Ney Matogrosso

Ney Matogrosso

Born: August 1, 1941
in Bela Vista, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Ney de Souza Pereira, known as Ney Matogrosso (born 1 August 1941), is a Brazilian singer who is distinguished for his uncommon countertenor voice.

Movies for Ney Matogrosso...

Title: Fantástico: 50 Anos de Futuro
Character: Self
Released: August 6, 2023
Type: TV
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Abyssal Fish
Title: Abyssal Fish
Released: January 26, 2023
Type: Movie
ABYSSAL FISH is a creative film in the border between fiction, real and performance through the artistic work of Luís Capucho. A singular artist who survived the time when the HIV represented the death stigma. Building an amazing work of poetic power post­disease, Capucho surpasses the physical sequels that have left him mute and without part of his body movements for a while, until the current partial recovery.
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Joy Is the Acid Test
Title: Joy Is the Acid Test
Character: Lírio
Released: January 23, 2023
Type: Movie
A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.
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What I've Never Lost
Title: What I've Never Lost
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
A feature documentary on the life of Alzira Espíndola and her impact and influence on different generations of Brazilian music. From her origins on Mato Grosso do Sul to her breakthrough as a instrumentist and composer in São Paulo, the movie explores her life, work and ventures with partners such as Itamar Assumpção, Ney Matogrosso and her sister Tetê Espíndola with irreverence and erudition.
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Ney Matogrosso - Bloco na Rua
Title: Ney Matogrosso - Bloco na Rua
Released: September 21, 2020
Type: Movie
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Ney - À Flor da Pele
Title: Ney - À Flor da Pele
Character: Self
Released: September 21, 2020
Type: Movie
The impact of Ney Matogrosso's performances on his audience and the reverberation of that impact on Brazilian culture, from the second half of the 20th century to the present. An audiovisual anthology, all composed of archival images. The best way to get to know Ney is to be with him on stage.
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Ele Era Assim: Ary Barroso
Title: Ele Era Assim: Ary Barroso
Character: Self
Released: October 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Ary Barroso was one of the greatest composers of Brazilian music with his successes for the whole planet. Know its history, reconstructed through Ary's own audio files, interspersed with reports from friends and family.
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Bixa Travesty
Title: Bixa Travesty
Character: Self
Released: June 26, 2019
Type: Movie
A portrait of transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances as weapons to fight sexism, homophobia, and racism.
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Boni Bonita
Title: Boni Bonita
Released: May 9, 2019
Type: Movie
Reeling from the death of her mother, Beatriz moves to Brazil where she begins an intense and toxic relationship with Rogério, an older musician struggling with his family's artistic legacy.
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Magnetick Pathways
Title: Magnetick Pathways
Character: André Leviatã
Released: April 25, 2019
Type: Movie
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
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O Fabuloso Zé Rodrix
Title: O Fabuloso Zé Rodrix
Character: Self
Released: July 5, 2018
Type: Movie
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O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
Title: O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
Released: May 5, 2018
Type: Movie
A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.
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Sol Alegria
Title: Sol Alegria
Character: Bullfighter poet
Released: January 27, 2018
Type: Movie
While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of weapons to a group of militant nuns who have withdrawn to the jungle, living off the income from their cannabis plantation. As gay , bi, trans, the converts so organized to make revolution.
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Serguei - O Último Psicodélico
Title: Serguei - O Último Psicodélico
Character: Ele mesmo
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: Movie
A documentary that follows the life of Serguei - flight-commissioner-turned-rockstar, hippie guru, rockstar and Janis Joplin's lover - chronicling his life from the early 60s until present day.
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Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl
Title: Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl
Character: Mago
Released: October 19, 2017
Type: Movie
The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars and indigenous genocide.
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Chacrinha: O Eterno Guerreiro
Title: Chacrinha: O Eterno Guerreiro
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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Barão Vermelho: Por que a gente é assim?
Title: Barão Vermelho: Por que a gente é assim?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A documentary about Barão Vermelho, one of Brazil's most famous rock bands during the 1980s, following its steps through archive footage and interviews with all of its remaining members and associated parties.
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Title: Conversa com Bial
Released: May 3, 2017
Type: TV
With decades of experience of reporting and a curious spirit for the history of the other, Pedro Bial presents a wide space to listen, give opinions and multiply opinions.
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Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
Title: Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: 3%
Character: Leonardo Álvares
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: TV
In a future where the elite inhabit an island paradise far from the crowded slums, you get one chance to join the 3% saved from squalor.
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Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
Title: Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
Character: Himself
Released: August 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Inspired by the US paper “Gay Sunshine”, in April of 1978 appeared in Brazil – during the dictatorship – the newspaper “O Lampião”, depicting the point of view of gays on various issues, including sexuality. A group of journalists and writers from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo joined the project, fueling a publication that paved the way for the press at the time, addressing controversial issues at the period, such as racism, abortion, drugs and prostitution.
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Ralé: The Lower Depths
Title: Ralé: The Lower Depths
Character: Barão
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Young directors are filming “The Exhibitionist” in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, with the Amazon as the center of the world, reflecting on existential issues, the right to sexual freedom and individuality.
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Yorimatã
Title: Yorimatã
Character: Self
Released: April 7, 2016
Type: Movie
The lives of Luhli and Lucina, two especially important artists in the alternative cultural scene during the 1970s. In a time when transgression, love and peace guided behavior, we discover the love of two women for art, their spiritual universe, their lives in community and their three-way relationship with photographer Luiz Fernando Borges da Fonseca.
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
Title: Chico: Brazilian Artist
Character: Self - Performer
Released: November 26, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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O Samba
Title: O Samba
Released: July 23, 2015
Type: Movie
In the Documentary The singer, composer, writer and bamba Martinho da Vila guides the viewer through the gigantic world of samba investigating the origins of the rhythm, highlighting its importance in different spheres, telling stories about his career and presenting his heart association, Grêmio Recreativo Samba School Unidos de Vila Isabel.
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Rock in Rio 30 Anos
Title: Rock in Rio 30 Anos
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary of the legendary 1985 music festival in Brazil.
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André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
Title: André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Based on the autobiography of noted music executive André Midani, André Midani — An Insider’s Story of Brazilian Music (2015) explores Brazilian music throughout his five-decade career through informal gatherings and jam sessions at his home, featuring Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben Jor, Gilberto Gil, and Marisa Monte, among other luminaries of the industry.
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Ney Matogrosso - Atento Aos Sinais
Title: Ney Matogrosso - Atento Aos Sinais
Released: June 18, 2014
Type: Movie
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Naked Eye
Title: Naked Eye
Character: Ney Matogrosso
Released: May 15, 2014
Type: Movie
“Naked Eye” is a film-documentary of long-length of the artistic and existential universe of the singer Ney Matogrosso, which proposes to recreate through archive’s images in counterpoint with the current production of the artist, thirty-five years of career marked for inventive and transgressing spectacles, always symphonize with its time. Through a coherent boarding with its intransigent trajectory, the film intends to translate the language musical-corporal of Ney Matogrosso, trying audiovisuals resources that express signs evoked poetical politicians and in the repertoire of the singer. A film-song that that looks for to, ultimately, embody the voices of an artist who searches for a nation.
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Tie and Red Nail
Title: Tie and Red Nail
Character: Himself
Released: March 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Several characters realize their personal way to build their own identity from the choice of genre. Transsexual, transgender, crossdressing – the defining of terminologies different ways of looking at yourself are constantly rising, portraying a universe of possibilities, expanding the boundaries of the possible and permitted.
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Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer
Title: Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer
Character: Yan
Released: November 29, 2013
Type: Movie
On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their crisis and limitations, and search for a meaning for their lives.
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Poder dos Afetos
Title: Poder dos Afetos
Character: Barão
Released: October 6, 2013
Type: Movie
A study that unwraps a paradisiac scenery, reaching the subjects of Brazility and its force in the change of habits, breaking taboos and bringing out a magical and original reality throught its characters.
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Martinho da Vila – Sambabook
Title: Martinho da Vila – Sambabook
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
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Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Title: Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Character: Luz Vermelha
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
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Fca Carla
Title: Fca Carla
Character: Doutor Virgílio
Released: March 19, 2011
Type: Movie
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Bird-Man
Title: Bird-Man
Released: August 26, 2010
Type: Movie
The vertigos in the urban landscape take the Bird-Man back to his origins, in a metaphor about life cycles. "Bird-Man" is a film from the poetic nature of Brazilian singer, Ney Matogrosso. During the 1970s dictatorship, he broke sexual taboos with a "strange" behavior on stage and became one of the most famous brazilian singers. Inspired in Cassiano Ricardo's concrete poems and the experimental music of Ney's repertoire, "Bird-Man" explores a sound and visual lyrical aesthetic of high contrasts that approximates man to nature's feelings.
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Dzi Croquettes
Title: Dzi Croquettes
Character: Self
Released: October 4, 2009
Type: Movie
A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
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Roberta Sá - Pra Se Ter Alegria
Title: Roberta Sá - Pra Se Ter Alegria
Character: Self
Released: August 8, 2009
Type: Movie
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After Everything
Title: After Everything
Released: November 8, 2008
Type: Movie
After farewell, the waiting. After the waiting, the return. After everything, all they wish for is to be together and one day is enough for them to wait for the next one.
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Title: O Som do Vinil
Character: Self
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Paraíso Tropical
Character: Himself
Released: March 5, 2007
Type: TV
The search for a successor provokes the beginning of a clash between two young and talented executives of his group: Daniel Bastos, a lad of simple origins and excellent character, who is not only handsome and charming, but also intelligent and skilled, and Olavo Novaes, an ambitious and unscrupulous man who is ready to fight for the position, at any cost. To fight against Olavo‘s treacherous plans, Daniel will have the help of the sweet and sensitive Paula, a young lady raised as an only child who founds, on the eve of her mother‘s death, that she is adopted and has a family. What Paula does not know is that she has an identical twin sister, the wicked Taís, who is as ambitious and unscrupulous as the man who becomes her main ally, Olavo Novaes. Antenor, for his part, decides on having an heir when he meets the headstrong and honest Lúcia, a woman who will make this cold businessman find true love is and a real reason to live.
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Vagabundo - Ney Matogrosso Pedro Luis e a Parede
Title: Vagabundo - Ney Matogrosso Pedro Luis e a Parede
Character: Singer
Released: June 16, 2006
Type: Movie
This incredible partnership brings the stamped voices of Ney Matogrosso and Pedro Luis, in addition to percussion of "A Parede" (The Wall). "Vagabundo" mix semi-unreleased songs of Rio's underground scene with already established songs like "A ordem é samba" (The order is samba) by Jackson do Pandeiro and "Disritmia" (Dysrhythmia).
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Diary of a New World
Title: Diary of a New World
Released: September 16, 2005
Type: Movie
In 1752, a ship arrives in Brazil, bringing doctor and writer Gaspar de Fróes. He keeps a diary about the dangerous trip, the diseases and hunger aboard, his impressions of the new country, and the political struggle between the crowns of Castela and Portugal. In Brazil, he is going to fall in love with the wife of a Portuguese officer.
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Ney Matogrosso - Canto em Qualquer Canto
Title: Ney Matogrosso - Canto em Qualquer Canto
Character: Singer
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
This album was recorded live in December 2004 at SESC Pinheiros to celebrate the anniversary of the Channel "Canal Brazil". Ney Matogrosso presents a eclectic repertory which include his greatest hits and who received new arrangements with instrumentalists chosen by him, forming a suit of plucked strings of the highest quality.
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Cazuza - A Leblon Night's Dream
Title: Cazuza - A Leblon Night's Dream
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1997
Type: Movie
The film brings some of the best stories about the singer, told by his friends - Cássia Eller, Ezequiel Neves, Ney Matogrosso and Frejat - and by his mother, Lucinha Araújo, in atouching testimonial.
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Caramujo-Flor
Title: Caramujo-Flor
Character: Manoel de Barros
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Film based on Manoel de Barros poetry. Story about poet's life in the swamp area of Brazil (Pantanal) and its wildlife; & his obsession with the sea and his new life in the big metropolis in Brazil.
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After Eight... Forever
Title: After Eight... Forever
Character: Bernardo
Released: March 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.
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Vinicius para Criança: A Arca de Noé
Title: Vinicius para Criança: A Arca de Noé
Character: Self
Released: October 10, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: Grandes Nomes
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1980
Type: TV