João Botelho Movies

  • 2025
    As Meninas Exemplares

    As Meninas Exemplares

    As Meninas Exemplares

    02025HD

    The misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boys, a few years later leading to the resolution of...

    As Meninas Exemplares
  • 1986
    The Satin Slipper

    The Satin Slipper

    The Satin Slipper

    7.21986HD

    During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...

    The Satin Slipper
  • 1998
    Traffic

    Traffic

    Traffic

    5.41998HD

    Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth...

    Traffic
  • 2014
    The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

    The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

    The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

    5.92014HD

    The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend,...

    The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
  • 2005
    The Fatalist

    The Fatalist

    The Fatalist

    3.42005HD

    The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques...

    The Fatalist
  • 1993
    Here on Earth

    Here on Earth

    Here on Earth

    5.91993HD

    Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be...

    Here on Earth
  • 2007
    Corruption

    Corruption

    Corruption

    3.72007HD

    A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

    Corruption
  • 2001
    Who Are You?

    Who Are You?

    Who Are You?

    5.12001HD

    Maria de Noronha, at 13 years old, suffers from high fevers and violent hemoptysis caused by a ruthless tuberculosis. To alleviate the pain, she...

    Who Are You?
  • 2017
    Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage

    5.52017HD

    Adventurer, pilgrim, penitent but above all outstanding writer, Fernão Mendes Pinto left us an unparalleled romance, the living and human...

    Pilgrimage
  • 2020
    The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

    The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

    The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

    4.42020HD

    Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness...

    The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
  • 2018
    Acts of Cinema

    Acts of Cinema

    Acts of Cinema

    02018HD

    Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors,...

    Acts of Cinema
  • 2008
    True and Tender is the North

    True and Tender is the North

    True and Tender is the North

    52008HD

    Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the...

    True and Tender is the North
  • 2022
    Um Filme em Forma de Assim

    Um Filme em Forma de Assim

    Um Filme em Forma de Assim

    4.22022HD

    Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations,...

    Um Filme em Forma de Assim
  • 1992
    No Dia dos Meus Anos

    No Dia dos Meus Anos

    No Dia dos Meus Anos

    5.51992HD

    This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.

    No Dia dos Meus Anos
  • 1994
    Three Palm Trees

    Three Palm Trees

    Three Palm Trees

    5.51994HD

    Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her...

    Three Palm Trees
  • 1986
    A Portuguese Farewell

    A Portuguese Farewell

    A Portuguese Farewell

    5.91986HD

    In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family...

    A Portuguese Farewell
  • 1984
    Manoel’s Destinies

    Manoel’s Destinies

    Manoel’s Destinies

    6.91984HD

    When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually...

    Manoel’s Destinies
  • 2010
    Disquiet

    Disquiet

    Disquiet

    5.52010HD

    Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes...

    Disquiet
  • 1982
    The Conversation Is Over

    The Conversation Is Over

    The Conversation Is Over

    6.21982HD

    The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

    The Conversation Is Over
  • 2009
    Para Que Este Mundo Não Acabe!

    Para Que Este Mundo Não Acabe!

    Para Que Este Mundo Não Acabe!

    02009HD

    "Come and see this world end!" - wrote the the priest António Fontes, father of folk medicine and "burning witches" in Vilar de Perdizes, a...

    Para Que Este Mundo Não Acabe!