Joaquim de Almeida Movies

In the late 1940s, a girl runs away from the boarding school where her father has placed her to go and live with her mother, and after spending some...

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is...

Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from...

Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to...

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing....

As he does at the end of every summer, Antonio climbs onto his roof to sweep out his chimney. From this vantage point, he sees that repairs have...

A small group of amateur cooks and kitchen guests discover exactly why some refer to the kitchen as the "heart of the house".

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

Didi dreams of improving his life and is trying to leave the community (the slum) where he grew up, when he discovers that he is indirectly working...

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father...

Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules...

A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the...

In 1976, when he was just 19 years old, Massimo Carlotto was accused of a murder of which he was the sole witness. As a result of this accusation, he...

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil...

Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she...

Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and...

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local...

Four partners heist a fortune in gold ore from a North African airport & escape across the desert in a truck.