Ney Matogrosso
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Ney de Souza Pereira, known as Ney Matogrosso (born 1 August 1941), is a Brazilian singer who is distinguished for his uncommon countertenor voice.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bela Vista, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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Joy Is the Acid Test
Overview: A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-23
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Diary of a New World
Overview: In 1752, a ship arrives in Brazil, bringing doctor and writer Gaspar de Fróes. He keeps a diary about the dangerous trip, the diseases and hunger aboard, his impressions of the new country, and the political struggle between the crowns of Castela and Portugal. In Brazil, he is going to fall in love with the wife of a Portuguese officer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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After Eight... Forever
Overview: Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-03-11
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Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Overview: Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-13
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Dzi Croquettes
Overview: A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-04
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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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Ney Matogrosso - Canto em Qualquer Canto
Overview: This album was recorded live in December 2004 at SESC Pinheiros to celebrate the anniversary of the Channel "Canal Brazil". Ney Matogrosso presents a eclectic repertory which include his greatest hits and who received new arrangements with instrumentalists chosen by him, forming a suit of plucked strings of the highest quality.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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Vagabundo - Ney Matogrosso Pedro Luis e a Parede
Overview: This incredible partnership brings the stamped voices of Ney Matogrosso and Pedro Luis, in addition to percussion of "A Parede" (The Wall). "Vagabundo" mix semi-unreleased songs of Rio's underground scene with already established songs like "A ordem é samba" (The order is samba) by Jackson do Pandeiro and "Disritmia" (Dysrhythmia).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-16
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Caramujo-Flor
Overview: Film based on Manoel de Barros poetry. Story about poet's life in the swamp area of Brazil (Pantanal) and its wildlife; & his obsession with the sea and his new life in the big metropolis in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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O Samba
Overview: In the Documentary The singer, composer, writer and bamba Martinho da Vila guides the viewer through the gigantic world of samba investigating the origins of the rhythm, highlighting its importance in different spheres, telling stories about his career and presenting his heart association, Grêmio Recreativo Samba School Unidos de Vila Isabel.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-23
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Cazuza - A Leblon Night's Dream
Overview: The film brings some of the best stories about the singer, told by his friends - Cássia Eller, Ezequiel Neves, Ney Matogrosso and Frejat - and by his mother, Lucinha Araújo, in atouching testimonial.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-12-01
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Tie and Red Nail
Overview: Several characters realize their personal way to build their own identity from the choice of genre. Transsexual, transgender, crossdressing – the defining of terminologies different ways of looking at yourself are constantly rising, portraying a universe of possibilities, expanding the boundaries of the possible and permitted.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-03-01
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Poder dos Afetos
Overview: A study that unwraps a paradisiac scenery, reaching the subjects of Brazility and its force in the change of habits, breaking taboos and bringing out a magical and original reality throught its characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-10-06
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Bird-Man
Overview: The vertigos in the urban landscape take the Bird-Man back to his origins, in a metaphor about life cycles. "Bird-Man" is a film from the poetic nature of Brazilian singer, Ney Matogrosso. During the 1970s dictatorship, he broke sexual taboos with a "strange" behavior on stage and became one of the most famous brazilian singers. Inspired in Cassiano Ricardo's concrete poems and the experimental music of Ney's repertoire, "Bird-Man" explores a sound and visual lyrical aesthetic of high contrasts that approximates man to nature's feelings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-08-26
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Barão Vermelho: Por que a gente é assim?
Overview: A documentary about Barão Vermelho, one of Brazil's most famous rock bands during the 1980s, following its steps through archive footage and interviews with all of its remaining members and associated parties.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-05-08
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Abyssal Fish
Overview: ABYSSAL FISH is a creative film in the border between fiction, real and performance through the artistic work of Luís Capucho. A singular artist who survived the time when the HIV represented the death stigma. Building an amazing work of poetic power postdisease, Capucho surpasses the physical sequels that have left him mute and without part of his body movements for a while, until the current partial recovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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Ralé: The Lower Depths
Overview: Young directors are filming “The Exhibitionist” in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, with the Amazon as the center of the world, reflecting on existential issues, the right to sexual freedom and individuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl
Overview: The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars and indigenous genocide.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-19
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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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Yorimatã
Overview: The lives of Luhli and Lucina, two especially important artists in the alternative cultural scene during the 1970s. In a time when transgression, love and peace guided behavior, we discover the love of two women for art, their spiritual universe, their lives in community and their three-way relationship with photographer Luiz Fernando Borges da Fonseca.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-04-07
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Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa
Overview: The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of Fernando Pessoa's most emblematic books.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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Sem Vergonha
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-20
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Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
Overview: Inspired by the US paper “Gay Sunshine”, in April of 1978 appeared in Brazil – during the dictatorship – the newspaper “O Lampião”, depicting the point of view of gays on various issues, including sexuality. A group of journalists and writers from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo joined the project, fueling a publication that paved the way for the press at the time, addressing controversial issues at the period, such as racism, abortion, drugs and prostitution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-08-18
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Fca Carla
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-03-19
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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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After Everything
Overview: After farewell, the waiting. After the waiting, the return. After everything, all they wish for is to be together and one day is enough for them to wait for the next one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-11-08
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Serguei - O Último Psicodélico
Overview: A documentary that follows the life of Serguei - flight-commissioner-turned-rockstar, hippie guru, rockstar and Janis Joplin's lover - chronicling his life from the early 60s until present day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-20
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Magnetick Pathways
Overview: During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-04-25
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Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-04-19
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Sol Alegria
Overview: While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of weapons to a group of militant nuns who have withdrawn to the jungle, living off the income from their cannabis plantation. As gay , bi, trans, the converts so organized to make revolution.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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Rock in Rio 30 Anos
Overview: Documentary of the legendary 1985 music festival in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-11
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Bixa Travesty
Overview: A portrait of transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances as weapons to fight sexism, homophobia, and racism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-26
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O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
Overview: A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-05-05
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O Fabuloso Zé Rodrix
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-05
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Chacrinha: The Eternal Warrior
Overview: "Cassino do Chacrinha" is back on a journey into the universe of the Old Warrior that celebrates the centenary of one of Brazil's greatest communicators: Abelardo Barbosa.
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer
Overview: On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their crisis and limitations, and search for a meaning for their lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-29
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Martinho da Vila – Sambabook
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Boni Bonita
Overview: Reeling from the death of her mother, Beatriz moves to Brazil where she begins an intense and toxic relationship with Rogério, an older musician struggling with his family's artistic legacy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-05-09
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Ele Era Assim: Ary Barroso
Overview: Ary Barroso was one of the greatest composers of Brazilian music with his successes for the whole planet. Know its history, reconstructed through Ary's own audio files, interspersed with reports from friends and family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-19
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Roberta Sá - Pra Se Ter Alegria
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Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-08-08
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André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
Overview: Based on the autobiography of noted music executive André Midani, André Midani — An Insider’s Story of Brazilian Music (2015) explores Brazilian music throughout his five-decade career through informal gatherings and jam sessions at his home, featuring Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben Jor, Gilberto Gil, and Marisa Monte, among other luminaries of the industry.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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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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What I've Never Lost
Overview: A feature documentary on the life of Alzira Espíndola and her impact and influence on different generations of Brazilian music. From her origins on Mato Grosso do Sul to her breakthrough as a instrumentist and composer in São Paulo, the movie explores her life, work and ventures with partners such as Itamar Assumpção, Ney Matogrosso and her sister Tetê Espíndola with irreverence and erudition.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Ney Matogrosso - Bloco na Rua
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Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-21
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Ney Matogrosso - Atento Aos Sinais
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Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-06-18
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Rita Lee: Mania de Você
Overview: Just before her departure, Rita Lee writes a farewell letter to her three children and her husband and musical partner, Roberto de Carvalho, in which she reflects on her life and joyfully celebrates her family. Her final moments also mark the time to look back and review a career full of unforgettable successes, which led her to sell more than 55 million records. But it is also a time to reveal her downfalls, her vulnerable side, and her excesses as the queen of rock. With completely unseen personal archives and exclusive testimonies from her own family, as well as producers, journalists, musicians, and celebrities such as Gilberto Gil and Ney Matogrosso, "Rita Lee: Mania de Você" presents her definitive legacy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-05-08
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