Adelaide João Movies

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...

Sabino, born Portuguese, has lived in Brazil since he was a child. He has a twin brother who lives in Lisbon and writes inviting him to go to...

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

A young man returns to his native Alentejo countryside and encounters the legendary seductive “enchanted moura,” sparking a poetic...

A group of former university college students reunites in the city where they graduated at, to attend the funeral of one from their group. In...

Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon,...

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled...

While on his way to a picnic in Lisbon, Manuel stops to help two foreigners that had a car breakdown. With his tools, he retrieves a bag that...

The story of a family of bull fighters.

Abílio is a travelling salesman with as much ability to sell as he is inconvenient. He makes a stop Mrs. Etelvina's pension for business and...

April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed...

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.

A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.

Zeca is a loser. He lives with his grandmother and works as an exterminator. One day, while working, Zeca has an accident which will spawn the...

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...

Impossible Invasion is the fifth film in the Lisboa Sociedade Anónima series. Set in the 1960s, it is a touching descent into the emotional...

The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.

Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.

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