O Xangô de Baker Street (English title: A Samba for Sherlock) is 2001 Brazilian-Portuguese film directed by Miguel Faria Jr., based on the novel of the same name by Jô Soares.

Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city's Municipal Theater, captivating the local audience enthralled by French culture.

The actress suggests to the monarch to hire her friend, the legendary British detective Sherlock Holmes, to solve the case.

Subsequently, a brutal murder shocks the city, and leaves the police superintendent Mello Pimenta: a prostitute had been killed and mutilated, her ears cut off and a violin string strategically placed on her body by the perpetrator.

Later, under the heat of the tropical sun, the lives of Holmes and Doctor Watson are changed forever, as they find themselves neck-deep in a cultural milieu that portrays all standard Brazilian stereotypes.