Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main...

In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé...

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

An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an...

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...

Memories of a parrot who participated in the filming of the classic Vidas Secas, in 1962, where it was featured along the puppy Baleia.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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

The critical success in France of How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman made possible dos Santos’ delirious science-fiction vision of free love in...

When a young boy from a shanty town near Rio de Janeiro gets a coveted pair of white trousers for Christmas his joy knows no bounds. Not getting them...

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...