Jards Macalé Movies

Poetic documentary about brazilian musician Walter Franco.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Franco

In early summer, a group of students in Rio das Ostras decide to collectively produce an arts festival. Between work and parties, live the bullshit...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jards Macalé

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anna Maria Maiolino

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugo Carvana

The life and work of singer, musician and actor Jards Macalé.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jards Macalé

This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of Brazilian culture over the last four...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jards Macalé

Documentary about Flamengo, one of the most popular soccer teams in Brazil

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rodolfo Arena

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helena Ignez

An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jofre Soares

A group of young people is in a bar to drink, and they are trying to choose a story for the movie they are decided to make, but their characters are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jards Macalé

ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ferreira Gullar

A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Olívio Petit

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glauber Rocha

The boy Francisco spent his days accompanying his father at work, or rather, on the roads. The man is a driver of the imposing Big Jet, a pickup...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matheus Nachtergaele

Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the military dictatorship the befell in Brazil...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Caetano Veloso

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Cast: Sérgio Sampaio

A sound and visual journey that portrays the life and work of singer and composer Luiz Melodia. The Poet of Estácio himself tells us, in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Luiz Melodia

Documentary about Maria Bethânia, at the very beginning of her career as a singer, when she arrived in Rio da Bahia to replace Nara Leão...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maria Bethânia

Cléo is making her first film, inspired by french cinema and the nouvelle vague.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patrícia Niedermeier

A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jorge Mautner

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lúcia Rocha

In the 1970s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, composer Jards Macalé and filmmaker Luiz Carlos Lacerda (Bigode) shared a house in Rio...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ligia Ghizi

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jards Macalé

Afonsinho, Paulo Cézar Caju and Nei Conceição started their careers in the mid-1960s, a time of strong political repression in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Afonsinho

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends in Super 8mm he also becomes the vampire of the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. In...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jairo Ferreira

The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jesuíta Barbosa

Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leivinha

Short film based on sambas by Moreira da Silva and Jards Macalé, and on Macalé's arrest by the Brazilin military government in the...

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Cast: Jards Macalé

Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cartola

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gilberto Gil

Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chiquinho Brandão

This film documents in depth the life and artistic trajectory of the musician and poet Itamar Assumpção. He was one of the pillars of a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Itamar Assumpção

"Todas as Melodias" is a sensible journey throught the life and works of one of Brazilian music's biggest artists, Luiz Melodia. Featuring archive...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jards Macalé

Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dorival Caymmi

Guitarist Lanny Gordin was one of the fundamental characters in the transformation of Brazilian music from the 1960s onwards. He electrified Gal...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lanny Gordin

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cafi

Released in 1966 by Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell, the record Os Afro-Sambas is one of Brazil's most revered. Participants of the original...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vinicius de Moraes