Screenplay: João Botelho

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by João Botelho. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Manuel on the Island of Wonders (TV Miniseries)

1984 · Series · 152 min. · France

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Armanda Bacelar · Aurélie Chazelle · Luis Gaspar da Silva · José de Freitas

Plot Manoel's fantasy travel through Time goes from Long Ago (Episode 1 - O jardim proibido / Le Jardin interdit aka Les destins de Manoel) through Now (Episode 2 - O...

7.8

71 votes

7.8

71 votes

The Film of Disquiet

2010 · Movie · 90 min. · Portugal

6.2

60 votes

6.2

60 votes

Os Maias

2014 · Movie · 139 min. · Portugal

6.0

38 votes

6.0

38 votes

Conversa Acabada

1981 · Movie · 100 min. · Portugal

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Quem És Tu?

2001 · Movie · 112 min. · Portugal

Direction João Botelho

Cast Patrícia Guerreiro · Suzana Borges · Rui Morisson · Rogério Samora

Plot A historical classic drama in three acts, retold after an original prologue about dreams and nightmares of the thirteen-year-old noble heroine, Maria de Noronha.

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Pilgrimage

2017 · Movie · min. · Portugal

Direction João Botelho

Cast Jani Zhao · Catarina Wallenstein · Filipe Vargas · Maya Booth

Plot The story of the Portuguese presence in the Far East and the written account of the travels and of the 20 years worth of adventures lived by Fernão Mendes Pinto,...

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No Dia dos Meus Anos

1992 · Movie · 65 min. · Portugal

Direction João Botelho

Cast Jessica Weiss · Joao Lagarto · André Costa · Madalena Rodrigues

Plot Presents, cake, good friends, and a cute birthday song!

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Traffic

1998 · Movie · 112 min. · Portugal

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A Corte do Norte

2008 · Movie · 122 min. · Portugal

Direction João Botelho

Cast Ana Moreira · Ricardo Aibéo · Rogério Samora · Custódia Gallego

Plot Emília de Sousa, the great 19th-century Portuguese actress, abandoned her career to marry a rich aristocrat and became the Baroness Magdalene of the Sea. As beautiful as Empress Sissi, she...

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Tempos Difíceis

1988 · Movie · 90 min. · Portugal

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...

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Anquanto la Lhéngua fur Cantada

2012 · Documentary · 52 min. · Portugal

Direction João Botelho

Cast Catarina Wallenstein · Gabriel Gomes

Plot This documentary portrays very well the Portuguese cultural heritage – more precisely about Miranda do Douro – with folk music performances, nice shots of landscaping and villages of that region,...

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Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me

2016 · Documentary · 81 min. · Portugal

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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

2020 · Movie · 129 min. · Portugal

Direction João Botelho

Cast Chico Díaz · Luis Lima Barreto · Catarina Wallenstein · Victória Guerra

Plot Literary adaptation which imagines the last months, in 1936, of Fernando Pessoa using the name Ricardo Reis: Against the European politics of that year he has romantic encounters at a...

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The Fatalist

2005 · Movie · 99 min. · France

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Aqui na Terra

1993 · Movie · 105 min. · Portugal

Direction João Botelho

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Jessica Weiss · Pedro Hestnes · Rita Dias

Plot Miguel is a successful economist until his father's death plunges him into a strange obscure world of fears, strange sounds and psychological isolation. He quits his job, drifts away from...

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A Portuguese Farewell

1986 · Movie · 85 min. · Portugal

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...

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Corruption

2007 · Movie · 90 min. · Portugal

Direction João Botelho

Cast Margarida Vila-Nova · Nicolau Breyner · Alexandra Lencastre · Joao Lagarto

Plot A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

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A Luz na Ria Formosa

2005 · Movie · 52 min. · Portugal

Direction João Botelho

Cast Suzana Borges · Rui Horta · Miguel Monteiro

Plot The journey begins in the Roman ruins of Milreu in Portugal, where a mother reads to her son Seneca's advice on the importance of reading. It then takes them through...

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Para Que Este Mundo Não Acabe!

2009 · Documentary · 54 min. · Portugal

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Three Palm Trees

1994 · Movie · 68 min. · Portugal

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