Screenplay: Gabriel Abrantes

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


A Brief History of Princess X (S)

2016 · Movie · 7 min. · Portugal

Direction Gabriel Abrantes

Cast Joana Barrios · Francisco Cipriano · Filipe Vargas

Plot A supercharged history of sculptor Constantin Brancusi's infamous 'Princess X'

6.1

73 votes

6.1

73 votes

Diamantino

2018 · Movie · 92 min. · Portugal

Direction Gabriel Abrantes · Daniel Schmidt

Cast Carloto Cotta · Anabela Moreira · Filipe Vargas · Margarida Moreira

Plot Diamantino, the world’s premiere soccer star loses his special touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for a new purpose, the international icon sets on a delirious odyssey where...

5.6

469 votes

5.6

469 votes

Palaces of Pity

2011 · Movie · 59 min. · Portugal

Direction Gabriel Abrantes · Daniel Schmidt

Cast Catarina Gaspar · Andreia Martins · Alcina Abrantes · Ana Rita Franco

Plot Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past - one consumed by fear...

5.1

35 votes

5.1

35 votes

Amelia's Children

2023 · Movie · 91 min. · Portugal

Direction Gabriel Abrantes

Cast Carloto Cotta · Brigette Lundy-Paine · Alba Baptista · Anabela Moreira

Plot A man whose search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal.His excitement at meeting his long-lost...

5.0

49 votes

5.0

49 votes

Direction Gabriel Abrantes

Cast Caroline Deruas-Garrel · Liza Lapert · Virgil Vernier

Plot Tired of being a banal architectural ornament, a sculpture runs away from the Louvre to confront real life on the streets of Paris.

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Ornithes (S)

2012 · Movie · 17 min. · Portugal

Direction Gabriel Abrantes

Cast Junior Casseus · Tilmé Stéphanie · Katia Lucianne Picard · Anise Dieudanné

Plot Set in Haiti, more precisely in the places affected by the 2010 tsunami, Ornithes shows us the attempt of theatre director Gabriel Abrantes to stage an as faithful as possible...

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Ennui ennui

2013 · Movie · 32 min. · France

Direction Gabriel Abrantes

Cast Edith Scob · Laetitia Dosch · Omid Rawendah · Esther Garrel

Plot While the french ambassadress to Afghanistan is in the middle of disarmament negotiations with a Kuchi Nomad tribe, her daughter, Cleo, is Kidnapped by Afghanistan's only female warlord

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Olympia 1 (S)

2007 · Movie · 4 min. · Portugal

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The Hunchback

2016 · Movie · 30 min. · Portugal

Direction Gabriel Abrantes · Ben Rivers

Cast Carloto Cotta · Gustavo Sumpta · Anton Skrzypiciel · Norman MacCallum

Plot In this delirious sci-fi take on the Arabian Nights’ Tale of the Hunchback, Dalaya.com, a mega-corporation reigning over a technological dystopia, forces its employees to “relax” at company-run medieval re-enactments.

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Taprobana (S)

2014 · Movie · 24 min. · Portugal

Direction Gabriel Abrantes

Cast Gabriel Abrantes · Natxo Checa · David Lasantha · Betty Meixue

Plot In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet,...

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The Artificial Humors

2016 · Movie · 30 min. · Portugal

Direction Gabriel Abrantes

Cast Amanda Rodarte · Gilda Nomacce · Ivo Müller

Plot Using a mix of Hollywood aesthetics with documentary strategies, the film follows a young indigenous girl from the Xingu National Park to São Paulo, where she falls in love with...

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Baby Back Costa Rica (S)

2011 · Movie · 5 min. · Portugal

Direction Gabriel Abrantes · Pedro Gomes

Cast Dory Castro · Mariana Roberto · Núria Coelho · Teresa Maria de Almeida

Plot Three teenage girls are heading home in their Mini Cooper S. They discuss their boyfriends, their boyfriend’s mothers, their boyfriend’s mother’s cars, and Judaism. This film is part of the...

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A History of Mutual Respect (S)

2010 · Movie · 23 min. · Portugal

Direction Gabriel Abrantes · Daniel Schmidt

Cast Gabriel Abrantes · Daniel Schmidt · Alcina Abrantes · Joana Nascimento

Plot Golden Leopard winner of LOCARNO 2010 and Best Portuguese Short Film Award at INDIELISBOA 2010, "A History of Mutual Respect" is a philosophical and sensual existential journey, "an unclassifiable eccentric...

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Olympia 2 (S)

2007 · Movie · 5 min. · Portugal

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Freud und Friends

2015 · Movie · 30 min. · Portugal

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