Movies: Vasco Pulido Valente

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog. When a sportsman (the film’s narrator) c...

A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon she encount...

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly bec...

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

Never-before-seen footage of Monteiro’s first film tests for an unfinished project with Maria Cabral, a legendary actress from the Portuguese Cinema Novo movement and a perfect match for Monteiro’s French New Wave–inspired footage. – Museum of Modern...