Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Known for: Directing
Born: October 22, 1928
Died: April 12, 2018
Nelson Pereira dos Santos ComRB • OMC (São Paulo, October 22, 1928 — Rio de Janeiro, April 21, 2018) was a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. Having been one of the founders of the Cinema Novo movement, his production spans a period of 60 years in the history of Brazil. Considered one of the most important filmmakers in the country, he was strongly influenced by the works of the 1930s generation of Brazilian literary modernism, having adapted works by Graciliano Ramos and Jorge…
Known for
Red Mandacaru
1961
Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema
2023
Cinema Novo
2016
A música que meu pai gostava
2018
Nelson Filma o Rio
2021
How to Die in Cinema
2002
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
2013
Nelson Filma
1971
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
1967
Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo
1989
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
2017
Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
2015
Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?
1991
Referências
2006
Amuleto
2025
Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
1984
At the Edge of the Earth
2002
Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
2011
O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro
2014
Brazil in Cannes
1971
Português - A Língua do Brasil
2007
Claves, 2: We will return younger
1984
Que Viva Glauber!
1991
Garden of War
1969
Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal
2008
The Good Cinema
2021
Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air
2007
Dib
1997
Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
2015
A Paz é Dourada
2008
Uma Vida Dividida
1999
Sambando nas Brasas, Morô?
2007
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
2003
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
2019
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020
Critic
2008
For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
1998