João Bénard da Costa Movies

12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a...

Genre: Family

Cast: Bruno Leite

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manuel Baeta Neves

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: João Bénard da Costa

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Manoel de Oliveira

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Manoel de Oliveira

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugues Quester

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Melvil Poupaud

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Geoffrey Carey

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonor Silveira

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonor Baldaque

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rita Durão

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jorge Trêpa

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alberto Seixas Santos

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

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Cast: António Simão

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to...

Genre: History

Cast: Lima Duarte

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pegah Ahangarani

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria de Saisset

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Gonçalves

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Catherine Deneuve

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: João Bénard da Costa

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teresa Menezes

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: João Bénard da Costa

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maria João Abreu

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: António Sequeira Lopes

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a...

Genre: War

Cast: Diogo Dória

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ludmila Mikaël

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter von Bagh