Biography
Milton Nascimento is a prominent Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known globally as one of the most influential and talented brazilian musicians. Elis Regina once stated that "if God had a voice, it would be Milton's".
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Survivors
2025
Music
Mid-19th century. A group of survivors from a wrecked slave ship, both black and white, end up on a deserted island, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. ...

Milton Bituca Nascimento
2025
as Self
Milton Nascimento is a singer, a songwriter and a connoisseur of multiple instruments. Music is at the core of his being. He is also considered one o...

Simbiose
2024
Songs

Nothing Like Before – The Music of Clube da Esquina
2024
as Self
Nothing Like Before delves into the creation of the Clube da Esquina Album (Brazil, 1972). Considered by many music critics one of the best albums of ...

They Shot the Piano Player
2023
as Self (voice)
New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist wh...

Lô Borges - Toda Essa Água
2023
as Self
Lô Borges works on an album of new songs while traveling around Brazil on a tour that brings back the repertoire he composed in 1972 for Clube da Esqu...

Milton Nascimento: A Última Sessão de Música
2022
as Self
At the age of 80, Milton Nascimento announced his farewell to the stage, performing the last show in November 2022 at Estádio Mineirão, in Minas Gerai...

Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil
2020
as Self

Ney - À Flor da Pele
2020
as Self
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 20t...

Transversal do Tempo
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The special documentary celebrates Elis Regina's 75th birthday and makes a parallel between Elis' extremely prevailing thoughts with those of João Mar...

Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa
2019
as Self
The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of Fern...

Music for Bleeding Hearts
2019
as Milton
In present-day São Paulo, a trio of young hearts are about to break. Ricardo has both a steady boyfriend and a wandering eye for a new coworker. Isabe...

Dê Lembranças a Todos
2018
as Self
Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought abou...
Milagre dos Peixes Ao Vivo
2018
as Self
Milagre dos Peixes Ao Vivo
2018
Music

Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
2017
as Self

Chico: Brazilian Artist
2015
as Self - Performer
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...

The Other Side of Paradise
2014
Music
Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go t...

Milton Nascimento - Uma Travessia - 50 Anos de Carreira - Ao Vivo
2013
Milton Nascimento comemorates 50 years of his career in a grand show full of big hits!

Clara
2012
Orphaned by father and mother, Clara has always dreamed of building a singing career. At the age of 16, she moved to Belo Horizonte, where she won the...
Clube da Esquina - The History of the Corner Club
2010
as Himself
Produced as the final project of the Journalism course at PUC-SP, the film exceeded expectations and was shown on TV Cultura and at various festivals ...

Lendas Brasileiras
2008
as Lara

Lendas Brasileiras
2008
Songs
Panair of Brazil
2007
Musical
Panair do Brasil revives the story of the most important commercial aviation company in Brazil, between 1930 and 1965, with its commercial daring in e...

Elis Regina: Falso Brilhante
2007
as Self
Elis was complete, she had all the attributes which differentiated simple artists from stars. She could enchant crowds in her albums, concerts and in ...

Looking for Black Orpheus
2005
as Self
Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today.

Jobim Sinfônico
2003

Traveller
1998
as Cantor do Realejo
Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, th...

Acústico MTV: Rita Lee
1998

Rio's Love Song
1994
Music
Four love stories which portray a wide gamut of emotions and desires against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. "Elephant's Stomp" : the story of a highw...

The Third Bank of the River
1994
Original Music Composer
After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his...

One World, One Voice
1990
as Self
An extraordinary music special is the climax to One World week. The brainchild of ex-10cc drummer Kevin Godley, it features the first true global comp...

Jazz Under the Skies
1990
as Self
Feat. Herbie Hancock, Milton Nascimento, Al Jarreau Miki Howard & The Select Live Special Band, David Sanborn and Marcus Miller Herbie Hancock: 1...
Simone - Especial
1989

After Eight... Forever
1987
Original Music Composer
Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.

Jango
1984
Original Music Composer
The story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.

Noites do Sertão
1984
as Chefe Zequiel
The film shows the drama of the young and fragile Lalinha. After being abandoned by her husband, who ran away with another, the girl seeks comfort on ...

The Next Victim
1983
as Self
A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood.

Frei Tito
1983
Music

Fitzcarraldo
1982
as Opera House Blackman
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an ...

Milton Nascimento Especial
1982
Música para Sempre
1980
as Self
The picture brings interviews with the participants of the 1st São Paulo Jazz Festival that occurred in Anhembi Conventions Palace in September 1978 a...
Vinicius para Criança: A Arca de Noé
1980
as Self
Paulo Moura
1978
Salve o Compositor Popular
1978

The Fall
1976
Music
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation ...

Leila Para Sempre Diniz
1976
Compositor
A documentary that presents home movies and several excerpts of known films of famous actress Leila Diniz. Friends of the late actress, tragic killed ...

O Sósia da Morte
1975
Original Music Composer
A professor faces a double of himself and hires a detective to find out who that is and what are his real intentions.

O Som Alucinante
1971

A Nova Estrela
1971
as Self
Sugestives images about the music A Nova Estrela by Wagner Tiso.

Of Gods and the Undead
1970
as Dim Dum
In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in t...

Of Gods and the Undead
1970
Original Music Composer
In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in t...

Tostão - A Fera de Ouro
1970
Songs
Documentary about Brazilian soccer player Tostão.
Milton Nascimento
N/A
as Self