Nelson Xavier Movies

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to...

Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective...

Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second largest private bank in Brazil. One day, Elias...

Three mothers see their reality become completely, they are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces problems with drugs; Elisa, trying to make up for...

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

The life and highlights of Marshal Cândido Rondon.

In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more...

Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can...

Heitor and Matilde are two siblings who decide to murder their rich father in order to quickly inherit his wealth. They get the killing done, aided...

Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich...

In the 20's, in the State of Piauí, Brazil, a young cowboy is used politically after killing his wife, who had been seduced by her boss and...

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...

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

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...

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin....

Zulmira is an old mistress who lives in the neighborhood of Estácio, in Rio de Janeiro. One day, she wakes up obsessed with the idea of dying....