Fernando Lopes Movies

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...

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and...

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's...

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren...

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his...

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."

"French television came up with the idea of Se Deus Quiser (but they didn't carry it through), which consisted in inviting six European directors to...

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross...

Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is...

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.

A personal tribute to the poet Alexandre O'Neill by his dear friend Fernando Lopes.

THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who...

Fernando Lopes in the first person: through his words and films, from the village where he was born until Lisbon of present time, we discover the...

A group of fishermen embark on a new adventure to capture the best pieces on the high seas. They leave from the port of Ondárroa, Vizcaya, to...

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

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave.

A portrait of Belarmino Fragoso, a veteran boxer in Lisbon nearing the end of his career. In a blend of reportage and re-enactment, the many vices of...

Salvador knew Contança and Santiago. He did not know, but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constance did not know...

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer’s personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis...