Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira, known professionally as Gilberto Gil, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician, known for both his musical innovation and political activism. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.162 |
| Birthday | 1942-06-26 |
| Place of Birth | Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
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2023
Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso
7/1
The backstory and legacy of Brazilian rock band Os Paralamas do Sucesso is examined in this fascinating music documentary. With previously unseen foot...
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Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso
2005
Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume
7.2/4
Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.
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Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume
2001
O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho
4/1
The documentary presents an overview of Vladimir Carvalho's cinematographic career, from the very beginning, as a co-writer of “Aruanda” (1960), direc...
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O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho
2020
Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil
0/0
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Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil
2022
Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer
8.5/1
The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer bo...
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Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer
2017
Tropicália: 50 Anos
0/0
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Tropicália: 50 Anos
2022
Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
7/2
The film is an unprecedented and exclusive testimonial of Maria Bethânia from director and screenwriter Carlos Jardim, interspersed with rare footage...
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Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
2018
Smetak
0/0
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Smetak
1974
Álbum de Música
0/0
Portrait of various figures in Brazilian pop music.
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Álbum de Música
2005
Vinicius de Moraes
6.2/16
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...
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Vinicius de Moraes
1974
Bahia de Todos os Santos
0/0
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Bahia de Todos os Santos
2023
Chic Show
9/2
Discover the history of the Chic Show ball, an iconic black music party in São Paulo. The event was a milestone in the life of São Paulo. Held in hall...
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Chic Show
2009
Dzi Croquettes
7.6/15
A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay mov...
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Dzi Croquettes
2023
Môa, Mother Africa Roots
0/0
The documentary that began together with Mestre Môa do Katendê before his political murder, tells the life story of this capoeirista and founder of Af...
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Môa, Mother Africa Roots
2011
O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois
0/0
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O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois
2005
Looking for Black Orpheus
0/0
Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today.
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Looking for Black Orpheus
1993
Maldito Popular Brasileiro: Arnaldo Dias Baptista
0/0
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Maldito Popular Brasileiro: Arnaldo Dias Baptista
2009
Loki: Arnaldo Baptista
6.8/13
Loki brings the trajectory of Arnaldo Baptista from childhood, passing through the most successful phase as leader of the Mutantes, marriage to singer...
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Loki: Arnaldo Baptista
2022
O Presidente Improvável
0/0
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O Presidente Improvável
2000
I Want
0/0
Two kids merrily play make-believe inside their house, unaware of the inequality that exists in the world.
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I Want
2013
Viramundo
5.8/10
Gilberto Gil is among Brazil's most famous musicians, having influenced an entire generation in South America and beyond. Now in his seventies, he is...
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Viramundo
2006
Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
7/1
The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which the singer was the muse and one of the main interpre...
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Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
2001
Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste
0/0
A documentary on the amazing Brazilian music movement known as Tropicália.
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Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste
2012
Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust
5/3
The film follows the birth of Jorge Mautner up to his 17 years. He was born in Brazil shortly after his parents fled the Holocaust. Raised by a nanny...
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Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust
2012
Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now!
0/0
A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. The production brings a mix of interviews, concerts,...
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Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now!
2002
Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
0/0
Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996. Gil recalls hi...
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Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
2014
Dominguinhos
7.2/9
Through rare and precious footages and gigs with great artists such as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Hermeto Pascoal, Djavan, Nara Leao, Luiz Gonzaga, amon...
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Dominguinhos
1998
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
0/0
Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, O...
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Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
2008
The Man Who Bottled Clouds
0/0
A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author o...
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The Man Who Bottled Clouds
2012
Tropicália
7.1/18
Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropi...
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Tropicália
2019
October
0/0
A view of Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections, held in October of that year. The polarizing Election led to the rise of far-right President Jair Bols...
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October
1977
Os Doces Bárbaros
7.7/7
The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa...
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Os Doces Bárbaros
2002
Gilberto Gil: Kaya N'Gandaya
0/0
Gilberto Gil's 2002 album combines Brazilian pop with roots reggae. Featuring 11 of Bob Marley's greatest hits recorded in Tuff Gong Studios, Kingston...
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Gilberto Gil: Kaya N'Gandaya
2006
Fabricating Tom Zé
4/1
The life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary shows a de...
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Fabricating Tom Zé
1995
The Mandarin
4.5/2
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, wit...
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The Mandarin
1969
Bahia, For Example
8/1
Through folklore manifestations and diverse artistic expressions, the film is a document that exalts and honors the Bahian culture.
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Bahia, For Example
1981
Brasil
7.5/7
João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.
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Brasil
2008
Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal
0/0
This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of Brazilian culture over the last four decades. Aut...
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Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal
2010
A Night in 67
7/11
In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of eli...
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A Night in 67
1986
Talking Cinema
4/2
A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts...
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Talking Cinema
2009
Beyond Ipanema
0/0
This documentary from filmmaker Guto Barra takes you beyond the 1960s bossa nova hit "The Girl from Ipanema" to explore how samba, Brazilectro and oth...
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Beyond Ipanema
1996
Bahia de Todos os Sambas
0/0
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings...
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Bahia de Todos os Sambas
2008
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
7.1/25
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about the "the changing concept of copyright" directed by Brett Gaylor.
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RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
2010
Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1
8.5/1
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Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1
1983
Corações a Mil
3.8/4
University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs and per...
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Corações a Mil
2023
They Shot the Piano Player
6.7/29
New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist wh...
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They Shot the Piano Player
1996
Jorge Amado
0/0
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Jorge Amado
2013
Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia
10/1
Festive Land examines one of the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations in the world, the week-long Carnival that brings more than two mi...
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Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia
Gilberto Gil
0/0
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Gilberto Gil
2024
A Última Vanguarda
0/0
70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an a...
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A Última Vanguarda
2003
Born To Be Blind
6/4
Three blind sisters, Regina, Maria and Conceição, earn their living by singing in front of churches, in Brazil... They tell their amazing stories, ful...
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Born To Be Blind
2011
Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo
4/1
Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the military dictatorship the befell in Brazil from 1964...
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Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo
2001
Samba Riachão
0/0
Documentary about samba musician from Bahia Clementino Rodrigues, aka Riachão.
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Samba Riachão
2024
Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos
0/0
An irresistible journey through the universe of the singer and composer that revolutionized the song in Brazil and influenced generations of musicians...
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Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos
2003
Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought
0/0
Life and legacy of Agostinho da Silva. Traversing the biographical journey, the life and work of the Luso-Brazilian philosopher, this work has testim...
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Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought
2005
Phono 73: A Country and its Music
0/0
The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest aga...
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Phono 73: A Country and its Music
1972
The Demiurge
5.7/3
A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-ph...
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The Demiurge
2016
Yorimatã
10/1
The lives of Luhli and Lucina, two especially important artists in the alternative cultural scene during the 1970s. In a time when transgression, love...
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Yorimatã
2002
Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico
0/0
Documentary about amazing Brazilian musician Rogério Duprat, main orchestrator of Tropicália, his rehearsals with Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil...
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Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico
2019
Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa
0/0
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 Fern...
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Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa
2023
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
9/3
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 backwar...
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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
2023
Germano Mathias - O Catedrático do Samba
0/0
A white man, yet forged in the samba de engraxate that had its main stronghold in downtown São Paulo, Germano Mathias became an icon of a musical styl...
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Germano Mathias - O Catedrático do Samba
1974
Passe Livre
0/0
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Passe Livre
2006
Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra
0/0
Afroreggae Cultural Group DVD containing a concert and a documentary about the group's social and cultural work at the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.
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Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra
1997
Ed Mort
5/11
A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.
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Ed Mort
1984
Making of - Quilombo
0/0
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Making of - Quilombo
2017
Axé: Music of a People
7.9/13
Originally from Bahia and considered today one of the most globalised musical movements in the world, Axé is a musical rhythm that carries in its esse...
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Axé: Music of a People
2002
Viva São João!
7/2
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Viva São João!
2016
Beard, Hair & Stache
0/0
Afonsinho, Paulo Cézar Caju and Nei Conceição started their careers in the mid-1960s, a time of strong political repression in Brazil. Originally team...
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Beard, Hair & Stache
1988
Hunting Season
5/2
Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and cultural a...
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Hunting Season
1994
Acústico MTV: Gilberto Gil
0/0
The special record for the series Acoustic MTV meets classic in the repertoire of Gilberto Gil as "Stage" tern "," Weather King ", among others. Also...
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Acústico MTV: Gilberto Gil
2003
Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
7.5/1
Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and...
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Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
2016
Pitanga
5.6/5
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career span...
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Pitanga
2008
Permanent Pan-Cinema
0/0
Documentary about Brazilian poet Waly Salomão, for whom life was always a fictional film and poetry was a way to expose any naturalistic pretention. H...
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Permanent Pan-Cinema
2007
Cidade do Samba
0/0
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Cidade do Samba
2010
2012: Time for Change
6.1/9
2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This c...
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2012: Time for Change
2016
Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico
9/3
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Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico
2004
MTV ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo
8.1/4
Live performance by brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo recorded at Salvador, Brazil, presented by MTV.
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MTV ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo
2009
Hello, Hello, Terezinha!
6.8/4
Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, radical, renewin...
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Hello, Hello, Terezinha!
1989
Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
0/0
A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.
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Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
2015
Two Friends, a Century of Music
0/0
Two of the biggest names in 20th century pop music together on stage, accompanied by their guitars. In "Two Friends, A Century of Music", Caetano Velo...
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Two Friends, a Century of Music
2017
Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
0/0
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Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
2010
Gilberto Gil, the Power of Music
0/0
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Gilberto Gil, the Power of Music
2004
Gilberto Gil : Electroacústico
0/0
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Gilberto Gil : Electroacústico
1975
Gilberto Gil - Refazenda
0/0
In 1975 Gilberto Gil was releasing his album 'Refazenda', and talk a little about it in this interview.
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Gilberto Gil - Refazenda
2001
Toquinho
0/0
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Toquinho
2015
Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista
5/1
Rogério Duarte is one of the most important names in Tropicália, a Brazilian cultural movement of the 1960s. The plastic artist was one of the first t...
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Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista
2011
Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano
9.3/3
Year-end special brought together three interpreters of Brazilian popular music - Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Ivete Sangalo - to honour the Brazi...
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Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano
2018
All Love Songs
7.3/68
Chico and Ana move to an apartment in São Paulo. As they unpack Ana found a cassette tape. It's a mix-tape that Clarisse made 20 years earlier to her...
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All Love Songs
2018
O Outro Lado da Memória
0/0
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O Outro Lado da Memória
2014
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
0/0
A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".
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Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
2012
Aperana Street 52
5.2/4
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 s...
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Aperana Street 52
1979
Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music
0/0
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Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music
2017
Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
8/2
The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism,...
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Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
2019
Gilberto Gil Antologia Vol.1
0/0
The documentary goes through works composed by the Bahian musician between 1968 and 1987. Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, one of the most well-known...
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Gilberto Gil Antologia Vol.1
2019
Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar
10/1
Singer, composer, actor and painter, Dorival Caymmi was a multiple artist, but what they may not know is his pioneering work in introducing candomblé...
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Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar
2019
O Barato de Iacanga
7.9/24
Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.
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O Barato de Iacanga
2001
Brazil's Maria Bethânia
0/0
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, th...
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Brazil's Maria Bethânia
1970
O Tempo e o Som
0/0
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O Tempo e o Som
2019
Refavela 40
7.2/3
In 1976, Gilberto Gil traveled to Lagos (Nigeria) with the purpose of participating in the Second Festival of Black Art and Culture. The event had the...
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Refavela 40
2006
O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
0/0
Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian press, pr...
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O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
2015
Circo Voador - A Nave
6.5/2
In 1982, the Arpoador Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, received the first "incarnation" of Circo Voador, a venue for artists of diverse aspects showing their...
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Circo Voador - A Nave
2020
Encontros Tropicais
0/0
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Encontros Tropicais
1992
Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
0/0
A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to...
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Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
1987
Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion
0/0
Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.
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Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion
1986
Infinita Tropicália
0/0
Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop art and t...
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Infinita Tropicália
2015
André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
0/0
Based on the autobiography of noted music executive André Midani, André Midani — An Insider’s Story of Brazilian Music (2015) explores Brazilian music...
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André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
0/0
Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European inv...
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De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
1989
Ôrí
8.2/4
A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.
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Ôrí
2010
Gilberto Gil – Fé Na Festa
0/0
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Gilberto Gil – Fé Na Festa
2020
Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo
0/0
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Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo
2018
Dê Lembranças a Todos
7/1
Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought abou...
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Dê Lembranças a Todos
2021
Pelé
7.289/190
Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary path from breakthrough talent to national hero. Mixi...
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Pelé
2013
A Farra do Circo
9/2
This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.
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A Farra do Circo
1983
Gilbertianas Brasileiras
0/0
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Gilbertianas Brasileiras
2021
Arraial do Gil
0/0
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Arraial do Gil
2016
Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World
8.2/4
With fireworks forming the word “Rio” in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of “The Girl from Ipanema,” Rio de Janiero welc...
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Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World
2019
Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro
4/1
The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and unusual rhythmic quality influenced several promine...
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Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro
2021
Gilberto Gil: Um Deus em seu Jardim
2/1
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Gilberto Gil: Um Deus em seu Jardim
2024
Toquinho Maravilhoso
0/0
The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language with...
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Toquinho Maravilhoso
2024
Kopenawa: Sonhar a Terra-Floresta
0/0
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Kopenawa: Sonhar a Terra-Floresta
1972
Semana de Arte Moderna
0/0
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Semana de Arte Moderna
2008
Beth Carvalho Canta o Samba da Bahia
0/0
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Beth Carvalho Canta o Samba da Bahia
2024
3 Obás de Xangô
0/0
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3 Obás de Xangô
2014
Gilbertos Samba Ao Vivo
0/0
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