Acácio de Almeida Movies
- 1989
Etoile
Etoile5.81989HD
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.
- 1986
Maine-Ocean Express
Maine-Ocean Express5.8311986HD
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with...
- 1975
Brandos Costumes
Brandos Costumes5.9381975HD
A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by...
- 1989
Rosa de Areia
Rosa de Areia9.21989HD
Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual...
- 2016
Correspondences
Correspondences6.62016HD
Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long...
- 1984
City of Pirates
City of Pirates7.21984HD
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...
- 1989
Blood
Blood6.7921989HD
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...
- 1968
The Iron Cross
The Iron Cross101968HD
Two neighboring villages fight over control of a stream to water their lands.
- 1993
Hovering Over the Water
Hovering Over the Water7.11993HD
Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert...
- 2001
Fragile as the World
Fragile as the World7.62001HD
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...
- 1972
Superbug, Super Agent
Superbug, Super Agent5.81972HD
Jimmy Bondi and his miracle beetle Dudu are on their way to Portugal by sea. In the Algarve, they are witness to a dispute in which ex-inmate Plato...
- 2011
A Morte de Carlos Gardel
A Morte de Carlos Gardel6.52011HD
Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.
- 1996
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado51996HD
At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and...
- 1982
Ana
Ana6.81982HD
Ana is a young Portuguese girl who lives with her grandmother. Through their relationship, we are witness to the Cycle of Life: Grandmother takes...
- 1983
Dina and Django
Dina and Django5.81983HD
Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her...
- 1982
Island of Loves
Island of Loves6.41982HD
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...
- 1975
As Armas e o Povo
As Armas e o Povo7.41975HD
Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the...
- 1986
Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
Passagem ou a Meio Caminho01986HD
Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then...
- 1982
Silvestre
Silvestre6.11982HD
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
- 2002
Low-Flying Aircraft
Low-Flying Aircraft5.42002HD
Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee...