Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies

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

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

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

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 short about Brazilian medium Chico Xavier.

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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...

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New...

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...

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

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