Acácio de Almeida Movies

Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews...

A wealthy woman twice widowed, lives with his family and two servants in a shady country house in Galicia in the late nineteenth century isolated...

Sofía, a psychology professor, has just completed her postgraduate studies in Valparaíso, and is returning to her hometown of Valdivia...

By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the...

The plan of issues, since 1962, an alive and continuous legacy of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark...

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and...

The original family is expelled from Eden and forced to face the hardships of existence. However, each of its members sees the world differently....

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his...

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...

A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her...

The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a...

Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage to conceive, what can she say but yes?

A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens. The book describes the...

Filmed just before the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Dark portrait of a group of friends who used to be colleagues at the University in 1962. Ten...

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then...

David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to...

Alex is a famous singer who lives in a big mansion. One quiet night, a hooded stranger comes into his home, shoots the butler and then takes the mask...