Best movies of Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Actors : Átila Iório, Joffre Soares, Orlando Macedo, Maria Ribeiro,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place...

Actors : Manfredo Colassanti, Ana Maria Magalhães, Eduardo Imbassahy Filho, Arduíno Colassanti,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

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 ...

Actors : Odete Lara, Jece Valadão, Maria Lúcia Monteiro, Daniel Filho,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

When powerful outlaw "Boca de Ouro" dies, a reporter interviews his former lover Guigui, to try to outline his personality. But the woman offers him three different versions of the facts, ...

Actors : José Dumont, Nildo Parente, Glória Pires, Carlos Vereza,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

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

Actors : Affonso Brazza, Barbara Brandt, Lavoisier Albernaz, Denise Alvarez,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

Actors : Mozart Cintra, Luiz Paulino Dos Santos, Ivan De Souza, João Duarte,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

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 kill them for revenge.

Actors : Adriana Prieto, Márcia Rodrigues, Emmanuel Cavalcanti, Arduíno Colassanti,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

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 ...

Actors : Leila Diniz, Irene Stefânia, Arduíno Colassanti, Paulo Porto,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

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 ...

Actors : Nildo Parente, Isabel Ribeiro, Irene Stefânia, Arduíno Colassanti,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

A new priest comes to a Brazilian coastal town and builds an insane asylum. Eventually the whole population ends up in the asylum.

Actors : Manfredo Colassanti, Noëlle Adam, Sylvie Fennec, Arduíno Colassanti,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

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.

Actors : Anecy Rocha, Joffre Soares, Maria Ribeiro, Ney Santanna,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

To entertain some thieves, a blind guitar player tells them the story of a man from the Northeast of Brazil, involved with criminals living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, who allegedly ...