Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.

Documentary short about Brazilian medium Chico Xavier.

When a young boy from a shanty town near Rio de Janeiro gets a coveted pair of white trousers for Christmas his joy knows no bounds. Not getting them...

Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with "The...

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...

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

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

The city of Rio de Janeiro in the films of Nelson Pereira dos Santos contextualized by critic Rodrigo Fonseca.

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....

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