Leonor Silveira

Glória

A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as...

In Treatment

Susceptibility taken to its limit... In Therapy leads us into a journey along the intriguing and fascinating wo...

Hotel do Rio

As Meninas Exemplares

The misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boys, a few ye...

Abraham's Valley

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries...

The Tree of Knowledge

Gaspard, a teenager from the suburbs of Lisbon, falls into the hands of the Ogre, a man who has made a pact wit...

No, or the Vain Glory of Command

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted s...

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young...

Voyage to the Beginning of the World

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Af...

Gebo and the Shadow

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He liv...

I’m Going Home

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns...

Magic Mirror

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was...

The Convent

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese conven...

John From

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend...

Inquietude

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals,"...

A Talking Picture

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports...

Word and Utopia

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better...

All the Dead Ones

The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying moth...

Party

The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man...

The Life of Mirrors

The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World. A...

The Cannibals

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissi...

The Divine Comedy

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, Adam, Eve, Son...

The Uncertainty Principle

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Rage

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign ov...

The Letter

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affecti...

The Strange Case of Angelica

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica....

Casa-Abrigo

Twin Flames

Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter...

Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember

In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving...

Christopher Columbus, The Enigma

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Colum...

Name Above Title

The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is disrupted when an unusual incident suddenly turns him into a soc...

Living Bad

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being pre...

Porto Santo

A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Ma...

Oliveira, l'architecte

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and whe...

No Dia dos Meus Anos

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

Há-de Haver Uma Lei

The story of Luizinha, a girl born into a very poor family who is given by her father to António, the richest m...