Nelson Pereira dos Santos

The time-frame is the 1930s, during the dictatorial regime of Getulio Vargas. Because of his anti-Vargas sentiments, Ramos is shipped off to a hellhole of a prison island. Knowing full well that he's expected to die in jail rather than be "rehabilitated," Ramos nonetheless survives, if for no other reason than to expose the sadistic cruelties of Vargas' minions... (All Movie Guide)

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, following the changes of her own personal feelings towards the man. (imdb)

A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a bitch called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to live, with food and work. But the drought and misery destroy their hopes. (imdb)

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 that he is French, they believe he is Portuguese. The Frenchman becomes their slave, and maritally lives with Seboipepe... (imdb)

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. Relationships of hate, love and sex soon develop between them. They swap wives as a liberation gesture. Besides, the pianist gets a little paranoid, thinking his husband and her friend are trying to eliminate Alfredo and herself, to keep her money. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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

Three segments based on stories in the Brazilian book of the same name.

A semi-documentary on the people of Rio de Janeiro. The camera follows boys from a hillside shanty town who sell peanuts at Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a soccer game. Various subplots, involving characters they meet along the way, are interspersed. (imdb)

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 had a "closed body", meaning that his body couldn't be hit by bullets or other weapons, by the wish of Ogum, one of the gods of Candomblé, a religion common in Brazil and Africa. (imdb)

A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him. (imdb)

A star medical examiner is called to Brasília, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young congressional aide's dead body. But his scientific rigor soon leads him to details of a multi-layered political scandal. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Short musical film paying a tribute to samba composer Zé Ketti, one of the greatest popular artists of Brazilian music... (imdb)

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... (imdb)

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 phenomenon of madness and ends up putting most of its inhabitants in an asylum, making things get out of control. (imdb)

Adapting the novel by Jorge Amado Bahia in the early 20th century, when the students of the Medical School defend the race of their African ancestors. Pedro is Archanjo Ojuobá, mulatto, capoeira, guitar player, drinker, and father of many children made with the most beautiful black, mulatto and white women.

The film tells the history of the singers Milionário and José Rico, who met and formed the folk band that would become one of the most important in Brazil.

Based on the work of Jorge Amado, the film narrates the interrracial love between a rich daughter of a commander and Antonio Balduíno, a black orphan of mount Capa-Negro, in Salvador, protected by the sorcerer Jubiabá.

A middle-aged man leaves his family and friends to live alone in a canoe in the middle of a river in central Brazil, and never again set foot on land. His only contact with people happens through his son Liojorge, who leaves food on the waterfront.

Series about the work of Gilberto Freyre, Casa Grande & Senzala, published in 1933, which is a study of the formation of the Brazilian people, the mixture of white, indian and black.

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 scholar friend Antonio Candido. (imdb)

Musical documentary about the career of Tom Jobim one of the greatest musicians of Brazil in all times

A Brazilian director goes to Mexico city to study the great Mexican melodramas of old. He meets a student he had previously met in Brazil and he becomes his assistant. But the student begins to miss the projections, behaving mysteriously. The director suspects something strange must be happening. But he will only find that out back in Brazil... (imdb)

Institutional about Jornal do Brasil - a Brazilian newspaper - directed by the master Nelson Pereira dos Santos