Acácio de Almeida Movies

A compilation of films project multiple versions of people won by vida.

A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by...

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the...

World peace is at stake if a spy-ring obtains the electronic device

By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the...

VIEIRARPAD begun with the correspondence between the couple Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szènes, between 1932-1961. The letters and...

A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother,...

An overview of the assemblage and production of motor vehicles in Portugal, including the local representatives of Mercedes, Morris, and...

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on...

The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east...

A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.

The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the...

Using texts and landscapes belonging to Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles and to a life of work dedicated to landscape architecture, João...

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and...

The film documents the start, and difficult progress of a house cooperative in the fishermen's village of Meia Praia, during the revolutionary...

Biographical documentary Solveig Nordlund says that 50 years of life in Portugal. The evolution of Portugal from fascism to the current crisis. A...

A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.

Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual...

A short film.