Tom Zé

On a Saturday morning, an advertising crew arrives at a decadent old building downtown São Paulo to shoot a TV commercial. And then everything goes wrong, beginning with a broken elevator. The building itself, built in the 30's for the upper class, now has problems of every sort: broken elevators, deaths, thefts, and other weird events. (imdb)

Fabricating Tom Zé is a documentary that portrays the life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary mixes different video, film and animation formats in order to show a detailed vision of Tom Zé's personal musical universe, in which a guitar and a vacuum cleaner have the same melodic importance...

In a country with a strong oral culture such as Brazil, popular music can be a great bridge to the poetry and literature. The interest in promoting discussion and reflection on this theme was the starting point of the movie. (flixster.com)

Documentary about samba musician from Bahia Clementino Rodrigues, aka Riachão. (imdb)

A biopic about the life and work of Raul Seixas, the most important brazilian rock star.

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 violent repression of the Brazilian government. (imdb)

The greatest stars of music from the state of Bahia, Brazil, got together in an unforgettable musical event in Termas de Caracalla, Rome, between 21 and 31 August 1983. In adition to the musical numbers, there are backstage scenes, rehearsals and interviews. (imdb)

Vini and Diogo are two brothers who want to make a movie. Vini is a filmmaker and Diogo is a journalist, but they have a big problem: a lack of funding. Thus, start to look at the business the money needed to run a new movie, even if it means passing false invoices or engage in corruption

Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, born in Piauí, 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. The writer of "Geléia Geral" with Gilberto Gil, "Mamãe, Coragem" with Caetano Veloso, and "Let's Play That" with Jards Macalé, Neto committed suicide on his 28th birthday.

The story of Novos Baianos, one of the greatest Brazilian bands, mostly active during the 70s.

INFINITA TROPICÁLIA is a musical-theoretic film. Theoretical because it places the so-called Tropicalist Movement in the Oswaldian strand of Brazilian Modernism, revealing its assimilation and reproduction of the concepts of 'Cultural Anthropophagy'. Musical because it surprisingly re-presents all those songs generated by the ephemeral movement...