Movies: Adelaide João

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the fi...

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

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 husband....

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

A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences....

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play....

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 attention as he recounts his life story....

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 decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose th...

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A....

Zeca is a loser. He lives with his grandmother and works as an exterminator. One day, while working, Zeca has an accident which will spawn the meanest, most horrible monster ever....

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives....

Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature....

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....

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he...

A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon she encount...

The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way....

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown....

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

Lúcia is courted by António, from the same social class, although she keeps a loving memory of Francisco, a half-adventurer marginal....