Movies: João Botelho

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world....

A journey inside the tram crossing the city of Lisbon while listening to fragments of Fernando Pessoa's poetry....

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Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira....

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves Amer...

A documentary about the singings of a Portuguese Village that has their own dialect...

A look at the art of two pairs of brothers, plastic artists: João Queiroz, Jorge Queiroz; Pedro Tropa and Francisco Tropa....

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Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child....

A personal tribute to the poet Alexandre O'Neill by his dear friend Fernando Lopes....

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In Africa, during the colonial war, a patrol is lost in the bush and a soldier dies in operation. Twelve years later, in Portugal, the soldier family meets in peace....

Documentary about Vale do Côa....

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us....

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A....

A dozen of the revolutionary Army officers that played eminent parts in the change of political regime in Portugal, from a military dictatorship to a social-democracy, read a book to a young girl, describing in a poetic, yet realistic way, what happe...

The revolutionary Álvaro Cunhal, symbol of Portuguese communism and political giant of the 20th century. He is nothing less than a larger-than-life figure, now examined by João Botelho’s camera, in a detective-minded film, in which the early years of...

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air....

A choreographic poem by Maurice Ravel....