Adelaide João Movies

Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.

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

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his...

O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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.

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

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

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...

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...

A Noite de Walpurgis is a fantastic tale by Hugo Rocha, admittedly inspired by Goethe's Faust. The narrator-protagonist reveals a story told to him...

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...

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...

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...