Joaquim Pinto Movies

The artist Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, who, on her return to Brazil after several years living in Europe, was confronted with the situation of violence...

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographers and filmmakers that witnessed the event. Their...

In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family...

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...

The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as...

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

Ana is a young Portuguese girl who lives with her grandmother. Through their relationship, we are witness to the Cycle of Life: Grandmother takes...

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating...

Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing “Happy Birthday” to him on his answering machine. When...

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability...

A short-film in 35 mm, black > white stages a day in which the main character discovers that she stopped seeing in color. Written as...

What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin...

Mesmerized by the songs of Peroguarda villagers in southern Portugal’s Alentejo region, young Portuguese modern poet Antonio Reis, Corsican...

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN read by Luis Miguel Cintra, one of the most prominent Portuguese actors. A glimpse at a personal experience of Jesus,...

"Com Cuspe e com Jeito Se Bota no Cu do Sujeito" observes a transvestite cook making a typical Brazilian plate, feijoada à brasileira.

It’s been a year since we were together. A year since you left me, or I left you. What does it matter? And suddenly here you are in front of...

João de Deus receives a treat from a friend, unclogs his bathtub, and contemplates Lisbon from his window.