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- A Brazilian pimp falls in love with a Russian prostitute, creating serious problems - and disastrous repercussions - for both.
- Senegalese Samba has worked 10 years in France. He's arrested and befriends the woman helping him with legal matters as volunteer after a burnout at work. He's released after being told to leave France. Chemistry?
- Brazilian singer Laura Monteiro is murdered in her dressing-room by her jealous lover João Fernandes de Oliveira when he discovered she was cheating on his with Assis and planning to escape from him and go to Buenos Aires with Assis. Meanwhile, Belén Moreira, who lives in Favela do Salgueiro and is a dead ringer for Laura, goes to Copacabana with her boyfriend Paulo. Two members of a gang that smuggles precious stones sewn in Carnival costumes see Belén and force the President of the Salgueiro Samba School to invite her to perform Chica da Silva in the Carnival parade in a costume that is adorned with genuine precious stones to be smuggled to Europe.
- Rio de Janeiro, 1886. Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city's Municipal Theater, captivating the local audience enthralled by French culture. The city is at her feet, and even the Emperor Dom Pedro II comes to pay his respects. He confides a secret to her: the disappearance of a precious Stradivarius violin presented by him to the charming widow Baroness Maria Luiza. The actress suggests he hire her friend, the legendary British detective Sherlock Holmes, to solve the case. Under the heat of the tropical sun, the lives of Holmes and Watson are changed forever, as they find themselves knee-deep in a cultural hodgepodge that includes all the standard Brazilian tourist fare.
- Samba Traore returns to his village flush with funds. Soon enough he manages to charm the beautiful Saratou into marrying him and, along with another friend, builds the first bar their village has ever seen. But his conscience keeps nagging him and the police are on the lookout for the "gas station murderer."
- Violence breaks out in rural India when a good-hearted leader is killed and his son seeks revenge.
- Samba, a boy raised by lions in the African bush is collected by the inhabitants of a village and chosen to save them from a curse of the god Togoum.
- Donald Duck and Jose Carioca, both literally blue, stumble across the Cafe do Samba, whose proprietor is determined to cheer them up with samba music. After they get their color back, they land in a giant brandy snifter, where a live-action woman is playing the tune on an organ. She also drums and dances a bit. The only dialogue is the lyrics of the song, sung by women.
- Night club owner Russ Vincent hires boogie-woogie dancer Betty Hannon for a spot in a South American revue which is headed by Lita Baron (as Isabelita). The latter is wary of Hannon's motives, but Vincent dismisses her feelings as jealousy.
- Olaf is to take care of the family's cleaner's store. When Olaf runs into three Brazilian ladies not knowing where to go, he invites them to stay with him and his deaf pot-smoking grandfather which turns everyone's lives topsy-turvy.
- Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira).
- Three Carnival blocks, born in candomblé terreiros in Bahia, are the center of this documentary: Ilê Aiyê, Cortejo Afro and Bankoma. Through the work of these centennial groups, the film explores black culture, its dances, its fabrics and its ancestry. The blocks continue to resist and echo the black Bahian movements, helping their communities and spreading brightness through the tortuous paths of a racist Brazil.
- An overview of Samba music, religion, culture and the people of early 1980's Brazil.
- Sambá is a sports drama about redemption through the metaphor of life and boxing.
- The biopic of Noel Rosa, one of the best brazilian poets and composers.
- In the 80s, even when censored and monitored, the Samba Schools created unforgettable critical plots and faced the Military Dictatorship, in Brazil, with courage, creativity and great joy.
- 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.
- Five interlocking fictional stories depicting the lives of Brazilians and Londoners who co-exist under difficult emotional and psychological circumstances. The turmoil takes place against a backdrop of haunting memories, broken dreams, future hopes, exciting samba music and the festival spirit of London's spectacular Notting Hill carnival.
- Somebody is selling songs for two recording companies, simultaneously. The owner of one of them hires a detective to find out the swindler's identity. But the private-eye is clumsy, and messes things up even more.
- The film is based on lyrics from the very famous Brazilian samba composer Adoniran Barbosa, following the aesthetics of his time. Notable facts and characters of his songs takes us through the story, a portrait of São Paulo city in the 50's, a place full of music, love stories and gentrification (poor people getting evicted from their places in order to build great buildings), subjects often explored in Adoniran's work, always with a good touch of humor. This way he became the 'poor people poet'. Besides putting together in a surprising way stories that are known all over Brazil, the film is a great tribute to one of the most important musicians of the country. The cast is also very special, with names like Paulo Miklos (actor and guitar player of Titãs, legendary brazilian rock band) and Gero Camilo ( who's curriculum includes City of God, Carandiru, Man on Fire), and the soundtrack brings to the audience one of the strongest and most interpretative voices in Brazilian music: Ney Matogrosso.
- Three young women sharing a room in a boarding house owned by a very strict matron dream of becoming famous in show business.
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- Samba, Un Nombre Borrado is a documentary that reflects on the disappeared people during their immigration process. In recent years, in parallel with the shielding of borders, has increased the number of people who lose their lives when trying to enter Europe. These deaths are often recorded when the sea carries their bodies to Spanish beaches. In most cases, the protocol followed with these individuals is to register them, in the nearest cemetery, with the identifier of Young, Male, Black Race. Un Nombre Borrado tries to name and recover the identity of one of these disappeared, Samba Banjai, a young Senegalese who disappeared the night of February 7, 2014 when he tried to cross the border of El Tarajal (Ceuta).
- A musician plans to put on a samba show at a luxury hotel's nightclub and briefly fools the owner, who is only interested in the great jazz icons, with two fake stars while actually creating a repertoire based only on Brazilian hit songs.
- The Christmas comedy is about the purification of an ambitious businesswoman through her Brazilian godchild.
- SAMBA looks at the resilient role of African women in society today as we follow the lives of two women in positions of power who struggle to cope with the chaos of their domestic lives. A fast-rising company is run by Katrine and Noella, two delightful divas in their late twenties obviously married to the wrong men. There's Leo, a male chauvinist pig, and Maxwell, who is still obsessed with his ex, Lauretta. A high-stakes drama set in an African fashion house whose vibrancy and volatility are matched only by the bright, changing colors of a chameleon.
- 'Samba & Jazz' documentary is a feature film that draws a parallel between these two rhythms and cultures, in a versatile and unpretentious approach, looking for the synergy between the two cities in which they are most present: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and New Orleans (United States). Directed by Jefferson Mello, author of the book 'The Ways of Jazz', the film portrays, through unusual situations, the authentic artistic expression of these people, that although separated by geographic boundaries, share a common feeling: a passion for music and for the popular manifestations that evolves the universes of Samba and Jazz.
- The film tells the story of Samba, a young man who loves the beautiful Fatu and is forced to confront a formidable rival. A tribal war is unleashed, but soon the young hero defeats his enemy, weds his lady-love and sure enough becomes head of his tribe.
- The adventures of a legendary hero, Sambagana, who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess, asks her in marriage. She imposes several tests, and he wins them all, but only death will eventually bring the two together.
- The documentary presents the trajectory of the singer-songwriter Mario Vivas, his passion for the Portela School of Samba, one of the most celebrated of the Brazilian Carnival. In the Theater and Cinema, he also acts as creator of original soundtracks. Great names of samba as Tia Surica and Geraldo Sorrizo, both symbols of Portela, and the veteran actress Lea Garcia, known worldwide for Marcel Camus' classic 'Black Orpheus', winner of Camera D'Or and Oscar for Foreign Language Film, help to brighten the film's cast.