Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her...

Documentary about the history of Jornal do Brasil, founded on April 14, 1891. In 1965, the Jornal do Brasil marked its innovative and active...

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

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...

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

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

The adventures of Pedro, a musician who is trying his luck in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950's. He leaves his hometown Belo Horizonte to share a lodging...

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

Mid-1970s. When the military regime's "economic miracle" and the victory of the Brazilian football team on the World Cup serve as a distraction for...

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...

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

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....

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

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

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