Nelson Xavier Movies

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.

In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small...

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

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote...

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...

Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião,...

Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood...

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

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

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

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin....

Amador is a retired and ostracized gunman. Alone and bitter, he collects newspaper clippings of his old crimes in an album. After several...

Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second largest private bank in Brazil. One day, Elias...

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

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...