Acácio de Almeida Movies
- 1985
Notre mariage
Notre mariage11985HD
A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.
- 1982
A Estrangeira
A Estrangeira01982HD
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...
- 1968
The Iron Cross
The Iron Cross101968HD
Two neighboring villages fight over control of a stream to water their lands.
- 1983
Gestures and Fragments
Gestures and Fragments81983HD
"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on...
- 1996
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado51996HD
At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and...
- 1985
Vertiges
Vertiges6.51985HD
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on...
- 1977
The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976
The Law of the Land - Alentejo 197661977HD
The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the...
- 1982
The Conversation Is Over
The Conversation Is Over5.11982HD
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...
- 1975
What Shall I Do With This Sword?
What Shall I Do With This Sword?61975HD
By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the...
- 1970
The Circle
The Circle7.21970HD
A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She...
- 2019
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies5.32019HD
Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical...
- 2003
Lent
Lent6.62003HD
David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to...
- 2009
The Invisible Collection
The Invisible Collection5.72009HD
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...
- 1989
Blood
Blood6.81989HD
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...
- 1986
Treasure Island
Treasure Island6.21986HD
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and...
- 2010
Perdida Mente
Perdida Mente62010HD
The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it...
- 1978
Trails
Trails7.11978HD
Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...
- 1982
Aspern
Aspern01982HD
A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.
- 1977
Dearest Executioners
Dearest Executioners7.31977HD
This documentary, filmed clandestinely, is based on several interviews with the executioners who worked in Spain during the early 1970s, as well as...
- 1982
Silvestre
Silvestre6.11982HD
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.