Movies: Joaquim de Almeida

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

Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threa...

Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules of the society they have left behind. This seems to have been particularly the case for Europeans liv...

1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal....

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger....

A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has been away, discovers much about himself....

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father António is also a man, and Vila Daires is not as peaceful as it seems. The good intentions of the Father will not be s...

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 five hour documentary series about the legendary "queen" of fado....

The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life....

A horror novelist begins to fear his stories may have a life of their own....

An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student....

Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start living a normal life....

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa....

Félix (Juanjo Puigcorbé), a likeable and careerist flat salesman, wants to be the commercial director of his company at all costs. The bad thing is that this position is deserved by Lola (Cristina Marcos), a young and efficient saleswoman, with whom ...

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Cesária Évora made the music of the Cape Verde islands famous throughout the world in the early 1990s. This film is an introduction to the culture, music and zest for life of the Cape Verdean people. On the occasion of the famous carnival of Mindelno...

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself ...

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal....

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