Diogo Dória

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretensions. Isn't it enough for her to have an Aston Martin and a Jaguar in the garage and ten different dresses per season? (imdb)

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily draws his comrades into philosophical musings, and the little contingent suffers badly at the hands of the local military opposition. (imdb)

Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira examines the life of 17th century priest and activist Father Antonio Vieira in this biographical drama based on Vieira's own writings. (answers.com)

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family. (imdb)

The author shows that we can «see» a movie even if there are not images in the screen: you can «see» what happens following the dialogs and the description of the scenes.

Manoel is aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth. (imdb)

A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blond woman that turns his life upside down.

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy. (imdb)

A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society. (imdb)

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

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the in the chapel where she is filming.

Maria is a sweet child. She has no father and does not like her mother. She has a boyfriend who is a bandit who would like to change his class. There are two more bandits: a very tall singer and a guy who is a very short and a full of life's experiences. Neither of these two do much thinking, one even less than the other.

In the late nineteenth century, Ana Catarina, a young aristocrat, returns to Portugal, where his hand had been promised by his father, Don Antonio. But months later, Dona Ana Catarina loses her husband and father, inheriting the solar Silgueiros and hundreds more land under vine.

Three chronicles presented as a triptych or as a piece of music in three movements. If the first part is so full that it bursts and scatters its pieces into the empty second part, the third part starts the process all over again. What do these stories have in common?

A prelude announces the intent to tell nine stories, all marked with letters of alphabet, with the subsequent permutations of these stories. Not only the plotlines get mutated and re-ordered, so do the actors, hats, beards, accents, manners - whatever may identify a character ceases to be such an identifier. The plot itself becomes a mystery, since there are parallel searches for the treasure, the map of treasure, which as we learn is a treasure in itself, a coin, a kidnapped father etc.

The characters from a historical piece of art come to life to discuss poignant themes such as war and world peace. (imdb)

In a post-apocalyptic world a small group consisting of six cold and hardened men and a mute woman are sent on an expedition to the Bitch islands, to find two substances that can be used for energy production. Various factors including sickness, drug addiction and internal conflicts within the group conspire to make the expedition difficult.

A political thriller about the covert operation of the assassination of Presidential candidate Humberto Delgado, carried out by the PIDE (the fascist Portuguese regime's secret police) in February 1965 in the Spanish border town of Villanueva del Fresno. The story is inspired by actual events, some of which were recently discovered by Frederico Delgado Rosa, the grandson of Delgado as well as his official biographer, in his published book "Humberto Delgado: A Biography of the Fearless General." (alfamafilms.com)

Memories of Manoel de Oliveira, made in 1981, to be shown after his death.

Magloire starts running with no luggage and no future until he meets a dying man from whom he inherits a fortune. Subsequently, Magloire is chased by a gang and becomes not only their hostage, but also their accomplice. (imdb)

Alentejo, 1950. Adaptation of «Seara de Vento», a Portuguese XX century classic by Manuel da Fonseca.

Emerging from a coma after a water ski accident in which his girlfriend Délie was killed, Stan van der Decken is informed that he is the heir of the mysterious Professor Starkov. He then embarks on a trip to the village of Las Estrellas.

During the 20's, at the request of one of his employers, the poet Fernando Pessoa conceives an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca, which panics the authoritarian government of that time. (imdb)

The recollections of a Portuguese teacher in the present will make us follow his father, Manuel, former fighter in our colonial war and constantly tormented with those memories. He'll walk us through the depths of the physical sites that haunt him - from training barracks to the lakes and gardens of his youth and infatuation - and also to his memory's gulf - war and passion combined, entangled, in a battle that questions or howls immemorial existential doubts. (Letterboxd)

Documentary adaptation of the book "Labirinto da Saudade", a deconstruction of the Portuguese ethos from a philosophical and historical point of view, written by Eduardo Lourenço. (imdb)

Isabel, a girl in her late teens, is unable to determine herself and understand herself - lost in the memory of her late mother, living with her father and sister, and discovering love with Diogo. Emptiness and somber perspectives of the future seem to encircle them, despite of moments of loud music in a nightclub or a sunny day at the beach. (imdb)

Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.