
Eugénio Salvador
1908 - 1992Vidas sem Rumo
Manuel Guimarães
Milú, Eugénio Salvador
Meia-Lua used to be a sailor, but he now makes a poor living smuggling. He is a cynical man, who doesn't care for Ana or for the child they had together. He lives with the beautiful Marlene who dances in the bars. Gull spends her whole days lulling a doll in her arms, and she waits for her love that will rise from the depths of the sea. The deaf musician Sparrow watches over her, in his despaired love and long-held wish of becoming a sea captain. There is a dispute down the piers, there is a crime that might be just an accident, there is a bad conscience that turns sour, there is a boat full of poor wretches like a rocking lullaby, a baby that passes from arms to arms, a clumsy beggar that finds some work, a courthouse of tramps... From this expressionist account that has unexpected comical moments, the censors from Salazar's regime cut away 20 minutes that were never to be found again.
Vidas sem Rumo
Aqui Há Fantasmas
Pedro Martins
António Silva, Francisco Ribeiro
Professor Hermes conducts a research on fear, for which he passes contract with a patient to live a supposedly empty mansion. He's counting on his assistant Chico Mota to play a phantom, but soon comes about that there are phantoms (plural) in there.
House of Ghosts
Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica
José Leitão de Barros
Adelina Abranches, Adelina Fernandes
Caleidoscope of documentary-like scenes and re-enacted episodes of a day in the life of a large port town - Lisbon, from the old district around Saint George's Castle down to the docks and the 'Sagres' on the Tagus river, to the new commercial districts.
Lisbon, Anecdotal Chronicle
Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira
Perdigão Queiroga
Amália Rodrigues, Virgílio Teixeira
Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern), public and critics rend major applause. Fame brings about new friends, namely bohemian young who play and sing the fado with her, and not so young men but who rich and powerful enough to patronize her, promote her, and wish to become intimate with her. Júlio the guitarist feel betrayed, and he sets his mind to depart to the African colonies, to leave her forever. Knowing that he's going to embark, Ana Maria's heart between her first love, and the appeal of the rich and famous.
Fado, a Singer's Story
Os Três da Vida Airada
Perdigão Queiroga
Milú, António Silva
A typesetter is an amateur stage director, and his niece and an employee are stage actors. When they have an opportunity to go professional, differences arise between the two men. Things get worse when the employee starts seeing the girl even when there is no need for rehearsals - and the uncle opposes their relationship.
Os Três da Vida Airada
Duas Causas
Henrique Campos
Mariana Villar, Artur Semedo
Adriana, an orphan who has been raised in a well off family, becomes pregnant after being seduced by a man. Outraged, Mr. Bento kicks her our of home. What he doesn't realize is that her seducer is his own son, Raul, a brilliant law student.
Two Causes
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
Perdigão Queiroga
Anselmo Duarte, Marisa Prado
The characteristic loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct moral of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana, and the dissidents, sensibility, tenderness, rituals and landscape involvement of the Minho.
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
Eram Duzentos Irmãos
Armando Vieira Pinto
Ruy de Carvalho, Vasco Santana
A man afflicted by an inferiority complex, is helped out by his comrades to pass the tests to enter the navy. A girl accepts to show a fake love interest in him as part of the plan, and ends up really enamoured.
Eram Duzentos Irmãos
O Destino Marca a Hora
Henrique Campos
Tony de Matos, Isabel de Castro
A famous singer conducts two relationships at once, with a businesswoman and her secretary. He marries the woman, has children from both, and all goes well for him until one fateful day, when his two sons come to know that he is parent of both, at school.
O Destino Marca a Hora