José Wallenstein Movies

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...

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques...

Jorge is a DJ at a Lisbon nightclub. But the club owner, Queirós, who is also involved in diamond traffic, is obsessive over a woman,...

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it...

Things are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their respective jobs, Until the husband betrays her wife...

Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at...

Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...

The world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by...

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the...

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

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António...

A Moral Conjugal

A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man. She...