Ruy de Carvalho

Lázaro Lafourcade, an old capitalist, is found dead in his mansion after a dinner with his peculiar family. An inspector is called in to ...

A homage to all Portuguese actors. The news that Olga Drummond, the greatest Portuguese actress of all-time, is arriving to a nursing home for ...

A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume.

“Laurinha,” the documentary, brings back from oblivion and silence the great Laura Alves, one of the best Portuguese actresses of all ...

Alfredo Loureiro, a carpenter by trade, never knew any other passion in life besides his craft. Women intimidated him, so he spent more time ...

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

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio’s historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal ...

Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a ...

A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.

The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political ...

The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid ...

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

On an isolated Portuguese island, a nameless man makes a mental journey which brings him into contact with the strange and menacing world without ...

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her ...

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to ...

At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in ...