Cast: Ruy Furtado

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Rui Gomes · Isabel Ruth · Ruy Furtado · Paulo Renato

Plot A shoemaker in Lisbon is joined by his 18-year-old nephew who is willing to learn the trade. He falls in love with a 19-year-old woman and later proposes marriage.

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast María de Medeiros · Teresa Madruga · Luis Miguel Cintra · Jorge Silva Melo

Plot In order to expand his domain, Dom Rodrigo, plans the wedding of one of his daughters with a young and rich neighbour: Dom Paio. He has two daughters: Silvia, born...

Direction Robert Kramer

Cast Paul McIsaac · Vincent Gallo · Ruy Furtado · Roslyn Payn

Plot Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast João César Monteiro · Manuela de Freitas · Sabina Sacchi · Ruy Furtado

Plot The story concerns the irrepressible João de Deus, an ill-kempt, lusty and none-too-honest resident of Violeta's boarding house, which happens to have yellow walls. João, who has no visible means...

Direction Fernando Lopes

Cast Laura Soveral · Joao Guedes · Zita Duarte · Ruy Furtado

Plot This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast María de Medeiros · Miguel Guilherme · Luis Miguel Cintra · Diogo Dória

Direction António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Cast Pedro Oliveira · Ana Zanatti · Teresa Madruga · Isabel Mota

Plot Álvaro, a divorced journalist with a complicated love life, finds a man that killed himself in a car after a fight with a woman who he gave a lift. Intrigued...

Direction João Botelho

Cast Henrique Viana · Júlia Britton · Eunice Muñoz · Ruy Furtado

Plot Even if adapted from Dickens’ Hard Times, the writer’s world fits perfectly in the Portuguese reality of these times. In a hamlet, that functions as a social microcosms, great wealth...

Direction Jean Leduc

Cast Anna Gael · Françoise Prévost · Roger Hanin · Varela Silva

Plot An arms smuggler organization uses a pirate television station to spread dissention among representatives in an international conference in Portugal. A French diplomat travels to Macao, hoping to locate a...

Direction Constantino Esteves

Cast Fernando Farinha · Leónia Mendes · Rudolfo Neves · Cunha Marques

Plot The life of Fernando Farinha, from kid where he ran away to school - to sing the fado, and the condescension of the parents, although aspiring to have an "honest"...

Direction Jorge Brum do Canto

Cast Jorge Brum do Canto · Cremilda Gil · Octávio Matos · Maria Domingas

Direction António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Cast Manuel Baeta Neves · Marta Reynolds · Laura Soveral · Judith Magre

Direction Jorge Brum do Canto

Cast Jorge Sousa Costa · Joao Guedes · Emilio Correia · Irene Cruz

Direction João Botelho

Cast Isabel de Castro · Ruy Furtado · Maria Cabral · Fernando Heitor

Plot In a melancholy and well-photographed tale, a Portuguese family is in mourning over the loss of one of their sons, a young man who was killed in Mozambique. During the...