Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world. Precursor of Cinema Novo, Nelson was, more...

Documentary on the view, testimonies and times of Darcy Ribeiro, since military dictatorship.

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

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

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....

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...

Documentary short about Brazilian medium Chico Xavier.

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