Movies: Fernando Lopes

A TV movie by Fernando Lopes....

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

Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer’s personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes. Shot with the purpose to document his work in the same way Carlos de Olivei...

Documentary about the city of Lisbon, Portugal....

A comedy divided into two episodes. The first tells the story of Agildo, a man obsessed with women, who is caught by his wife in bed with the maid. He begins to live a sexual fast so his wife doesn't leave him, but tries to use his imagination to che...

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

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."...

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....

This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to steal precious jewels from the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The weapon of choice? Bees!...

In his childhood haunts, in the village of Várzea dos Amarelos, the filmmaker films peasant life with its seasonal and daily rituals: a festive meal, the slaughter of a pig, bread-making. The film slides into imagination and blends with fiction: memo...

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

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave....

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Maced...

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....

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

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

Salvador knew Contança and Santiago. He did not know, but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constance did not know Laurence. Only Santiago knew Laurence, Constança and Salvador....

"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...

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