Nelson Xavier Movies

The tensions experienced by three different people during the military dictatorship in Brazil: a politician, a revolutionary and a common citizen.

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

The loving adventures of a priest disillusioned with religion and life.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from...

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

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...

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...

The life and highlights of Marshal Cândido Rondon.

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...