João Pedro Bénard
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis:
Locus Natus:
Et ut:
Hotel Royal
'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and observed through the details, lives that will remain...
release : 2021.07.14popularis : 0.688
A Woman's Revenge
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that...
release : 2012.03.29popularis : 1.827
The Face You Deserve
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are...
release : 2005.03.23popularis : 1.788
Alfama
A and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just before it leaves, C boards too. All this exists / All...
release : 2009.08.11popularis : 0.679
Worth Your Weight in Gold
Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his...
release : 2022.07.14popularis : 1.023
João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the...
release : 2015.10.08popularis : 1.427
Grand Tour
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on...
release : 2024.11.06popularis : 3.486
Banzo
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the...
release : 2024.05.28popularis : 1.954
Sombras Brancas
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the...
release : 2023.04.20popularis : 2.921
The Sound of the Shaking Earth
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...
release : 1990.10.22popularis : 0.805
Recollections of the Yellow House
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's...
release : 1989.10.12popularis : 2.597
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
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...
release : 2015.07.29popularis : 2.372
Coup de Grâce
A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn’t want to...
release : 2017.02.10popularis : 0.976
Vanity
Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together...
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 2.199
Ramiro
Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and...
release : 2018.03.01popularis : 0.725
Rage
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his...
release : 2018.10.31popularis : 3.592
Mariphasa
Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him....
release : 2017.07.09popularis : 0.682
Dead Man's Memories
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path...
release : 2003.07.06popularis : 0.638
The Conquest of Faro
Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark...
release : 2005.01.01popularis : 1.473
4 Hearts
Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside...
release : 2009.08.20popularis : 1.283
Patrick
Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a...
release : 2019.09.21popularis : 1.326
I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You
"In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. However, I ended up doing a feature film...
release : 2015.10.25popularis : 1.323
Journey to Portugal
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...
release : 2011.06.16popularis : 1.3
River of Gold
Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat...
release : 1998.05.18popularis : 1.075
A True and Faithful Account
The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure...
release : 1989.06.22popularis : 1.237
If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the...
release : 2013.09.10popularis : 1.547
Querença
In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to...
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 1.777
Beyond the Mountains
In love with Trás-os-Montes and with his Guide of Portugal as a source of inspiration, Miguel looks for stories for his new documentary. One...
release : 2017.02.02popularis : 0.632
Far From Amazónia
In 1783, naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira travelled to Amazonia. Centuries later, all that remains from his Philosophical Journey are the...
release : 2017.07.01popularis : 1.315