Artur Semedo Movies

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

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the...

A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate between the two extremist groups.

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer...

This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to...

Eleven small stories, loving chronicles about Rio de Janeiro and its people, written by some of the best Brazilian writers of the time.

A young agricultural conductor, Pedro goes to Alentejo to work in a farm, in March 1974. The contact with the workers and the experience of their...

Joe Valente, a luso-american, returns home with the dream of turning molice picking into a real industry. But this will cause misery for those who...

To the tune of "A terra a quem a trabalha", an Alentejo peasant girl is attacked by a vampire but rescued afterwards by workers and peasants armed...

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal...

The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as...

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.

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

Adriana, an orphan who has been raised in a well off family, becomes pregnant after being seduced by a man. Outraged, Mr. Bento kicks her our of...

The disastrous attempts of D. Lucas Telmo Midões to achieve in 1981 the independence of the Berlengas islands - lost eight centuries ago,...

From the military planning to front-line operations of discover conquest of Mozambique by the Portuguese, to counter the Vatuas insurgency of 1894,...

Alentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and...

The sea, often treacherous, is the only source of living of the people of Nazaré. The film tells the story of António and his family,...

Tony, a trapeze artist, gets a job at a small circus. When a tempest takes away the tent, Tony stays for the love of the beautiful Belmira who could...