Movies: António Gonçalves

The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is disrupted when an unusual incident suddenly turns him into a social media star....

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually claim their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young...

This remake of the 1940 film with the same name tells the story of a theatre company, its men and women in love, mistakes and misunderstandings. Chico loves Tatão, who is courted by Artur. Graça loves Chico, but doesn't know he loves Tatão. Santana w...

Three girlfriends, a summer night and a green eyed man. A true urban story....

On April 25, 1974, a man walked alone in Largo do Carmo. He knocked on the GNR military barracks door and entered, unarmed and without any escorts. Inside, the Government’s chief, Marcelo Caetano, waited, surrounded by the military and the people. Th...

With Don Quixote, by Cervantes, as a background the play is set in the backstage of a theatre house focusing on the routine of a young actor that's more of an extra - dreaming more than achieving, closer to failure than to talent he dreams of a life ...

João and Cristiane are a pair of swindlers who want to deceive a Colonial war veteran who won 190 million euros in the lottery. João pretends to be the lost son of the winner. But they are not the only ones with the same intentions....

In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being humiliated by Portuguese colonizers, Njinga will become a Queen and struggle for their liberation embodyin...

The story of a man. Maybe two. A father who leaves home taking nothing with him but the mailbox and a suitcase. He sits on a garden bench, on the street, waiting for a son's answer. Every day he sends him a letter and every day he hopes to get a lett...

A story about people who reinvent their ideals of perfection to incorporate a sensual attraction to surgically transformed bodies....

In 1988, Lisbon’s Chiado was ravaged by a fire; now, some of the highest real estate property prices in Portugal are paid for a piece of this Álvaro Siza Vieira-renovated area. Reproduta interdita was one of Pêra’s first (and certainly weirdest) work...

One week before the university entrance exam João has given up. Rita, his girlfriend and a straight-A surfer girl, is determined not only to make him study, but to make him pass the exam and get him into college. The problems arise when she fails to ...

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup....

July 1956. Álvaro Cunhal arrives at Peniche Fort and is placed in the most modern and secure prison wing, considered escape-proof. Despite the tight control exercised over the prisoners, Álvaro and his comrades manage to organize a small commune and ...

Inês is a teenager from a wealthy family. However, after classes, he participates in risky sexual games, compulsively uses the internet and attends the nightlife of Lisbon, entering a spiral of total destruction....

Cinderella escapes at midnight, leaving behind one of her glass slippers. In the days that follow, the gay prince can't give up the idea of completing the pair....

Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child’s guise....

A young couple celebrate their Paper wedding anniversary. All is set for a romantic weekend just the two of them. But after a series of strange situations, they will very fast get embroiled on a path that has no turning back....

A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost....

Father and son are in a long journey to the city. The road they are on is not on any map. It doesn't end....