Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of...

An aging Brazilian actor teams up with a film student on a trip to Mexico, in order to find out an unknown movie his mother allegedly watched before...

It's Christmas Eve and an aunt and her nephew have to deal with their platonic relationship.

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by...

A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the...

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

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

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...

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

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

After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of...

An amalgamation of accents and life experiences from different parts of Brazil reunited on the city of Brasília.

The rise of real life country singers Milionário e José Rico from their humble beginnings until musical success.

When a young boy from a shanty town near Rio de Janeiro gets a coveted pair of white trousers for Christmas his joy knows no bounds. Not getting them...

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

The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a failed attempt at directing his biopic in the...

Documentary short about Brazilian medium Chico Xavier.

On 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere in Capitólio Theater in Rio de Janeiro...