Adelaide João Movies

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled...

Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon,...

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

While on his way to a picnic in Lisbon, Manuel stops to help two foreigners that had a car breakdown. With his tools, he retrieves a bag that...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

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

Life as a labyrinth. An elevator ride were lives, sounds and memories cross... The path is more important than the destination.

A young man returns to his native Alentejo countryside and encounters the legendary seductive “enchanted moura,” sparking a poetic...

A police captain's niece is trapped by white slavers.

Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his...

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her...

A young couple, unable to make love after being repelled on several occasions (like in a dubious inn), buys a bed and carries it for miles, until...

The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.

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...

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise...

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

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That...