Chico Buarque Movies

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties...

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest...

A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.

Five years after his last tour, Chico Buarque returns with a show to launch his newest CD, Chico, which has already sold over 80,000 copies. Despite...

In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before...

Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.

Despite her position at the epicentre of the Brazilian bossa nova scene, singer Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known as Miúcha, has...

The life and musical work of Brazilian zoologist and composer Paulo Vanzolini, author of very popular songs such as "Ronda," "Volta por Cima," and...

Based on text from Chico Buarque de Holanda's Fazenda Modelo, the film is a parable about a construction worker and the foreman of the plant.

José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also...

Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative...

Four love stories which portray a wide gamut of emotions and desires against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. "Elephant's Stomp" : the story of a...

Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the support of the big media, particularly TV...

Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of...

The saga of Severino, a poor guy living in the back country of Northeast Brazil, leaving for the big city of Recife, in search of a better life.

This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the work,...

In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of...