João Pedro Bénard Movies
- 2004

Vanity
Vanity4.52004HD
Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together...
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- 1988

Tall Stories
Tall Stories5.6251988HD
12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a...
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- 2018

Ramiro
Ramiro5.752018HD
Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and...
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- 1981

Oxalá
Oxalá3.6671981HD
A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.
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- 2015

Ashes and Embers
Ashes and Embers4.82015HD
Certainly an outstanding case of beauty and mystery, this short film by Mozos creates a strange alloy of literature and cinema, and not in the way...
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- 1990

End of Conservation
End of Conservation5.21990HD
A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women.
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- 1998

River of Gold
River of Gold6.71998HD
Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat...
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- 2004

Querença
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In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to...
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- 2022

Worth Your Weight in Gold
Worth Your Weight in Gold02022HD
Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his...
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- 1992

Le voyage étranger
Le voyage étranger01992HD
11th century. Descended from the aristocracy, Alexis flees a world dominated by money and strength. The young man, in love with justice and freedom,...
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- 2018

Rage
Rage6.82018HD
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his...
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- 2025

Imitação de Vida
Imitação de Vida02025HD
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- 1999

The Keeper of Herds
The Keeper of Herds01999HD
A documentary about a family of goat herders in Portugal and the relationship between man and animals.
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- 1999

Nightfall
Nightfall5.71999HD
A largely plotless, fado-scored journey through the gloomy cobblestone streets, zombie bars, and fetid basements of a sordid harbor town populated by...
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- 2008

From Now On
From Now On3.3332008HD
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of...
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- 2005

The Face You Deserve
The Face You Deserve5.92005HD
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are...
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- 2011

Journey to Portugal
Journey to Portugal6.72011HD
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the...
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- 2009

Alfama
Alfama52009HD
A and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just before it leaves, C boards too. All this exists / All...
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- 1989

A True and Faithful Account
A True and Faithful Account6.51989HD
The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure...
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- 2025

Portuguese Joe
Portuguese Joe02025HD
An old gunman travels the Alentejo in search of revenge, accompanied by the mute daughter of one of his targets.
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