Cinematography: Mário Barroso

Direction Jean-Claude Biette

Cast Jean-Christophe Bouvet · Sonia Saviange · Howard Vernon · Laura Betti

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Rita Durão · João César Monteiro · Joana Azevedo · José Airosa

Plot Two shadow-like figures meet in an old, icy park when all seems lost. They are Deus and a Messenger from God. The Messenger gives the Crook (which is the temporary...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Leonor Silveira · Luis Miguel Cintra · Cecile Sanz de Alba · Rui de Carvalho

Plot Ema realises that she has the power to make things happen. Although she is married she takes three lovers, but all she gains is disillusionment...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Cláudia Teixeira · João César Monteiro · Manuela de Freitas · Raquel Ascensão

Plot João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast João César Monteiro · Rita Pereira Marques · Joaquina Chicau · Manuela de Freitas

Plot João Vuvu, widowed with no family, except for one son who is in prison, lives in a house of a substantial value in one of the old areas of Lisbon....

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Teresa Madruga · Mario Barroso · Luis Miguel Cintra · Diogo Dória

Plot Portrait of the last years of the XIX century's Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco

Direction Mário Barroso

Cast María de Medeiros · Marcello Urgeghe · João Pedro Mamede · João Arrais

Plot In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Hugues Quester · Pierre Clémenti · Joana Azevedo · Jean Watan

Plot Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Leonor Silveira · Diogo Dória · Oliveira Lopes

Plot A lovely maiden falls in love with an upper-class gentleman—but discovers his body is entirely mechanical—in Oliveira’s surreal musical collaboration with the Lisbon Opera House.

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Bulle Ogier · Luis Miguel Cintra · Axel Bogousslavsky · Fred Personne

Plot Four versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film, third in the perspective of a film of...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Glicínia Quartin · Rui de Carvalho · Beatriz Batarda

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Catherine Deneuve · John Malkovich · Luis Miguel Cintra · Leonor Silveira

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

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Maria Do Carmo Rôlo · Ana Brandão · Reginaldo da Cruz · Luis Miguel Cintra

Plot How presumptuous of the prince to have disturbed Snow White in her beauty sleep, to have kissed her and removed her from her glass casket in order to restore her...

Direction René Manzor · Eric Le Roux · Pierre Boutron · Akim Isker

Cast Marine Delterme · Jean-Michel Tinivelli · Daniel-Jean Colloredo · Guillaume Carcaud

Plot Alice Nevers is a young and beautiful woman investigating judge. With her partner, a policeman, Fred Marchand, they use their own power to solve crimes to each their method.

Direction José Fonseca e Costa

Cast Mário Viegas · Lia Gama · Luís Lello · Lima Duarte

Plot Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Kilas is the elader of a small gang...

Direction Carlos Saboga

Cast Anna Mouglalis · Simão Cayatte · Johan Leysen · Didier Sandre

Plot Her mother just died. Her father isn’t the one she thought. Elisa ends up jammed between an uncertain past and an obstructed future. Her quest for her real father leads...

Direction Laurent Chouchan · Philippe Niang · Michel Lengliney · Jean-Marc Seban

Cast Mimie Mathy · Karin Swenson · Jean Dell · Guy Amram

Plot The adventures of Josephine, a guardian angel sent to solve the problems of various people, using her magic powers.

Direction Luc Monheim

Cast Philippe Léotard · Frédérique Hender · Magali Noël · Georges Géret

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Jessica Forde · Alain Sachs

Direction Mário Barroso

Cast Tomás Alves · Patrícia Franco · William Brandão · Catarina Wallenstein