Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies

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

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

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...

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...

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

After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of...

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

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 history of Jornal do Brasil, founded on April 14, 1891. In 1965, the Jornal do Brasil marked its innovative and active...

Short musical film paying a tribute to samba composer Zé Ketti, one of the greatest popular artists of Brazilian music. In a jam session, in...

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

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

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...

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....

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

Documentary about middle-class people in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1960s, when Brazil was going through a hard period in its history, with the military...

The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a failed attempt at directing his biopic in the...