João Bénard da Costa Movies

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century...

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him...

12-year-old Miguel is punished because he has not done his homework properly: he must stay at his aunt's inn for holidays. First bored, then a...

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film...

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal...

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an interaction between the construction of...

Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around town...

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...

The way in which we cross, one time only, the space of a public swimming pool reminds us of life, from birth until the end.

A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.