Nelson Pereira dos Santos Movies
- 2002
How to Die in Cinema
How to Die in Cinema5.82002HD
Memories of a parrot who participated in the filming of the classic Vidas Secas, in 1962, where it was featured along the puppy Baleia.
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- 2002
At the Edge of the Earth
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On 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere in Capitólio Theater in Rio de Janeiro...
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- 1994
The Third Bank of the River
The Third Bank of the River5.41994HD
After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of...
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- 2007
Sambando nas Brasas, Morô?
Sambando nas Brasas, Morô?02007HD
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...
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- 2015
Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro82015HD
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- 1967
A Public Opinion
A Public Opinion5.61967HD
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...
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- 1968
Hunger for Love
Hunger for Love5.21968HD
An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and...
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- 1980
Um Ladrão
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- 1967
El Justicero
El Justicero5.41967HD
A shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian social satire owes more than a nod to the...
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- 1980
The Highway of Life
The Highway of Life6.51980HD
The rise of real life country singers Milionário e José Rico from their humble beginnings until musical success.
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- 1955
Rio, 100 Degrees F°
Rio, 100 Degrees F°7.11955HD
On a scorching summer day in Rio de Janeiro, five impoverished black boys venture out of their favela to peddle peanuts throughout the bustling city....
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- 1964
A Seventy-Four Year-Old Fellow
A Seventy-Four Year-Old Fellow01964HD
Documentary about the history of Jornal do Brasil, founded on April 14, 1891. In 1965, the Jornal do Brasil marked its innovative and active...
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- 1995
Cinema de Lágrimas
Cinema de Lágrimas4.61995HD
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...
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- 1961
Mandacaru Vermelho
Mandacaru Vermelho6.61961HD
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....
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- 2008
A Paz é Dourada
A Paz é Dourada02008HD
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...
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- 1953
O Saci
O Saci61953HD
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...
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- 1991
Que Viva Glauber!
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- 2004
Raízes do Brasil
Raízes do Brasil7.52004HD
Documentary in two parts about Brazilian writer, journalist and sociologist Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. The first part describes how the author...
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- 1964
Maioria absoluta
Maioria absoluta91964HD
The documentary depicts the everyday of illiterate rural workers in Northeast Brazil, living under extreme misery. Although incapable of writing,...
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- 1982
A Missa do Galo
A Missa do Galo5.81982HD
It's Christmas Eve and an aunt and her nephew have to deal with their platonic relationship.
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