Girls from Ipanema (Seasons 1–2)

Girls from Ipanema (Coisa Mais Linda, 2019) is a Brazilian drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Rio de Janeiro, late 1950s: housewife Malu arrives expecting to open a restaurant with her husband — instead she finds him gone, their savings stolen, and herself alone in an unfamiliar city.

Rather than go home, she stays. She falls in with a singer, a waitress, and a fighter, all women with their own dead ends and outsized ambitions. Together they decide to open a bossa nova club at the exact moment the genre was being born on the shores of Ipanema. Starring Maria Casadevall and Pathy Dejesus, the series is less a story about music than about what women build for themselves when no one else will. Stream Girls from Ipanema online on iFILM.