Movies: Monique Rutler

Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, wh...

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 Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known....

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

Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked together, and the realism of it imposes itself on us....

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the characters and idea of each story. The first sketch is about a young man who shines shoes for a livin...

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Documentary on the life of filmmaker and cultural figure António Lopes Ribeiro....

José Nascimento films the process of the Agrarian Reform that happened in the Portuguese region of Alentejo during the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution....

Shortly after the fall of the Salazar dictatorship, in the early days of PREC, one of the first land occupations in the liberated country took place in the village of Quebradas (near Rio Maior). It was the first Basista occupation of that period. Soo...

Polemical short documentary, produced by Cinequipe....

An episode of the series Os Direitos das Crianças directed to the juvenile public, made for RTP....

Documentary on the experimental program by the Therapeutic Education Section of the Medical-Pedagogical Observation and Orientation Center, integrating health and education....

Collective documentary on the S. Mamede region of Lisbon shot on early video...

First collective film by the students of the inaugural class of the National Conservatory’s Film School, never completed. Starring Luís Lucas, the action takes place in a laundromat (Lavimpa self-service). Each scene is said to have been directed by ...