Acácio de Almeida Movies

Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks.

The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east...

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...

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee...

Biographical documentary Solveig Nordlund says that 50 years of life in Portugal. The evolution of Portugal from fascism to the current crisis. A...

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.

Two neighboring villages fight over control of a stream to water their lands.

A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She...

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...

The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the...

Gothic film in a monastery, where sensual monks murder the children they receive, with images of fantastic, painted from the author own painting and...

A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens. The book describes the...

Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to...

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague...

Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at...

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this...

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

A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother,...

At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and...