Jorge Paixão da Costa

Jazzé Duarte

Jorge Paixão da Costa

A Documentary by Jorge Paixão da Costa that honors José Duarte and his radio program "five minutes of Jazz"

O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra

Jorge Paixão da Costa

Ivo Canelas, António Pedro Cerdeira

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.

Luísa e os Outros

Alfredo Tropa

Eunice Muñoz, Filomena Gonçalves

The tumultuous lives of a woman and her three daughters who used to live in Paris, and are now living in Bairro Alto.

Elles

Luís Galvão Teles

Miou-Miou, Carmen Maura

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

A Arte de Morrer Longe

Júlio Alves

Ana Moreira, Miguel Nunes

Can a turtle, the most pacific animal on earth, start a range of significant events that are going to forever change a couple's life? After dividing all their assets, Arnaldo e Barbara still have one decision to make before they formalize their separation: what to do with the turtle? Amongst hesitation and failed solutions, unintended burglaries, police stations, plastic natures and misunderstandings, a single turtle fate is postponing this couple's separation. Because they know that, when they give the turtle back to its natural habitat, their relationship will be over. Are they ready for that last step?

Soldier Millions

Jorge Paixão da Costa, Gonçalo Galvão Teles

João Arrais, Miguel Borges

A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle, struggles by himself through dozens of German offensives so he can guarantee the safety of his companions.

Lápis Azul

Rafael Antunes Martins

António Rama, Manuel Cavaco

A colonel working for Censorship, widower, learns that his wife read banned books in his absence, "New Portuguese Letters" and "My Lady of Me". The colonel will discover the woman he did not know in life through the poems that she read. As the revolution arrives in April 25, 1974, the Colonel will remain true to their convictions although the poems have already influenced his own life.

Adeus Princesa

Jorge Paixão da Costa

Miguel Molina, António Capelo

Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja - the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes. Written by Artemis-9

Jacinta

Jorge Paixão da Costa

Dalila Carmo, Matilde Serrão

The story of Jacinta, one of the three children involved in the Marian apparition reported in 1917 at Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal.

Devolvidos

Jorge Paixão da Costa

A document about the memory and life of men and women who lived in a Portuguese-American community and were once repatriated. Tony, Dulce, António, Manuel and Mário have one thing in common: they have been convicted in a harsh justice that repatriated them after many years of imprisonment. Within the Portuguese-American community to which they belonged, everyone worked regularly when the US authorities decided to reopen their court proceedings.