Rui Xavier Movies

Before the assault, feel the weight of the body.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eduardo Aguilar

No matter how calm the surface of the ocean appears to be, each time we cross the line that divides land and water we enter an unknown and unexpected...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Urgeghe

According to the perpetual lunar calendar: 'When sparks catch a pot of water, it signifies wind. When the hills echo loudly and the sea generates...

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Cast: Isabel Abreu

Ana was born in São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and traditions. Growing up as the middle child of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ana Cabral

No matter how calm the surface of the ocean appears to be, each time we cross the line that divides land and water we enter an unknown and unexpected...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Urgeghe

As the afternoon light fades, two kids play in the woods by a lake. When one of them disappears, the lake and its inhabitants take hold of the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Afonso Gregório

'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and observed through the details, lives that will remain...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ana Moreira

A film about the Portuguese colonial empire as it is seen and shown through photography, from the end of the 19th century until the 1974 revolution...

Genre: Documentary

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Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa portrays a brief moment of euphoria as the occupants on the raft spot a glimpsic illusion for their drift, hoping...

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No matter how calm the surface of the ocean appears to be, each time we cross the line that divides land and water we enter an unknown and unexpected...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Urgeghe

No matter how calm the surface of the ocean appears to be, each time we cross the line that divides land and water we enter an unknown and unexpected...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Urgeghe

One must look into the tired eyes of those who hope one day to be able to communicate. Mother and daughter don't know how. Maybe the dog can help,...

Genre: Drama

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Two young lovers, live in a tiny apartment, struggling everyday to find reasons to stay together. As they are incapable of living apart, they choose...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marco Leão

Silence is absolute and time dilates as we lose ourselves in an unpredictable space among non-existent places.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Bolito Xavier

One must look into the tired eyes of those who hope one day to be able to communicate. Mother and daughter don't know how. Maybe the dog can help,...

Genre: Drama

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Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his...

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Cast: Marcello Urgeghe

Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – reflects on the intertwined...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claudio Abbiati

All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albano Jerónimo

A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a winter in Lisbon, father, mother, son and daughter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adriano Luz

Before and after a kiss

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A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn’t want to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Jost

A young adolescent, living with a swinger couple in a campsite, meets an emotionally unstable man and finds herself fascinated by his special powers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Jost

Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albano Jerónimo

“Campo de Marte” (The Field of Mars) was in the ancient times Rome’s training arena for war. At the outskirts of Lisbon,...

Genre: Documentary

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Spira comes home from a juvenile detention center and reconnects with his loved ones in Reboleira (Lisbon), a slum on the verge of being destroyed....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Spencer

A woman and two dogs inside a city house. She rediscovers herself in daily gestures and in the remembrance of whom has left. The sun blinds her, it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sara Gonçalves

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francisca Castillo

On a summer's day, a mother, daughter and granddaughter's care-free day trip comes to an abrupt end. Beautiful and restrained.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Beatriz Batarda

Mateus and Irene plan to celebrate their wedding anniversary at a tropical retreat, but are separated on the eve of their departure, and forced to...

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Cast: Albano Jerónimo