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O Passageiro - Segredos de Adulto (2006)
Character: Mecânico
A coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds out about his family and where he came from.
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Memória em Verde e Rosa (2016)
Character: N/A
The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.
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Nelson Sargento (1997)
Character: Self
Biographical portrait of samba dancer Nelson Sargento in Morro da Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro.
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Atabaque Nzinga (2007)
Character: N/A
After being collected from the dressing room of the Candomblé center, Ana shares her desires, memories, dreams, and reflections with the viewer through a diary.
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Meu Compadre, Zé Ketti (2001)
Character: Self
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".
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Samba no Trem (2005)
Character: Self
A documentary about the celebration of the National Samba Day with the aim of preserving the memory of part of the history of samba, which was being forgotten by the press and the Brazilian people.
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Orfeu (1999)
Character: Roda de Samba
Orfeu 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.
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O Primeiro Dia (1998)
Character: Vovô
On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.
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Paulinho da Viola: Meu Tempo É Hoje (2004)
Character: Self
Documentary 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.
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Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho (2022)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A 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.
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Mário Lago (2013)
Character: Self
Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar (2021)
Character: Self
Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.
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