Cinema Novo
Overview: A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-05-16
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For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
Overview: 1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies. Giancarlo, an Italian immigrant married to a Brazilian woman, lives nearby the Parnamirin Field, the largest military base built by the USA outside of their territory. In this new base, Brazilian recruits who speak English suddenly find themselves reaching privileged positions.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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Fênix
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Overview: Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta
Overview: 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 includes the testimony of people who lived directly with the artist's work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-11
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Cinématon IX
Overview: Reel 9 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-15
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Overview: In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Referências
Overview: During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo Bulbul gathered some of the most notorious Brazilian black directors to talk about their works, their lives and their perspectives on the future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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