Acácio de Almeida Filmes

Inspired in the book with the same title by António Lobo Antunes.

Jaime, a poem of suffering and loneliness, describes the existence and pictorial work of a man isolated in a psychiatric hospital.

Ana is a young Portuguese girl who lives with her grandmother. Through their relationship, we are witness to the Cycle of Life: Grandmother takes...

Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks.

When Éric and Marie go to meet their parents at the harbor for the holidays, the latter are victims of an overnight hit-and-run. Marie hides...

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 family...

Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when,...

The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east...

A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors,...

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's...

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while...

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from...

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical...

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a...

The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a...

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...