Movies: Alexandre Melo

  • 2000
    O Fantasma

    O Fantasma (2000)

    O Fantasma

    6.22000HD

    Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he ...

    O Fantasma
  • 2022
    Pacifiction

    Pacifiction (2022)

    Pacifiction

    6.42022HD

    Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints....

    Pacifiction
  • 1997
    Porto Santo

    Porto Santo (1997)

    Porto Santo

    01997HD

    A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexu...

    Porto Santo
  • 2014
    Taprobana

    Taprobana (2014)

    Taprobana

    6.12014HD

    In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his maste...

    Taprobana
  • 1993
    Family Matters

    Family Matters (1993)

    Family Matters

    2.81993HD

    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 birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him....

    Family Matters
  • 2015
    Freud und Friends

    Freud und Friends (2015)

    Freud und Friends

    62015HD

    A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious....

    Freud und Friends
  • 2013
    The Double Coincidence of Desires

    The Double Coincidence of Desires (2013)

    The Double Coincidence of Desires

    02013HD

    Is the asymmetry of wants the true form of encounter between two people? In this film two men and the sea will maybe have something to say....

    The Double Coincidence of Desires
  • 1997
    The Hips of J.W.

    The Hips of J.W. (1997)

    The Hips of J.W.

    4.41997HD

    Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Luci...

    The Hips of J.W.
  • 2012
    Fratelli

    Fratelli (2012)

    Fratelli

    22012HD

    Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a playful, vibrant ode to bacchanalia, classicism and homoeroticism....

    Fratelli
  • 2016
    O Segredo das Pedras Vivas

    O Segredo das Pedras Vivas (2016)

    O Segredo das Pedras Vivas

    02016HD

    In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred...

    O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
  • 1994
    Julião Sarmento

    Julião Sarmento (1994)

    Julião Sarmento

    5.71994HD

    A documentary on one of the most important Portuguese Plastic Artists, with greatest International projection. Shown here are his techniques, themes, and obcessions developed for over two decades, as well as its ramifications into different supports ...

    Julião Sarmento
  • 1994
    Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho

    Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho (1994)

    Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho

    01994HD

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

    Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho