
Caetano Veloso
Actor · b. 1942 · Santo Amaro, Brazil
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (7 August 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since.
Movies20
Movie7.6DramaRomanceTwo men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Movie6.5AnimationDramaNew York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.
They Shot the Piano Player
2023 · 42 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryMusicDocumentary about samba musician from Bahia Clementino Rodrigues, aka Riachão.
Samba Riachão
2001 · 1 votes
Movie4.5DocumentaryMusicWandering Heart intimately follows Caetano from São Paulo to New York and Japan, during the release of his first album recorded solely in English. It takes considerably more than a week-long series of shows at Carnegie Hall, accolades in the New York Times, or the admiration of friends like Pedro Almodóvar, David Byrne and Michelangelo Antonioni to make Caetano feel comfortable outside of Brazil.
Movie7.1MusicDocumentarySet 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.
Tropicália
2012 · 18 votes
Movie5.8ComedySão Paulo, 1983: Women’s soccer has just been legalized in Brazil. A group of rebellious young women form the Gayvotas Football Club and begin training for their first match. But as the team quickly becomes a media sensation, its members are forced to confront the prejudices of the conservative military dictatorship that they live under.
Movie8.0MusicTV MovieOn the iconic sands of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Shakira sets Copacabana Beach ablaze in the third edition of “Todo Mundo no Rio”. Before a historic crowd of 2 million people, the Colombian superstar celebrates three decades of hits in an electrifying performance that bridges her new album, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,” with the timeless classics that defined her career. Featuring guest appearances by Brazilian music icons and a high-tech visual spectacle, the night transforms the coastline into the stage for an epic celebration of power, music, and the artist’s unbreakable connection with Brazil.
Todo Mundo no Rio com Shakira
2026 · 4 votes
Movie7.3DocumentaryA tribute documentary on Fernando Ramos da Silva, the famous child star of the acclaimed film by Hector Babenco, "Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco" (1981). 20 years after his assassination by the police, his co-stars and Babenco talk about Fernando's contributions to the film, his troubled life when his acting works didn't took off as expected (since he was typecast) and which made him turn back to his past life of poverty and crimes. The project also presents that film's influence to many directors and artists around the world.
Pixote In Memoriam
2007 · 3 votes
Movie5.2DocumentaryMusicAn experimental film on Brazilian avant-garde artist Hélio Oiticica and his works, especially the Parangolés.
HO
1979 · 6 votes
MovieDocumentaryThe art of Arrigo Barnabé, one of the pillars of the São Paulo experimental music scene during the 80's and author of critically acclaimed albums such as "Clara Crocodilo" (1980) and "Tubarões Voadores" (1984).
Amigo Arrigo
2019
Movie8.1DocumentaryMusicIt explores Rita Lee's personal life and her creative process, revealing her musical talent and her ability to transform on stage. Rita herself guides the narrative through past interviews she gave throughout her career and current testimonies.
Ritas
2025 · 9 votes
MovieMusicTV Movie
MovieDocumentaryMusicBajañí
2026
Movie9.0DocumentaryDocumentary about amazing Brazilian musician Rogério Duprat, main orchestrator of Tropicália, his rehearsals with Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. There's also the first performance of his 1958 "5 Pieces for a Solo Cello" and pieces of the only recording of "Organismo", serial work inspired by a Décio Pignatari's poem.
Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico
2002 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DocumentaryRogério Duarte is one of the most important names in Tropicália, a Brazilian cultural movement of the 1960s. The plastic artist was one of the first to publicly denounce the tortures committed in the military regime. During the dictatorship, its political action and its cultural achievements mobilized many artists and inspired a whole generation.
Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista
2015 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyMusicThe fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade.
Movie9.3MusicTV MovieYear-end special brought together three interpreters of Brazilian popular music - Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Ivete Sangalo - to honour the Brazilian woman.
Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano
2011 · 3 votes
Movie5.4DramaCrimeOrfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood. But the local drug boss Lucinho stands between them and will drastically change both their lives.
Orfeu
1999 · 40 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryThis documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.
A Farra do Circo
2013 · 2 votes
Movie6.3DramaJorge, an ambitious journalist, marries into money and betrays colleagues to become a powerful politician during political turmoil in 1946 Brazil.
Series18
TV8.0Talk ShowSerginho Groisman hosts weekly debates on relevant topics, featuring the participation of the audience, artists, and personalities from various fields.
Altas Horas
2000 · 2 votes
TV7.0An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
The Oscars
1953 · 84 votes
TV7.5RealityA French variety show.
Numéro un
1975 · 2 votes
TV8.0Talk ShowNewsLe Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · 3 votes
TV8.0ComedyOs Trapalhões was a Brazilian comedy group and also a Brazilian television series created by Wilton Franco. Its members were Dedé Santana, Zacarias, Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó, that was played by Renato Aragão. The name Trapalhões is derived from the Portuguese verb atrapalhar, which means the opposite of helping, to do something the wrong way or to Those that confuse. The name is translated "Tramps" in English DVD subtitles. It was aired by Rede Globo from 1977 to 1999. On March 18, 1990, Zacarias died due to respiratory failure, but the group and the series didn't come to an end until July 29, 1994, when Mussum died due to an unsuccessful heart transplant.
TV7.0ComedyCasseta & Planeta is a Brazilian group of comedians who run a TV show named Casseta & Planeta Urgente, broadcast by Rede Globo. The humour featured on the show is mostly satirical, relating to religious or ethical groups, and minorities. The group founded a company called Toviassu Produções Artísticas, whose name is an acronym composed of syllables from the phrase "Todo viado é surdo" – "Every gay is deaf"; which is the ending of a widely known Brazilian practical joke. Each one of the seven members has a specific function within the company. They present their TV show at Rede Globo and publish a website and many books, among other products, for example the "Machobol". Originally a magazine named Casseta Popular and a humour newspaper called O Planeta Diário, the two teams joined forces and were hired by Rede Globo to become writers for the network's comedy shows, starting with TV Pirata in 1988. A few years later, they starred in their own show.
Casseta & Planeta, Urgente!
1992 · 9 votes
TV8.3Talk ShowComedyLady Night
2017 · 6 votes
TVFamily
TV8.5ComedyFamilyPablo & Luisão
2025 · 3 votes
TV6.0DocumentaryElza & Mané: Amor em Linhas Tortas
2022 · 1 votes
TVTalk ShowVamos Tocar
2016
TV9.5DocumentaryNara Leão revolutionized Brazilian music, broke prejudices, confronted the military dictatorship, opened paths for women. All this without changing the tone of her voice.
O Canto Livre de Nara Leão
2022 · 4 votes
TVRealityChico & Caetano
1986
TVDocumentaryThis documentary reveals the man behind the icon Cazuza: the poet who transformed his life into art and his death into resistance. It delves into the intense journey of the young man who sang of love, Brazil, and his freedom until his last verse.
TV9.3DocumentaryThe rise and fall of Fernando Collor de Mello, Brazil's youngest president and the first president in the Americas to be impeached.
TVTalk ShowIn each episode, Fernanda Torres conducts an interview with an intellectual whom she admires and presents a fiction skit about an intriguing text - those that makes one feel stupid.
Minha Estupidez
2016
TV7.3DocumentaryA 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.
O Nome Dela é Gal
2017 · 4 votes
TV8.0DocumentaryChico Anysio: Um Homem à Procura de Um Personagem
2025 · 1 votes