Acácio de Almeida Movies

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.

Alex is a famous singer who lives in a big mansion. One quiet night, a hooded stranger comes into his home, shoots the butler and then takes the mask...

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

The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a...

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien,...

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

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her...

The young film student Maria do Mar is working on a documentary about the old manor houses along the Douro River. It is the final project in her...

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

Jaime, a poem of suffering and loneliness, describes the existence and pictorial work of a man isolated in a psychiatric hospital.

A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually...

Short film on the creation of an agricultural cooperative in the village of Sever do Vouga.

A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more...

A short film.

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then...

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...

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

Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual...

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and...