Cinematography: Rui Xavier
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Rui Xavier. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Wolf and Dog
2022 · Movie · 111 min. · Portugal
Direction Cláudia Varejão
Cast Ana Cabral · Ruben Pimenta · Cristiana Branquinho · Marlene Cordeiro
Plot Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of a family of...
6.1
30 votes
6.1
30 votes
Mariphasa
2018 · Movie · 86 min. · Portugal
Direction Sandro Aguilar
Cast António Júlio Duarte · Albano Jerónimo · Isabel Abreu · João Pedro Bénard
Plot Paulo works as a night guard in a building site. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances and no regret would ever give him a sense of closure . He...
4.9
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4.9
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The Lake
2008 · Movie · 31 min. · Portugal
Direction André Marques
Cast Miguel Borges · Rui Xavier · Pablo Malter · Adriana Bolito
Plot Two friends embark on a journey towards the lake, towards themselves.
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Sinais de serenidade por coisas sem sentido
2012 · Movie · 28 min. · Portugal
Direction Sandro Aguilar
Cast Isabel Abreu · Eduardo Aguilar · Cristovão Campos · Albano Jerónimo
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O Teu Peso em Ouro (S)
2022 · Movie · 26 min. · Portugal
Direction Sandro Aguilar
Cast João Pedro Bénard · Marcello Urgeghe · Isabel Abreu · Inês Pronto
Plot Óscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, takes advantage of the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and free old Norberto from his bitterness.
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O fim do Mundo
2019 · Movie · 107 min. · Switzerland
Direction Basil da Cunha
Cast Lara Cristina Cardoso · Marco Joel Fernandes · Alexandre Da Costa Fonseca · Michel David Pires Spencer
Plot Spira, 18, spent the last eight years in remand school and returns to Reboleira, a slum in Lisbon. His friends Giovani and Chandi are still there, as are the locals,...
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Voodoo
2010 · Movie · 30 min. · Portugal
Direction Sandro Aguilar
Cast Albano Jerónimo · Isabel Abreu · Filipe Duarte
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Éden
2011 · Documentary · 64 min. · Portugal
Direction Daniel Blaufuks
Plot What remains of the 1940s and 1950s collective memory of Mindelo's two cinemas, and the two amateur groups who produced three 8mm films out of their love for cinema.
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Here in Lisbon - Episodes of a City
2015 · Documentary · 90 min. · Portugal
Direction Gabriel Abrantes · Denis Côté · Marie Losier · Dominga Sotomayor
Cast Francisca Castillo · João Canijo · Carloto Cotta · Sónia Balacó
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Third Floor
2016 · Documentary · 62 min. · Portugal
Direction Luciana Fina
Cast Fatumata Baldé · Aissato Baldé
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The City and the Sun (S)
2011 · Movie · 19 min. · Portugal
Direction Leonor Noivo
Cast Sara Gonçalves · António Fonseca
Plot A woman and two dogs, inside a house, in a city. She finds in her daily gestures the remembrance of someone who has left. The sun blinds her, becoming aggressive,...
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Dive: Approach and Exit (S)
2013 · Movie · 12 min. · Portugal
Direction Sandro Aguilar
Cast Francisco Nolasco · António Paulo Martins · Arlindo Silva · Eduardo Aguilar
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Campo
2019 · Documentary · 106 min. · Portugal
Direction Tiago Hespanha
Cast Afonso Matias · Emanuel Fernandes · João Neves · Nelson Oliveira
Plot "Campo" presents a reflection on the mundane and the transcendental in Europe's largest military base where troops train fictional missions, astronomy aficionados observe the stars and a boy plays the...
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Coup de Grâce (S)
2017 · Movie · 25 min. · Portugal
Direction Salomé Lamas
Cast Miguel Borges · Clara Jost · João Pedro Bénard · Gabriel Abrantes
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Visões do Império
2021 · Documentary · 92 min. · Portugal
Direction Joana Pontes
Cast Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo · Filipa Lowndes Vicente
Plot The Portuguese colonial empire as it is seen and shown through photography, from the end of the 19th century until the 1974 revolution that put an end to the political...
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Hotel Royal
2021 · Movie · 29 min. · Portugal
Direction Salomé Lamas
Cast Ana Moreira · Carloto Cotta · Tomás Antunes · António Bollaño
Plot "During my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and observed, through the details, lives that will remain unknown", says the temporary chambermaid in a...
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