Nelson Xavier Movies

A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a...

In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in...

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the...

The life and highlights of Marshal Cândido Rondon.

Severino do Quixadá (Renato Aragão), a humble northeastern shepherd of goats, rescues Captain Virgulano or simply Captain (Nelson...

Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.

Após perder a esposa e a caminho do suicídio, um homem se depara com O Livro dos Espíritos e começa uma jornada de...

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food...

Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leaves his home to carry out literary research...

After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects...

Valdusa and her husband Geraldo arrive home and decide to watch TV. The question is what to watch: soccer or a soap opera? That is where the chaos...

João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.

True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his...

The story of the black mystic murderer Febrônio Índio do Brasil.

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the...

In the mid-19th century, Colonel Pedro Cambará rapes his slave, who gives birth to a girl on a full moon night. Named Lua (Moon), she has to...