Nelson Xavier
Birthday: 1941-08-30
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Biography: Nelson Agostini Xavier (30 August 1941 – 10 May 2017) was a Brazilian actor. He appeared in more than 95 films and television shows between 1959 and 2017. He starred in the 1964 film Os Fuzis, which won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1976 Xavier co-directed A Queda along with Ruy Guerra, a sequel to Os Fuzis. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movies
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affir...
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teo...
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Moon Over Parador
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the...
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Chica de Río
Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obses...
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O Filme dos Espíritos
Após perder a esposa e a caminho do suicídio, um homem se depara com O Livro dos Espíritos e começa ...
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As Mães de Chico Xavier
Three mothers see their reality become completely, they are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces pr...
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The Storytellers
A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built...
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Boca
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with th...
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The Fall
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for ju...
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Of Gods and the Undead
In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has...
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The King of Rio
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and becom...
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The Guns
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck p...
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Cesium-137
In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a j...
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Two Lost in a Dirty Night
Two outcasts fight over a pair of shoes in a run-down boarding-house room....
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The Wizard and the Sheriff
Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town....
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The Deceased
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. Af...
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Gordos e Magros
After staying the day at the gym, eating and drinking, Carlos, a fat man, go meet his parents, Helen...
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Farewell
A 92-year-old man decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his...
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O Cangaceiro Trapalhão
Severino do Quixadá (Renato Aragão), a humble northeastern shepherd of goats, rescues Captain Virgul...
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The Lady from Estacio
Zulmira is an old mistress who lives in the neighborhood of Estacio, in Rio de Janeiro. One day she ...
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Trash
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from t...
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Go To Work You Bum!
Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool...
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Feminino Plural
"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil....
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The Devil Queen
Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and vio...
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Denying Brazil
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian televis...
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A Culpa
Heitor and Matilde are two siblings who decide to murder their rich father in order to quickly inher...
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Doomed Lovers
The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wag...
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BLABLABLÁ
The tensions experienced by three different people during the military dictatorship in Brazil: a pol...
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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil...
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Benjamim
Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he show...
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Desesperato
Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leav...
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The Animal's Skin
In the 20's, in the State of Piauí, Brazil, a young cowboy is used politically after killing his wif...
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Comeback
Amador is a retired and ostracized gunman. Alone and bitter, he collects newspaper clippings of his ...
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As Confissões de Frei Abóbora
The loving adventures of a priest disillusioned with religion and life....
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Napomuceno's Will
Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever o...
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O Bom Burguês
True story of Brazilian bank clerk who supplied money for the guerrilla fighting against the militar...
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Para Viver Um Grande Amor
Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in ...
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Ovelha Negra, Uma Despedida de Solteiro
João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and ...
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Massacre no Supermercado
Employees on a local supermarket plot an epic heist for robbing the place's vault, but things start ...
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They Don't Wear Black Tie
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's...
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Sombras de Julho
A tragedy happens when a cruel farmer forces his son to kill his best friend, son of a rival farmer'...
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The Moving Forest
Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second la...
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South Am...
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Lamarca
The real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserte...
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Stolen Dreams
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in ...
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Lonesome Women
In a desolate area of Brazilian mountainside, cut off from civilization, an old miner discovers a ki...
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: O Pagador de Promessas - O Filme
Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárba...
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Gabriela
In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of N...
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Plínio Marcos — Nas Quebradas do Mundaréu
The theatrologist, actor, director and overall polemist Plínio Marcos gets his life traced through i...
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