Acácio de Almeida Movies

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

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's...

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

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...

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...

A man died under mysterious circumstances. An insurance company expert has to visit the four women in his life - his mother, his widow, his daughter...

The film documents the start, and difficult progress of a house cooperative in the fishermen's village of Meia Praia, during the revolutionary...

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

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

Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage to conceive, what can she say but yes?

The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east...

Alex is a famous singer who lives in a big mansion. One quiet night, a hooded stranger comes into his home, shoots the butler and then takes the mask...

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve...

Two neighboring villages fight over control of a stream to water their lands.

North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their...

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However,...

Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to...

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...

Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her,...