Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies

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...

Men work in a quarry on the edge of a hill where a slum is located, of which they are residents. The slope is blown up, advancing to the land near...

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

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

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...

Short musical film paying a tribute to samba composer Zé Ketti, one of the greatest popular artists of Brazilian music. In a jam session, in...

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

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

Documentary about middle-class people in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1960s, when Brazil was going through a hard period in its history, with the military...

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

A newlywed woman, frustrated after her honeymoon, decides to search for lovers on the streets and ends up causing a conflict between her husband, a...

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

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

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

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the...

Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.

16 members from the Brazilian Academy of Letters share their views on the current situation of the portuguese language.