Nelson Diniz

Acting

Nelson Diniz

Born 1963-11-15 · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Acting credits

Tolerância poster
5.2

Julius is a photographer working as a men's magazine photo retoucher. His wife, Marcia, is a criminal lawyer who defends Teodoro, a squatter accused of murder. For years they had a quiet wedlock. However, Marcia gets involved with her client, and as revenge, Julius sleeps with Ana Maria, a friend of their daughter Guida. From this episode on, their lives are no longer the same.

Tolerância

2000

Empty House poster
NR

Raúl is an unemployed cattleman that lives in an isolated house on the fields. The landscape of pastures is being superimposed by huge soy plantations. Devastated by poverty, he joins a gang of other peasants that steals cattle during the darkness of the nights on the pastures.

Empty House

2021

Contos Gauchescos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Contos Gauchescos

2011

Meu Pai poster
NR

Álvaro, 12 years old, is the only child of separated parents. He is in a phase of many doubts and concerns. He wants to grow up soon, but did his father take too long to grow up? What did the father do with the girls? It's difficult to ask, Alvaro's father has a strange way of saying things.

Meu Pai

2014

Yonlu poster
7.8

A fiction film based on the real story of a 16 year-old boy who, aided by the internet, won over the world with his talent for music and art. Fluent in five languages, Yonlu had a network of virtual friends on all continents. However, no one suspected he was also taking part in a forum for potential suicide.

Yonlu

2018

Fuinha & Caçapava poster
NR

Joaquim and Margarida spend the day in the antique shop of their grandfather, the forgotten Fuinha, and his partner, the grumpy Caçapava. An old suitcase, full of strange bottles, is the portal to a magical world where extraordinary adventures are lived and lost memories are revisited.

Fuinha & Caçapava

2015

The Nightshifter poster
7.0

Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.

The Nightshifter

2019

Mudança poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mudança

2020

Drenched in Blood poster
5.3

After his father's death, Gabriel leaves for Armação Beach in search of his origins. What he ends up finding is a complex plot around the mysterious figure of his grandfather, a whale skeleton and a city that wants to bury the past at any cost.

Drenched in Blood

2026

The Sandwich poster
8.2

A couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich.

The Sandwich

2000

No artwork available
NR

Based on the memoirs of Garibaldi, by Alexandre Dumas, the film tells the story of the withdrawal of republican troops from Laguna (SC), during the Farroupilha Revolution, in November and December 1839.

A Retirada

Janeiro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Janeiro

2024

Sal de Prata poster
5.2

After her boyfriend's death, a successful executive finds some unfinished scripts in the dead man's computer, and decides to make a film of them. Her relationship with the world of movie-making is going to change her life.

Sal de Prata

2005

Vai Dar Nada poster
3.8

Kelson is a young worker who uses his motorcycle to escape the police and win Neide's love. He buys a new motorcycle from swindler Fernando, without knowing that it belonged to a dangerous drug dealer, who got out of prison and now wants it back.

Vai Dar Nada

2022

O Plantador poster
NR

Unknown forces invaded the planter's land, spreading pests throughout his plantation.

O Plantador

2017

O Velho do Saco poster
10.0

Ricardo is 10 years old, lives in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and has nightmares about Velho do Saco, sort of a Brazilian bogeyman, “who takes out the eyes of misbehaving children”. It is not easy to distinguish truths and lies when the loss of innocence is confused with the loss of sight.

O Velho do Saco

1999

A Sinaleira Amarela poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Sinaleira Amarela

2025

Rend Your Heart poster
7.1

40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.

Rend Your Heart

2018

No artwork available
8.0

A friendly couple from Porto Alegre. They enjoy traveling, old records, and gastronomy. They invent games... strange games.

Paulo e Ana Luiza em Porto Alegre

1998

Dia de mudança poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dia de mudança

2019

Palácio do FIm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Palácio do FIm

2021

A Paixão de Jacobina poster
4.2

In the mid-1870s, Jacobina, daughter of German immigrants, became leader of a sect that believed in healing the body by cleansing the soul. After having a divine vision and speaking to Jesus, she changes her appearance and manners, disturbing the conservative population of the place. After the death of opponents of her sect, local authorities decide to take action against her and her followers.

A Paixão de Jacobina

2002

Anahy de las Misiones poster
5.0

Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead.

Anahy de las Misiones

1997

After Being Ashes poster
1.0

Three women with completely different backgrounds have one thing in common: they loved and were connected to the same man. From the point of view of these women, through an intricate structure moving back and forth in time, Raul enters the story.

After Being Ashes

2020