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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 Bra…
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- Critic (2008) as Self
- Barren Lives (1963) Director
- Rio, 100 Degrees F° (1955) Director
- The Good Cinema (2021) as Self
- Brasília 18% (2006) Writer
- Rio, Northern Zone (1957) Director
- Memories of Prison (1984) Producer
- The Turning Wind (1962) Editor
- Cinema Novo (2016) as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- The Amulet of Ogum (1974) Director
- The Music According to Tom Jobim (2012) Director
- Golden Mouth (1963) Director
- Memórias do Grupo Opinião (2019) as Self (archive footage)
- The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga (1965) Associate Producer
- Sonhei com Você (1988) Producer
- Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century (2017) as Self
- For All - O Trampolim da Vitória (1998) Cast
- Sambando nas Brasas, Morô? (2007) as Self
- Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020) as Self (archive footage)
- A Seventy-Four Year-Old Fellow (1964) Writer
- Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema (2015) as Self
- How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971) Writer
- Insônia (1982) Writer
- Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air (2007) as Self
- Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo (1967) as Self
- Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar (2021) as Self
- Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro (2015) as Self
- Go Ahead, Brazil! (1982) Assistant Production Manager
- Dib (1997) as Self
- Five Times Favela (1962) Editor
- As Aventuras Amorosas de um Padeiro (1975) Producer
- El Justicero (1967) Director
- Tent of Miracles (1977) Director
- Nelson Filma (1971) Cast
- The Highway of Life (1980) Director
- Who Is Beta? (1972) Director
- Um Ladrão (1980) Director
- At the Edge of the Earth (2002) as Self
- Meu Compadre, Zé Ketti (2001) Director
- O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro (2014) Cast
- A Missa do Galo (1982) Writer
- Cinema of Tears (1995) Director
- Jubiabá (1987) Director
- Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer? (1991) Cast
- Jornalismo e Independência (1972) Director
- Menino da Calça Branca (1962) Editor
- The Third Bank of the River (1994) Director
- Que Viva Glauber! (1991) Cast
- Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth (2003) as Self
- Português - A Língua do Brasil (2007) Director
- Claves, 2: We will return younger (1984) as himself
- A Paz é Dourada (2008) Cast
- Red Mandacaru (1961) Writer
- Brazil in Cannes (1971) Cast
- Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal (2008) as Self
- Absolute Majority (1964) Editor
- O Grande Momento (1958) Producer
- Amuleto (2025) Cast
- The Alienist (1970) Director
- Raízes do Brasil (2004) Director
- Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1984) as himself
- Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo (1989) as Self
- Garden of War (1969) Cast
- A música que meu pai gostava (2018) Cast
- O Saci (1953) Assistant Director
- Uma Mensagem de Chico Xavier (1972) Director
- How to Die in Cinema (2002) as Himself
- Referências (2006) as Self
- Nelson Filma o Rio (2021) as Self (archive footage)
- A Public Opinion (1967) Producer
- Casa Grande & Senzala (2001) Director
- Hunger for Love (1968) Director
- Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro (2011) as Self (archive footage)
- Juventude (1949) Director
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema (2023) as Self (archive footage)
- Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade (2013) Cast
- Fala Brasília (1966) Editor
- A Luz do Tom (2013) Director
- O côco do Macalé (1982) Producer
- Uma Vida Dividida (1999) as Ele mesmo
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