João Bénard da Costa Movies

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the...

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his...

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

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve...

A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.

Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the...

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.

Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an interaction between the construction of...

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.

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

The way in which we cross, one time only, the space of a public swimming pool reminds us of life, from birth until the end.

Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around town...