Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Known for DirectingBorn 1928-10-22Died 2018-04-12São Paulo, Brazil

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 Amado for cinema. His film Vidas Secas, based on Graciliano's novel, is one of the most awarded Brazilian films of all time, being recognized as a masterpiece. In 2006, he was elected Immortal by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, a position he held until his death in 2018.Read more

Movies & web series

Juventude

A Paz é Dourada

Sonhei com Você

Insônia

Absolute Majority

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar

Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro

Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade

Critic

Dib

Rio, Northern Zone

Raízes do Brasil

At the Edge of the Earth

Five Times Favela

The Highway of Life

The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga

Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema

Go Ahead, Brazil!

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

The Music According to Tom Jobim

Barren Lives

Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air

Cinema Novo

Garden of War

As Aventuras Amorosas de um Padeiro

Rio, 100 Degrees F°

Memories of Prison

Menino da Calça Branca

The Turning Wind

Golden Mouth

Red Mandacaru

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

How to Die in Cinema

The Amulet of Ogum

The Third Bank of the River

A Public Opinion

Meu Compadre, Zé Ketti

The Alienist

A Missa do Galo

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman

O Saci

For All - O Trampolim da Vitória

The Grand Moment

El Justicero

Jubiabá

Cinema of Tears

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

A Luz do Tom