Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies

A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.

Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for...

A star medical examiner is called to Brasília, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young...

Nelson Pereira dos Santos talks about The Highway of Life (1980)

An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and...

Documentary in two parts about Brazilian writer, journalist and sociologist Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. The first part describes how the author...

Two kids and a living, talkative doll attempt to catch a mulatto boy-like, supernatural one legged figure known as the Saci-Pererê, that enjoys...

After a powerful outlaw dies, a reporter interviews his lover and gets three different stories about the legendary man.

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.

A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

Documentary on the view, testimonies and times of Darcy Ribeiro, since military dictatorship.

Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues...

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through...

On the day of his wedding, young man from a family of immigrants faces some problems to get the money needed for the last arrangements. The family do...

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the...

Despite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape....