Henrique Espírito Santo

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

25 de nov. de 1979

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

19 de mai. de 1978

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to...

25 de fev. de 1986

The gritty lives of Portuguese villagers are shown in this action drama which shows the interaction between a married couple who have taken an unus...

16 de jun. de 1973

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on ...

22 de fev. de 1983

01 de jan. de 1975

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her...

09 de mar. de 2006

Numa noite de insônia de 1978, Francisco e Rita se encontram para relembrar João, um amigo de infância assassinado recentemente. João pertencera a ...

31 de out. de 1987

02 de mai. de 1974

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 compl...

01 de jan. de 1979

In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of ...

09 de set. de 1978

29 de abr. de 1983

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who...

25 de abr. de 1996

22 de jun. de 1989

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Sa...

18 de set. de 1975

Mário, eight years old, a kid who begs in the tourist paradise of Madeira island. One day in his life, from morning to evening.

14 de jan. de 1994

An approach to the life and work of Jorge de Sena, relying on the testimonies of Mécia de Sena (author of the texts she reads) and the insertion of...

13 de abr. de 1984

Filmed just before the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Dark portrait of a group of friends who used to be colleagues at the University in 1962. Ten y...

11 de mar. de 1974

Based on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family du...

24 de jul. de 1998

During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed...

21 de out. de 1977

Jorge Lopes is a journalist in a Lisbon daily newspaper. He does story after story in the Portuguese capital, covering all the aspects of its life,...

06 de jan. de 1975

Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked toget...

13 de mar. de 1981

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives. Based on the novel of the same name by Portuguese...