Adelaide João Movies

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer...

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his...

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.

A group of former university college students reunites in the city where they graduated at, to attend the funeral of one from their group. In...

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That...

Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her...

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys"...

At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was...

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while...

A drama of passion and social conscience.

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.

Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay...

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.

Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly...

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...

A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.

This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the...