Jards Macalé Movies

Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.

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

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

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...

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

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...

Successful businessman, Paulo Chupadinha send his wife to a convent every year to really enjoy Brazil’s carnival. He meets a cabaret woman that...

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

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...

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

Poetic documentary about brazilian musician Walter Franco.

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

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

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

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...

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

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