Elso Roque Movies

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

An artistic and poetic documentary about the meaning of the Portuguese flag.

A woman arrives home, apparently coming from her job, and sets out about house chores and placing every object around her with extreme care. The only...

An engineer falls in love with a girl from a village. A battle between progress and tradition.

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

Maria, a blind girl apparently raped by her stepfather, is held in an isolated and dilapidated hospice, desperately awaiting a miracle by Our Lady of...

A paralyzed man travels across the city of Porto, finding characters and scenes from popular tales along the way.

Short documentary film by António Pedro-Vasconcelos.

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...

An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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,...