Nelson Dantas Movies

After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues...

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties....

A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date...

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son...

Galanga, king of Congo brought to Brazil as a slave, finds gold in Vila Rica, in the State of Minas Gerais, and buys his enfranchisement, the...

In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande...

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two...

Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of police officers about the barbaric murder of a...

When Daniela, a famous actress, decides to return to her hometown to reconnect with a simpler lifestyle, local politicians decide to exploit her...

Boy from a poor family loses his only asset: a colorless little horse that his imagination turns into a magical and colorful pretty stallion. To get...

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food...

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

The real story of the failed attempt of an independence coup by a group of intellectuals and rich men during Brazil's colonial days, from its...

Movie director in his forties and in existential crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing...

An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the...

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.

A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.

Nina, a typical woman of the big city, marries a powerful farmer and goes to live in the countryside of Minas Gerais. There, however, she is faced...

After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of...