João Pedro Bénard
Grand Tour
as Horace SeagraveIn 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden...
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Banzo
as Dr. Figueira1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation...
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Recollections of the Yellow House
as Dairy clerkLisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family...
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
as HumbertoIn which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious...
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Rage
as CoronaAlentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and...
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4 Hearts
as Bar do Espanhol: Nando, the BarmanDiana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game...
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Journey to Portugal
as uncreditedMaria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also...
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A Woman's Revenge
as NarratorRoberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved,...
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The Face You Deserve
as medicFrancisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed...
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Sombras Brancas
as Nurse / Al CaponeAt the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses...
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João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
as SelfDirector Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic,...
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Vanity
as AugustoVanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by...
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River of Gold
as uncreditedCarolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries...
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Patrick
as uncreditedPatrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography...
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A True and Faithful Account
as Jogador de PóquerThe young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de...
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Dead Man's Memories
as Der FischerA policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He...
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I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You
as uncredited"In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz...
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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
as Homem de Fafe1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which...
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The Sound of the Shaking Earth
as uncreditedFreely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who...
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The Conquest of Faro
as RecepcionistArriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left....
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Ramiro
as ProfessorRamiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat...
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From Now On
as Homem cena de violência domésticaDora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her...
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Coup de Grâce
as Sr. SilvaA man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following...
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Querença
as Adriano / FagundesIn mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in...
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Mariphasa
as NunoPaulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in...
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Alfama
as uncreditedA and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just...
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Hotel Royal
as uncredited'In the course of my cleaning duties, I examined the belongings of each guest of the hotel and...
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Worth Your Weight in Gold
as NorbertoOscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the...
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Beyond the Mountains
as uncreditedIn love with Trás-os-Montes and with his Guide of Portugal as a source of inspiration, Miguel...
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Far From Amazónia
as Narration (voice)In 1783, naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira travelled to Amazonia. Centuries later, all...
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Tales from the Mountain
as uncreditedAdaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the...
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