Nelson Xavier Movies

The theatrologist, actor, director and overall polemist Plínio Marcos gets his life traced through images of the many spectacles he has put on...

The real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing...

After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helena and Jorge, at the party they are throwing. He...

The origins of Brazilian popular music and the types of scales used, as well as the various currents that emerged and formed different schools. The...

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

A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation...

In a desolate area of Brazilian mountainside, cut off from civilization, an old miner discovers a king-size diamond that he puts in his pocket rather...

"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the...

A lesson in conciseness, expressiveness, and humor on the inexhaustible theme of the dream of making movies. A parodic lesson, a Brazilian version of...