Chico Buarque

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.

The film is an unprecedented and exclusive testimonial of Maria Bethânia from director and screenwriter Carlos Jardim, interspersed with rare...

Jair Rodrigues, the portrait of an artist from a Brazil so close and yet so distant.

Loki brings the trajectory of Arnaldo Baptista from childhood, passing through the most successful phase as leader of the Mutantes, marriage to...

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details...

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...

Nelson Cavaquinho as seen by Ruy Solberg.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda...

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner...

A documentary made to coincide with Niemeyer's 100th birthday. The renowned architect talks about his long life, his inspirations, and his...

Documentary on the life of uruguayan legendary musician Hugo Fattoruso.

Documentary on the life of Brazilian sociologist Herbert de Souza, engaged in the struggle against hunger, SIDA and military dictatorship.

O DVD intitulado Estampado da cantora e compositora Ana Carolina traz grandes sucessos e músicas inéditas na voz desse ícone da...

Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.

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,...

Documentary in two parts about Brazilian writer, journalist and sociologist Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. The first part describes how the author...

To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music...

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor"...

If you thought TV shows in which audiences and juries judge musical acts were a relatively new phenomenon, you'd better think again. In the 1970s,...

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...

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...

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest...

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...

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...

Este é o nono DVD da série retrospectiva da obra de Chico Buarque e trata da rica relação entre múcica e...

A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.

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...

Palavra (En)Cantada makes a journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry and music, sewing...

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His...

Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with "The...

A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.

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....

A record on Brazilian samba school Estação Primeira de Mangueira's victory on the 2016 carnaval parade. Mangueira's parade that year...

A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon.

The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others,...

Between 2009 and 2012, filmmaker Cristiano Abud’s team followed the Brazilian samba musician Wilson das Neves. The result is this documentary,...

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...

The life and work of Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer and poet Chico Buarque de Hollanda.

Latest images of the artist still alive, an unprecedented composition, testimonies of friends, family and icons of Brazilian culture.

44 clips about themes, places and people that have appeared on the series

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...

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,...

Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative...

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...

When Brazilian multi-sport club completed its 100th anniversary, this documentary narrated its story by interviewing some of its most important...

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...

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographers and filmmakers that witnessed the event. Their...

Chico Buarque and MPB-4 performing live at TV Cultura.

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 impact of Ney Matogrosso's performances on his audience and the reverberation of that impact on Brazilian culture, from the second half of the...

"What would the world be like without Beethoven?" That’s the provocative question posed by this music documentary from Deutsche Welle. To...

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

The film narrates, from an intimate point of view, the daily life of President Dilma Rousseff in her official residence, the Palácio do...

A documentary about the production of Hugo Carvana's successful film "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo", from 1973.

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso...

The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language...