António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Born: 1939-03-10

António-Pedro Saraiva de Barros e Vasconcelos (born 10 March 1939 in Leiria) was a Portuguese film director. He was a member of the Cinema Novo movement, which was heavily inspired by the Nouvelle Vague and Italian neorealism. Later his style derived to a more mainstream sensibility. Vasconcelos was famously a Benfica supporter.


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An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos

as Self
Released: 2019-04-05

A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.

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Jaime

as Man Reading Financial Times
Released: 1999-03-14

A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate...

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The Beauty and the Paparazzo

as stage director
Released: 2010-01-28

Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly,...

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The Immortals

as Pianista
Released: 2003-11-07

Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together...

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Parque Mayer

as Ministro
Released: 2018-12-06

Parque Mayer was the park off all the emotions and amusements in the 1930' s. Under the...

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Call Girl

as Airplane Passenger (uncredited)
Released: 2007-12-27

A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers...

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Cats Don't Have Vertigo

as Editor
Released: 2014-09-25

Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge...

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Oxalá

as Narrator (uncredited)
Released: 1981-05-08

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip...

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In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo

as self
Released: 2016-10-29

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western...

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Artur

as Himself
Released: 2011-05-10

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Impossible Love

as Professor de Literatura
Released: 2015-12-24

Cristina disappears. Tiago, her boyfriend, says that she was kidnapped, two police officers...

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A Portuguese Film

as Himself
Released: 2011-10-28

A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.

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O Fascínio das Histórias

as uncredited
Released: 2019-10-26

A digressive quest, through conversations with various people, about the need humanity has...

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40 Years of Fantasporto

as Self
Released: 2021-04-29

A journey through 40 years of life of the most important Film Festival in Portugal, through the...

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Adeus, Até ao Meu Regresso

as Narrator
Released: 1974-01-01

The Revolution also put an end to the colonial wars in Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and Angola....

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Alta Definição

as Self
First aired: 2009-09-12

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

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