Acácio de Almeida Movies

  • 1985
    Notre mariage

    Notre mariage

    Notre mariage

    11985HD

    A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

    Notre mariage
  • 1982
    A Estrangeira

    A Estrangeira

    A Estrangeira

    01982HD

    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...

    A Estrangeira
  • 1968
    The Iron Cross

    The Iron Cross

    The Iron Cross

    101968HD

    Two neighboring villages fight over control of a stream to water their lands.

    The Iron Cross
  • 1983
    Gestures and Fragments

    Gestures and Fragments

    Gestures and Fragments

    81983HD

    "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...

    Gestures and Fragments
  • 1996
    La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado

    La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado

    La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado

    51996HD

    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...

    La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
  • 1985
    Vertiges

    Vertiges

    Vertiges

    6.51985HD

    In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on...

    Vertiges
  • 1977
    The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976

    The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976

    The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976

    61977HD

    The agriculture reforming process, after the 1974 revolution, is seen through an analysis of the social structures and class struggles of the...

    The Law of the Land - Alentejo 1976
  • 1982
    The Conversation Is Over

    The Conversation Is Over

    The Conversation Is Over

    5.11982HD

    The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

    The Conversation Is Over
  • 1975
    What Shall I Do With This Sword?

    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...

    What Shall I Do With This Sword?
  • 1970
    The Circle

    The Circle

    The Circle

    7.21970HD

    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...

    The Circle
  • 2019
    Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies

    Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies

    Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies

    5.32019HD

    Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical...

    Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
  • 2003
    Lent

    Lent

    Lent

    6.62003HD

    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...

    Lent
  • 2009
    The Invisible Collection

    The Invisible Collection

    The Invisible Collection

    5.72009HD

    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...

    The Invisible Collection
  • 1989
    Blood

    Blood

    Blood

    6.81989HD

    Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...

    Blood
  • 1986
    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    6.21986HD

    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...

    Treasure Island
  • 2010
    Perdida Mente

    Perdida Mente

    Perdida Mente

    62010HD

    The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it...

    Perdida Mente
  • 1978
    Trails

    Trails

    Trails

    7.11978HD

    Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

    Trails
  • 1982
    Aspern

    Aspern

    Aspern

    01982HD

    A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.

    Aspern
  • 1977
    Dearest Executioners

    Dearest Executioners

    Dearest Executioners

    7.31977HD

    This documentary, filmed clandestinely, is based on several interviews with the executioners who worked in Spain during the early 1970s, as well as...

    Dearest Executioners
  • 1982
    Silvestre

    Silvestre

    Silvestre

    6.11982HD

    A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

    Silvestre