Personal Info
Birth date
1913-10-19 (111 Years)
Day of death
1980-07-09
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Also known as
Vinícius de Moraes
Vinicius de Moraes
Biography
(October 19, 1913 – July 9, 1980), also known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinha ("The little poet"), was a Brazilian poet, lyricist, essayist, and playwright who later became a seminal figure in modern Brazilian music and literature. He served as a diplomat; composed his own bossa nova music; and as an interpreter of his own lyrics, recorded several albums.Filmography
Fogo Sobre Terra
8
Overview:
The plot takes place in a fictional city called Vale do Café, where two powerful families, the Toledo and Fontes, are locked in an intense dispute for power and land ownership. Conflicts are marked by betrayals, forbidden loves and dark secrets. The soap opera addresses themes such as ambition, revenge, romance and conflicts between families, showing the fire that consumes the land and human relationships.Noah's Ark
6.84
Overview:
A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark: Vini, a charismatic poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist. When the rains come, only one male and one female of each species is allowed on Noah's Ark. With the help of an ingenious cockroach and fate's good luck, Vini and Tito sneak their way onto the Ark and together avert a showdown among the ships carnivores and plant eaters. All the while, the animals perform a series of classic songs inspired by world renowned poet, Vinicius de Moraes. Can these talented stowaways use music to break the tension and help these cooped up creatures survive the 40 days and 40 nights together?Black Orpheus
6.981
Overview:
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. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.Os Afro-Sambas: The Brazil of Baden and Vinicius
10
Overview:
Released in 1966 by Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell, the record Os Afro-Sambas is one of Brazil's most revered. Participants of the original recording, critics, friends and family of the musicians revisit the creation of this masterpiece. Filmed between Salvador and Rio, the documentary brings together archive footage and exclusive interviews with Maria Bethânia, Dori Caymmi, Russo Passapusso and Nelson Motta. A tribute to a classic that transformed Brazilian music.They Shot the Piano Player
6.5
Overview:
New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.Para Viver Um Grande Amor
5.2
Overview:
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. Meanwhile, a rich girl falls in love with a poor composer. Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica", by Vinícius de Moraes and Carlos Lyra.Sol Sobre a Lama
5
Overview:
A poor community in Salvador organizes a resistance against the destruction of the Água de Meninos street market.Orfeu
5.4
Overview:
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.ABC of a Strike
7.6
Overview:
ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of highly-regarded director Leon Hirszman in 1987, by which time the material had a new relevance. The gripping film captures the negotiations between the labor unions and the factory bosses and shows the birth of the region’s Worker’s Party, as well as the emergence of its charismatic leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Rising from extreme poverty, Lula gained national prominence as a union activist during the late 70s and early 80s. After being jailed during his time as a union leader, he eventually becomes Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010.Vinicius de Moraes
6.2
Overview:
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. gathered an incomparable cast of partners, singers, friends and rare images from the archives recalling Vinícius’ genial simplicity, with the spontaneity, the humor, and the freedom of a person chatting over a bar table, exactly how the eternal Vinícius would enjoy.Pixinguinha, an Affectionate Man
7.9
Overview:
The life of legendary Brazilian musician Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, better known as Pixinguinha.Iracema, a Virgem dos Lábios de Mel
0.8
Overview:
The loves and life of a beautiful Brazilian Indian woman.Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber
6.1
Overview:
This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.The Girl from Ipanema
6.2
Overview:
Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.Musicalmente
NYR
Overview:
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). In a casual and intimate atmosphere, the quartet talks and sings songs that define the epoch. Great Bossa Nova classics are presented such as "Aguas de Março", "Samba do Avião", "Wave" and the immortal "Garota de Ipanema". Toquinho and Vinícius also play their hits like "Tarde em Itapoã" and "A Gente vai Levando". Don’t miss this exclusive and never before published moment of these true geniouses of MPB.Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
7.5
Overview:
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.Chico: Brazilian Artist
7.9
Overview:
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.Garoto - Vivo Sonhando
7
Overview:
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. Woven by rare archival material, personal diaries and testimonies, this documentary reveals his influence and the artistic conflicts of an avant-garde artist in the golden age of Brazilian radio.Toquinho Maravilhoso
NYR
Overview:
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. A story that shapes Brazilian popular music.Brasil
7.5
Overview:
João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque
NYR
Overview:
The life and work of Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer and poet Chico Buarque de Hollanda.Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova
7.5
Overview:
Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.The Dead at the Phone
NYR
Overview:
This story begins with Marcelo's funeral. His family, his fiancée Lúcia and three suspicious men are the only people accompanying the coffin. By night, at home, Rosa, Ricardo and Lúcia notice something strange: Marcelo's room has been completely ransacked. Suddenly, the phone rings. Rosa answers and hears the voice of her son who had just died. The shock is too strong for the poor lady, who dies of a syncope. To understand these sinister events, we have to go back three days...Doomed Lovers
NYR
Overview:
The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished its purity. The modern transposition of the legend is set in Brazil, in a village of poor fishermen on Guanabara Bay, framed by mountains not far from Rio de Janeiro. Two young cousins, Marcos and Jeronimo, get together to fish successfully - the arrastao is a large fishing net - and to resist the ugly local landowner, who sets the rules and the prices. This owner has a niece: Emaïsa, who loves Marcos and is loved by him.Acting
2024Os Afro-Sambas: The Brazil of Baden and Vinicius as Self (archive footage)
2024Toquinho Maravilhoso as Self (archive footage)
2023They Shot the Piano Player as Self (archive audio)
2021Pixinguinha, an Affectionate Man as Self (archive footage)
2020Garoto - Vivo Sonhando as Self (archive footage)
2019The Crystallization of Brasília as Narrator (voice)
2015Chico: Brazilian Artist as Self (archive footage)
2013Mario Wallace Simonsen, Entre a Memória e a História as Self (archive footage)
2005Vinicius de Moraes as Self (archive footage)
2005Phono 73: A Country and its Music as Self (archive footage)
2005Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova as Self (archive footage)
2001Toquinho as Self
1993As nascentes as Unknown
1990ABC of a Strike as Self
1986Brasília, Uma Sinfonia as Self (archive footage)
1983Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família as Self
1981Brasil as Self (archive footage)
1980Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque as Self
1980Vinicius para Criança: A Arca de Noé as Self
1979Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music as Self
1978Musicalmente as Self
1978Masters of Bossa Nova: Jobim, Toquinho, Vinicius as Himself
1976Música, poesia e amor as Unknown
1975Cyro Monteiro as Unknown
1972Le Grand Échiquier (3 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
1971Samedi soir (1 Episode) as Self
1967The Girl from Ipanema as Self
1967Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo as Self
1962Pluft, o Fantasminha as Unknown
Sound
2025Teste: Ou a Consciência da Tensão ... Sound
1999Orfeu ... Music
1984Para Viver Um Grande Amor ... Music
1979Iracema, a Virgem dos Lábios de Mel ... Songs
1976Marília e Marina ... Original Music Composer
1976Carioca Tigre ... Music
1974Fogo Sobre Terra (4 Episodes) ... Music Director
1967The Girl from Ipanema ... Music Coordinator
1963Sol Sobre a Lama ... Original Music Composer
1963The Dead at the Phone ... Music
Writing
2024Noah's Ark ... Author
2023Language of the Infinite Cycle of All Things ... Writer
1999Orfeu ... Theatre Play
1984Para Viver Um Grande Amor ... Theatre Play
1977Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber ... Book
1967Doomed Lovers ... Writer
1967The Girl from Ipanema ... Story
1959Black Orpheus ... Theatre Play
Production
1967The Girl from Ipanema ... Associate Producer