Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova
Jan 01, 2005Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.
Music
Heitor Villa-Lobos
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
May 15, 2019Follows 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.
Documentary
Villa-Lobos - O Índio de Casaca
Jan 01, 1987
South of Border with Disney
Nov 23, 1942Le film narre le voyage d'une équipe d'animateur du studio Disney, surnommée El Groupo, en Amérique du Sud.
Documentary
Retrato de Villa-Lobos
Jan 01, 1964Documentary
Diário da Província
May 26, 1978Drama
Planeta Amazônia
Jul 19, 2022Film installation depicting aerial landscape photography at Sebastião Selgado's Amazônia exhibition. Accompanied with 'Erosão - Origem do Rio Amazonas' by Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Documentary
A Faca e o Rio
Apr 01, 1972Against all advice, a destitute Brazilian old man marries a nineteen-year-old girl. Because he can’t give her any children, he moves to the interior to make money, so she will at least have a good life. When he returns, he is told she has a three-year-old daughter. He buys himself a knife. Suspense movie with a combination of ethnography, adventure and dramatic action, based on a poem by the Brazilian writer Odylo Costa Filho.
Drama
O Descobrimento do Brasil
Dec 06, 1937O Descobrimento do Brasil (The Discovery of Brazil) is an impressive historical epic recreating Álvares Cabral’s voyage to the New World in 1500, with a score especially written by the renowned composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. One of the earliest examples of Brazilian cinema, this film depicts the perilous journey of Pedro Álvares Cabral’s armada from Portugal to Brazil. Though somewhat rudimentary compared to other films of the period, The Discovery of Brazil distinguishes itself with its scenes of indigenous people and Portuguese explorers on the beach, and in the imaginative lighting on board the ship. But the real star is the beautiful cantata by Villa-Lobos that permeates the film.
History
Argila
May 20, 1940In Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto (Celso Guimarães) is a talented artisan engaged of Marina (Lídia Mattos), working in a pottery factory. He is hired by the millionaire widow Luciana (Carmem Santos) to perform a restoration in her castle in Correas, a district of Petrópolis. He suffers an accident and Luciana lodges and treats him for a long period, and they fall in love for each other.
Drama
Swain
Dec 31, 1950Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape.
Drama
Regresso
Dec 13, 2017Drama
Vertes Demeures
Mar 19, 1959Adventure
Villa-Lobos em Paris
Jun 17, 2023The only musician to perform at the Modern Art Week of 1922, composer Villa-Lobos was the object of the biggest boos at that event. After that, he decided to spend some time in Paris, where he met characters like Jean Cocteau, Andres Segovia, Arthur Rubinstein, among others. It is from there that Villa-Lobos confronts his identity, starting to seek new directions for his work in his roots. This movie travels through the places where the musician went in the French capital, investigating the causes and effects of these encounters and the city in his work.
Music
Curitiba: Labirinto Urbano
Jul 12, 2024Curitiba is a maze of ideas, people and contradictions. This short-film shows that perspective of the city, with its statues, ghost buses, brokens sidewalks and capybaras.
Documentary
Os Guizos Do Dominozinho
Mar 14, 2019“The Little Dominos Jingle Bells” was made to celebrate the centennial of the work “Children’s Carnival” of one of Latin America’s most celebrated composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. His musical play consisted in explore the folklore behind this brazilian festivity and capture the essence of carnival´s most common costume archetypes. The short explores the figure of the little dominos, one of the many carnival costume archetypes that Villa-Lobos represented in his musical play. In this short film, the little dominos dance together and compete over who gets in possession of the Jingle Bells, while doing an outstanding music performance.
Animation
Cajaíba - Lição das Coisas - O Fazendeiro do Ar
Jan 01, 1976Documentary
Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável
Feb 25, 1974Vertes Demeures
Mar 19, 1959Adventure
Amazonas, Amazonas
Jan 01, 1966A brief look at Amazonas, its population, their costumes, the rich nature and its importance to Brazil and the world.
Documentary
The Flower of Pain
Jan 01, 1983A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of fragments – so called “shards of memory” – the film follows the progressive dissolution of the affair in search for clues to its undoing.
Drama
