Luís Miguel Cintra

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love ...

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

Macário spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life: ...

A magical tale about a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have, except in his dreams. Late one night, Isaac is ...

The story of a family of bull fighters.

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of ...

Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in Lisbon, pays a visit, he realizes that his ...

Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They ...

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the ...

Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his ...

Zephyrus is a film-voyage, a fresco about Southern Portugal. A movie dealing metaphorically with the South of Portugal, singling it out as a ...

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. ...

Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will ...

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, a father’s friend, ...

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.

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the ...

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In “The Immortals,” adapted from a Helder ...

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy’s girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and practically ...

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of ...

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

A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert ...

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

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan ...

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a ...

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, ...

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to ...