Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

Documentary about the life of Tom Jobim, from the perspective of three women of his life: his sister, Helena Jobim, his first wife, Thereza, and his...

During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, actor/filmmaker Zózimo...

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

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

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...

1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies. Giancarlo, an Italian immigrant married to a Brazilian...

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....

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

The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the...

For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world. Precursor of Cinema Novo, Nelson was, more...

Statistics, interviews and historical information on illiteracy and inequality in land distribution in Brazil's countryside.

The city of Rio de Janeiro in the films of Nelson Pereira dos Santos contextualized by critic Rodrigo Fonseca.