Movies: Luís Alberto

Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a l...

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship....

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A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV....

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic li...

Based on the events which took place the night of April 24th, 1999 in Portugal. This is the story of the Coup d'État which put an end to the Dictatorship and reinstated the Democracy....

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he...

Joana receives her grandfather’s ashes. At home, she finds his voyage diary that belonged to her grandfather and decides to recreate that journey. On the road, she meets Rui, who helps to find the truth about her past....

Written in 1962, a classic piece by Luís de Sttau Monteiro, in a production by Artur Ramos. The play takes place during the English occupation, after the French Invasions. The court is in Brazil and Portugal governs the Governor, the Cardinal and a...

In the 1950s, a handful of prisoners attempt a daring escape from Peniche, a castle on the north coast of Portugal for the political dissidents of the regime....

Antonio Botto and Fernando Pessoa, two renowned Portuguese poets, exchanged fictitious love letters. Botto wrote under his own name, and Pessoa signed as 'Manuel de Andrade'. But as time passed, these letters gained a new level of importance in both ...

During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed in the sea....

In 1974, not long after the death of Portuguese dictator Salazar, who had ruled Portugal from the early '30s to the late '60s, a group of disgruntled Army officers held a coup. They were even more disgruntled when they realized how the coup was being...

A middle-aged businessman, a neo-liberal, returns to Portugal to realize the ambitious dream of a banana plantation and help reconstruct the national economy, weakened by the "communist" revolutionaries. He fails. He even fails to meet his death, fro...