Luís Santos
1908 - 2003Velhos são os Trapos
Monique Rutler
José Fonseca e Costa, João Guedes
Old people tend to be kept apart, even humiliated by the new generations. The stories and different destinies of three old persons are linked together, and the realism of it imposes itself on us.
Velhos são os Trapos
O Sangue
Pedro Costa
Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
Blood
The Vows
António de Macedo
Sinde Filipe, Guida Maria
The gritty lives of Portuguese villagers are shown in this action drama which shows the interaction between a married couple who have taken an unusual vow of celibacy and a gang of gypsies who are terrorizing their village. The film highlights many ancient religious traditions still current in these regions, as the villagers, devout Catholics, support the gypsy con-men by buying religious relics from them.
The Vows
Balada da Praia dos Cães
José Fonseca e Costa
Assumpta Serna, Raul Solnado
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
Balada da Praia dos Cães
Brandos Costumes
Alberto Seixas Santos
Luís Santos, Dalila Rocha
A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
Brandos Costumes
Paraíso Perdido
Alberto Seixas Santos
Maria de Medeiros, Rui Mendes
Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.
Paraíso Perdido
A Força do Atrito
Pedro M. Ruivo
Rui Araújo, Francisco Baião
Portugal 1997. A nuclear accident left the the country without energy and divided between zones, some of them interdicted because of the contamination. The economic crisis is dramatic and unemployment is almost total.
A Força do Atrito
