Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Directing
38
Acting Credits
34
Directed
Biography
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
Filmography
Amuleto
2025
Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema
2023
as Self (archive footage)
The Good Cinema
2021
as Self
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021
as Self
Nelson Filma o Rio
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
2019
as Self (archive footage)
A música que meu pai gostava
2018
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
2017
as Self
Cinema Novo
2016
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
2015
as Self
Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
2015
as Self
O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro
2014
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
2013
Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Critic
2008
as Self
A Paz é Dourada
2008
Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal
2008
as Self
Sambando nas Brasas, Morô?
2007
as Self
Português - A Língua do Brasil
2007
Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air
2007
as Self
Referências
2006
as Self
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
2003
as Self
How to Die in Cinema
2002
as Himself
At the Edge of the Earth
2002
as Self
Uma Vida Dividida
1999
as Ele mesmo
For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
1998
Dib
1997
as Self
Que Viva Glauber!
1991
as Self
Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?
1991
Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo
1989
as Self
Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
1984
as himself
Claves, 2: We will return younger
1984
as himself
Brazil in Cannes
1971
Nelson Filma
1971
Garden of War
1969
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
1967
as Self
Red Mandacaru
1961
as Augusto