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...

The work of Nelson Pereira dos Santos guides the documentary, which traces the path taken by Cinema Novo and addresses the issues raised by the...

Nelson Pereira dos Santos talks about The Highway of Life (1980)

A star medical examiner is called to Brasília, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young...

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.

The documentary depicts the everyday of illiterate rural workers in Northeast Brazil, living under extreme misery. Although incapable of writing,...

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

A young man learns to how to be a thief from a more experienced one.

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