Acácio de Almeida Movies

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by...

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to...

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while...

A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens. The book describes the...

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...

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...

On the Paris-Lisbon train, Marina has just accidentally killed her ‘friend’ Bruno during an argument. Rushing down the aisle, she meets...

Drawing on a wide mosaic of texts from figures like Montaigne and Kafka, literary and philosophical fragments are used to illustrate and reflect on...

Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most...

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

It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room....

Jaime, a poem of suffering and loneliness, describes the existence and pictorial work of a man isolated in a psychiatric hospital.

Sofía, a psychology professor, has just completed her postgraduate studies in Valparaíso, and is returning to her hometown of Valdivia...

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

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?

A group of strangers comes to a monastery in Utah for a month-long stay. The monastery has two guidelines: no people-pleasing and no private...

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a...

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to...