João Bénard da Costa Movies

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

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set...

Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the...

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the...

A look at the life and career of Vasco Santana, one of the most beloved actors of the Portuguese cinema.

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.

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...

A world of strong colours between documentary and fiction, centered on the life and work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso.

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.

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

Through a conversation with João Bénard da Costa and his ideas about the Portuguese cinema, an interaction between the construction of...

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film...

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

The way in which we cross, one time only, the space of a public swimming pool reminds us of life, from birth until the end.

Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around town...