Nelson Xavier Movies

Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start to go wrong when they notice a police detective...

Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town.

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...

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

In the 20's, in the State of Piauí, Brazil, a young cowboy is used politically after killing his wife, who had been seduced by her boss and...

Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich...

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...

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the...

True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the military dictatorship of the 70s. When he changes his...

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

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

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 documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a...