Joaquim Pinto Movies

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

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

Decisive shifts in the oceans have caused significant problems in the eponymous village in the Azorean archipelago, where fishing has long been a...

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for...

Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing “Happy Birthday” to him on his answering machine. When...

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating...

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy...

A short-film in 35 mm, black > white stages a day in which the main character discovers that she stopped seeing in color. Written as...

It’s been a year since we were together. A year since you left me, or I left you. What does it matter? And suddenly here you are in front of...

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability...

João de Deus receives a treat from a friend, unclogs his bathtub, and contemplates Lisbon from his window.

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and...

This contemplative piece, an exploration of time’s passage and the permanence of nature, sets Beethoven’s “Sonata em sol...

A portrait of a group of teens from a Rio de Janeiro slum learning to surf.

"Com Cuspe e com Jeito Se Bota no Cu do Sujeito" observes a transvestite cook making a typical Brazilian plate, feijoada à brasileira.

Mesmerized by the songs of Peroguarda villagers in southern Portugal’s Alentejo region, young Portuguese modern poet Antonio Reis, Corsican...