João Bénard da Costa Movies

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the...

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film...

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the...

A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal...

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...

Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around town...

Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an interaction between the construction of...

A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

The way in which we cross, one time only, the space of a public swimming pool reminds us of life, from birth until the end.