Nelson Xavier Movies

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

A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues whe...

Underappreciated actor Jack Noah is on location in Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man makes Jack an offer he cannot...

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...

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

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

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 prove the...

A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.

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 t...

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...

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 deposi...

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 than 250...

Two outcasts fight over a pair of shoes in a run-down boarding-house room.

Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town.

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

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 is...

A 92-year-old man decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his life, including his lover – who is 55 years young...

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