A pictorial portrait of the legendary sambista, Assis Valente. The film traces his biography in a sensorial way, capturing a world divided between joy and despair.
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...
A panorama of Brazilian popular music from the 60s and 70s through the musical group Novos Baianos. ...
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...
Toquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together w...
A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of ...
For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop...
In 1971, military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family — Rubens, Eunice, and ...
Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio,...
Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obses...
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' ...
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Polic...
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off ...
Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees th...
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family...
At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a ...
An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carr...
A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/son...
Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. Wh...
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hi...
Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursu...