Luís Lucas

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.

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

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the ...

North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After ...

Two years after consorting with the wrong people cost him his job as public prosecutor, Eduardo Silva is a measly defense attorney, who works ...

Daniel had a plan, a sort of journal of the future, written in a notebook. Sometimes he went back to rectify small things, but still, life seemed ...

In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric ...

A day in the life of a grandpa.

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and ...

Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people’s windows and thinks that they are truly happy.

Picture yourself at home… The phone rings and they try to sell you something – the usual idiots… Only this time they’re ...

The documentary about the life of Fernando Pessoa, defended by journalist Clara Ferreira Alves, underlines how, in just 30 years, Fernando Pessoa ...

Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby ...

On an isolated Portuguese island, a nameless man makes a mental journey which brings him into contact with the strange and menacing world without ...

Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less ...

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to ...

Some time ago Gerardo knew another man of the same age called Berardo. When he said the name, Berardo expressed his oppinion violently, saying ...

Last feature film of Stanislav Barabas

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who ...

In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier ...

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner’s biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and ...

Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they are bizarre aspects and eccentric figures of ...

A Dutch woman visits a girlfriend in Portugal, but first spends a few days in a deserted villa by the sea. In flashbacks it becomes clear that ...

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this ...

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

The bandoneon player Daniel and the boxer Toni arrive independently from each other in a provincial town in Latin America where they are booked ...