Movies: Manuel Costa e Silva

Pontius Branco was a climber of the economy, climbed by money like Mount Everest. aggressive businessman. His wife Bernarda felt betrayed. He replaced her for the orgies between the purchase intervals, sells and deceives. Here comes the train from 15...

Part of the medium-length films for TV Lisboa Sociedade Anónima, O Banqueiro Anarquista is a fine example of what a fabulous script (by Pessoa), exuberant set design, attentive camera work, and an actor (Santos Manuel) at his most daring and accompli...

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave....

The way in which the structuring of capitalist urban space reflects the contradictions and conflicts of the classes in struggle, and the demarcation of a Marxist analysis of urban reality, which the few off-screen statements only serve to confirm. On...

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave....

"French television came up with the idea of Se Deus Quiser (but they didn't carry it through), which consisted in inviting six European directors to describe their homeland in a film. When my friend Jacques Dercourt contacted me - he had seen Nós Por...

Life of photographer Gérard Castello-Lopes, disciple of Cartier-Bresson....

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This documentary shows a typical Sunday in Mozambique's capital, tourist main attractions, an inquest in Lisbon about the perception of the people in the street about what life was like in that African colony (or, as the Government had it then, "prov...

The Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that's short live...

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violenc...

Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in isolation but looking at them as precursors and announcers of the fate of the entire planet....

One of the first films that looks at the Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes. From the mask called “careto” and the popular festival to the everyday reality....

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave....

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave....

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives....

A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist....

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Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave....