Jorge Silva Melo Movies

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on...

Documentary about the work of the painter António Sena and a way to see the transformation of forms over time

In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man...

The subtle story of a man and a woman, with their respective families and situations, which, after some time, coincide by chance.

One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to...

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...

In an old house, around a table, under a lamp, four men play a game of cards. This house is a haven where all failures are accepted, where all are...

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and...

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...

The film's starting point was an exhibit at the Centre of Modern Art (Gulbenkian) in Lisbon. By evoking a time in the past and the adventures of the...

A renowned symbol of Portuguese interventionist theatre, Cornucópia emerged from the darkness of fascism to fight dictatorship on stage. Among...

A girl answers a job interview and little by little her past is revealed and called into question.

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

Documentary about the work of the painter Nikias Skapinakis from the exhibition “Imaginary Bedrooms” which in June 2006 opened at the...

A theatre having national as part of its name, at the top of a square, reflecting a country’s history. But which one? This is a voyage through...

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.

Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less...

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (1931-2008), engraver, painter, is one of the great artists of the 20th century. His world is the crepuscular world of the...

A documentary about Gravura, the Portuguese cooperative founded in Lisbon in 1956.