Nuno Carvalho Movies

Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex...

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde...

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style...

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of her neighbour Pedro, who...

On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a...

Part memoir, part city symphony, part noir-ish B-movie adventure, the new feature from critically acclaimed film-making duo João Pedro...

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

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...

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze,...

Faced with the widening gap between citizens and power, and after an economic crisis that has seriously affected social cohesion, this film gives us...

The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also...

A love triangle between two boys and a girl who drift through life from a rugby game, to a pool party, to the beach.

Three Portuguese queer short films brought together in a program that charts an alternative path through converging universes, forming a new...

How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout...

The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city...

On the phone in his dark bedroom, a man relives the end of a turbulent affair, while across town, the city burns.

Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a...

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat...

Theatrical dramatization of Island of Loves.

In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.