André Gomes

Mysteries of Lisbon

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fat...

Esquadra de Polícia

Tales from the Mountain

Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the 1940s. Each cha...

Obsessive Rhythms

On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the o...

City of Pirates

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a ti...

Mysteries of Lisbon

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fat...

The Jew

The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century L...

Love Torn in a Dream

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind...

Three Crowns of the Sailor

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in...

Corruption

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption net...

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heter...

The Fatalist

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis...

Km 224

Mário and Cláudia are going through a divorce process. When Cláudia accepts job in another country, situation w...

The Conversation Is Over

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres st...

A Woman's Revenge

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, myst...

The Emissaries of Khalom

End of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the plan...

Fado, Major and Minor

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about h...

Circle of Passions

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac...

Assault on the Santa Maria

On January 22, 1961, a group of Portuguese and Spanish opposition movement members seized control of the Santa...

Disquiet

Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The es...

Um Filme em Forma de Assim

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpec...

Villa Mauresque

Vincent, a young Swiss, is upset by his meeting with the city of Lisbon. He will meet two persons: a prostitute...

Ruth

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achieveme...

Dead Man's Seat

A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman...

A Portuguese Farewell

In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years...

No Dia dos Meus Anos

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode...

D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night

This is one of Noronha da Costa's films in which the "fictional" component is most visible. D. Jaime or the Por...

Hands in the Fire

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro Rive...

Karl Martin

An “artist film” that crosses Karl Martin, Martin Heidegger and the Communist Party’s Manifesto.

1867

The French painter Edouard Manet painted four canvases depicting the execution in 1867 of Emperor Maximilian of...