Carnival of Brazil
The Carnival of Brazil is an annual Brazilian festival held the Friday afternoon before Ash Wednesday.
Carnival is the most popular holiday in Brazil and has become an event of huge proportions. The country unifies completely for almost a week and festivities are intense, day and night, mainly in coastal cities.
Alone in the city of Rio de Janeiro 10 million people took part in Carnival 2020, including 2 million tourists.
Which movie or tv series related to or alluding to this popular mega phenomenon would you be interested in watching?
Watch a sample of Carnival in Rio here
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Carnival is the most popular holiday in Brazil and has become an event of huge proportions. The country unifies completely for almost a week and festivities are intense, day and night, mainly in coastal cities.
Alone in the city of Rio de Janeiro 10 million people took part in Carnival 2020, including 2 million tourists.
Which movie or tv series related to or alluding to this popular mega phenomenon would you be interested in watching?
Watch a sample of Carnival in Rio here
Join the Discussion Here in the IMDb Poll Community Forum
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- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsRoger MooreLois ChilesMichael LonsdaleJames Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
- DirectorCarlos SaldanhaStarsJesse EisenbergAnne HathawayGeorge LopezWhen Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsAyrton SennaReginaldo LemeJohn BisignanoA documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.
- DirectorMarcel CamusStarsBreno MelloMarpessa DawnLourdes de OliveiraA retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorAaron NorrisStarsChuck NorrisJohn P. RyanBilly DragoWhen DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.
- DirectorJosé PadilhaFelipe LacerdaStarsSandro do NascimentoRodrigo PimentelLuiz Eduardo SoaresOn June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsClifton WebbJane WymanJill St. JohnWhen his oldest daughter decides to stay in South America while on a school tour, her father decides to take the rest of the family there for vacation to find out why.
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsToni GarridoPatrícia FrançaMurilo BenícioIn a dangerous but human Rio's slum, rises the love affair betwen Orfeu and Eurídice, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival.
- DirectorFernando SchultzStarsRosa MagalhãesAlex TeixeiraEmpress of Carnival (Imperatriz do Carnaval) is a feature documentary about the preparation of a samba-school for the carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Offering an entertaining look at the intricate, nine-month preparation work, the documentary also features never-before-seen parade images and surround-sound recordings of the samba-school's renowned percussion ensemble. The journalist Sérgio Cabral, Brazil's leading authority on the history of the samba-schools, has hailed Empress of Carnival "the best, the deepest, and the most complete audio-visual x-ray ever taken of a samba-school."
- StarsGilmarAloy JupiaraChico OtávioHow one of the most famous criminal of Rio de Janeiro in the 60's to 90's decades became a superstar and one of the most important characters of carioca's carnival and football history.
- DirectorMarcelo LavandoskiRio de Janeiro hosts the greatest open sky spectacle on Earth, Carnival, and these Carnivals doesn't happen without samba. Carnival is watched by millions of people around the world, but people have no idea of how the show is built or the cultural, social and economic aspects involved in this community project. So this documentary becomes an important study material with international relevance. To make this fantasy world shine, a new samba anthem and a new plot are created every year, and there is always an expectation about what is going to be the next samba. A year of hard work, thousands of people involved, the choice of a great samba, the death of their official vocalist for 17 years, lots of sweat, tears and love, made Carnival 2016 extremely special. Behind the scenes of the biggest samba school on the planet, Estação Primeira de Mangueira, after 14 years without winning the contest, the entire universe created for Mangueira's parade, which is an international carnival icon, was documented for the first time, from the first step to the title of best samba school in 2016.
- DirectorMiguel Faria Jr.StarsTarcísio MeiraSandra BréaAnselmo VasconcelosIn 1970, the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad)' crimes for the refinement of violence provoked a wave of reactions throughout the country. The photos of the victims, adorned by the skull, symbol of the group, caused an uncomfortable indignation. This is the story of Mateus Romeiro, the most famous of the policemen, who was part of the Homens de Aço (Steelmen) group, one of the factions in which the squadron was divided.
- CreatorPatrícia AndradeGeorge MouraStarsIsis ValverdeGabriel Braga NunesCamila MorgadoIn the midst of Brazilian carnival, the murder of a young and beautiful axé singer shocks the entire country and starts a thrilling hunt for the killer.
- DirectorMiguel SilveiraElias Lopez-TrabadaStarsElias Lopez-TrabadaWendell BendelackIsabel CardenasGuillermo Locke is an American anthropology student traveling to Brazil for the first time to study its "culture of violence" for his thesis. " Mestre" is a poor but respected community leader and master teacher of Capoeira (ka' pou ey' ra), a Brazilian tradition of martial arts and dance. Namibia is Mestre's whimsical 12-year-old daughter. The lives of all three are changed forever as they cross paths amidst the paradoxical, spiritual, and celebratory backdrop of Carnival.
- DirectorTiago MeloStarsValmir do CôcoJoana GatisMestre BarachinhaIn a vast, seemingly endless cane field, the sugarcane dances to the wind, like sea waves. PAI NANI, an Afro-Brazilian spiritual leader, carries out a religious act with five caboclos de lança - costumed dancers of the "maracatu rural". As the caboclos acquire supernatural powers, they embody entities and disappear. The city of Nazaré da Mata witnesses mysterious events. The population is startled with the ravaging supernatural phenomena. In an isolated house blended with the cane field lives the couple CATITA and Sister DARLENE. Catita plays parts on the local maracatu, but hides it from his wife. Darlene is an avid follower of Pastor BARACHINHA, a former maracatu master who turned himself to the evangelical religion and now is on a mission to cast the devil out of the maracatu and evangelize the whole city. Sister Darlene discovers that Catita is involved with maracatu and compels him to meet the Pastor and convert to Evangelicalism.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesA small village in the Brazilian outback is considered the nation's capital of jeans. It's also a microcosm that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions.
- StarsClaudia LeitteMaria Regina GranjeiroGoing beyond the backstage of Claudia Leitte's 2020 Carnival blocks with testimonials from the women involved in its conception, leaders of social projects and learn historical facts on the achievements of the women honored by the singer.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsMichael CaineMichelle JohnsonDemi MooreBest friends and their daughters vacation in Rio de Janeiro only for one to fall for the other's daughter.