João Guedes
Oyuncu · 1921 – 1983
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Film4.0DramAn aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.
Film6.2DramAlentejo 1975. The Police associate a group of traveling players with a strike of agricultural workers. The action takes place in the open space and harsh heat of the Alentejo. With the connivance of Lianor, the troupe enters the palace of Don Gonzalo an old aristocrat. The gentleman is obsessed by visions of great past deeds in a universe of ghosts. This was the first example of militant cinema in Portugal after the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, exploring the world after the Carnation Revolution and its contradictions.
Film8.0DramThe village innkeeper Lejba Sibal and his pregnant wife Sura are threatened by Lejba's former farmhand Georg, who wants to kill them both at Easter. After Lejba has sought help from the authorities in vain, he decides to fight back himself.
Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
1982 · 1 votes
Film7.0DramThe life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Francisca
1981 · 36 votes
Film6.5DramThis Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own.
- Film5.0KorkuFantastik
Based on an Eça de Queiroz incursion into fantastic literature.
O Defunto
1981 · 3 votes
Film6.9TarihDramA bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Silvestre
1982 · 16 votes
Film8.0DramOld 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
1981 · 1 votes
- Film5.0DramFantastik
Siren's Song is inspired on a story by Júlio Dinis, in an place populated by characters taken from Greek mythology.
Film9.0DramMüzikA Marialist nobleman falls in love with a fado singer, who puts an end to the ephemeral relationship, accepting the love of a teenager, recently arrived from Africa.
Fado Corrido
1964 · 2 votes
Film7.0Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to strict isolation. With students of unidentified present time (1968? 1970?), the themes developed, in Büchner, are triggered by the publication of "The Messenger of Hesse", a pamphlet addressed to the peasants, urging them to revolt. Their misunderstanding, as well as the repression of the young revolutionaries, leads Büchner to a particularly skeptical and painful attitude...
Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
1986 · 1 votes
Film10.0DramJoão Eduardo, a young inexperienced doctor, takes up work in a village. The initial skepticism from the community gives place to esteem for the new physician after some well succeeded cases.
Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico
1963 · 1 votes
Film7.1DramAfter completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to find that the woman he loves has married his brother. Overcome by bitterness, he sets off to find work in the countryside where he meets Albertina, a free-spirited young woman who challenges him to change his life.
Film7.4DramFantastikParallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
Film7.1DramA French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her husband and brother, who have died while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end.
- Film5.0
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when he is run over in a perhaps enigmatic way.
A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
1983 · 3 votes