Elso Roque Movies

During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed...

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

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...

Charles Baudelaire was one of the giants of 19th-century French poetry, and he earned his position among that nation's luminaries through the poems...

In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the...

Black and white with color photography is used to tell the story of 12 would be demonstrators waiting for re-enforcements to show them the way. the...

Centered on an elderly matriarch and her family in the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal. An exploration of the cycle of life and death, using...

Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't...

As an elderly man on his deathbed looks to give his name to one of his newborn grandsons, he's unable to acknowledge any of them. The three boys grow...

A short film from the 1960s, a production by Francisco de Castro, Albufeira is a film promoting tourism in the Algarve city (such as Lisbon, Jardim...

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his...

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy...

After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to...

This is a documentary about a way of living in Madeira island in Portugal, after the revolution, after April's 25 in 1974. A unique document for the...

This documentary shows a typical Sunday in Mozambique's capital, tourist main attractions, an inquest in Lisbon about the perception of the people in...

Chronicle of resistance and hope - about Moncorvo, Trás-os-Montes: roots of the past, discourse of the future, the current reality.

Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly...

The director and two writers and intellectuals interview the Artist in his atelier, and near some of his works, discussing its relations with his...

Jorge Lopes is a journalist in a Lisbon daily newspaper. He does story after story in the Portuguese capital, covering all the aspects of its life,...

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.