Adelaide João Movies

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...

A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She...

A 1985 Portuguese language drama film directed by Manuel Costa e Silva, starring Luis Varela, Teresa Goucho and Vitorino Salomé. The film...

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...

Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese Colony, year: 1973. An Ex-military returns to his hometown. Bringing back with him a vague sense of guilt due to the...

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...

With a strong documentary element, "Nós Por Cá Todos Bem" mixes professional actors with the inhabitants of a small village, telling...

Ana and Pedro married two years ago and now they live in “Sunset Neighborhood”. Pedro works outside town. Ana stays alone most of the...

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...

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the...

O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals.

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...

How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, 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...

Life as a labyrinth. An elevator ride were lives, sounds and memories cross... The path is more important than the destination.

A young couple, unable to make love after being repelled on several occasions (like in a dubious inn), buys a bed and carries it for miles, until...

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