Direction: Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Átila Iório · Maria Ribeiro · Orlando Macedo · Joffre Soares

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Glauce Rocha · Jece Valadão · Roberto Bataglin · Ana Beatriz Wiltgen

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Arduino Colasanti · Ana Maria Magalhães · José Kleber · Gabriel Atcanjo

Synopsis In 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the Frenches and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portugueses. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the Tupinambás, and in spite of his trial to convince them...

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Cosme Alves Neto · André Barros · Raul Cortez · Silvia Oroz

Synopsis An aging Brazilian actor teams up with a film student on a trip to Mexico, in order to find out an unknown movie his mother allegedly watched before she committed suicide.

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Antonio Carlos Jobim · Frank Sinatra · Ella Fitzgerald · Oscar Peterson

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Isabel Ribeiro · Arduíno Colassanti · Nildo Parente · Irene Stefânia

Synopsis Based on 19th century story "O Alienista" by great Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, the film is a free adaptation, telling the story of Catholic priest Simão Bacamarte who comes to the small town of Serafim to investigate on the...

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Mozart Cintra · Ivan De Souza · Luiz Paulino Dos Santos · João Duarte

Synopsis 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. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes after them, in order to...

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Hugo Carvana · Sonia Dias · Anecy Rocha · Franca Teixeira

Synopsis The film chronicles the chaos that results when a prominent American Nobel Prize winner arrives in Bahía, with nothing but praise on his lips for a long-forgotten local writer-scientist named Pedro Archanjo.

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Carlos Vereza · Glória Pires · Nildo Parente · José Dumont

Synopsis Graciliano Ramos' period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Arduino Colasanti · Adriana Prieto · Márcia Rodrigues · Emmanuel Cavalcanti

Synopsis Satirical comedy set in Rio de Janeiro about a general's playboy son meeting a leftist intellectual who wants to write/film the playboy's dolce vita. Various shenanigans follow in a thinly-disguised attack on the military régime which started in Brazil in...

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Lavoisier Albernaz · Denise Alvarez · Barbara Brandt · Affonso Brazza

Synopsis A man leaves his house and his family to live alone in a canoe on the river. From the marriage of his son with a girl named Alva was born a girl able of performing miracles. One day she refuses...

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Rachel Casimiro · Maria Martha dos Santos · Elza Gomes · Sergio Otero

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Arduino Colasanti · Manfredo Colasanti · Olga Danitch · Neville de Almeida

Synopsis Alfredo, a former revolutionary who is blind, deaf and mute, and his hedonistic wife are visited in their seaside house by another couple, just arriving from New York: a frustrated pianist and her husband, an ex-waiter of dubious character.

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Joffre Soares · Anecy Rocha · Ney Santanna · Maria Ribeiro

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Teresa Hermanny

Synopsis 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 second wife, Ana.

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Noëlle Adam · Arduino Colasanti · Manfredo Colasanti · Sylvie Fennec

Synopsis After a catastrophe that modified the world's natural state and destroyed civilized society, a couple begins a new life in a shelter. Their relationship is disturbed by the arrival of a woman.

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Synopsis 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 the late composer's house in Inhaúma, a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, a group of...

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Grande Otélo · Julien Guiomar · Charles Baiano · Catherine Rouvel

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Chico Buarque de Hollanda · Sílvia Buarque · Miúcha · Maria Amélia

Synopsis Cinebiography of celebrated historian Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, who wrote the seminal "Raízes do Brasil" in 1935, with interviews with his large family (including his widow and his seven children, among them famous composer/singer/writer Chico Buarque and singer Miúcha) and...

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Grande Otélo · Jece Valadão · Malu Maia · Maria Petar

Synopsis A composer of a samba school has an accident. While the aid coming, he recalls his life.