Jorge Amado Trailers
3 Obás de Xangô TrailerNas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi TrailerNelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema Trailer
3 Obás de Xangô TrailerNas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi TrailerNelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema Trailer
Total trailers found: 42
06 October 2022
Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity.
12 October 1993
Looks at the work of Brazilian photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado (b.1944). In his monumental photo-essay, Workers, Salgado’s dominant theme is the displacement of manual labor by technological advances.
12 May 2015
The beautiful Flor marries Vadinho -- and soon finds out he's spending all their money on gambles and has mistresses all over the city.
17 September 1987
Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador.
17 May 2023
For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world.
08 August 1972
Inspired by the classic novel by Brazilian cultural icon Jorge Amado, this is the story of a gang of homeless children lead by Pedro Bala.
21 August 2014
Commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragão entertains the small town of Periperi with the stories of his many adventures travelling around the world as a captain of the merchant navy.
31 December 1998
Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.
24 November 1969
Through folklore manifestations and diverse artistic expressions, the film is a document that exalts and honors the Bahian culture.
02 November 2017
In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man.
30 August 1996
After being exiled for 26 years, Tieta returns to her native village in Bahia, bringing chaos and upheaving the local order.
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.
26 September 1976
The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia.
17 September 2003
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
22 December 1982
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert.
22 November 1976
After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman.
01 January 1974
Brazilan writer Jorge Amado and his everyday life.
02 January 1999
Coralito is the wife of Paulino, who dies but never leaves her. Especially when she marries the town doctor, Hernán.
23 August 2000
Tabel abandons his luxurious family life in favor of a bohemian life with his eccentric marginalized friends.
07 October 2011
About the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as "Capitães da Areia" (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia, during the 1950s.
03 August 2025
The friendship between Jorge Amado, Dorival Caymmi, and Carybé, artists who were largely responsible for creating an image of the culture of Bahia that persists to this day, and who believed that the strength of their work lay in documenting what they saw on the streets.
08 March 1957
An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
20 December 2012
Sabô marries Lindolfo Ezequiel in exchange for the life of his brother, who was sworn to death by the captain.
21 May 2010
Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.
01 July 2018
Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought about his Bahia, even far from it.
01 January 1996
Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996.
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.
30 July 1977
When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved only through miscegenation.
29 July 1995
A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who coined the term "négritude" and launched the movement called the "Great Black Cry".
05 December 1949
The agitated and tragic life of poet Castro Alves, and his romance with actress Eugênia Câmara.
01 January 1979
Jorge Amado no Cinema was made for a television program dedicated to the writer Jorge Amado. In this documentary, Jorge Amado is filmed in his home, surrounded by his large family; in a bookstore, during an autograph session of one of his books, in a cinema in Salvador, at the avant-première of the film Tenda dos Milagres, by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, an adaptation of the book of the same name by Jorge Amado.