Elso Roque Movies

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat...

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...

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...

José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on...

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Luís Medeiros, Azorean painter, meets two odd characters in an exhibit in Lisbon: Inês, a charming woman, and Ed, a sneaky man. The two...

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...

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 documentary about a small touristic village in Algarve, Southern Portugal.

The film documents two phases of an incident occurred in Portugal, during the 1974 revolution. In September 30, 1974, José Diogo, a tractor...

Short documentary film by António Pedro-Vasconcelos.