Nelson Xavier Movies

In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in...

A 92-year-old man decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his life, including his lover – who is 55...

Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.

Após perder a esposa e a caminho do suicídio, um homem se depara com O Livro dos Espíritos e começa uma jornada de...

A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a...

A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin....

Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town.

Two outcasts fight over a pair of shoes in a run-down boarding-house room.

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation...

Zulmira is an old mistress who lives in the neighborhood of Estacio, in Rio de Janeiro. One day she wakes up obsessed with the idea of dying. All she...

A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.

João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.

In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more...

Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective...

Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich...

The life and highlights of Marshal Cândido Rondon.

True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his...

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.