José Manuel Mendes Movies

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: António Capelo

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adriano Luz

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Melvil Poupaud

A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism.

Genre: Drama

Cast: José Manuel Mendes

At the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nuno Lopes

Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pedro Inês

It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Galhardo

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make...

Genre: History

Cast: Ricardo Trêpa

Marilou and Philippe decide to show their grandchildren their new holiday home in Portugal. But once there, they discover to their horror that the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thierry Lhermitte

Genre: Adventure

Cast: António Assunção

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria de Medeiros

Elliot Tittensor (TV's Shameless) stars as Daz in headlining film PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT, a gripping British film debut that sees him woo a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Julien Zeitouni

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pilar López de Ayala

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joaquim de Almeida

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jessica Weiss

In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Crista Alfaiate

Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Manuel Rosa

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anabela Moreira

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonor Baldaque

A dark and surreal comedy about a depressed mortician who asks his dead clients for life advice.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dinarte Branco