Varela Silva
1929 - 1995
Benilde or The Virgin Mother
Manoel de Oliveira
Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla
A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.
Benilde or the Virgin Mother
Enchanted Isles
Carlos Vilardebó
Amália Rodrigues, Pierre Clémenti
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her father and brother, dead while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end.
Enchanted Isles
Aqui D'El Rei!
António-Pedro Vasconcelos
Ludmila Mikaël, Arnaud Giovaninetti
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the great regulative Governor Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty
Aqui D'El Rei!
The Jew
Jom Tob Azulay
Dina Sfat, Fernanda Torres
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
The Jew
