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Gal Costa

Gal Costa was an awarded singer with an extensive solo discography and international experience. A fundamental presence in the Tropicalia movement, she has been in Brazil's leading team of singers for decades. Born : 26th-Sep-1945

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Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer

The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer born in Rio Grande do Sul and author of hits that surpass generations.
Released : 22nd-Oct-2022

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Tropicália: 50 Anos


Released : 4th-Nov-2017

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Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu

The film is an unprecedented and exclusive testimonial of Maria Bethânia from director and screenwriter Carlos Jardim, interspersed with rare footage of rehearsals and concerts by the singer throughout her 57-year career. Actress Fernanda Montenegro narrates five texts by authors such as Ferreira Gullar and Caio Fernando Abreu about Bethânia's importance on the Brazilian cultural scene.
Released : 1st-Sep-2022

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Mulher 80

Mulher 80 emerged as a result of the success of 'Malu Mulher' (1979), a miniseries starring Regina Duarte, which addressed the female situation in Brazilian society at that time. The main focus of the special was the female presence in music, honouring the singers and songwriters of MPB with musical numbers and testimonials.
Released : 19th-Oct-1979

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TropiGal

Gal Costa is the greatest singer in Brazil. From João Gilberto in Bahia to Tropicália and the memories of more than 50 years of career, what remains is the trance of his voice and enchantment on show stage.
Released : 6th-Jun-2023

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Baby Gal


Released : 16th-Dec-1983

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Jorge Ben Jor - Energia


Released : 1st-Jan-2007

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Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day

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 interpreters, and reaching the present day.
Released : 15th-Jun-2006

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Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste

A documentary on the amazing Brazilian music movement known as Tropicália.
Released : 1st-Jan-2001

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The Mandarin

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, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.
Released : 6th-Nov-1995

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Meu Nome é Gal

Film about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that helped shape Brazil's greatest singer.
Released : 12th-Oct-2023

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LeeGal

When TropiGal and IrRita meet it can only be LeeGal.
Released : 14th-Nov-2023

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A Nova Estrela

Sugestives images about the music A Nova Estrela by Wagner Tiso.
Released : 1st-Jan-1971

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The Man Who Bottled Clouds

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.
Released : 28th-Jul-2008

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Tropicália

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.
Released : 14th-Sep-2012

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B2

A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.
Released : 1st-Jan-2001

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Gal Costa Sings Tom Jobim

The voice and the unmistakable interpretation of Gal Costa, in honor of Tom Jobim, with songs that should always be remembered: 1. Fotografia (Photography), 2. Por Causa de Você (Because Of You), 3. Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema), 4. Derradeira Primavera (Ultimate Spring), 5. Wave, 6. Brigas Nunca Mais Discussão (Discussion Fights Never Again), 7. Piano na Mangueira (Piano in Mangueira), 8. Esquecendo Você (Forgetting You), 9. Chega de Saudade, 10. Samba do Avião (Airplane's Samba), 11. Anos Dourados (Golden Years), 12. Desafinado (Out of Tune), 13. Tema de Amor de Gabriela ( (Gabriela Love's Theme), 14. Ligia, 15. Janelas Abertas (Open Windows), 16. Corcovado, 17. Bonita (Beautiful), 18. Triste (Sad), 19. Chovendo na Roseira (Raining in Rose), 20. Falando de Amor (Speaking of Love), 21. Felicidade (Happiness), 22. Frevo.
Released : 1st-Jan-1999

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Bahia, For Example

Through folklore manifestations and diverse artistic expressions, the film is a document that exalts and honors the Bahian culture.
Released : 24th-Nov-1969

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Bahia de Todos os Sambas

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 a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of these great names in Bahia's music.
Released : 1st-Sep-1996

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Numéro un - Demis Roussos


Released : 24th-Jun-2020

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Índia


Released : 1st-Jan-1973

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Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil

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 first person, his trajectory as a black boy born on the hill until his transformation into one of the greatest artists in the history of MPB. The film also features an unpublished collection made available by Jane Reis, his wife and businesswoman.
Released : 13th-Apr-2024

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Phono 73: A Country and its Music

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest against the curtailment of freedom of expression in those dark years of the dictatorship. With the images rescued in 2005, revealing exciting moments, containing the incredible presentations, it brings a team of all greatness and the opportunity to understand the path that Brazilian music has taken to the present day.
Released : 2nd-Jan-2005

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The Demiurge

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-philosophical-chanchada", Mautner says. He also affirms that the work focuses a lot on the longing for Brazil, on the will that the exiled had to return to their homeland. The idea came from conversations between the musician and his old father, "always talking about the pre-Socratics", he recalls. Glauber Rocha states that "The Demiurge" is the best film "of" and "about" exile.
Released : 1st-Jan-1972

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Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute

Direct from Brazil in his last recorded performance, this DVD, Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute, features the compositions of Bossa Nova originator & music icon Antonio Carlos Jobim, joined by an international delegation of Jazz giants to recreate his classic melodies in this beautiful, concert-length 'Thank You,' hosted by renowned pianist Herbie Hancock.Composer of countless unforgettable songs, including Girl From Ipanema, Tom Jobim virtually single handedly brought the world Bossa Nova music. The esteemed pianist / vocalist is joined on stage by a cornucopia of musical legends such as Herbie Hancock, Shirley Horn, Joe Henderson, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Jon Hendricks, Gal Costa, & many more in this once-in-a-lifetime concert DVD.
Released : 1st-Jan-1995

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Os Doces Bárbaros

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, who formed the group with the name of Doces Bárbaros (Sweet Barbarians), at the suggestion of Bethânia. Conceived to present the shows of the live album that would be released (Doces Bárbaros - Live), the documentary changed of tone when registering the arrest and judgment of Gilberto Gil and of a companion by possession of drugs. Gil was forced to go to a detox clinic, and only went out to participate in the programmed shows.
Released : 1st-Sep-1977

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Outros (Doces) Bárbaros

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 Maria Bethânia), the artists involved decided to get together again for limited concerts in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in December 2002. The film documents the group's live performances, rehearsals and interviews.
Released : 1st-Jan-2003

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Music According to Tom Jobim

Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with "The Girl from Ipanema." This relaxed, cool, sensuous music blended jazz and samba. After recording an album of songs by his friend Jobim, Frank Sinatra is reported to have said, "I haven't sung so quietly since I had laryngitis." Naturally, "The Girl from Ipanema" and Frank Sinatra are featured in this musical collage of countless seamlessly edited excerpts of concert footage that cover decades of events all over the world: from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon, Paris, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Montreal, New York and back to Rio.
Released : 20th-May-2012

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Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy

A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.
Released : 11th-Oct-1989

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Gal Costa: Estratosférica – Ao Vivo

"Estratosférica ao Vivo" is not just the record of a Gal Costa show. It is the portrait of the artist reaching the 70 years of life, 50 of them dedicated to music. The show "Estratosférica" ​​crowns the new artistic phase of Gal, more and more interested in connecting several tips of the history of the music of Brazil, joining the composers of its generation to names of the new national scene. The script, created by Marcus Black, was very good at this idea. Sewing songs by Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Luiz Melodia, Jards Macalé and Waly Salomão, Carlos Pinto and Torquato Neto, Roberto and Erasmo Carlos - a series of tropicalist and post-tropicalist works that until now serve as reference and feed the new generations of music.
Released : 10th-Nov-2017

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Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas


Released : 19th-Apr-2017

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Meu Nome é Gal

Gal Costa in her privacy. Unkempt hair, colorful clothes, many necklaces and rings, she and the streets of downtown Rio. She laughs a lot, gestures and sings. Rio's landscapes such as Lage Park, a quiet place in the neighborhood of Gávea, an active factory.
Released : Unknown

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Gal Costa: Programa Ensaio


Released : 1st-Jan-2005

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Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End

The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism, and cinema. He was an active participant in the revolution of Tropicália and marginal art, which changed the course of Brazilian culture in the 1960s and 1970s, until he committed suicide on his 28th birthday.
Released : 11th-Oct-2017

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A Marca do Terrir

Compilation of early Ivan Cardoso's films in Super 8, including "Nosferato no Brasil (Nosferato in Brazil)"
Released : 21st-Oct-2005

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Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28.
Released : 1st-Jan-1992

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Gal Fa-Tal

Shot in 1971 during Gal Costa's famous concert "Gal Fa-tal" in Rio de Janeiro's Sucata Nightclub, Ivan Cardoso's eponymous Super-8 short film shows the singer both in and off stage, interlapsed with scenes from Cardoso's "Nosferato no Brasil".
Released : 1st-Jun-1971

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Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro

The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and unusual rhythmic quality influenced several prominent artists in Brazilian popular music. With unpublished testimonies from professional colleagues and family members, as well as archival footage of their participation in cinema and radio, the documentary traces their journey between troubled relationships, dramas, controversies, stardom, ostracism, the return to the artistic milieu, even his death in 1982.
Released : 21st-Jul-2019

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Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi


Released : 28th-Nov-2024

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TV Credits

Celebridade

Self - A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.
Released : 13th-Oct-2003

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O Som do Vinil

Self -
Released : 13th-Sep-2007

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Vamos Tocar

Self -
Released : 3rd-Apr-2016

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Som Brasil apresenta

Self (archive footage) -
Released : 10th-Aug-2022

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Criança Esperança

Self -
Released : 28th-Dec-1986

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Grandes Nomes

Self -
Released : 7th-Mar-1980

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Mixto Quente

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Released : 5th-Jan-1986

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2022

Self -
Released : 11th-Mar-2022

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O Nome Dela é Gal

Self - A four-part biography on the life of the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, from her humble beginning singing in the streets of Salvador, where she became friends with many artists who would be other great names in Brazilian music in the following decades to her 50th career anniversary in 2015.
Released : 11th-Jun-2017

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Stryx

- Stryx was an Italian TV series, aired in 1978 on Rai Due. Stryx thematically referred to Hell, devils and underworld. The scenography featured elements resembling Middle Ages-like gloomy castles and caves. The show featured acting as well as musical performances from such artists as Amanda Lear, Asha Puthli, Grace Jones, Patty Pravo, Mia Martini, Angelo Branduardi and The Rockets.
Released : 15th-Oct-1978

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Numéro un

Self - A French variety show.
Released : 5th-Apr-1975

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