Acácio de Almeida Movies

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her...

Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual...

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her...

Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical...

Vera is a singer in her thirties; she is back in Lisbon for the final performance of her concert tour. The heat and beauty of Lisbon makes one want...

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century...

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul...

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from...

By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the...

The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the...

Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at...

Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.

A compilation of films project multiple versions of people won by vida.

It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room....

Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark...

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on...

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his...

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and...

Gothic film in a monastery, where sensual monks murder the children they receive, with images of fantastic, painted from the author own painting and...

Filmed just before the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Dark portrait of a group of friends who used to be colleagues at the University in 1962. Ten...