Nelson Xavier Movies

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

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

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the...

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 biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.

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

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

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...

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

Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as...

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food...

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...

The real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing...

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...