Nuno Melo
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1960-02-08
Locus Natus: Castelo Branco, Portugal
Et ut:
The Crime of Father Amaro
O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It...
release : 2005.10.27popularis : 5.517
A Teia de Gelo
The story of Jorge, an ambitious hacker with few scruples, which is discovered to divert money from the company where he works and decides to flee....
release : 2012.04.12popularis : 3.273
Hay Road
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the...
release : 2012.06.28popularis : 0.725
The Baron
A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Having arrived, he is invited to stay with the baron,...
release : 2011.10.19popularis : 1.085
A Janela (Maryalva Mix)
An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like...
release : 2001.10.11popularis : 1.251
Tarde Demais
A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and...
release : 2000.03.31popularis : 2.088
Inside Out
João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay. So he decides to reject his...
release : 2014.11.20popularis : 2.017
És a Nossa Fé
Short documentary about football (soccer) supporters in Portugal
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 0.756
Blind Date
At the end of the 19th century, a woman receives an invitation to travel through time across the Douro, meeting an unknown person from the 21st...
release : 2014.03.01popularis : 1.258
Lisbon Revisited
A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon...
release : 2014.08.14popularis : 1.204
The Alarm Clock
On a supermarket shelf, a particular alarm clock keeps blaring off-hand, upsetting the staff and the customers. Eventually, it's golden frame...
release : 1996.01.01popularis : 0.64
The Sin of Those Who Love Us
Something unexpected brings Vitor back to the house where he was born. His return awakes ghosts from the past and a war long ago locked within this...
release : 2016.03.20popularis : 0.375
Crime at the Little Star Pension
Neves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar hotel that caters to bourgeois family and would-be...
release : 1990.12.31popularis : 1.387
Day of Despair
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
release : 1992.10.30popularis : 2.395
3x3D
A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard,...
release : 2013.05.22popularis : 1.708
The Divine Comedy
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha...
release : 1991.10.11popularis : 6.346
Tebas
Free adaptation of Sophocles classic tragedy “King Oedipus” crossed with Jack Kerouac's classic “On the Road”. The starting...
release : 2007.03.01popularis : 1.217
451 Forte
Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda,...
release : 2000.01.01popularis : 1.21
A Filha
Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most...
release : 2003.04.24popularis : 0.993
Kiss and Cry
Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon.
release : 1995.11.10popularis : 2.328
Mustang
Two sons dream of the return of their father who left fifteen years earlier, and all this time without any sign of life...
release : 2000.04.18popularis : 1.25
88
A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He...
release : 2002.10.06popularis : 1.422
Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real
In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from...
release : 2019.01.28popularis : 0.557
Branco
Portugal, 2013, election day. The 'Troika' and the IMF have ruined the country. A patriot man will make a difference. Even if against...everyone.
release : 2013.06.25popularis : 1.18
Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse
Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the...
release : 2009.01.01popularis : 0.365
Rio Turvo
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...
release : 2007.11.28popularis : 0.43
Fado, Major and Minor
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...
release : 1995.03.29popularis : 3.087
Damned Summer
Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush. Lisbon as the backdrop for a drifting youth.
release : 2017.08.21popularis : 2.671
Estrangement
When an actor assists to the premiere of the experimental B-movie he stars in, film blends with real life, turning it into an actual thriller.
release : 2014.11.11popularis : 1.022
Uprise
In this evocative story told ingeniously with minimal dialogue, men and women from various backgrounds and places each deal with the loss of a loved...
release : 2008.04.30popularis : 1.477
Traffic
Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth...
release : 1998.12.31popularis : 2.248
Mensagem
Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in isolation but looking at them as precursors and...
release : 1988.06.13popularis : 0.333
Rádio Relâmpago
A man who grew up in the '80s, in the midst of the pirate-radio scene, works now at a big, modern radio station, but still holds on to his love for a...
release : 2003.05.28popularis : 1.232
The Amazed Spectator
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on...
release : 2016.01.29popularis : 1.919
Luísa e os Outros
The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 1.28