Samba Movies

Documentary addressing the composer Cartola and the transformations that took place in Morro Carioca and in Samba during his life. Founder of the...

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the...

An Italian businessman travels to Brazil looking for a new job. When things don't go his way, he becomes despondent until he meets a beautiful woman...

At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly...

Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.

A biopic about star Elza Soares, considered one of the greatest samba singers ever and a symbol of the struggle against racism and women...

A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose...

The documentary talks a little about the carnival experience that Arlindo Rodrigues had during his more than 25 years of artistic life.

When a young Afro-Brazillian dancer is pressured to live up to her mother’s decorated Samba career, she is haunted by who the world wants her...

The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.

Documentary made to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the legendary Paulo Benjamin de Oliveira, Paulo da Portela.

The project unites Maria Bethânia and Zeca Pagodinho, celebrating their hometowns. With a repertoire filled with successes, they highlight the...