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Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within Brazil and internationally.
Total trailers found: 67
01 January 2005
Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.
01 January 2002
A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albino Pinheiro.
21 September 2023
Elis & Tom is considered one of the most important albums in the history of Brazilian music. Recorded in Los Angeles, in 1974, it was all captured by a team of filmmakers led by director Roberto de Oliveira, who arranged for the duo to meet.
29 December 1992
A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
21 April 1999
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.
01 October 2004
A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities.
24 March 1983
In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels.
01 January 1987
Middle-aged married journalist goes to the beach resort of Búzios, in Brazil, to write a book. Gradually, he falls in love with his neighbor's daughter, a beautiful teenager much younger than he, ignoring the social implications.
13 March 2009
A journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry and music, sewing testimonials of great names of our culture, musical performances and amazing research of images.
13 November 1967
Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim is a 1967 television special starring Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, accompanied by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra.
03 November 1962
For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are intertwined with petty tricks against the backdrop of the famous carnival festivities.
15 May 2019
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances.
12 June 1959
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality.
22 November 1981
Though it was taped 16 years after the first A Man And His Music special, this final installment continues to uphold the high standards of the series, thanks in no small part to the accompaniment of the legendary Count Basie and his orchestra.
10 September 2022
Despite her position at the epicentre of the Brazilian bossa nova scene, singer Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known as Miúcha, has been largely underappreciated.
16 January 2007
Her difficult career beginning in her hometown, Porto Alegre, was not different from her friends' stories.
25 March 1970
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power.
01 January 1958
The film tells the story of Luciano who hides his identity as a rich boy to work in the stables of Patrícia, a woman he is in love with.
09 October 1983
A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death.
30 September 1994
The sexual fantasies of women are explored by four female directors.
02 January 2005
Latest images of the artist still alive, an unprecedented composition, testimonies of friends, family and icons of Brazilian culture.
13 August 2024
The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language with his sensitivity.
16 January 2007
Elis was complete, she had all the attributes which differentiated simple artists from stars. She could enchant crowds in her albums, concerts and in video.
17 March 2020
The special documentary celebrates Elis Regina's 75th birthday and makes a parallel between Elis' extremely prevailing thoughts with those of João Marcello Bôscoli, Pedro Camargo Mariano and Maria Rita, her children, answering the same questions in the present time.
08 August 1991
Creative documentary on multi-faceted Brazilian musician Radames Gnattali
19 October 2019
Ary Barroso was one of the greatest composers of Brazilian music with his successes for the whole planet.
19 October 2018
Get ready for a feast. In 1993, four of the greatest Brazilian cultural personalities, four Antônios, were brought together by Rodolfo Brandão and Bebeto Abrantes for a recording in Rio, around a lunch table at Chácara do Céu.
26 May 1967
Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema.
01 November 2005
To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music and, above all, an enlightened character of the Brazilian cultural history - director Miguel Faria Jr.
18 October 1978
Witness here a historical moment of Brazilian music. At the end of the 70’s, Vinícius de Moraes, Toquinho, Tom Jobim and Miúcha took off to Italy, to take part in a TV program called Musicalmente Vinícius (Musically Vinícius).
14 June 2006
Documentary film about the life and mysterious death of forgotten jazz arranger/composer Gary McFarland.
30 April 1984
Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city.
01 January 1975
An enchanted journey through three extraordinary houses built by Master José Zanine on the seaside hillside of Joatinga, in Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by a stunning musical score, specially created for the film by maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim.
18 January 2026
The Girl from Ipanema charts the progress of bossa nova (new wave), and the Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto's musical development and rise to fame.
28 July 2019
Fourth chapter of the "Atlas", "The Crystallization of Brasília" explores the ideia of the future as a petrified past.
08 February 1963
In the city of Porto das Caixas, a woman seeks help from multiple lovers to murder her dirty husband.
01 January 1965
Look at Life is a short student film by George Lucas, produced for a course in animation while Lucas was a film student at USC Film School.
28 November 2024
The film reveals the creation of poet Dorival Caymmi's musical works with testimonies from researchers, journalists and friends who lived with him and were able to enjoy his wisdom and talent.
11 November 2021
The life of legendary Brazilian musician Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, better known as Pixinguinha.
29 July 2008
Mixing Samba, Jazz and sophisticated lyricism, the sultry Bossa Nova sound was spawned in the beaches and bars of Rio, Brazil in the late '50s, and quickly seduced the world when anthems like 'The Girl from Ipanema' became huge international hits.
01 January 1978
Legendary bossa nova artists Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Toquinho demonstrate on stage why this infectious Brazilian musical genre, with the lilting, alluring sound, has left its global mark.
21 February 1971
Nina, a typical woman of the big city, marries a powerful farmer and goes to live in the countryside of Minas Gerais.
26 November 2015
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture.
01 January 1995
Direct from Brazil in his last recorded performance, this DVD, Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute, features the compositions of Bossa Nova originator & music icon Antonio Carlos Jobim, joined by an international delegation of Jazz giants to recreate his classic melodies in this beautiful, concert-length 'Thank You,' hosted by renowned pianist Herbie Hancock.
20 May 2012
Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with "The Girl from Ipanema.
25 April 2024
An irresistible journey through the universe of the singer and composer that revolutionized the song in Brazil and influenced generations of musicians, paving the way for movements such as Bossa Nova and Tropicália.
15 August 1986
Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding.
10 September 2020
A prodigy of stringed instruments, a pioneer of Bossa Nova, a modernizing master of the guitar: Aníbal Augusto Sardinha, better known as Garoto (1915-1955), is one of the hidden pillars of Brazilian music.
31 December 2002
"Águas de Março" enfoca a relação de Tom Jobim com a ecologia, narrado por Chico Buarque. Os sentimentos que envolviam esta forte relação de Tom com a fauna e aflora brasileiras, especialmente a Mata Atlântica, estão neste DVD, ao som de números musicais históricos, gravados em diferentes fases da vida do Maestro Soberano.
