Nelson Pereira dos Santos
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.
33 directing credits · 38 acting credits
Directing · 33
Memories of Prison
1984
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
1971
Rio, Northern Zone
1957
Rio, 100 Degrees F°
1955
Barren Lives
1963
The Music According to Tom Jobim
2012
The Third Bank of the River
1994
Tent of Miracles
1977
Hunger for Love
1968
The Alienist
1970
Golden Mouth
1963
The Highway of Life
1980
Cinema of Tears
1995
Insônia
1982
Jubiabá
1987
A Missa do Galo
1982
Who Is Beta?
1972
El Justicero
1967
A Seventy-Four Year-Old Fellow
1964
Brasília 18%
2006
Português - A Língua do Brasil
2007
The Amulet of Ogum
1974
Um Ladrão
1980
O Rio de Machado de Assis
1965
Meu Compadre, Zé Ketti
2001
A Luz do Tom
2013
Juventude
1949
Raízes do Brasil
2004
Fala Brasília
1966
Red Mandacaru
1961
Casa Grande & Senzala
2001
Uma Mensagem de Chico Xavier
1972
Jornalismo e Independência
1972
Acting · 38
Critic
2008
Amuleto
2025
Cinema Novo
2016
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
2003
For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
1998
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
2017
Brazil in Cannes
1971
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021
Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air
2007
Dib
1997
Sambando nas Brasas, Morô?
2007
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
2019
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
1967
At the Edge of the Earth
2002
Referências
2006
Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
2015
Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema
2023
Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
2015
Garden of War
1969
Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal
2008
Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
2011
The Good Cinema
2021
Português - A Língua do Brasil
2007
Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
1984
How to Die in Cinema
2002
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
2013
Nelson Filma
1971
Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?
1991
Que Viva Glauber!
1991
Claves, 2: We will return younger
1984
O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro
2014
Nelson Filma o Rio
2021
A Paz é Dourada
2008
Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo
1989
Red Mandacaru
1961
Uma Vida Dividida
1999
A música que meu pai gostava
2018