Nelson Xavier Movies

The story of the black mystic murderer Febrônio Índio do Brasil.

In the mid-19th century, Colonel Pedro Cambará rapes his slave, who gives birth to a girl on a full moon night. Named Lua (Moon), she has to...

João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.

A lesson in conciseness, expressiveness, and humor on the inexhaustible theme of the dream of making movies. A parodic lesson, a Brazilian version of...

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

"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the...

In a desolate area of Brazilian mountainside, cut off from civilization, an old miner discovers a king-size diamond that he puts in his pocket rather...

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...

The origins of Brazilian popular music and the types of scales used, as well as the various currents that emerged and formed different schools. The...

The theatrologist, actor, director and overall polemist Plínio Marcos gets his life traced through images of the many spectacles he has put on...