Alda de Aguiar
2021A Garça e a Serpente
Arthur Duarte
Teresa Cazal, Carmen Dolores
Melancholic and atheist bank clerk Manuel is stuck in a love triangle with two women, the fiery art model Albertina and the quiet and religious Ana Maria. After spending several years working in Africa, Manuel returns to Portugal only to find both women already married, and his life marred by problems.
A Garça e a Serpente
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
O Homem dos Olhos Tortos
José Leitão de Barros
Filipe Melo, Alda de Aguiar
The Man with the Crooked Eyes is a unfinished 1918 Portuguese silent film made for Lusitânia Film and directed by José Leitão de Barros, starring Filipe Melo. This was restored and edited together in 2007 using all existing raw footage.
The Man with the Crooked Eyes
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
