Nuno Carvalho Movies

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company,...

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde...

The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also...

In this lyrical elegy lamenting the death of Madeleine, her husband, a theater actor, relives his very first memories of her.

A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much. A traveling as he would like, a...

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the...

The Red Market in Macao. The red tonalities of blood, flesh, buckets and even of the fish’s eyes, carry the audience into a strange and scary...

Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil...

Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing “Happy Birthday” to him on his answering machine. When...

A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's...

Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of water...

Cinderella escapes at midnight, leaving behind one of her glass slippers. In the days that follow, the gay prince can't give up the idea of...

From the music of Lebanese composer Gabriel Yared, Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues crafts a story reminiscent of David Lynch's Blue...

Side Effects is the story of a woman who's not afraid to believe that happiness is not only possible but the only truth to be achieved. A woman who...

A filmmaker returns to Macao, China, to help a friend who is in trouble.

A love triangle between two boys and a girl who drift through life from a rugby game, to a pool party, to the beach.

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze,...

Theatrical dramatization of Island of Loves.