Acácio de Almeida Movies

The film documents the start, and difficult progress of a house cooperative in the fishermen's village of Meia Praia, during the revolutionary...

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after...

Jimmy Bondi and his miracle beetle Dudu are on their way to Portugal by sea. In the Algarve, they are witness to a dispute in which ex-inmate Plato...

Departing from extracts written by Fernando Pessoa, the characters walk through the city of Lisbon, having the streets and houses where the Poet...

Film adaptation of "The letter from the hunchback to the locksmith" by Fernando Pessoa's heteronym Maria José.

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve...

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the...

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien,...

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...

Gothic film in a monastery, where sensual monks murder the children they receive, with images of fantastic, painted from the author own painting and...

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and...

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set...

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's...

The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east...

By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the...

World peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device

Mércedès, an actress from Paris attempts to break off a difficult relationship with the jealous and possessive stalker Johnny. She...

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

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and...