Monarco
Actor · 1933 – 2021 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Hildmar Diniz, known as Monarco (Rio de Janeiro, August 17, 1933 – Rio de Janeiro, December 11, 2021), was a Brazilian singer and composer.
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Movie8.0DocumentaryMusicAn intimate look at the life and career of Paulinho da Costa, the most recorded percussionist in music history. The documentary explores his unique rhythmic language and his collaboration with legendary icons.
The Groove Under the Groove
2026 · 1 votes
Movie7.8DocumentaryMusicA film that depicts the everyday life and the beauty of Portela’s Old Folk – a group of veteran samba musicians who belong to one of Rio’s most revered samba schools, the one with the most first places and accolades in Rio’s Carnaval pageant. These old gentelmen’s and ladies’ musicality and poetry are unveiled through their simple, but rich and meaningful, every day life in Oswaldo Cruz, a quaint neighborhood in Rio’s North Zone, that serves both as set and as a main character in this story.
O Mistério do Samba
2008 · 2 votes
- Movie6.0DocumentaryMusic
Short musical film paying a tribute to samba composer Zé Ketti, one of the greatest popular artists of Brazilian music. In a jam session, in the late composer's house in Inhaúma, a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, a group of friends get together to play his music while a "feijoada" (typical Brazilian food with black beans)is being cooked in the kitchen. The samba-players, first-rate samba stars themselves, remember Ketti's great hits in a homage to the man who was best known as "a voz do morro" ("the hill's voice" - but hill as a metaphor for a place where poor people build their shacks in slums, in opposition to city, where middle-class people live in Rio). Among the guests, names of the traditional "samba-school" Portela and ex-partners. Also, the presence of a black hat on an empty chair, represents the composer himself, who died in 1999, after a life of many accomplishments in music, and appearance in three of Dos Santos's films: "Rio, 40 Graus", "Rio Zona Norte" and "Boca de Ouro".
Meu Compadre, Zé Ketti
2001 · 6 votes
Movie7.1DramaMusicBiography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.
Natal da Portela
1988 · 5 votes
MovieDocumentaryDocumentary about Brazilian samba songwriter and singer Paulinho da Viola, one of the most sophisticated musicians of the genre. The film shows his biography, influences, masters and friends, as well his simple and peculiar way of life, with activities like restoring old cars, working with wood, playing billiards.
Paulinho da Viola: Meu Tempo É Hoje
2004 · 1 votes
Movie8.1DocumentaryA documentary on the career of Beth Carvalho, the Brazilian singer who became a well known samba legend from the 1970s onwards, edited together from hundreds of hours of footage and audio files kept (and partially recorded) by Carvalho herself during her lifetime.
Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
2022 · 7 votes
MovieMusicCidade do Samba
2007
Movie10.0DocumentaryDocumentary made to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the legendary Paulo Benjamin de Oliveira, Paulo da Portela.
Paulo da Portela: O Teu Nome não Caiu no Esquecimento
2001 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryThe life and work of the late samba singer-songwriter Candeia.
Candeia
2018